Susan Miller Dorsey High School - Circle Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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a Because there is a need to teach students how to live in the environment high school offers, and a need to teach them how to get the most out of their daily contacts, the guidance program is basic at Dor- sey. The guidance program attempts to diagnose the student, to find his weaknesses and to correct them, to find his good points and to capitalize on them. It attempts to make the student aware of himself and his responsibilities, and to develop in him an integrated personality. Every teacher in every course is vital in making this program function. Hence, the educational objec- tives in all courses, and the philosophy in back of all of the teaching in the school tries to develop in each pupil : Willingness to assume responsibility for complete intellectual and vocational self development which will result in his being adequately equipped to meet society ' s demands. Appreciation and understanding of the value of personality relationships as they affect the attainment of success and happiness of our pupils. Awareness of the place and importance of fundamental skills and techniques. Understanding of the continued need to stress good work habits and orderly, reflective thinking. Appreciation and realization of the satisfaction which comes from creative expression, and the need for developing the individual ' s resources for the constructive use of leisure. Consciousness and practice of good health habits. Helen Davis Corene Embree

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— B To the Faculty of Dorsey High School who make our guidance program possible, by enriching our lives, stimulating our minds, encouraging our activities, and seeing that high school furnishes each of us a well rounded environ- ment . . . this book is dedicated. 11 V .ft ' J . y

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r Because there is also a need for better adjustment to the situation in which a student finds himself after leaving high school, vocational planning is stressed and vocational interests are determined. Then, on the basis of these interests, conferences are arranged with members of the Faculty Vocational Committee, head- ed by Mr. Addison. These contacts are not lost with graduation. The pro- gram is more far reaching than that. An alumni or- ganization, sponsored by Miss Embree, has been formed in which these contacts are maintained and through which the student comes back to receive help and friendly advice, or often just to have a good time with old friends in surroundings that are dear to him. The success of this program depends upon every teacher in the school, but to Mrs. Hatch, the Coun- selor, more than to any one other person, goes the credit for making Dorsey ' s guidance program the func- tional one that it is. From the entering BlO ' s to the graduating seniors, she is vitally interested in their problems and gives unsparingly of her time to work with the individual students and with their home- room and classroom teachers, to the end that the pro- gram offered these students in high school will give every possible opportunity to each one of them; that it will challenge the best that is in them; that it will assure their maximum intellectual, social, cultural and physical development. Mrs. Davis, Miss Embree and Mrs. Wyatt have worked closely with Mrs. Hatch in setting up this program for the incoming BIO students, handling most of the or- ientation courses through which the new students are introduced to the school and made to feel that they are a part of the community. Mrs. Russell ' s part in the program has centered around the counselling of seniors. She has an individual con- ference with every senior for the purpose of going over his entire school record and seeing that he has sufficient credits for graduation and the proper re- quirements for the course he intends to follow after graduation. Augusta Hatch, Counselor Helene Russell, Senior Adviser