Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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College Preparatory--Commercial-Vocational Mr. Edward Cartwright Mr. C. K. Chrestensen Miss Sara Babic Miss Margaret Barclav Mr. Russell Dobbins Miss Mary C. Stokes Miss Eleanor Wilson Miss Olga Coleman Miss Mary Ann Frits Mrs. Virginia M. Porter Miss Lena M, Tomaselli Mr. David Arnett Mr. Warren O. Brown Mr. William D. Parsons Mr. Wallace C. Patterson Mr. Wilbur K. Monks Mr. joseph C. Schreck Mr. C. B. Toynbee Mr. Anthony Vitori Mrs. Mary L. Johnston Miss Mildred Stokes Miss Angeline Tomaselli Miss Jennie Mae Botdorf Miss Catherine Joyce Miss Gladys Lindberg Miss Janet H. Nixon Miss Anna O'Toole Miss Cora Pitcairn Mr. Rutilio Rotili FORTY-O NE CLAIRTONIA

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Grams, volumes. weights and measures . . Mr, Edward Cartwright explains all these in his physics classes. 22.4 is the gram formula vol- ume, patiently repeats Mr. Kay Chrestensen to his perspiring Chemistry classes, when not experi- menting with flourescent lighting or liquid air. History and the social studies once were the field of one teacher. Today five explain race move- ments and wars. Bombs in Europe! Books in good old U.S.A.! History isn't all i492 stuff these days. Clairton Highs five history and P.O.D. teachers enlighten students on history here and now. Miss Sara Babic, Sophomore sponsor, tells how ancient Greeks and Romans ran the world. Democracy versus Fascism is taught by Miss Margaret Barclay. Economics instructor Mr. Russell Dobbins helps make rules for teachers as an Executive Committee member. Miss Mary Stokes tells her history students of Europe's ups and downs. Tri-Hi-Y girls listen to the Peer Cynt Suite under Miss Eleanor Wilson, American History teacher. Four voca- tional teachers for girls direct the Home Arts Department. Place the pattern on the folds of the material warns Miss Olga Coleman. The tiny windows dressed with real curtains and draperies by Miss Mary Ann Frits's students fascinate everyone. Miss Frits. by the way, was mascot of the class of 'zlfa very young lady in a sailor suit. A few years from now all of us may be wearing clothes designed by girls in Mrs. Virginia Porter's designing class. Plaques, cork notebooks, and camera cases are made in Miss Lena Tomaselli's handicraft course. Boys' vocational work in I92I was taught only by one teacher. Today there are eight. Mr. David Arnett, travel and photography enthusi- ast, teaches Machine Shop boys about bolts and rivets. Book ends and ash trays are made in General Shop by Mr. Warren O. Brown's classes. Drawirig plans of machinery to scale is done in CUR FACULTY Mechanical Drawing under Mr. William Parsons, bowler. Oral talks on the steel industry, filling application blanks. and interviewing are stressed in Mr. C. Wallace Patterson's Vocational English classes. A veteran of 22 years of teaching in Clairton High School, Mr. Wilbur K. Monks, gardening advocate, who taught vocational work at Clairton in 1921, now directs Vocational Education. Who burned that fuse? shouts Mr. joseph Schreck over the din of electric motors. For the past eleven years Mr. C. B. Toynbee has taught the Auto Shop boys how to replace spark plugs. Mr. Anthony Vitori, our motion picture projec- tionist, teaches Related Vocational Subjects. Secretaries, supervisors, and nurses add extra efficiency to our professional staff. Mrs. Mary L. johnson, Dr. Stabler's personal secretary, is checker-upper for all Senior High contacts. Mr. Teal's secretary, Miss Mildred Stokes. is an expert at the piano keyboard. After much hospital visiting and work in the Senior High office, Miss Angeline Tomaselli has had little time for her favorite exercise. bowling. More tone! More tone! pleads Miss Jennie Mae Botdorf to Mixed Chorus. When you're at home. sick in bed, good-natured Miss Catherine Joyce, School nurse. certainly seems an angel of mercy. Better get those tonsils out, advises Miss Gladys Lindberg, school nurse. on health examination day. Miss Janet Nixon, Librarian, is an ardent bowl- ing fan. Miss Anna O'Toole will advise you on your future course in life. That aristocratic striped blue wallpaper that fascinated everyone at the Young May Moon is an example of one of Art Supervisor Miss Cora Pitcairn's many artistic touches. In orange and black, on the football field or at a concert in the auditorium, our band shines, thanks to Mr. Rutilio Rotili. THE NINETEEN HUNDRED J 1

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i Let SENIOR OFFICERS President Eleo D e c i m at Vice President, Bill Voor- hiesg Secretary, Laura Patti- son: Treasurer, John Bryan. Us Look At Our Seniors Twenty years ago, twenty seniors grad- uated from Clairton High School. In the two decades to l94l that number has swelled to 369 fellows and girls who finished their high school career as Seniors. When the first Clairtonian was published, the class colors were blue and silver. We have lfept the blue and changed the silver to white. Blue forget- me-nots were their class flowers: blue iris, ours. They joined literary societies, glee club, and orchestra. We compete in Forensic con- tests, join Science and Press clubs. ln place of the picnics and home parties of twenty years ago, over-sophisticated seniors have sub- stituted tea dances and roller skating parties. The class of '21 had three senior oficers: Evert Stabler, Donald St. Clair, and Frances Reed, now a schoolman, a businessman, and housewife respectively. We have four-Pres- ident Eleo Decima, Vice President Bill Voorhies, Secretary Laura Pattison, and Treasurer fohn Bryan. Their oficers had no Senior Council to help themg ours have. Twenty years make a dijerence. On the sixth of September, l94l, the new seniors of Clairton High strut like roosters around their domain, Senior Hall. Teachers welcome these former upstarts a bit wearily. Had they not been rather boisterous Juniors? It takes several weeks for the heady seniors to settle down in their new dignity and then plans begin to Hy. The cry is We want our rings before Christmas! We had them! THE NINETEEN HUNDRED