Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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ABOVE: left, Senior Vicki Billy dictates Economics notes to Charles DeBellis, Ron Galloway, George Zdrale, and Carol Doban. Right, Sophomore Diane Yates and surprised Keith Sherman are confronted with one of their frequent World History vocabulary tests. LEFT: Outside the Public Library polls, senior POD students brush up on election laws with student teacher Mr. William Hershiser from California Teachers. BELOW: United States History stu- dents Mary Lou Simms and Marlehe Churney have discovered something newsworthy about New Mexico in 5 their current event papers. Social Studies ----- thc PRESE through thc PA T To be well acquainted with the past is to be well prepared for the future. CHS Social Studies students hrst explore the history of the world. Then they study the place of America in that history, the way the laws and institutions they know as American came to be, and the methods for meeting problems which face young citizens in a challenged democracy. Through weekly study of a current events magazine, they keep well in- formed about persons and places in today's news.

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LAY O , MACDUFF, and learn our OCABULARY From Shakespeare to Robert Frost, Ben Franklin to Thomas Hardy, CHS English classes try the literary pulse of their native land and of their world. They strengthen their native heartbeat through writing, gram- mar exercises, speech making, and panel discussions- all to better their use and understanding of words, words, words. TOP: Seniors Arlene Barella and Bill Whitworth meet Good Queen Bess through facts reviewed by Eileen Mack. MIDDLE: right, Sophomore janet Goodman uses Tony D'Imperio it -5 i g 'S to help show how handy a food if 3 chopper can be as she gives her 'A' 4+ YYY' ' ' fr? . demonstration speech. Left, In the i '-'f i library, the seniors' best friend as . they begin their investigative themes, Karen Fields shows Ken Willareth aircraft references in the vertical file. RIGHT: Only quick thinkers and good conversationalists like Dan Mc- Cann, Nancy McNew, Russ Thomp- son, Felicia Matola, Cliff Hellard, and Mary Ellen Emph can make a success of a book review panel like this in English 11. 'Qtr ,I

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isa PRIME FACTOR In this age of space and speed, the always-important un- known X has become all-important. T find its sometimes well- hidden identity, CHS students use general math, algebra, geo- metry, triginometry, and slide rules, a new skill acquired this year. They participate in national tests to try their methods of finding the mysterious Mr. X in competition with other high school students. TOP: College Algebra student Carl Blackburn checks out Judy JeEers as she practices her newly leamed Algebra II graph drawing technique. MIDDLE: Trigonometry students Lee Weber and Merry Jo Gilmore think they have found Donna Fisher's error in proving the Law of Sines. RIGHT: Bill Frank is designing his own original pattem as geometry students Kay Whetsel and Regis Straka pass judgment on the others. FF? 'ff-.tv ,Y,