Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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First Veterans' Day, and then Thanks- giving Day, and CHS was loathe to take its vacation. The brick house on its south was moving to its north, and nobody wanted to miss this once- in-a-life-time spectacular. ,xl -Z li , I A ff, With Sam Lauderbaugh at the controls and Paul Weintraub checking, the new electronic language laboratory goes into operation. The first of its kind in Westem Pennsylvania, this Instructomatic equipment was ready for use January 26. Helping in this test run are language students Cbackb Carole Arch, Ila Marie Polutnikg Cfrontj Ronald Kunz, Nancy Orsini, and John Gongas. What do you consider our 111ost IIlCIl1Of2IlJlC event in 1959- l960? Was it the coming of Dr. Helen B. Knipp to be Director of Curriculum? Was it the continuation ol' accelerzltetl control groups emphasizing such things as only literary topics for long themes and second semester trig? XVas it the installation of the language lab with its opportunities for linguists to express and hear themselves on tape? To the sentimental among you, the absence of Senior Hall may seem the most regrettable event of the year, but to most 1959-1960:

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-4 ll. 'B' 'ii ll I I ul: Asa n Main Entrance, Clairton junior-Senior High School, Fifth Street MM. SHAPE of TOMORROW The FUTURE is the big thing at Clairton High School, YVe try to emphasize it in everything we do. just look around-at our language labora- tory: at our curriculum being rcfdesigned to bring developments for the future closer to the presentg even at our inodernistit' Christmas mobiles-and you will agree that we concentrate on bringing the predictable world of toniorrow into the present. The MYSTERY of the future, the tomorrow we don't know, is symbolized in this book by the many photographs you'll find in every Inis-shape of the ordered and regular rectangle. As the class of 1960 graduates into the new decade, we look to it to play its part in removing the distortions. '4 gi' mS'2 s' Editor MARY LOU SKAPIK Copy Editor MARIA NATALI Business Managers LYNDA MORAGNE CAROL JOHNSON if 'ix

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THE YEAR AT ITS MOST T Q-9 Auto racmg and sports car enthusuasts were thrxlled when Roger Ward Indlanapolls Speedway wmner was mvrted to CHS last fall by Drnver Trammg mstructor Mr john D3dOfnlHlCl espeuallyRoseanne Panza Carol D016 and Barbara Cundra The film he showed and hrs personal recommendatxons on how to drlve safely made a deep xmpressnon on the entxre audlence of you the Charlcrol hearlbrcakel was probably the most tragxc may recall Lhe house moxmg and rate lt at thc top of your lxst Sports car f.Illhll5lZiSlS would rote for Lhe XISIK of IHCIIZIIIEIPOIIS Speedway runner Roger H ard md the SZ1fCdI'1Xlllg Elm he shoued But uhateyu you choose as the mosl Ill 10101060 ue thmk you ysxll agree that the year sms one LO be chenshed by us and enyled by future studems Z6 'Y 3 Those of you who had classes on the lVaddell Avenue side v Y v. I Q Y , - I 1.