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THE HERALD Wednesday IKS General Wolfe lives Need your car fixed One of the fringe benefits of working as a teacher at General Wolfe is the free work you can get done Mike Spllerl of Georgetown concentrates on a body Job he la doing on one of his teacher s cars General Wolfe will be offering everyone an op portunity to see what goes on behind Its doors totUght Wednesday The school has an open noose for all parents and Interested It will ma from to 10 clock To get to General Wolfe follow Trafslgsr Road to one top light south of Highway Turn right and follow that road to the fin I street at which you will turn left Follow that street one block down and turn left again General Wolfe is the north side of McCraney Street THE metal shops at General Wolfe are busy places Here SargeanlRoad Georgetown uses the to cut through a sheet of steel A good secretary In the wings Kim Georgetown is one of the students In the General Wolfe secretarial course the HERALD A school with a difference Its unlikely you will ever run into a lawyer or a doctor who Is a graduate of General Wolfe High School But the next time you happen to go into a store In Georgetown and meet a particularly attentive clerk or manager you might have just met your first General Wolfe The next time you sit down in a restaurant for dinner and the waiter or wine steward hap pens to be especially helpful you might have met your second Wolfe graduate And that competent and friendly hairdresser Your third General Wolfe High School graduate perhaps That draftsman carpenter welder painter oven that Janitor who provides you with a clean office well they could all be GWHS grads And they could be a young neighbor from just down the street General Wolfe High School Is a special sort of high school with a special sort of attitude among and between teachers and students If you wonted to put a name on that special something it might be In volvement or perhaps caring The school which is located in was set up four years ago to handle students from throughout east Hal ton who either had academic problems or minor physical handicaps which made It hard for them to fit Into the mould of the regular high school curriculum Of the 900 or so students attending General Wolfe a little over come from Georgetown and Acton The students are largely the kids who had to struggle through public school running into problems all down the line Today more and more we re realizing that those early problems were not en 1 1 rely the fault of the student of the school but rather of outside social problems the effects of which seeped into the classroom Many of those students were destined to end up being put on a shelf by teachers who through the sheer necessity of their Jobs had to spend more time on the majority of students who were providing no problems at all That forgotten was just one step away from totally dropping out of the educational system For a lot of young students General Wolfe of an Important alternative to on unlikely future On the other hand many students at are merely looking for on attainable trade They had no problems at all outside of wanting a job upon completion of their high school education General Wolfe was the answer to their problem too BUI Maxwell a Georgetown student at GWHS combines a bit of both reasons for at tending school there Sitting at a drafting board with a large complicated looking drawing of a house In front of him Bill admitted that he had some trouble comprehending things in school prior to coming to General Wolfe Since then he said those difficulties have not been a problem at all Bill about to graduate after four years with the equivalent of a Grade 12 diploma He Is specializing in drafting and notes that he has already four Jobs lined up including one All he needs to do now la pick the best offer and even that he added is not an immediate According to Bill he has learned enough about various trades In his four years at General Wolfe he can work at any one until the Job he wants comes along Proof of the success of the program at General Wolfe is that between and percent of the students who graduate find Jobs almost Immediately In fact according to Dave Stuart a teacher at General Wolfe since its beginnings four years ago many times In gets in touch with him about prospective employees before they have even graduated Now sue cess Dave Is an extremely straightforward teacher who rated a great from a lot of the students in his wood working courses Its that type of involvement by the teachers at GWHS that provides for of the success of the system Because of a lot of bad publicity years ago schools like this gat a bad reputation as schools for nobrains black Jackets and that whole thing Dave commented But we re proud now that we are really feeding the work force with we feel a better product than has been available before The courses combine percent academic training and SO percent practical ex perlence That practical training is providing through workshops ranging from a full kitchen to a small store to a beauty parlor to a metal shop to a paint shop to an auto What kind of style would you prefer Learning the art of hair styling has drawn four students from Georgetown to General Wolfe Getting some semi professional vice on her style Is Laurie Wallace Street Offering the advice are from I Barb Jeffrey Hall Drive Bonnie Market Street and Cathy Mledzlnskl Ti Cotta Will that be all Future waiters Stanley Hancock left and Hick Davis both of Georgetown provide some fast and friendly service for two General Wolfe teachers Tom Patience and Diana Saunders body shop ID each of the shops are instructors who Dave Stuart decided to pass up the higher paying professional field to instruct possibly future professionals Our method to try to provide an employee employer relationship with the teachers playing the role of understanding employers Dave explained Judging from the close In between teachers and students the methods work It all becomes worthwhile noted Dave when another student who had been judged to be beyond hope as far as the regular education system was concerned went through graduated and easily found a good Job He returned recently to see Dave complete with a young family In town The technical training is actually only a small part of what the courses at GWHS are really aiming at We re not Just trying to teach a skill Dave pointed out We don intend to make the student the best plumber or the best welder We want the student to know how to get along with the people he will be working If you re socially table the Other people will take It upon themselves to help you learn all you need to know about the Job We want them to bo socially acceptable to in dustry to society to their peers and to themselves What it all boils down to as Dave explained and the school success points out Is to simply prepare our students to Join the work force The training of doctors and lawyers leave to other high schools General Wolfe is training the workers Keeping careful track of your stock Is a lesson that Drive Georgetown and Cindy Saunders Mountalnview students in the small business course at General Wolfe are busily engaged counting ear rings which they will learn quite early Cindy Wash bourne left McKcnzic