Ambridge Area High School - Bridger Yearbook (Ambridge, PA)

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Miss McKeown is geffing in some liffle needed pracfice on fhe dicfaphone. Overseeing fhe work is Miss Giammafeo. Their subiecfs are fyping, bookkeeping, and shorfhand. Many girls and a few boys fake fhese very useful and pracfical courses which lead our sfudenfs fo good iobs. Supervising our hygiene deparfmenf are Miss Spahr and Miss Yosf, girls' hygiene: and Mr. Kokoski, who feaches boys' hygiene. These feachers do a very capable job of insfilling our pupils wifh fhe ideas essenfial fo healfh. Miss Spahr and Miss Yosf also feach girls' gym. Many of our fufure housewives will owe fheir fraining fo Miss Swayne and Mrs Nicholson. Our home economics deparfmenf funcfions very effici- enfly under fheir excellenf supervision. Girls are insfrucfed in fhe arf of such dufies as planning meals, cooking, cleaning, and laundrying. These men have clone a wonderful iob of feaching our sfudenfs fhe necessify of safe driving. Sfudenfs are firsf insfrucfed in fhe principles of driving be- fore fhey are permiffed fo drive a car af all. The insfrucfors for this course are Mr. Chapala and Mr. Beley. Mr. Kokoski feaches nighf school driving and Mr. Gordon supervises aufo shop.

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ffzrouglz Self-600 fiden ce The language deparfmenl is a very imporlanf parl of our school curriculum. The fascinaiion of a foreign subiecf such as French, Lalin, and Sp-anish in+eres'rs many of our sludenls. The lhree leachers heading fhis deparfmenl' are Miss Du'Ffy, Miss Griffifh, and Mr. Osso. Mr. Sfeinberg and Mr. Palmer are members of lhe science deparlmenf. The subiecls include senior science, chemisfry, and physics. These courses are nol required buf fhey are so well liked 'lhaf all lhe classes are filled. Chemisfry is a senior subiecf, while senior science and physics can be laken by bolh iuniors and seniors. Our vocalional deparlmenl 'leachers include Mr. Fulmer and Mr. Gordon. Mr. Fulmer supervises lhe basic principles of machine shop ihal are faughf fo the sophomores. Mr. Gordon heads fhe aufo shop. The shop is run on a lwo cycle basis: lwo weeks of shop and fhen lwo weeks of sludies. The commercial course includes lyping, shorfhand, and bookkeeping. Miss Adams and Miss Mermel- slein leach lyping and Miss Kozak leaches secre- farial praclice which is laken only by fhird year commercial sludenls. This includes working in an office iwo weeks per semesfer.

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K. WR flaky l cf? fam PERSUNA fs, ty fd-'AJ ' Nafurally, our slory cen+ers around The siudenls and +heir classes and acfivifies. All of us, from sophomores io seniors, have lalcen a parl in making a slory which will be- come a Chaplrer in 'rhe hisfory of Ambridge High School. ll' has been said 1'ha+ Nvariely is The spice of life and our school life cerlainly has nol been dull. Our Classes have been made up of a large variely of many personalifies which have added in+eresfed and enioymenl lo our slory. dia