Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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511144, I Un Bill Lucas, Wilbert Hill, Milan Drobac and Victor Cappocciama check fuse box. Boys who are more interested in ma- chinery than in the classes can have their desires fulfilled by working in our shops. Here they learn to operate the tools and machinery actually used in todayis indus- try. There are three shops: auto, electric, and machine. The boys who are in the vocational department alternately spend one week in shop and one week in class- rooms. All of the classroom subjects are related to their shop work. In the auto shop we will find several different makes of automobile engines. The boys dismantle and then reassemble them, thus learning the functions of the various parts. All kinds of motors and generators are found in the electric shop. Correct wir- ing procedure is learned by using the diagrams on file. A rude awakening often follows 1nisinterp1'e'tation. VVhat can be compared with the thrill of accomplishment experienced when fa- shioning a tool or machine part on the lathe, shaper, or milling machine? Try it sometimesl Top to bottom: jerry Martini, Jim Burke, Iohn llarper, and Bob Morris will have this car off the assembly line soon. The Machine Shop is in tip-top shape with the help ol' Phil Clifford, Steve Buzalka, and Dan Henderson. Edison had nothing on these fellows, as Vic- tor Cappocciama, William Lucas, Milan Dro- bac and XVilbert llill study electricity.

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What is being stirred up by cooks Mary johnson, Carolyn Pardiew, Susan Bodnar, Frances Cmitro and Maryann Brest? The juniors and seniors that have taken the homemaking course realize what a beneficial program it is, no matter what your plans for the future may be. Here the girls spend six periods a week learn- ing by doing the techniques of modern housekeeping. During the semester in which they sew, Sunday-best and sport clothes alike are fashioned. We learn how much fun and how practical it is for us to design our own clothes. One can smell all kinds of tasty delica- cies in the making in our modern cooking rooms. At our social gatherings, where our parents are often invited, the food is made and served by the homemaking students of CHS. The living room, in which are found the big, comfortable easy chairs, is ideal for classroom work, which includes those extras, such as proper diets, family health, child care, consumer buying, and interior decorating. It is also a conveni- ent meeting place for our clubs. Top to bottom: Mildred Bricker tidies up thc desk as ,Ioan Cash and Pat Parnham kccp thc floors shining. The four busy bees, Helen Cisco, Carol VVhite, Mona Cabrielli, and Carolyn Cunning- ham, whip up something to eat. Norma Ford marks' Pat Leccia's new skirt as Darlene Dranko, Betty Corgey and Dorothy Dcmko act as critics. Home

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Top to bottom: Carl Herring talics pride in showing his diagram as Russell Walton, Ianct Frablc, and Sally Gates look on. Jan Stanton and Kaye Stablcr adjust the micro- scopes as Sarah Tate, Bunny Lytlc and Nancy Rebhun examine them. The problem is solved by the four whizwcs, Charles Lovell, Donald Smith, .Ioan Zondorak, and Vida Lewis. We, the students of Clairton High School, are fortunate to have such an exceptional program in mathematics and science. Many pleasant hours have been spent in the labs and rooms 4 and 201 working towards a brilliant and successful career. Our physics students will long remember those discussions with Mr. Martell con- cerning various problems that were difficult to understand. Many happy hours, soon only pleasant memories, were spent in working our chemical and algebraic equa- tions. The experiments in chemistry and physics proved to be quite successful and we profited immensely by them. A feeling of extreme satisfaction is developed when a particularly challenging problem in math is successfully solved. Geometric theorems proved to be very interesting and also help- ful when it came to working aCroup BD physics problems. These courses are planned to help us in furthering our education. ln these subjects the student receives a knowledge that will be of great use in our modern world. Our graduates, trained as engineers, physicists. and chemists, have been able to find good positions in Clairton itself. Matthew Haramia, LeRoy Grant, and Mary VVinand show that general math prob- lems arcn't really so tough after all.