Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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C 5 Iibrar has 4300 volumes Mrs. Marjorie Smith, library clerk, checks records with Miss Janet Nixon, head librarian. If Miss Janet Nixon, head librarian, doesn't know the answer, she knows where to find it. Students take for granted her ability to help them without realizing they are being served by an expert. During the past year, chapters on the use of the library written by Miss Nixon have appeared in two new books which will have national circulation. One is English, Fourth Course by Matilda Bailey and Alex- ander Stoddard, the other is English Hand- book by Matilda Bailey and Gunnar Horn. Mrs. Marjorie Smith, new library clerk has taken over much detail work, leaving r Miss Nixon free to answer more of those stu- dent questions. book for Phil Work at the main desk Mary Alwilda Taylor, head student ll brarian, and Charles Barrett charge a

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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

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for reading and research Taking advantage of library materials at their disposal, stu- dents find hard ques- tions easy to answer. Four new shelf-sections set up last fall were not empty long. More books mean more work, so Miss Nixon's carefully trained corps of thirty-five student librarians have been kept extra busy. Mary Alwilda Taylor and her helpers have worked hard to keep the 4800 books, thirty-five magazines, and three newspapers in steady circulation for the use of their classmates. STUDENT LIBRARIANS First row: Nadine Arnold, Barbara Walker, Mary Ann Third row: Ray Phillippi, Shirley Fleet, Betty Goodrum, Fedor, Mary Taylor, Patty Jane Nuttall, Mary Bekavac, Joyce Berchok, June Friend, Bessie Tennant, Isabelle Hammons, Becky Conrad, Helen Nelson. Not in picture: Cecilia Hoffe, Armetha Roberts, Joan Rush, Byron Steinbaugh, June Nelson, Ray DeUnger, l U Charles Barrett, Adeline Olesky, Erma Jane Woofter, Paulette Staropoli, Sally Berich, Adriana Fant, Gerry Joan Bronkoskgl Norman Kamp, Virginia Lee Willey, Bradley, Mrs. Mariorie Smith. Nancy Parnell, Sara Burke. Mildred Wasko. Second row: Miss Janet Nixon, Ronald Kulka, Betty Crilley, Mary Slonaker, Ramona Howard, Joanne Burens, l 65