Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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CGDARIIIYIEDIZ An MIT representative explains entrance requirements to some of our boys. l N .f fd' X. CHS is proud of Kathy Ross, our first National Merit Scholarship finalist. l l Z I Miss Margaret Barclay, head of CHS Guidance Department, helps Joe Ancrile -050 1 iunior honor student, interpret information in a college catalog. leaos the way Facts, tests, advice for the college-bound With Guidance Counselor Miss Margaret Barclay spending We seniors received a constant fiow of facts about her full time in our behalf, we CHS students enioy the benefits SCl1Ol0rSl'1ipS, including the local PICCO ten. The library kept of fine vocational advice. a special shelf well-stocked with college bulletins and the This year counseling for our college preparatory students newest b00kS On how to win college entrance against today's has been accentuated. Practical experience with College odds. Board-type questions was arranged for in the English classes. Miss Barclay, with the help of Mrs. Helen Mills' expert Seniors and sophomores took new achievement tests, the transcript service, is doing her best to make sure the doors results are to be used in discussing with us and our parents of crowded preferred colleges will never be closed to CHS plans for our future study and life work. Career conferences graduates for any causes our school can help us to eliminate, featuring successful persons from different fields helped many The colored blocks show CHS college entrant figures for of us puzzled ones set our goals. 1958 and the prospective number for 1959. ng I I 12,7 63 'thai yew:

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college I -J In the library, Richard Cooley, Linda Hillman, and James Falk examine college bulletins. 0 9. T ca o 0 3 c 0 1 D c 9. 'T i :- m :Q f 1 0 U 3 e Q The nation is making a drive to recruit young talent, but the embarrassing irony is that the better colleges and universities are having to post No Vacancy signs. Because ever-increasing numbers will be knocking at their doors, they are being forced to set their entrance standards on rising scales. We know that each year it will become more difficult for us to win entrance to the college of our choice. On School-and-Industry Exchange Day, Adele Hen ning, .lim Schultz, and their new teacher for the day mlfi quloance ? IU gr 5 IQAVA Q i H V li J Honor roll seniors like Joanne Carson, Joan Rufliing, and George Laz- zfzris watch the Guidance Bulletin Board for news about scholarships. rpsgmmltts-A-5-g 3 gui: Mm 'Truim' 1 C'oU7e 6 ?.f9a, g 17' 5 Ll.

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Kathy Ross, Jean Presnar, Tim Miller Journalism Y Patricia Reilly, Carol Matthews Chorus, Organ Cry for three R's endangers all frills In the panic over the education crisis, extreme opinion from both the teaching profession and the public has called for the immediate elimination of courses not designed to teach the three R's. The co-ed cooking controversy in California made television headlines. These curriculum purgers may have noble aims and may be right to a degree. But more far-sighted planners recognize that the leisure loaded future citizen is bound to have interests beyond his daily work They feel he must have early guidance in finding and beginning to enioy pastimes that are worth while. 6lGC1IlV6S Slilll IHSURE well-nounoeo CHS program wisely retains many specialties l school. The question of whether courses like these and student-run organizations are, or are not, worthless frills still requires careful study. We hope that the nation, and Pennsylvania, 12 and Clairton will come to the wisest of conclusions. Although some of us students this year have regretted the sharp cut in our extra-curricular program, we have been grateful that the administration kept many electives on the program of studies. Although some were offered on restricted time schedules, we were able to elect art, band, chorus, public speaking, homemaking, typing, driver training, blue print reading, or laboratory journalism for either newspaper or yearbook. Un- fortunately many of us who wanted these courses were not able to fit them into our five-subject schedules. The orchestra, clubs, and councils had to conduct most of their activity after