Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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INSTRUCTION AND STUDY MR. EDWARD PORTER, physical education instructor, plans to join the Army Air Corp as a teacher of Physical Education . . . Teaching her students the art of first aid fills Hygiene Instructor MISS VIRGINIA REESE'S time . . . A petty officer, in the Naval Reserves is the present position of MR. JOHN SNIZIK, former swimming coach and assistant football coach . . . In addition to trigo- nometry and algebra, MR. JOHN SOICH keeps busy as basketball and assistant football coach . . . MR. VVILLIAM VVYKE, track champion coach, builds up the strength of A1nerica's youth and administers hrst aid . . . First aider, MISS AGNES LYTLE, is learning all she can about mathematics for defense plans . . . MR. CHARLES PATTON, our geometry teacher, trains future engineers and draftsmen . . . MR. JOSEPH SVVARTZ, who taught algebra and trigonometry, is now a com- gfnissioned officer in the Navy . . . First aid teacher, MISS JANE VVALKER, who teaches general X math, in 206, studies drafting in her leisure time. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT TYPES FOR DEFENSE: MISS GERALDINE ASHTON, typing teacher, hopes to get into defense work soon . . . Besides teaching secretarial practice, MISS HELEN BILLY types for first aid classes and draft registration . . . MISS ROSE CONSOLI, book- keeping instructor, teaches the advantages of buying Defense Bonds . . . MISS MARTHA MARO- VICH, shorthand instructor, prepares students for Civil Defense Examinations and for defense in- dustries . . . MISS FRANCES ORTNER, commercial teacher, studies first aid and administers it among the Junior High pupils . . . The need for conserving is urged by MR. JOHN YOUNG, sales- manship teacher. Mr. Edward JL Porter Miss Virginia Reese Mr. John Snizil: Mr. John Soich Mr. VVillian1 Wyke Miss Agnes Lytle Mr. Charles Patton Mr. Joseph Swartz Miss Jane P. Walker Miss Geraldine Ashton Miss Helen Billy Miss Rose Consoli Miss Martha Mamvich Miss Frances Ortner Mr. John Young Miss Mildred Maloy Miss V. Nassimbeni Dr. G. A. Calhoun Miss Emma Will Miss Martha Craig Miss Catherine Joyce

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MAPS CHANGE IN HISTORY CLASSES: VVeekly war discussions are held in MISS SARA BABIC'S World History classes . . . Training future citizens is MISS MARGARET BARCLAY'S job in her P.O.D. classes . . . MR. RUSSELL DOBBINS, economics teacher, is chairman of first aid instructors and teaches two first aid classes . . . MISS MARY STOKES, history teacher, relates current events with regular work . . . MISS ELEANOR W'ILSON'S United States History classes hold discussions on What the Vlfar Means to Us. SCIENCE INTERESTED IN BOMB COMPOSITIONS: MR. EDGAR D. BLEILER, biology teacher and athletic manager, will help keep America's morale through sports . . . MR. EDWARD CARTWRIGHT teaches his physics classes the need for defense . . . Besides teaching chemistry, MR. C. K. CHRESTENSEN delivered a speech to air-raid wardens on incendiary bombs and poison gases, and demonstrated the characteristics of bombs and poison gases to police of the valley. PROPAGANDA REVIEWED IN ENGLISH: MRS. ELIZABETH T. BAY LES, teacher of Senior English, has studied at Pitt this winter to become afirst aid instructor. . . An, industrious student at first aid and drafting classes is MISS JEAN DAVIS, teacher of junior English . . . Students discuss the general War situation in MRS. FRANCES DERSAM'S English classes . . . MISS SUZANNE PHIL- LI PS, teacher of Sophomore English, joinedaFirst Aid class . . . MISS CATHERINE E. STEN TZ, Junior English teacher, is an ardent booster for the sale of defense stamps and believes literary study boosts morale . . . Junior lirst aid classes and air-raid wardens are taught by MISS ALMA M. TRAINOR, Sophomore English teacher, who has her pupils study and criticize editorials on War . . . MISS HELEN D. VVILSON is going to join a first aid class. PHYSICAL EDUCATION, A GREAT NEED IN WAR TIME: MR. STEVE BARKO explains the use of fire extinguishers in his Senior Science Class . . . MISS LOUISE CLARK, who has added 'first aid instruction to her health classes, entertains the boys at camp with her tap dancing and chorus routine . . . Another first aid instructor is MR. GEORGE K .HARTMAN, football coach. Joseph C. Schreck Mr. C. B. Toynbce Mr. Anthony Vitori Miss Sara Babic Miss M. Barclay Mr. Russell Dobbins Miss' Mary C. St Eleanor Wilson Mr. Edgar D. Bleiler Mr. E. T. Cartwright Mr. Kay Chrestensen Mrs. E. T. Bayles Miss It-an Davis Mrs. Frances De Suzanne Phillips Miss C. E. Stentz Miss Alma M. Trainer Miss Helen D. Vllilson Mr. S. M, Barko Miss Louise Clark Mr. G. K. Hartn a

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SPANISH ADDED TO FOREIGN LANGUAGES DURING VVAR YEAR: MISS MILDRED MALOY hopes to teach Spanish and French to her students so well that they may take their place in defense jobs . . . MISS VIRGINIA NASSIMBENI, French teacher, graduated from first aid class and will become a first aid instructor . . . MISS EMMA WILL, Latin teacher, studied at Pitt this winter to become a first aid instructor. HEALTH VITAL TO DEFENSE: Boys learn to be stretcher bearers from DR. GEORGE CALHOUN, our school doctor . . . In the near future MISS MARTHA CRAIG, latest addition to our nursing staff, will study first aid . . . Besides teaching first aid, home nursing, and air-raid warden work, MISS CATHERINE JOYCE is on the medical staff at Substation No. 2. MUSIC FOR MARCHING: MISS JENNIE MAE BOTDORF, music supervisor, plans to enter defense work . . . Our band instructor, MR. RUTILIO ROTILI, gives his band's music for defense parades and meetings . . . A graduate of first aid, Librarian MISS JANET NIXON, signed up at City Hall to help wherever wanted . . . MISS ANNA O'TOOLE, counselor, boosts the Defense Stamp sale and collects for the Red Cross . . . MISS CORA PITCAIRN, art teacher, instructs junior and adult first aid classes. OFFICE STAFF AIDS: A Defense Bond buyer, MRS. MARY JOHNSON, has a son who is an Army Captain stationed in Hawaii . . . MISS MILDRED STOKES helps prepare and type in- numerable material to aid in training for war work . . . Another graduate of first aid is MISS ANGE- LINE TOMASELLI, Dr. E. F. Stabler's secretary. Miss Jennie Mac Botdorf Iss Lora Pitcairn Mr. Rutilio Rotili Mrs. Mary Johnson Miss Angeline Tomasclli Miss Janet Nixon Miss Anna O'Toole Miss Emma Will and Mr. Charles Patton stop to say hello to Miss Janet Nixon Mrs. Milrlrccl Bicr l