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The orientation course in the Sacramento Senior High School has developed withint the school. In making a study of this orientation course, it seems important to make a study of some representative schools in the west and middle west sections of our country. In order to determine that schools where orientation was included in the course of study, I wrote to Professor James H. Corson, Dean of Personnel and Professor of Education in charge of courses of counseling and guidance at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Califonria. I also wrote to Dr. E. A. Krug, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. These professors responded promptly, giving lists of schools with notable programs of orientation. Dean Corson's list was mainly of schools in the west, and Dr. Krug's list mentioned some schools in the middle west. To these schools were sent letters of inquiry concerning their orientation set-up and its functioning. The response given by these schools in sending information is very much appreciated. Many local questions have been answered as a result of this study. It is also hoped that when some of the valuable features suggested in the responses are incorporated in our Sacramento course, many students in the future may receive may receive benefit fromits findings.

This research was performed to determine; (1) the prevalence of Toxoplasma antibodies among starlings in Northern California, (2) if such starlings can transmit the disease, and (3) if tissues from seropositive starlings contain encysted forms of T. gondii.

The mussel bed and its multitude of inhabitants form a life community typical of our intertidal, rocky, open-coast areas. These animals are essentially immobile, are conveniently available at low tide, and have been well defined in their consumer order. Certain main members from this community were chosen with the intention that they would represent an index of heavy metal pollution for a given area under different seasonal and other variable conditions. Samples for monitoring were collected from two different sites. The first site was immediately outside the entrance to San Francisco Bay and located between Seal Rocks and Phelan Beach State Parks. This location was chosen to represent a water mass of supposed maximum pollution. The Golden Gate can be assumed to be the funnel through which flows all waters from the San Joaquin and Sacramento River drainages and from the San Francisco Bay area itself. The second site, immediately north of the Dillon Beach township, located at the juncture of Bodega and Tomales Bays, was chosen since it might represent a water mass of minimum pollution. This area is not immediately near any large urban influence, industrial activity or subject to heavy auto traffic. Therefore, at the outset it was hoped that the “immobile” consumer order within the mussel bed community would reflect the relative pollution of two supposedly different water masses.