Greater Latrobe High School - Latrobean Yearbook (Latrobe, PA)

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TECHNIQUE CDF THE CLASSROOM From the technique used in teaching the famous readin', 'ritin', and 'rithme- tic of centuries past have developed spe- cial methods of instruction now used uni- versally in institutions of learning. AS one glances through the classrooms of Latrobe High School, he watches with interest the various techniques employed to teach lessons and to present material in the classrooms. Drill work plays an important part in classroom methods of teaching. I, and 2, and 3, and 4 echoes from Miss Shallen- berger's room as she drills the class on their writing exercises. On her way down the aisle, she stops to help a stu- dent take an extra hump from a HG . English classes do practice exercises to make better grammar students. The commercial department spends most. of its time drilling and practicing to bring truth to the saying that practice makes perfect. The mathematics department depends mainly on problem solving to train the students in its classes. Mathematics teachers do surprising things with a jum- ble of x's and z's while explaining various principles to wide-eyed students. Miss Whiting, with pointer in hand, dem- onstrates how to find the area of a six sided regular polygon, and Miss Hamil- ton tells a confused young math student how to remove a radical from the denom- inator of a fraction. Miss Breeton and her freshmen study percentage problems and the methods for calculating com- pound interest. Carefully guided work with the use of study charts and outlines for background and research is a main feature in the social science department. Mr. Wild trains freshmen for good citizenship, or plans with them the layout for a modern industrial town. From his seat in the back of the room, Mr. Rise hears a jun- ior's description of the Battle of Bushy' Run, while Mr. Hoerr takes sophomore students on an imaginary trip to Europe for a plunge into Old World history. At the end of a block, Mr. Beatty gives the seniors an opportunity to discuss today's social problems as they finish one sec- tion of their study of the principles of democracy. CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES TOP: Students practice arm movement in Miss Sl1aIlenberger's writing class. SECOND: .Miss ,Whiting .examines .al- gebraic problems on the board while pupils at their seats check answers. THIRD: Freshmen consult reference books in Mr. Wilds' class and make outlines for civics tebooks. no FOURTH: Mr. Stumbaugh explains the principles of an electric motor to a group of interested science pupils. BOTTOM: Bill McCafferty and Jessie Stough translate French phonetics at the blackboard under Miss Gibson's direction.

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The screen flashes white-lights shatter the darkness-and the student watches the world at work. By means of the motion picture projector, he has lled from the tiresome discussion of the classrooms down a road of light and shodows that shows him life-not as stuffy detail of -of-ories and principlesf but as action and reason. He may tray-'l the assembly line of an automobile plant, or follow the steps in the pasteurization of milk. all without leaving his seat. Through th-' medium of the screen he has watched the practical experiences of others to round out his own life with a unit of research. Good morning. may I serve you '. ' -f thus the salesmanship student l-egirs his ri-search into the peculiarities of the personalities he will lat.,-r meet each day in the retail store. Behind the counter of the model store. he faces the customer, ready to serve him tactfully. Through individual experience, he develops his methods of selling before he must depend upon those methods for a living. On thc table a miniature steam engine fired by a bunsen burner chugs busily as hissing steam drips from the escape valve-in a test tube, carefully measured drops of sulphuric acid boil up into a chalky precipitate --f through the sparkling water fish lazily wave their fins and slip easily bc-hiud the tioating fronds in the aquarium -each experiment the object of rapt attention for the young scientists engaged in their research. In the laboratories the students acquaints himself througn expeiiments, tests his theories, and learns by doing. In the history room, long the Home of staid and marshalled fac s rtcited in awed respectfulness to the great. the student also pu1'sues the trend of research. From the va1'ied collection of reference material in the bookcase he augments the basic outline of his text and study sheets. 'Jn the maps and diagrams he traces the movement of civilization across Europe, visioning the kaleidescopic change through the centuries. A jig-saw liuzzes as it cuts through a piece of ine wood skillfully guided by a future carpenter-a student watches the lathe as it Haw- lessly turns and shapes the base for a lamp he is making-another assembles a broken light fixture --e each is busily practicing and learning through actual experience in the trade departments the technique for future work which will be his means of livelihood. Latrobe High School has joined the throng that has come to realize that education through research is the type from which the most real benefit is dtrived. As the old word method of teaching has been abandoned for the discussion type, so has the text book method been augmented with research. Students in Mr. St:in':ba'iq'1's general science class see a reel of moving pictures. ,S . J I TOD: Alvin i-lile. Bill Banks. and Donald Sproch assist Mr. Wiegman with a chemistry experiment. Biologists observe wrigglin forms TOP CENTER: g as they adjust their powerful microscopes. BOTTOM CENTER: History pupils make use Of books and maps - important mediums of research. BOTTOM: Librarian Vivian Watkins obligingly helps other students in their search for reference material in the library. Page Eleven 3 r

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The science department employs labor- atory work and demonstrations to train young scientists. Explaining in detail the operation ofa single phase motor, Mr. Stumbaugh introduces freshman science classes to the study of electricity through the tiny model he holds in his hands. Miss llalliels points out to her biology class the parts of an earthworm or hears a discourse from a student on the life cycle ot' a mosquito, Mr. Hummel asks his seniors a volley ot' questions about the expansion coefiicient of gases, and Miss Netzlof explains the mystic wonders ol' the mechanical equivalent of heat. Members of the science department spend a great deal of time performing experiments and demonstrations to prove the theories advanced by their textbooks. In his chemistry classes, Mr. lViegman mixes magic potions and produces num- erous strange odors and colors, to the amazement of his classes. A large bun- sen burner kept constantly under a dis- tilling apparatus supplies the chemistry laboratory with distilled water for their experiments. Smoking acids and coarse powders in test tubes combine to form a substance which is examined carefully by young chemists in large aprons. Seniors in the physics course in groups of two or three perform individual experiments several times a week. Biology students tear membranes of libres apart and ex- 5 .4 Top: Mr. Rummel supervises a chem- istry experiment. Bottom: Mr. Knier demonstrates the use of a machine to a newcomer. TI-I E FACU LTY amine the curious arrangement of cells under the plate of the microscopic lens. Through oral practice and repetition the foreign language and English depart- ments train students in the proper use of words. Miss Reeping hears a Latin translation ot' t'aesar's conquests in Gaul, or demonstrates to her freshmen the conliugations of verbs. Students in Miss Gibsons French classes study French phonetics to assure proper pronunciation. linglish students are busy the year 'round writing themes. studying gram- mar, or reading classics. Miss Osborne's Juniors discuss the imprisonment in A Tale of Two Cities. and Mr. Dovey's senior classes argue about the best sources for an English talk, Mr. Ben- ford hears his orators present their mas- terpieces, while Miss Lindner and Miss Lalferty explain the plays of Shakes- peare atter the class dramatization. Miss McBride teaches the use of the library and its advantages to her freshmen. and Mr. Rizzo instructs his industrial boys in sentence structure and composition be- tween lessons in citizenship. Each day the busy factory of learning in Latrobe High School continues in its pursuits of teaching, and each year it turns out as its products, a group of well trained young men and women who must takes their places in the busy, fast run- ning life of the modern world. x I 5' xi i v K I 1 . it 'X FIRST ROW: Miss Whiting. Mr. Gaudino, Miss Daniels, Mr. Wild. Miss Lafferty, Mr, Dovky, Mr. Hoerr, Mr. Stover, Miss Gregory. MF- Mc' Doogali, Miss C. Gibson, Miss Netzlof. SECOND ROW: Miss Shallenberger, Miss Hamilton, Mr. Bert. Miss Osborne, Miss lVlcBrjp'e. Miss Garlow, Miss Breeton, Miss Quick, Mr. Beatty, Miss Linder, Mr. Rummel, Miss Reeping, Miss M. Himler, Miss A. Gibson. Miss Donnelly. i R THIRD ROW: Mr. Schulte. Miss Harman, Miss Vosburgh, Mr. Rizzo, Mr. Knier, i s.R. Himler, Mr. l?'iywr0S6. MF. Godshall, Mr. Halsall. Mr. Vviegman, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Rise, Mr. Benford. Mr. Snyder. Mr. Stu-vibaugli. is f '