Westmont Hilltop Senior High School - Phoenician Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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History Repeats itself and News Quizzes Never Die! Upper left: Mr. Good ... and I’ll appreciate your vote in the upcoming elections. Upper right: World problems, death and inflation are the cause of Mr. Mostoller’s grimace. Right: Unlike Mr. Mostoller. Mrs. Meredith has a more optimistic attitude about the state of world affairs. 18

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Top: Mr. Puhala neglects his English duties momentarily to absorb a delightful piano tune. Top left: Mr. Hindman feels it is important to hr in the right frame of mind to study English. Lower: Miss Chuba says. Sorry. Vocabulary books don't have centerfolds. Students accomplish many unforgettable English feats Along every student's trek through high school studies is a mountain of English. A part of this mountain is made up of compositions that every student must write. Remember writing paragraph after paragraph of description, contrast and comparison, narration, character sketches, and so many more. One certainly does have to reserve some pity for the teachers who have the pleasure of correcting the products of their assignments. This task can become quite a burden since many students have such annoying habits as misspelling words and making grammatical errors. If students are not contending with the problem of writing, they are preparing their eyes with Visine for a bout with reading adventures. Who can forget the countless hours spent reading such fine literature as Our Town, Flight, The Red Badge of Courage in the tenth grade. And Mac Beth, Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Ransom of Red Chief, and Dover Beach in eleventh grade. Finally — Othello, Hamlet, Antigone, and The Secret Sharer in twelfth grade. If seniors had not had their fill of English with these literary classics, some grammar, Semantics and of course every senior’s enemy — the theme, proved to be the ultimate challenge to the English student. 17

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Left: Mr. Pompanclla wonders about job stability ... with the Rockettcs! Below right: Mr. Marcinek doesn’t always look so skeptical. Bottom: Mr. Claycomb frequently converses with desks and occasionally they have students in them. If a senior’s disillusionment with practice forms is any indication of a future interest in filing tax returns, then it looks like H R Block is going to have their hands full. Every senior knows the frustration involved when you subtract line 30 from line 29 and your answer is less than zero!?! Sure, they try to make it all a little more bearable, but their attempts are to no avail. The conclusion of this sad and humorous story comes when we are presented with the test tax form. Would it be possible for us to have an accountant present during the ex- amination?”, a student pleads. “How about working only to the line where it says to ‘stop here if you want the IRS to complete your tax form'!?! , cries another. Then, before you know it, the test is over and everyone has a basic idea of how to properly com- plete a Form 1040. 19