Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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SENIOR OFFICERS: Scaled: Treasurer Edward Zemprellig Secretary Norma Deane Waltersg President Carl Aldcrson. Slrmrling: Vice-President Frederick Bud 1-lilmer. ENTREZ-VOUS: September 4th, 1941 THE NEVV SENIORS swooped down upon the Senior Hall. Senior officers, President Carl Alderson, Vice-president Bud I-Iilmer, Secretary Norma Deane VValters, and Treasurer Ed Zemprelli were installed . . . SENIOR COUNCIL SPONSORED TI-IE FIRST DANCE, Fall Frolic, on November 14 with the Klairton Kadets 'swinging it out' . . . We want our rings echoed everywhere. They arrived in December . . . WAR: DE- CEMBER S, WAR WAS DECLARED! Every- one was excused early to hear the President's speech. Stretcher Bearers, organized under Dr. G. A. Calhoun, and school officials tested air raid drills . . . ALUMNI RETURNED FOR THE CHRISTMAS PARTY, one of the largest affairs of 1941 . . . jack McAtee enlisted in the Air Corps and Charles Cypher in the Marines . . . Mary Evanick and Tom Piazza edited the Clairtonian News in its second full year- as a paper . . . Mary Evanick also edited the Annual with Edward Zemprelli as Business Manager . . . In step with the Defense Movement, SENIOR COUNCIL CONTRIBUTED to the Hearst GRADS l Buy a Bomber Fund and part of the proceeds of the Senior Play, Sing a Song of Sixteen, was donated to the Red Cross . . . THE CLAIR- TONIAN AND THE CLAIRTON IAN NEWS STAFFS held a Blackout Party for subscribers on March 6 with the KLAIRTON KADETS swinging it . . . WINNERS: Glenn Finney and Bud Hilmer, tenor and baritone soloists, won the Southwestern District title. In the county con- test Howard Bayles placed third in the Oration and Gregory Monito placed first in the Decla- mation . . . ORCHIDSg to john Ruhl who sab- stituted in the quartet. at the Forensics at the last hour . . . Three bus loads of Seniors thrilled to the performance of Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson in Macbeth . .. ..TESTS: Seniors scurried to Miss Anna,O'Toole's room to take intelligence tests. ON APRIL 18, AMBITIOUS SENIORS took Civic Club Award Tests at Carnegie Tech and at the University of Pitts- burgh, and, on May 1, State Scholarships Exams . PROM: Couples swayed to the music of JIMMY GAMBLE'S ORCHESTRA at the an- nual Junior-Senior Prom on May first.. Showing their patriotism, girls wore hair decorations in- stead of elaborate corsages . . . AMERICANS ALL: DEFENSE COURSES offered new op- portunities to Seniors. One hundred four Seniors studied mechanical drawing, blue print reading, electricity, machines, and welding in order to be prepared for defense work . . . Graduating into the world of chaos, Seniors have not left altogether, for many enrolled and will return for Defense work. ADIOS!

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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

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Sloiho it looysl How about something like this? asks Jim Ham- mett showing Norma Deane VV alters an idea for the 1941 Prom decoration. Dorothy Dalton mixes the paint while Bob Forkel and Lyla Mae Ford put the finishing touches on one of the murals.