Whetstone High School - Legend Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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4 Interschool Nurse, Mrs. Elsie Hayes, checks Juniors for tuberculosis test reactions. NURSES STAFF: S. Ward, C. Davis, K. Fisher, C. May kuth, J. Angel. T ml? ,em .niiwfxi All seniors were weighed and mea- Tom Beck. sured by the school nurse. ' ,ev U A cut finger and a cut slip are equally f . painful. The finger bleeds in the nurse's office, and the cut slip is repudiated at the attendance office's subpoena. Checking schedules, filing health records, administering to sick students are a few of the tasks the nurse and her staff perform. Tardy, cut, absent, ill? where and why? are the answers demanded by the atten- dance staff. Going from room to room, leaving an absent list or green slips, are the most important attendance staff. Wild '-.Q seems Attendance staff member summons by means of green slip.

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I am not a teacher, only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead- ahead of myself as well as of you. George Bernard Shaw Charles Joseph Phyllis Hull Nancy Lundy Guidance staff- Seated: P. Betz, K. Holdren, K. Haas, P. Troxel. Standing: M. Darby, M. Hess, K. Kimmel, N. Nye, K. Long. A green-slip-summoned student watches the girl at the desk as she mumbles, VVhetstone High School guidance office, student speaking, into the phone. Barely audible from behing the door- Do you realize you are failing biology? asks the guidance counselor, his mind probing for the why. The student, desiring to change his schedule, enter college, or get a jobg the parent, concerned about the way his child is relating to some aspect of schoolg the teacher or administrator with a question about a particular studentg each comes to the guidance department. Whetstone students meet college representatives at conferences, often absorbing a portion of the representative's enthusiasm for his school. Frenzied seniors fill out applications and anticipate ACT and SAT scores, the arrival of which causes a series of hurried conferences as student and coun- selor try to determine chances for admission. Those who are not college bound must make the all important choice of occupation. Counselors try to ease the task with preference tests and vocational manuals. In the guidance office, files of students' names materialize into faces and personalities Whose owners have a distinct past and a future to be determined. Seniors' futures congregate at college conferences.

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As the beams to cz house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things. Omnipotent from the student's point of view, nothing more or less than human from a closer vantage point. The administration has the im- mense job of turning a mass of 1400 teenagers into a tidy group of meaningful identities. The creation by a joint effort of cajoling, asking Cpolitelyl, restrain- ing, demanding, and sitting back and letting him do it himself, of a significant life is no easy job. Few who receive these benefits realize their importance in finished personalities. Many influences Robert Southey must unite to produce one whole adult individual. Novice efficiency, the office helpers, make life easier for the administration. How many mes- sages per annum does one office aide deliver? Conservative esti- mate: 3,458,391. Where are those little yellow slips? The clerks pound out student lives on faithful typewriters. IQ added to personal records and test scores plus yearly health records equals one complete paper person. They know us better than we do. We were just displaying a little CLERKS: Standing, Hilma Evans and Betty Wagner. Seated, Ruth Simons. Aa! 71 ..- Steve Marriott asks assistance of office helpers Patti Thomas flefti and Cathy Pasco. school spirit, sir. I have a headache, can I go home? Susie left her lunch at home today, could you . . .? I know, I know, but I just don't want to take notehandf, Could you sign this recom- mendation, Please? I can't cut my hair. I'm in this band, see . . . It's a Columbus Board of Ed- ucation rule. Newly realized maturity recog- nizes seemingly blind power as responsibility. HELEN STEPHENSON, coordinator of student activities.