Berwick High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Berwick, PA)

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PEECH CORRECTIO Helping students to overcome speech defects, the Speech Correction Department has indeed played an important part in our high school curricu- lum, Students who desire to correct and improve their specific oral communications are taught to master their own special voice and speech problems. This requires special training in the following: tone pitch, time, loudness, complex attributes such as faulty emphasis, regional dialect, foreign speech, and aftection. This training has helped many college students in public speaking and dramatics. Miss A M MARGARET H RICHARDS ish ll District Speech Correctionist Director of Radio Club Red Cross Sponsor Miss Richards works with Nicholas Martell: on proper teeth lp Actual use of the ch sound is developed and hxed n association i w positions for clear disti ct h sound production as areas as Michael Saddoclc and James Spezialitti apply it to their Nicholas Scrocino assisted by Terry Riegel ot the RCA Recorder game of chess records his ch sound to test the degree of clarity he has attained 27 Engl' , Ill , c ,Q ' - X Q 0 , , i x - - . 5 . , . . . I i ' . I . . and ,O ,. I . .H C . , . . . . .

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Mr. J. GILBERT HENRIE, Jr. Driver Education DRI ER EDUCATIO Driver Education, lasting one semester, included two periods a week in driving and three in driver's theory. Its purpose was to develop good attitudes, skill, judgement, and habits so essential for safe and sane driving. Students learned howto start and stop a car efficiently through the correct usage of the controls. They then became acquainted with the mechani- cal and electrical changes which take place when moving the various controls. Physical and mental requirements for a good driver were discussed during the class period. This helped the student to understand the effects of emotional immaturity and intoxication, as well as physical hazards, on safe driving ability. To further this safe driving program, representatives from each high school in the district attended the Safe Driving Conference, held at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. In this manner representatives from the diFlerent schools contribute their ideas toward putting a safety program into effect in each of their schools. It has been proven by statistics that Driver Education is highly valuable in reducing traffic accidents and removing traffic hazards through education. Thus we can see why we were fortunate in having such a course in our high school. How many feet would a car travel at the rate of 50 miles per hour in I5 seconds? asks Mr. Henrie. Wonder if anybody passed? Students getting ready for a lesson. Yes, they brought the car back in one piece!

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VOCATIO AL AGRICULTURE During their three years in high school, the boys interested in agriculture were given the opportunity to educate themselves in the modern and progressive methods of farming. This course played an important role in developing the interest so needed in the agricultural problems of our country. Every boy was required to do a project concerned either with the raising ot crops or with the raising of livestock. They exhibit these projects in the local fair contests. ln addition to the study of farming, students who took the Voc. Agriculture Course were required to study English and history, with the choice of one elective. This made the course well-balanced and very worthwhile. By providing such a course, America is proving that success is based upon how well the people in all walks of life are educated. Mr. CARL M. DAVIS Voc. Agriculture I, Il, Ill, IV Manager of Cafeteria Larry Fenton is showing Mr. McKechnie his Pure-bred Holstein cow and calf, lust one of his ten proiects. Dean Hack in his prize field of oats. .lohn Bodner is proud of his onion-raising proiect.