Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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,awp I 'Q mathematics is basic to man occupations So much of our lives is based on the con- cepts of how many and how much that we take for granted we must learn to count. tt is also safe to assume that we will not return in the next fifty years to exchanging our best cow for a neighbor's three fattest pigs. So we have to understand basic facts about money, its uses, and its values. Beyond this elementary knowledge, the sur- vey of student occupational interests made for March 29 Career Night showed definite need for emphasis on mathematics courses. For we stu- dents are planning futures which involve the use of numbers on all levels. Many of us plan to work with the new, com- plex business machines. Among us there are prospective bookkeepers and accountants, pay- roll and disbursing agents, traffic experts, bank- ing, insurance, real estate consultants, salesmen and sales clerks, engineers of all types, techni- cians and statisticians, pharmacists, nurses, doc- tors, contractors, architects, draftsmen, surveyors, chemists and bacteriologists, home budget mak- ers and users of recipes. All of us expect to be family income spenders and investors. Not many of us can hope to get by without mastering the basic principles CHS mathematics teaches us. Math teachers pictures above are Mr. Charles Patton, Miss Jane Walker, Mrs, Agnes Hebner, and Mr. John Soich. In Mrs. Hr-:bner's Algebra l class, all grades, including ninth, are represented. Mr. Soich's trig wizards know all about tangents and secants. Miss Walker teaches general math stu- dents to calculate interest on bank accounts and loans, while Mr. Patton's geometry class practice bisecting a few angles.

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commercials get job experience in office practice For many years Clairton business establish- ments have hired CHS commercial students di- rectly upon graduation, knowing they will pro- duce work of dependable quality. The fact that almost one-third of the present graduating class are commercials makes evident the importance of the department in the curricu- lum. The fact that four of the top ten graduates are commercials emphasizes the responsibility it has to prepare students to the limits of their exceptional ability. With local ottices, banks, and stores invest- ing heavily in the most modern equipment, it is necessary for CHS's commercial training to keep pace, since so many students do begin work with- out further study. The senior secretarial practice class, toward which all underclass study of typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping points, gives students the fun- damentals they need for operating all types of business machines, for following other standard office procedures, and for observing ottice eti- quette. Extra time spent in the office and on projects requested by other school departments gives them valuable experience ot every variety. Besides, their business knowledge is broad- ened by courses in salesmanship, commercial law, business math, and economics. Commercial department faculty include: seated, Miss Frances Ortner, Miss Martha Marovich, Miss Alberta Trimble, standing, Miss Rose Schepis, Mr. John Young, Mrs. Lucille Mills. Pictures at the top show a secretarial practice class work- ing on a budget, Edward Caton exercising his line on sales- manship class customers, below, seniors take dictation while sophomores work out their bookkeeping cycles. -4

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social studies view future in light of past How people should live to live together hap- pily on a tamily, town, country, or world scale promises to present more and more problems as the twentieth century progresses. An enlightened citizen is the better one. He will do better thinking on the problems society must solve, Four courses designed to give enlightenment on local, national, and world attairs are ottered us CHS students: World History, to tell us how other civiliza- tions met problems like ours, and to trace what have been to date our own troubles and accomplishments. United States History, to give us the story of how people closest to us in time and place have conducted their lives, beaueathing to us the nation as it is today. Problems of Democracy, to analyze our so- cial, political, and economic institutions so that we understand why we live as we do, and to get started our adult thinking about what we want to do to change or improve it. Economics, to explain past and present dis- tribution and use ot goods, land, and wealth, so that we can begin to judge how much of what we want we can expect to get, over what obstacles. ln each course we review historical facts, and follow current affairs. How intelligently we as adult citizens use our knowledge depends wholly upon us. At the top standing are social studies teachers Miss Mary Stokes, Mr. Larry Critchfield, Miss June Morgan, seated, Mrs. Grace Lacey and Miss Margaret Barclay. The next pictures show world history students tracing NapoIeon's trails, a United States history class checking on Lewis and Clark, Below, economics students practice interpret- ing statistics graphs, while a POD class examines the weekly world events map. :sm