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

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This bean shooter found his mark, un- fortunately. .Personalized Instruction Enables The Faculty To Meet Students' Individual Differences discussing the annual art show with Miss Mary Himler, their art instructor, Whose efforts made the exhibit possible. While in the fine arts department, we pause for a few moments to hear a group of instru- mentalists master a selection under Mr. F. A. Ringrose's guidance. With a keen interest we anticipate our trip to the rooms which house the spec- ialized courses. And the incessant tapping of typewriters and the clicking of adding machines from 213 tells us that we are in the commercial department. Bending over a typewriter, Miss Elsie Garlow illustrates the method of cleaning the machine. In shorthand class we see Miss Blanche Quick dictating words which send pencils racing over notebooks. Long columns of neatly written numbers fill page after page as Mr. P. T. Gaudino helps a bookkeeper balance his worksheet. Miss Laura Shallenberger also stresses neatness and accuracy in her spelling and writing classes. Going into the advanced commercial classes, we watch future stenographers learning practical office management under Mr. H. E. Stover, or future salesmen planning with Mr. C. E, McDougall their model grocery store. Our tour of the commercial department completed, we turn to the shops. Our first introduction into the industrial arts depart- ment is in the Fourth Ward shop where we find Mr. C. H. Thompson teaching fresh- men boys the fundamentals of handcraft. Then in the new, brightly lighted shops of the high school, we stand in the sweet- smelling woodshop where Mr. F. C. Bert inspects the work of the young carpenters, or perhaps we step into a room full of .515 whirring machines to see Mr. H. G. Knier explaining the operation of a drill press. In a large, pleasant room filled with high 'lesks we find Mr. F. A. Halsall, co-ordinator of industrial education, or Mr. J. F. Shay helping a student draftsman to complete a blue print, while in the electric shop we puzzle over a board wired by one of the electricians under Mr. Elmer Schulte. Still visiting the boys' department, we look about a room bordered by boxed plants to see Mr Jack Clinch sharing interests of scientific farming with a group of boys in overalls. Leaving the boys, we enter the home eco- nomics cottage to find Miss Emily Vosburg helping a seamstress to lay a pattern and Mrs. Katherine Stumbaugh teaching an interested group how to make a pretty jewel case from an empty cigar box. In the cooking department, Miss Marcella Gregory helps girls to master the art of changing left-overs into appetizing dishes. Our journey of the class room complete, we make our way towards the front en- trance to leave. In the hall Mr. Charles Lynch is busily supervising the cleaning of the steps, and from Mr. M. N. Funk's oflice we hear the click of Miss Ruth Himler's typewriter as she makes out a schedule card As we walk down the steps to the entrance, we stop to reflect for a moment on what We have witnessed-how fortunate we are to live in an age when teacher and student collaborate in bringing about the develop- ment of the individual. Instead of the stinging blows of the birch rod at failure to understand a problem, we see the hand of encouragement, beckoning on to goals of higher understanding and usefulness

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FOUR YEARS CF PROGRESS.. With his treasured hand- book clutched in his fist and a shy look in his eye, today's senior entered a new life as he in- augurated his high school career. To him the building seemed immense-long corridors with door after door on each side. His first few weeks were quite miserable as joking upper- classmen sent him off at four o'clock to hunt vainly for 313. He realized that he was act- ually green and from that realization re- solved to learn his whereabouts in Latrobe High School at any cost. As time went on, the freshman gradually changed. He knew his schedule perfectly and followed his daily rou- tine with the ease of a senior. Moreover, he began rubbing shoulders with upperclassmen as he worked with them in clubs, plays, con- tests, assemblies and other activities in which he participated. He even experienced moments of extreme pride as upperclassmen occasion- ally begged him for a copy of his homework. Finally the verdent freshman lost his self- consciousness and began conversing freely with fellow schoolmates. As the year ended, the freshman felt satisfied that he had ac- complished at least one major objective-he had become acquainted. In October, 1937, yester- day's frcshrnan entered for the second time the now familiar portals of Lafrsbe High School, but this time into a remodeled building with an outlook for greater opportun.ty and efficiency in studies. He openrd his books with increased zeal-setting high scholastic ideals for his sophomore year. He found that his course of study opencd ngw worlds of facts and ideas into which he had never before ventured: hc saw in the intricate structure of a flower more than first meets the eyeg he met and rccogn Zed the human side of literature as he read Silas Marnerg hz broadn d out from a preliminary study of social science to the history of the worldg x's and y's become part of his conversation as he explored higher mathematicsg and in the shops, he experienced 'the satisfaction of exprcsslng his ability. As extra-curr.cular activitics and contests began to occupy part of his time, he discovered that l'.is Work in the classroom was well spent. Hc now attacked problems with a certainty and accuracy that d.d 'nuch to insure success. He knew that from his studies he had begun to fill his destined place in the world about him. Commercial student: become A liudent of the trades course An experiment with the in- Rewindinl in armatufe the b0Y adept In office technique as they carefully rubs down the surface clined plane glvel a better un- in the electric shop discovers practice pounding the adding as the lalt step in the construe- derstanding of this law of phys- the intricate structure of motors machines iion nf his table. ics.