Greater Latrobe High School - Latrobean Yearbook (Latrobe, PA)

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. . WHILE IN THE COMMERCIAL CLASSES We Pick Up Some Fine Points On Business Routine Patrick NicKaV and Betty' Lenz run off copies of a his- tory outline ori the duplicators while other office practice stu- dents complete their assign- ment. Junior business training, spelling and writing, . typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, salesmanship, and oflice practice keep commercial students busy from morning 'till night, from freshman initum , 'till senior exitum. The quaking freshman is put at his ease after a period of junior business training. As soon as he takes his seat, the fun begins. Miss McBride divides the class in half, each pupil chooses a partner, and they take turns demonstrating the use of the telephone and carrying on conversation over imaginary Wires. Miss Hardies' class in typing presents a busy pic-ture of sophomores mastering the keyboard With catchy finger drills. A s f g h j k leover and over again until, as touch typists they enter Miss Al- lisons' junior class for final polishing. Here they also learn shorthand, another step on the commercial lad- der. Drill is the byword for students in this period when Miss Allison Writes new phrases on the board and dictates to give the future stenographers practice. One-two-three-four-use-arm-move - ment, drones Miss Shallenberger to the penmen in her writing class. The Writing lesson complete, the students take sides and indulge in an old-fashion spelling-bee. I am a representative of J. J. Jay SL Company. I should like to sell you . . . and so future salesmen learn the fine art of salesmanship in Miss Wiley's class. A period of bookkeeping begins and Mr. Gaudino makes the familiar assignment . . . Post your journ- als, Under Mr. Stover's direction, seniors taking office practice keep the mimeograph machine in constant ac- tion . . . which probably means a ti-st for some unfor- tunate history or English class. The finished tests and announcements are carried . . down the steps and through the hall'-to the office where Miss Himler and Miss Harman, office secretaries, give them a final check. And so the commercial students wend they way to the top of the ladder to be sent out at the end of their senior year into commercial fields . . . as bookkeepers, stenographers, accountants . . . future business men and business Women of America. Top-Miss Himler answers some corres- pondence of the office while Miss Harman checks the student files. Bottom-Mr. Gaudino and Mr. Stover ex- plain the mimeograph to Miss Shallenberger, Miss Allison, Miss Hardie and Miss Wiley. Page Fifteen

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Qc- 4 . XX J E4 I X l i l i 4 Xgxqf- l l, An oration holds the attention of a junior English class. . . REACHING THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT We Pause For a Bit ot Shakespeare ancl Dickens ' Latrobe Highls English department claims a student for approximately 720 periods during his four year high school career. Of these periods, he may spend 180 in Miss McBride's ireshman class. One busy period in which the hrst year students diagram sentences on the board and review the funda- mentals of grammar is typical of all the rest. The place is a classroom: the time is during one of Mr. Rizzo's sophomore English periods, But what THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Latrobe High School's English faculty discuss possible changes in the course of study. Seated: Miss Osborne, Miss Frable, and Miss lVlcBride. Standing: Miss Lafferty,Mr. Dovey, Mr. Rizzo, and Mr. Benford. Page Fourteen is this? Three boys, draped in coats borrowed for the occasion, are enacting an immortal scene from Shakespeares As You Like Itf' What if they do stumble over the ditlicult lines and the awkward phrases-it looks like a lot of fun. All is duiet in this room except for an occasional rustle of papers, be-- cause Miss Lafferty's sophomores are taking a test. The heading at the top of the yellow sheets on the stu- dents' desks reads 'tMastery Test on 'Silas Marner'f' This is no place for a visitoreso we tiptoe quietly out. Are there any criticisms on that talk, asks the chairman as one of Mr. Dovey's pupils takes his seat. Hands are raised and suggestions are oifered as, one by one, students conclude their oral reports. Future Clays and Calhouns, and perhaps, Huey Longs pour out their views-with Mr. Benford's help-on democ- racy, war, and economics in a period given over to the study of oratory. As Miss Osborne sits down in the back of the room, the chairman announces that the subject of the extem- poraneous talks is the historical background for A Tale of Two Cities. The lirst speaker talks, and the students learn that Dr. Guillotine did not invent the guillotine, he merely suggested it as a humane instru- ment of death. In room 103 Miss Frable concludes the study of Milton's poems when she asks the students for their completed essays concerning the author's life. The latter part of the period is devoted to class discussion on the historical background of Macbeth .

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Chemistry students study and salts by means of an ex- periment on titration. .IN THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS We Find The Explanations ' A test tube, a bug, a steam engine and a micro- scope comprise tools for the four departments of science. In Miss Danie1's biology laboratory, sopho- mores examine the various mounted specimens on the shelf. Several students study a cage of cocoons to gain a practical understanding of rnetamorphosis, While others watch an aquarium of ish to observe the process of breathing. Amid flasks, bunsen burners and crucibles the chemists of Latrobe High experiment with various compounds. Apparatus is set-up, chemicals measured and mixed, and the flame applied--resulting in hy- drogen. Mr. Weigman moves about the laboratorv inspecting the Work and asking questions concerning the fromulas of H20 and Na2SO'. Mr. Weigman clears up Q a troublesome point in chemical procedure during lab period. Page Sixteen ot Many Daily Wonders 51 Nlr. Rummel demonstrates the principles of the balance to Miss Netzlof while Miss Daniels, Nlr. Wiegman, and Mr. Stumbaugh look on. Dot . . . dot-dot . . . dot the clicking of a tele- graph sounds through the science room as two fresh- naen experiment with a two way telegraph set. After the demonstration, Miss Netzlof explains the principle of electro-magnets. In another class, Mr. Stumbaugh directs a unit on transportation. Several pupils ex- hibit charts and notebooks concerning the develop- ment of the airplane, electric car, locomotive, and boat. Levers, scales, spring balances, boilers, and steam engines are the materials that the Physics classes work with to understand laws of gravitation, weights, and the principle of steam. Mr. Rummel illustrates the complicated parts of the steam engine with a scale model, demonstrating the action of the piston, and the principles of steam propulsion. neutralization of acids. bases,