Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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Betty Grocott, Vincent Marflak, and Linda Lewis Biology m I Rey PQIick,Jqck Moore and Kathy Ross Physics We learn, but the accent pricks As the beginning of an answer to these national problems, the new CHS program has put us through a year that none of us will soon forget. Five solid subjects with double lab periods, double English periods, and physical education left us five periods per week for electives and study - a change- over which made past years seem like play. While most of us have met the challenge, we did discover that we had never really learned to budget our time, to concentrate, or to study effectively. We strongly recommend that somewhere these skills be specifically taught. We have not minded being the first to struggle, but we should like to record that it has not been easy. RIT!-INIS Y.. 736: 7539 7507 750A lbll 70W 7017 Q3 773. :ma wus 7752 woo 7767 727 90 7503 mic rata rszs van 7839 1:-' ., vas Jef. ' 'gn' 7 79 5 7952 7959 was rw 4380 ,gg :oft B021 1, av QW 375 B082 WE?-E??E 2195 . ,1- Paul Hrezo Q' Problems of Democracy som 5lUDlES,mmENGLlSHJn its mf, YCGAJ

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47 T'f V ' + L 91371 ' Zi 1: aDhqNN 1 o :C A boy and his books. Sue Carol Puniack made this camera study of Dennis Nagy, typical Clairton High student of 1958-1959. bf ... 'knlilnn , ' aunt IIIVG-SUBJECT SCl1GCUlGS Nation's survival rests on scholars Men like Dr. James B. Conant, Dr. James Killian, Jr., and the presidents of our great universities say that the fate of our way of life rests squarely on our ability to educate minds equal to the task of preserving it. But, they say, today too many bright young Americans come from high school unprepared to meet true university standards. They offer statistics to prove that fwhile they may not approve of Russian methodsl more Russian than American minds are being trained for advanced scientific and cultural thinking. Finally, they call attention to this frightening paradox: although the United States is the traditional stronghold of education, we care less than most nations, do less, and spend less to fund and to train the brilliant minds we desperately need - not iust to maintain our world position, but to safeguard our very freedom. I ' -1 ' in ,.,. Q rfffsf . X- fi yu lgysfiit Z Nyiq K idk trhvwrl +62Jmm4,eQi,S pfwm 4-,llif 'f g1geQ'S lea, .tf+Gfo3e'll1ea7F:-T-If Spcaly, V lieail' plviases + dim ff'-ig rtislnimq '21'lfl'lfB-15' 'l'7t4Clwmo1.pl'l0S1E: GU add, lqfififwow 5ClENCE,woufVlflll'l, wow

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ll and 6:31 ,V . A 'aff-0 if 4315 - 1 ...L f'f :a'c f- D I Pete Semonick and Marcia Yannazzo Russian Donna Jean Colecchi French B I n G Peggy Calder latin Only English handicaps Americans The urgent need for a new emphasis on foreign languages in the American schools is one of the conclusions stressed by the research done on the education crisis. We are ready to acknowledge the purely cultural benefits and the mental discipline of language study. But when we are told, as we have been this year in both fact and fiction, that an American diplomat's mastery of language-learning techniques could one day save our lives, we are shocked. We are further warned that Americans are hated now in other countries, particularly in Asia, because our representatives there neglected to learn native languages and to study and respect native customs. Their Russian counterparts, on the other hand, are Huent whatever the language and tactful about local practices. Evidently, if we are to get along with the world, we must change our attitude. For us to acquire the foreign language habit in public school could be part of the solution. RUSSIAN, FNIHN, PFtNlSH,Fl?ENCH,L!1tTlN