Walter Johnson High School - Windup Yearbook (Bethesda, MD)

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Career For many of us, the years after high school are still unplanned and mysterious. This is a very serious situ- ation, but one that IVlr. Gary Ford, coordinator of the Career Center, is helping to remedy. The unsure stu- dent can walk into the center and pick up facts about anything he wants to know pertaining to career planning and colleges. Information on every- thing from college costs to how to do well in a job interview are found in tapes, pamphlets, filmstrips, and cata- logues around the room. This year, IVlr. Ford emphasized programs giving students experience in the working world. This is done in three ways: by bringing in speakers on careers, by al- lowing students to accompany some- one in his professional routine, and finally with internships, where stu- dents spend from five to ten hours a week working a potential profession. Although this is not a permanent job for lVlr. Ford, and he plans to go into teaching or counseling later, he says, lt interests me to study how and why people work, and to inform students about careers. The Career Center is something I wish we had had more of when I was in school. Career counselor Gary Ford Frank Cooley browses through career mater:

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+ '. -I H. his In-s X' Ael A r-s-- ,E TeresaAGillespie and Ron Wright concentrate on typing skills. Businessmen learn everything from 'fdsa' to Business education courses ranged from traditional typing to study of business law. The added possibilities of accounting and economics enticed many, even those not wishing to enter into the business field as a career. Those of us, already equipped with a high level of business skill had the occasion to enroll in the internship program at various institutions among them, l.B.lVl., N.l.H., and Rockville Circuit Court House. Enthusiastic students enrolled in Business Law scrutinized the judical system along with legal terminology and contract law. Not to be outdone, Business Economics offered the chance to examine plutology and the important role of bonds and finance in today's erratic world. As Darius contract law Arbabi stated it, l'm interested in ,Ji going into government or politics and A economics is an essential part of it. Laurie Goldstein I l I 'B B A i i I. l i. P3 i-. V V-n - , gr ? .A- .LX . , LIEXA, ,,...i - 5 -.sh 3 Below: Chauncey Ford eww i . ,2gz.:-esp-WV ,M . W ,gl .i . - ij. Z . 1 V . ll r Below: Georgia Theodore. Below left: .A Paul Miller. 7 ,Alf A 95

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PIE: A slice of life Pam is declining Russian nouns. ob is practicing a difficult passage on is recorder. Allen and Sarah are rguing politics. These PIE students ind it easy to express themselves in he relaxed, friendly atmosphere of he PIE room. According to his abili- y and interests, each has made up his wn schedule in English or Social tudies. But PIE is not completely ndependentp there is much coopera- ion between students, and twice a eek the English students attend a IE English class in which a variety of ubjects is studied and discussed. PIE teacher lVlr. Tony Wagner says hat students in PIE are more active n helping each other, and there isn't o much competition. There is a lot of reedom and. flexibility. lVlr. Wagner Iso taught a regular English class, and ays that he has been able to apply ome of the flexibility he's learned rom PIE to this class. W Y if V , . .,,. 4' . , S I Z X x I I v, X coordinator Tony Wagner ' 5 1 X Q 7h-l ' 'R if