Doylestown High School - Torch Yearbook (Doylestown, PA)

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Senior Homeroom Activities Sponsors MR. WILLIAM LQWTIIER Miss BLANCHE CLIFFTON MR. ARTHUR REESE Miss MAE LIGIIT MR. BARTl.EY ELFAIAN MR. EUGENE BRICKI.miYI:R Testing and Occupational Information To know one's ability pattern and to select an occupational goal to match this ability pattern was the main objective of the Senior Homeroom Program. Early in the school year a battery of ability tests was administered. These included a mechanical aptitude, a clerical aptitude, and a scholastic aptitude. Interest in nine different fields was measured by the Kuder Preference Record, and the personality test, given in the junior year, was again evaluated. After the testing was completed and each senior had drawn a profile of his ability pattern, sponsors spent several weeks in interpreting the test results. This was followed by the formation of three groupsfprofe.r.r4'onaf, lnechanical, and clerical and .mle.r, based upon the interests and abilities of the students. From February twenty-fifth until the middle of May, professional and business men from the various service clubs in Doylestown came to the school and discussed with the senior groups their respective vocations. In all, there were twenty-one men and one woman who represented the following occupa- tions: journalism, printing, plumbing, retail sellin , law, engineering, photography, psychol- ogy, imitting, chemistry, drafting, accounting, Inechanics, and salesmanship. The concluding activitieshconsisted ofa drama- tization of a correct interview and a good letter of application. Sponsors Interpret Senior Pro'iles

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Homeroom Officers Seniors LOUIS SHAAIBERGER, ROBERT WERNER, WALTER CONTI, GINNY LEE DIVER, JACK CONNARIJ. unior ROBERT MILLS, GEORGENE STURGES, DON FURLONG, SUE GORANFLO, ROBERT DUNCAN, IANET RUOS, ROBERT SMITH, BETTY IANE BOXVERS. Sophomores Back Row: IOANNE CHILDS, IOE WODOCK, IACK KIKER, Serond Row: IOE GRYSON, GWEN BODLEY, BRUCE TENLEY, Front Row: BEN CILIBERTO, DOROTHY SAEEIER, NANCY HAYMAN, ALLEN ROSENBERO, NANCY THOMAS, GERALD I'lINKLE. Freshmen Book Row: FRED TROUT, ED BLAIR, YVONNE WILSON. I'iELEN XVORSTALL, VE INON GOODXNIN Second Row: ANNE BIESTER, ALICE HENNESSY. GRETA XVEIK. l rontRow: PATSY PURKS, ANITRA NlOEN, AUDREY NASH. unior High Back Row: CECILIA STONE, BETTY MCEVOY, TOM BUCRNER. Second Row: FORREST KNORR, LENNORD DAUBER, WILLIAAI REYNOLDS. Third Row: IOIIN SIENKIEXVICZ, BETTY LEAR, GEORGE HOFFSXAN. Fran! Row: JOYCE BRYAN, JEANNINE JACKSON, BARBARA SHELLEY, CHAR- LOTTE MAAIOUNIS.

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unior Ho meroom Activities Sponsors Miss ALTHEA ANXANTZ MR. ALLEN GEJIQGE MR, loN FONIRINKE Mu. Svuizcsow Wceizrnxnizlmicu Personality and Social Problems Even though the theme for the junior Home- room Program was personality development, there were other subjects that interested the juniors equally as well. During the year two local physicians, Dr. Harvard Hicks and Dr. Allen Moore, discussed neurosis and social diseases. The former aroused so much interest in the subject of nervous symp- tons that juniors spent another period in con- tinuing the discussion. The latter has been a previous speaker at D,H.S. for a number of years and is always a welcome guest. Vocations were discussed at several group meetings. Teaching. nursing, designing, and telephone jobs seemed to lead in so far as the number of students interested was concerned. School topics such as parlimentary law, student government, student participation in activities- all were entered into in a true democratic spirit. Such subjects as getting along with others, appearance and manners, and boy and girl relationships helped the juniors to see more than ever the need for personality improvement. As with other classes the auditorium once a month was used for student plays, a music program, movies, and speakers, while the gym was occupied once a month at which time the group joyously danced to popular records played in the julie box. Dr. Moore talks to junior Boys Iuniors Study Personality