Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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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 '

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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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encourage acadcm1c 1I1t6If6StS A man well lrked and respected by the entlre student body rs Vxce Prlncrpal john R Bracken Besides handlmg attendance and dxsclpllnary problems, supervlsmg the cafeterla, and v1s1t1ng classrooms, he assrsts the pr1nc1pal partrcularly rn scheduhng and currlculurn study He devoted trme thrs year to lnvestlgatxng the poss1b1l1t1es for Clarrton of begmnmg an advanced standlng group 'fs John R Bracken Senior Hxgh Vlce Prmclpal A B Pennsylvanna State Unxversrty ML1tt Unwersxty of Plttsburgh if' 'ftsx Joseph C Schreck Drrector Adult and Vocatxonal Fducatlon BS Umverslty of Pxttsburgh MEd UHIVQTSIYY of Prttsburgh As D1rector of Vocatlonal Educatxon, Mr Joseph C Schreck supervlses 1ndustr1al arts whlch teaches fundamental skllls ln the use of tools and materlals, and the semor hrgh Machme Electrrc, and Auto Shops He trles to lmpress hrs boys wlth the rmportance of gettmg dxplomas now, because he knows that gamblmg on a later opportumty IS not a good bet As Dlrector of Adult Educatlon, he supervxses a faculty of thlrty flve and a nlght school enrollment of a thousand Many years back perhaps when Mr Schreck was rn Electrxc Shop Voca tional boys made thenr Chrxstmas partxes famous This year the Ma chxre Shop revxved the blg scale cel ebratlon, and ln Eddxe Blank found a perfect Santa Claus D I f is 'A . . . . . . . - . .sir-rl .V 9 r . t . . . . 'f Q . . . . 41 f- ,W la 3' Q .Q , It dv-3, .1 vp ' , f ' ., y- . A - I y . . . Z . . . , . -vk 1, . I I Q -1, 1' X V, ' ,2 i Q . ' . ' . . . ' v I '