Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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Sty 37 33 50 40 -ll -12 45 44 45 -lb -17 48 -19 :mtl Sl 512 53 54 JJ 50 57 58 59 xlI'.Cl1JlFlCS C. Patton .Nliss Suzanne Phillips .xliss Cora Pitcairn . nh. Edward I. Porter Slrs. Porter .Nliss Virginia Reese .Nliz Rutilio Rotili .Xliss Rose Schepis , Flr. Sclireck . .Wir lohn lf. Soich .Wiz Stilley Airs. Stokes Fliss Mary C. Stokes ixlr. C. Thurber .xliss Tomaselli .Xliss Alina Trainor nxxlss ,RHIC Xxvilllicl' Bliss lfinnia XVill ixliss IIUlCll XXVHSOII .Wiz Anthony Vitori . nlrs. .wary E. Barclay .Nliss Helen Baxendell .Xliss Cavanaugh Sliss Tomaselli TIA W' ' Q . xt! .5 Qs. a I Qs To retain culture in this torn world is the aim of the language department. .Xliss .Nlaloy buys bonds to give guns to her husband in the service. ixliss Xvill, a qualified first aid instructor, is a regular blood donor. Aliss Nixon keeps up-to-the-minute war articles in the library. Bliss Pitcairn, a qualified first aider, sponsored a Patriotic Poster Campaign. There is nothing to equal music in soothing war-weary nerves. Air. Rotili who has a son in the service, keeps up his morale as well as the morale of the barracks with music. Besides buying bonds, .Xliss Botdorfi is another morale builder with her choral work. Health is vital to war emergencies. A graduate first aider, Nurse Craig aids in examining draftees and is a regular blood donor and bond buyer. The barracks will have no serious health problem with Nurse Ioyce, a teacher of home nursing, on hand. Dr. Calhoun examines draftees abnut to enter armed service. The office staff' is no shirker. Sliss Cavanaugh receives all Air Raid signals. Sir. Teal's secretary, 5liss Tomaselli, a first aider, assists him in his various war activities.

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JXshton's night classes. Bliss Billy talaes a night course in industrial relations, and conducts a night class of defense workers. .Xliss Consoli, a memlmer of the Volunteer Typing Corps, always knows the correct military term. Service men's eyes pop upon opening lmoxes filled with goodies sent lmy Aliss ixlarovich. The Indiana Chapter claims ixlisstlrtner as a regular lmandage wrapper. .Xliss 'lirimlmle concentrates on Hpost Xvar Peace Planning. .Nliss Schepis, a lmlood donor, lmuys her share of lmonds. YVith war comes progress in science. Flr. Chrestensen is President of the Chemistry- Physics Teacher's Clulm of Pittslmurgh and Chair- man of the Pittslmurgh section of the Chemical Society. ixlr. Bleiler is an active Air Raid Xvarden. Knitting for the Red Cross lceeps ixlrs. Stokes llusy. ln his classes, Alr. Barko is liuilding strong lmodies for the physical fitness program. The vocational department is preparing students to he soldiers of production. ixlr. Arnett is all out for victory. Besides his daily classes, he has a defense class every day from four until seven o'clock. Un Saturdays and Sundays, he works in the U. S. lfmployment Ullice at Christy Park. Ftrs. Higham specializes in teaching girls sanitary housing and nutrition if Q a ore Commissioned Ofhcers in her classes. .Xliss 'l'Ul11i1SClll,S classes prepare delicious and nutritious meals with her war time recipes. XVaste nothing save every- thing! is .Nliss Coleman's and Flrs. Porter's slogan, as they explain how to cut and remodel clothes. ixlr. .Nlonlcs supervises all training in our shop department. ixlrs. lflder lmrings a realistic view of the war into her classes. Hlr. Schreclc is doing his part in the war effort. He conducts national defense classes in elec- tricity, is a regular lmlood donor and lmond liuyer, and is head of the Auxiliary lfireman. ixlr. Basch works an eight hour shift each day in a defense plant. Slr. Godla is teaching glamorous non-coms to shear the metal and not their fingers. .Xt the Xvest Penn Hospital, ixlr. 'lihurlmer is in charge of thirteen lioys assisting in emergencies. fxlr. Brolmeclc is giving a pre- induction course to shop lmoys while he himself is taking a pre-llight training course. In the past, Alr. Vitori has trained Air Raid .Nlessengers and is now a technician showing movies to Air Raid YVardens.

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Senior Class Officers. Pf't'J'1.lfL'l7f ......,........ .... ..,. A 1 'w is L L G R 1-:Conv Vocational . . . Stage Crew II . . . Shop Basket- lxall ll, III. I m'-Prexzdvnl .,.........,....... 5lr:1.v1N iXlCGllI'INX' COI'llfl1C'I'ClZll . . . Ballll l, ll, Swt'l'I't'fl1l:lf ...l......,,. ..,..... C 31.41A RL'K.xv1N.-x College Preparatory . . . Annual Staff l, II: Editor III . . . Tri-Hi-Y l, Il . . . Student Council l . . . Honor Society . . . Press Clulm II . . . lr. Council . . . Volleyball III . . . G.A.A. . . . Christmas Pageant. 7'rva.r1u-er .........l...,........ .... I SIETTY Moon rx Commercial . . . Tri-Hi-Y l, II . . . Student Council II . . . Com. Club. Top Sergeants . . . nlom, you once said that having friends is the most cherished possession one could have. Here at the old Barracks, lim lieginning to find out what you meant. The gang here cuts up quite a hit and they make sport of each other. But under- neath all this roughness, they're a hunch of regular guys 'really swell, and true friends. l want you to get just a glimpse of a few of them. l'm not much ol' a hand at writing lmut here goes. Say, Dad, you like to argue quite a lrit don't you? YVell, the lmoy .vou want to meet is Holm Passera. He'll take the negative to you're affirmative any day. Blom, you should meet Yvelton Caldwell, he loves to cook, can you imagine? Yvhat a wonderful wife he'll make some day. Ed YYatko's the one who thinks tree mailing for service lioys is really tops. He says, They eanit damp a stamp in a camp, while they're slapping a lap in a trap. By the way, .Nlickey Rooney has nothing on ilihurmond Nlilliren. Thur- mond has really lived in Boy's Town. Dad, in your last letter, you said some- thing had gone wrong with the wiring system in our house. Pete Gregory would he the answer to your prolmlems. l actually lmelieve that Sylvia Cllottiner will lmecome a female Holm Hope. And the gals, God lmless 'em, are just ca-razy alvout jimmy Cvritliths, alias Rudolph Valentino. A non-com who can really handle a Ujive sticki' is Ioe Klingensmith. Ralph Law wants to get a joli, settle down, and enjoy the fruits of happiness. lf' lsalmel Lauter- lmach would attack the laps with the fury She uses on the typewriter, the war would