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

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A MODERN BUILDING Otters Advantages and Opportunities In Every Phase Of The School's Daily Program . . 'stiff -nn The utility room provides a central location for the smaller mechanical units , . . Both natural and artificial light banishes eye strain in the draft- ing room . . . Stream-lined furniture Offers an added inducement to study. Jostling is a lost art with the ad- dition of the new stairways . . . A cheerful, comfortable room attracts Students to the library . . . Dressing room lockers accomodate both g m and street clothing. Two gigantic boilers keep the build- ing warm on the coldest days . , . The wood shop provides ample space for jobs of every size . . . Announce- ments reach the entire school immedi- ately by way of the radio. Large booths in the electrical shop offer adequate room for wiring prac- tice . . . The chemistry lab invites research and experimentation . . . BOO!-is and clothes are safely stored in the individual hall lockers.

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1 to wear them, and how to take care of them, along witlf fTl2tllX' other helpful bits of advice towards deieloping a pleasing personality. A particularly useful study-' is that of household accounting, for it is desirable that everyone. including huuse- keepers. should have some knowledge of liookkecping. Popular with the girls is the course in home furnishing. What type of furni- ture should go in a small living room 'Z- What kind of wallpaper should be used with Oriental rugs ?-How can you make a kitchen look larger?-Where shoulfl lights be placed in the living room, in the bedroom. in the bathroom?-Just how should you arrange your furniture for the best effect? These and many other questions are satisfactorily answered in this course. Girls learn how to buy good furniture with the least expenditure and to greatly improve the appearance of their homes by doing their own paper- ing, painting, and sewing. thus reduc- ing the cost of redecoration to the min- irnum. A new and enlightening class is that of child development-in fact, it could almost be called an elementary course in child psychology. Care of the child while still an infant is discussed and the more complex situations arising as he grows older are settled. The girls are taught the proper way to break the child's un- desirable habits, to form new, helpful ones, and to help cure inferiority com- plexes. Inclu ted in this course is a class in vocations for girls, where pupils plan- ning to find work elsewhere than in the home for themselves learn their aptitudes for different fields. The important work done by the home economics course cannot be measured, for the job of making a happy home is one of the most difhcult but most satisfy- ing of careers open to a girl. ET, ' ' 'Y N 1 44 ,fi Q-1 f Girls studying related arts under Miss Gregory make useful articles from discard- ed cardboard. The constant whirr of sewing machines characterizes the class where Miss Vosberg instructs future home makers. Lois Syster and Margwret Jackson mark the hem on Leona Graham's dress. Helen Robbins and Robert Potter, behind the counter of the model store, wait on cus- tomers. Miss Gregory and Marie Del Sardo serve tempting dishes in the cafeteria. Helen Rusnak practices band- aging Betty Jane MilIer's arm. while the other girls learn how to take a temperature. Girls take a lesson in child care as Roselia Di Orlo dresses a doll under Miss Vosburg's direction. Twenty-one

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CCMMENCEMENT EPOCH IN THE LIFE OF A SENIOR The house lights dim slowly-the foootlighls flicker on--the colored lights of the proscenium arch play into the shadows of the stage-the curtains swish, and the senior class play is on. The senior adjusts a false sideburn, gives a final pat to a stubborn wig. walks onto the stage, and becomes another in his dramatic part, until the final curtain sweeps into place and the applause of an appreciative audience swells in the auditorium. A few days later, as the senior walks down the aisle to the blare of trumpets on Moving-up Day, he realizes that he is attending his last assembly in La- trobe High School. He performs the devotionals al- most mechanically, watches the great curtains as they swing aside to reveal a burlesqued version of school life, invented by some witty students. To the lustily sung strains of Where oh where is the stately senior? he walks slowly out. of the building, and rev- erently sings the class song as the senior flag is raise-1 on the flag pole. Welcomed by the juniors, the senior dances in an elaborately decorated gymnasium as the guest of the class to succeed him, at the gala Junior-Senior Prom. Going from the gay music and bright lights of the prom to the solemnity of the baccalaureate service, the senior takes his place in the front rows of the auditorium. He hears advice to be put to use in his life after graduation, when he will struggle to find himself a place in the world. The blended voices of the white clad choir swell and fade softly into pleasing harmony as the congregation joins in the singing of hymns. Then he stands with his class as they sing together the hymn which they have composed and adopted. Turning again from a sentimental mood to a fun- loving state of mind, the senior hears the history of his class and the bequests of the group as Class Night gets under way. He sees reenacted the most important events of t.he four years just past and is later called to the stage to receive a small gift to remind him of some peculiarity which distinguishes him from his classmates. Smiling donors and pilots of the class ship are swept from sight as the curtains glide into place, ending anot.her class night. To the stirring music of The War March of the Priests, the senior marches slowly down the main aisle and awaits the all-important event to which all of his four years of work has led. He awaits his com- mencement-the climax of his high school career. He hears the speakers as they urge the outgoing students to carry the enthusiasm of their youth and the high ideals into the future, through the trials and discour- agements of later life. As he hears his name called, he goes to the stage and receives his diploma. As he leaves, he slowly changes the tassel on his cap, be- coming a full fledged graduate. Gripping his precious diploma, he realizes how much it means to him-much more than any person watch- ing him can possibly imagine. He sees long evenings of studies, endless examination papers, and, mingled with this, much wholesome enjoyment and many last- ing friendships. Turning in his cap and gown a little later t.he same evening, he leaves the high school build- ing, for the first time ready to regulate his own life, and realizing fully for the first time the great re- sponsibility which rests upon him. Page Twenty-three