Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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Administration oflice personnel below do the important work that keeps the school system functioning smoothly. TOP: Curriculum sec- retary Miss Ruth Vinton and switchboard operator Miss Constance Sgroi. MIDDLE: Payroll secretary Mrs. Audrie Keller and Mrs. Angeline Bracken, chief of the staff as Dr. Bohren's private secretary. BOTTOM: jun- ior High secretary Miss Esther Paros and billing secretary Miss Gloria Taddeo. fi a All 4 O -.1--1 Ll .M .Lal New Administrator a boost for improvement of CURRICULUM Dr. Helen B. Knapp B.A. 1vr.A. Ph.D. Director Of CUfflCUlUm University of Pittsburgh A significant administration move in 1959 was securing the services of Dr. Helen Bachman Knipp, formerly of the University of Pittsburgh and the Read- ef's Digest staff. As Director of Curriculum and assist- ant to Dr. Bohren, this specialist in reading psychology, in the administration of placement tests, and in the teaching of foreign languages has set in motion many projects which will have long range effects on what is taught in the Clairton Schools. Besides helping many students with personal reading problems, she instituted in the first grades a radically different method of teach- ing reading which is reported to be having amazing results. Dr. Knipp is indeed welcome to Clairton.

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r V K f ,. ' f 75,05 , z,-iff gg T U 1 ' , 5. lj,-L5+Q.fL pl, Dr Karl Bohren Supermtendent of Schools BS MEd EdD Unlversxty of Plttsburgh Th1s year IS the tenth of Dr Karl Bohrens servlce as Superxntendent of Cl81ftOU Schools Under h1s gu1dance the most delxcate problems and the most serlous have been dealt w1th ln ways that most benefxt the school system The educatlonal needs and deslres of the 1nd1v1dual student have been most carefully consldered The strongest way ID whxch Dr Bohren has demonstrated h1s smcere mterest 1S h1s constant effort to keep mformed on what IS new and worth wh1le ln school programs and to do h1s best to see that Clalrton gets It Our language laboratory the only one m Western Pennsyl van1a IS th1s years proof of hlS endeavors For h1s devotxon to the Improvement of our schools Dr Bohren has the apprec1at1on of all students especlally 1n th1s year whlch brought h1m great personal sorrow When superintending means trying the new

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ADMINISTRATIVE HE DS One of the reasons Claxrton Hxgh School IS such a fine school IS that lt IS expertly dlrected by xts pr1nc1pal, Mr Bruce C B1rch A s1ncere ad vocate of the new accent on learnmg he has made a determlned drlve to steer the Wllllng and to prod the lazy but capable student mto arrang mg programs acutely angled at the academic Students have found Mr Blrch alert to the1r problems and eager to help solve them 1n the most advantageous way XJ Bruce C Burch A B Wlttenberg College MA Columbxa Umverslty Umverslty of Pittsburgh Mr Blrch and Mlss jane Walker who xs very active ln pubhc relatxons work for both state and national teachers orgamzatxons welcome Dr A N Addleman speaker at the Amer :can Educatlon Week program for semor hugh parents Dr Addleman was then president of the Pennsyl vama State Educatxon Assoclatlon 7 1 ff' '41 d k I 1 N 1 I R , : I 3 f ' , I , . x, Senior High Principal I A I , I .. 'fz..g. . ., 1 QC M L I Q E . , ' I ' ' u 1 V In VV 1 '