Wylie E Groves High School - Talon Yearbook (Beverly Hills, MI)

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Board of Education: Seated: Mr. Pell Hollingshead, Treasurerg Standing: Mr. George Coombe, Ir., Presidentg Dr. Charles A Mrs. Elaine I. Wessels, Trusteeg Mr. George Schmidt, Secretaryg Leach, Vice-Presidentg Mr. Richard L. Halsted, Trustee. CAb0VeJ Mr. Kenneth Cook, Assistant Personnel Director, and Mr. Kenneth Nagley, Personnel Director, are in charge of hiring the many new teachers re- quired by a growing school system. CRightJ Assistant Superintendent Norman A. Wolfe checks figures in a report he has received. 24 X

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Curriculum . . . each classroom and teacher with something dijierent to oyjfer . . . expressing views on national events . . . interpretation of the Scarlet Letter . . . celebrating the holidays with a pinata in Spanish . . . student-to-teacher communication . . .staying late to thoroughly understand a basic theorem . . . a studenfs yirst dissection of a worm . . . the field' trip to the Eccentric to learn how the presses work . . . breaking in a student teacher . . . becoming eyfcient in homemaking and child care . . . creating pop art Superman . . . hours in the library or language lab . . . each day's discussion adding new facts and ideas . . . sharing, arguing, defending individual opinions. . .

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Continues Advancement Under the able guidance of Superintendent John Blackhall Smith, the Birmingham School System has made constant advances. Emphasis placed on high academic standards and systemwide growth led to the creation of the Birmingham Plan for Excellence. This continuing program enables new methods for better education to be more easily reviewed by the Board. A steering committee appointed by Dr. Smith meets to suggest and consider ways of further raising the high quality of the Birmingham schools. Ideas for new programs come both from within the system and from programs proved successful in other districts. Several Groves teachers have been involved in the de- velopment and implementation of ideas they submitted. With an expanding school-age population, more classrooms have become necessary. The opening of a new elementary school, which is specially constructed for team teaching, and a junior high school, additions to many existing schoolsg and tentative plans for a third high school, another elementary, and a junior high school, have shown the interest that goes into the de- velopment of our forward-looking school system. Superintendent of Schools, Dr. John Blackhall Smith, glances up from the notes he is preparing for a School Board meeting. CTopD Mr. George Cripps looks through a music textbook to see if it should be adopted by the system. CCenterJ Miss Betty Cahill, Groves history teacher, asks Social Studies coordinator Mrs. Nancy Bauer for some information. CBott0mJ Art coordinator, Miss Ruth Zuelke, telephones about a letter she has received. 25