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Three specific student needs are initially discussed: (1) the need to assess personal abilities, aptitudes, interests, job and college characteristic preferences, and physical and social characteristics; (2) the need to acquire information about educational and occupational alternatives; and (3) the need to learn and apply a strategy for processing this information into personal goals, plans, and actions. Throughout the program, students are seen as problem-solvers, partners in the process of education. The Developmental Guidance Program presented in this paper was designed to facilitate the student in this role of exploration and the formation of tentative decisions about long range educational and occupational goals. The Program, however, is only prototypical and intended to stumulate the design of a broad program of educational and vocational information to meet student career needs. Evaluation instruments designed to assess the success of such programs were mentioned and the need for further evaluative procedures stressed. (TL)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert