Whittier Union High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Whittier, CA)

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CARDINAL AND WHITE Research and Guidance Department THE department of Research and Guidance has been newly added to our system and has proved to be a great success. The responsibility for administering courses of study rests upon this department and all changes in program are submitted to it for consideration. The mental ability, school interests, and outside interests of each pupil are taken under advisement, so that pupils may be placed in the classes best suited to them. During the past year, Dr. Jones has been the capable director of this work. He consults and advises both parents and stu- dents and has established many con- tacts with other schools and col- leges. ' With his friendly manner and willing guidance he has made countless friendships. DURING the past year, most of us have made the enjoyable ac- quaintance of Mrs. Vincent, who has been serving as Assistant Di- rector of the Research and Guid- ance Department. In connection with this new work, she has been chairman of the Courtesy Com- mittee, chairman of the Girls ' Ac- tivities Committee, and she also has had charge of the intelligence test- ing. Besides this busy program, Mrs. Vincent also is head of the English Department. Her guidance as chairman of the Annual and the Cardinal and White Weekly Com- mittees is greatly appreciated by all the students. Supervising the plans for the coaching of young orators and teaching advanced composition are just a few more of Mrs. Vin- cent ' s duties. i 1 $

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CARDINAL « AND WHITE Director of Adult Education DO YOU realize that Whittier High School has an adult at- tendance at our night schools totaling nearly twelve hundred men and women and taught by twenty-eight teachers? These night schools are located at Los Nietos, Murphy Ranch, West Whittier, Guirado Road, and at Whittier Union High School. Mr. Phelps, director of adult education, is responsible for the supervision and the achievements of these adult schools. In addition to his many duties as director of adult learning, Mr. Phelps also serves as chairman of the Service Points Committee, as a Junior Class advisor, a member of the Scholarship Committee, and puts in full time teaching Mechani- cal Drawing. Director of Boys Activities THE POSITION of Director of I Boy ' s Activities is an important one in our high school. The time and energy of our popular mem- ber of the faculty, Mr. Earl H. Chapman, is very much engaged in the management of the three major boys ' organisations — The Razor Club, the Varsity Club, and the Cardinal Guards, two of which were organized under Mr. Chap- man ' s direction. In addition to act- ing as director of these activities, Mr. Chapman also looks after vari- ous boy problems, securing help for boys who need it and smoothing out difficult situations. The Spanish Department, too, claims a part of his time.

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CARDINAL AND WHITE Directors of Attendance ONE OF the most important divisions of the administra- tive work of the high school is the Attendance Office. Upon the ac- curacy and reliability of its records depends our income. This office, too, is responsible for seeing to it that every child under eighteen years of age has a chance at the education to which he is entitled by law. For many years Mr. O Ray Throckmorton has administered the work of the Attendance Office. He also contacts for the High School the Probation Office in Los Angeles and sits in the meetings of the Co- ordinating Council, which meets once a month to solve the various boy and girl problems of the school and the community. Mr. Throck- morton is active in securing help for needy students and is a member of the Student Employment Council. ALMOST every boy and girl in this high school has been either absent or tardy and as a re- sult he has made the acquaintance of Miss Anna L. Hall, Assistant Director of Attendance. She it is who listens to our alibis, both good and bad, reads our excuses and deals out penalties or forgiveness, as seems just. We ' ll all admit that her decisions are wise and kindly and that she has the real interests of the pupils at heart. And if we are ever so unfortunate as to be assigned to Detention — Room 127 — we find it really not bad at all. In fact, high school life would lose much of its zest were it not for Miss Hall ' s very efficient and kindly interest.