Canonsburg High School - Canon Log Yearbook (Canonsburg, PA)

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thers Learn How To Manage A Home Miss Josephine Laib In charge of the home economics departmentg teaches home management and clothing-adviser to Ellen H. Richards Club. Above: Students learn lzow to make their own clothes attractively and how to press garments correctly. Miss Elizabeth Finley Teaches cooking and sophomore home econom- ics-advises the Beta Tri- Hi-Y-manages Cafe, a home room. A fine vocational home economics course trains girls to become capable home makers tomorrow. Girls take the two-year course in their freshman and sophomore years. Future housewives learn how to plan and manage a home, how to take care of children, and how to take care of the sick. They plan menus, study calories, prepare food, and set a table attractively. They learn how to cut out patterns, how to use a sewing machine, and how to wash and press clothes. Students particularly enjoy the home arts class where they learn to make useful articles to beautify the home. i Freshman Room Cafe - Firrt Rofwr Marlene Haye, Irene Berti, Patricia Lesso, Peggy Bud- key. Second rofwr Angela Gia- cobbe, Eileen Fish, Donna Hall, Marilyn Chytil, Mad- eline Bates, Virginia Cline. Third rofw: Patricia Dell- orso, Dianne Bails, Doris Budkey, Wilma Beers, Flor- ence Elenitsas, Patricia George. Fourth rofw: Jacqueline Ha- tala, Frances Boles, Gloria Dudley, Iris Greely. Fifth rofw: Eleanor Casar- cia, Bella DePaoli, Janice Hall, Shirley Plants, Barbara Chuba, Garnet Chambers. Zl

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ome Learn Vocational kills Mr. Daniel Caruso Teaches boys how to operate safely and cor- rectly various machinesg teaches welding and ma- chine drafting. Mr. John Neal Teaches all woodshop Above: Woodshop mechanical drawing classes attract Classes? teaches mechani- boys who may wish to study engineering in college. cal drawing and indus- trial arts. The shop program gives boys an opportunity to learn woodworking and mechanical skills. They can use these skills in their own industrial community. Students use their woodworking skills to enjoy leisure hours, to make home repairs, or to make money on the side, and their mechanical drawing knowledge as a basis for college engineering courses. Nlachine shop teaches boys how to operate machines intelligently, presents fundamentals of welding, and introduces students to the language of industry. Students draw up their own blueprints and use these for their own shop project. Left below: Machine shop boys draw up blueprints Right below: Bob Pritts, senior, prepares to burn . which they are to use to make tools to specifications. Many new machines in shop interest Bob in tool making 20

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tudents Prepare To Live In A Seienti ie Age . . . Freshman Room 7-First ro-w: Bessie Brubaker, jean Arnold, Au- drey Adams. Second rofw: Lawrence Ayres, Shirlee Arnold, Mary Lou Beppler, Betty Caseber, William Betonte, Richard Bell. Third rofw: Patricia Cassi- dy, Lois Antonilli, joseph Andrews, Jerry Campbell, Robert Backner, Ella Mae Briar, Janet Balentine, Tad Boggs. Fourth rofw: Paul Amie, john Brecht, john Arcuri, Harry Browell, Clyde Arm- strong, joseph Bostjancic. Fifth rorw: Francis Buckley, Louis Bell, Emil Arnal, Nor- man Bell, Charles Bails, Anthony Capozzi. Freshman Room Ill-2 - First rofw: Joan Pankiewicz, Nancy Nale, Marian Miller, Lor- etta McCartney, Lorraine O'Bryon, Donna Leveto. Second roiw: Don Morrison, Walter McCartney, Mary Ann Matyuf, Edith Markle, Rose Paige,lElizabeth Marmo. Third rofw: Sylvia Mahra- mas, Patricia Myrgo, Sandra Lewis, William Patmon, De- lano Paige, Gloria Mancini, Marlene Nocki, Carmella Obosky. Fourth ro-w: Dona McVick- er, Anthony Luisi, Robert Lytle, jim McCormick, jos- eph Lilley, Kenneth Mavrich, Lawrence Luisi. Fifih rofw: jim Orsini, Ed- ward Nicola, Jerome Markel, james McVVilliams, Tony Lucchitti, Olie Orsino. ' -lr X . The science department offers live courses. These are chemistry in the senior year, physics and applied science in the junior year, biology in the sophomore year, and general science for freshmen. Students who intend to become doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers, engineers, inventors, and the like 7111151 follow these courses, but these subjects give infor- mation useful in everyday life as well. Science courses give students knowledge, under- standing, use, and appreciation of important principals of science, and of the society of which each student is to be a part. Students learn that the unknown is ever with us and that every person is more creative than he realizes. They realize that the world still needs pioneers and that they may have a chance for personal achievement by adding to the world's knowledge or skill. 22