Forest Hills High School - Forester Yearbook (Sidman, PA)

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Instead of the usual bowling and movie dates, juniors Carol Smiach and Brian Clement spend their Sunday afternoon at the Johnstown National Paul Croyle finds time to reminisce about his Christmas Flood Memorial vacation days during a boring afternoon study hall “ I am Polish by birth, Amer- ican by being here, but I am myself all the way. (Janet Goldyn) Going along with the crowd, being part of a group, or conforming to others’ standards is generally acceptable to most of us. But there are times when you want to be an individual, alone with your thoughts, alone with your emotions or just alone with somebody you care about. Sometimes you do things a little out of the ordinary just to be different, to prove that you are an individual You can be influenced by so many different things—your family, your peers, your environment, or even the place of your birth, but despite all of these, you are unique. You are an individual. 9

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Right: Taking advantage of the warm September weather. Ren- ee Devers withdraws from the noisy cafeteria crowd to com- plete a reading assignment Below: Needing some time to sort out her feelings. Karen Bodenschatz walks in the woods. 8

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Right Members of the English department, chairman Henry Polasko, Fran Matvay, and Albert Keller, made up the plan- ning committee of the new mini-course program Below Penny Matlin pauses during a health class to pose for yearbook camera Penny also teaches phvs ed Faculty— Aids Students, Updates Courses English mini-courses, new busi- ness machines, and computer pro- graming were major innovations which the faculty helped to initiate. Mini-courses required hours of hard work during the summer. Sev- eral members of the English depart- ment organized and developed courses of study as well as ordered books and supplies for some forty varied fields of study. Opinions differed, but most Eng- lish teachers agreed that the diversi- fication and originality offered by the new course was a vast improve- ment over the traditional system. Business education teachers worked with several new types of office machines. In helping students learn how to operate the Gestafax, the new electronic calculators, a cas- sette film sound projector, and an electric ditto machine, the depart- ment felt it was preparing students for better jobs and more opportuni- ties in the business world.