Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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Leonard C. Lehman, who is Assistant Chief Chemist in the mill and is President of the School Board, heads the Messenger Service in this zone . . . Mrs. Sadie K. Keffer, former Postmistress in Clairton, is Chairman of the Cafeteria Committee . . . Superintendent of the Rolling Department, Mr. james A. Ormond, who is chairman of the Purchasing Committee takes First Aid and belongs to the Stretcher Crew . . . Dr. J. Schmitt, Chair- man of the Athletic Committee, belongs to the Medical Defense Unit . . . After forty- hve hours of training, Mr. D. G. Johnston, who is the retired Chief Time Keeper of Clairton Mill, has become an Air Raid Warden . . . Among its other services, the School Board has installed a switchboard in the main office,in order to notify all schools quickly in case of an air raid. Similar to those used by large systems everywhere, the private cable connections will enable students to be evacuated within hfteen minutes of any call sent from the central listening post for the Pittsburgh District. . . . The Board has set up defense classes for girls on Saturday and Sunday afternoons in the machine shop, two groups of boys in the machine shop and one group in the electric shop who must work fifteen hours a week, and a group of thirty boys who work in welding classes at Marine W Elys in Elizabeth two and one-half hours for six days a week It has cooperated with the draft board for sugar, gasoline, and army registration and, best of all, it has bought 328,000 worth of defense bonds, using money from the Sinking Fund. Standing: Mr. Charles P. Lewis, Solicitorg Mr. Salmuel H. Sharpnackg Mr. james A. Ormond. Dr. Joseph Schmitt. Sitting: Mrs. Caralena Cort, Secreltaryg Mr. H. D. Teal. Superintendent of Schoolsg Mr. Leonard C. Lehman, President, Mrs. Sadie Kefier.

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Mr, H. D. Teal Dr. Evert Stabler THE ADMINISTRATION Mr. H. D, Teal, Superintendent of Public Schools, is chairman of the Public Re- lations and Education Committee for the Defense Council and, with the cooperation of the School Board, supervises sugar rationing. He is also on the Civilian Defense Committee for the City . . . Dr. Evert Stabler, Principal of Senior High School, is Super- visor of Instruction for Air Raid Vlfardens in Zone 16, which includes Duquesne, Mc- Keesport, and surrounding territories . . . The chairman of the Teachers' Committee and also of the Budget Committee, Mrs. Caralena Cort, who is Secretary of the Schoo1 Board, works on the Committee of Civic Defense and Education for Civic Defense . . . A member of the Public Vfforks Council of Civilian Defense and also of the Clairton llforlcs IVIanagement Committee for Clairton Illinois Steel Production in the National War Production Drive, Mr. Samuel H. Sharpnack is Superintendent of Production planning in Clairton Illinois Steel Corporation and is Chairman of the Finance Com- mittee . . . Chairman of the Housing Committee and sinking Fund Committee, Mr.

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TEACHERS AND DEFENSE VOCATIONAL TEACHERS PLAN DEFENSE: MISS OLGA COLEMAN, sewing teacher, gives advice on the proper dress in wartime . . . TO MISS MARY ANN FRITS, homemaking and related science teacher, a victory garden is the thing . Students study sewing projects for defense in MRS. VIRGINIA PORTER'S classes . . . MISS LENA TOMASELLI aims for defense projects in her cooking classes plus victory gardens at home . . . MR. DAVID ARNETT, machine shop teacher, completed a night school course on the study of machine technique . . . Air-warden and now Naval Reserve Ofhcer, MR. VVARREN BROWN 'S students in the wood shop build model airplanes for the army navy, and civilian defense . . . MR. WILBUR MONKS, shop supervisor, prepares men for future defense work . . . MR. WILLIAM PARSONS, mechanical drawing instructor, takes a first aid course . . . MR. VVALLACE PATTERSON, related English teacher, urges students to buy defense bonds and emphasizes word-power in war time . . . Air-wardens learn civilian defense from MR. JOSEPH C. SCI-IRECK of the Electric Shop . . . MR. C. B. TOYNBEE'S students of the Auto Shop build model planes for the army, navy, and civilian! defense . . . Movies for visual-education are shown by MR. ANTHONY V ITORI, teacher of related vocational subjects. r -fl Miss Olga Coleman Mr. Warren O. Brown Mr. William Parsons Miss Mary Ann FriLs Mr. Willnn' K. .Monks Mr. Wallace Patterson Mrs. Virginia M. Porter Miss Lena M. Tonmsclli Mr. David Arnett Mr. Anthony Viluri oper- ntcs the projector while Mr. Edgar D. Bleilcr looks un.