Hickory High School - Hickory Nut Yearbook (Hermitage, PA)

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Art Department After being shifted from room to room, the art department received room 16 for its very own when the elementary pupils moved into the new building. Cupboards and equipment are now con- venient for the storage of the student's work and materials. When the addition is completed for the elementary building a larger room is slated for the junior and senior art department. In the art course, designing, posters. illustration, and painting are elective to any student in the high school. Although small in number and made up entirely of seniors this year's class pro- duced some excellent work under ad- verse conditions. Advertising for school plays, dances and many other activities of the school took part of the assignment time for the year. Other areas such as textile design- ing, pastel and water color painting and glass decoration lent variety to the course. The junior high met in art class but once a week while located in the annex and activities were limited to sketching with text books propped on knees used as writing surfaces. Figure drawing, transportation and line design were used for variety purposes. Upon the completion of the new building the junior high art class met twice a week. To conclude this course, trips to the Butler Art Institute in Youngstown and the Institute in Pitts- burgh are taken by the senior group. These trips to the exhibitions are for the student's own value, so they may get various ideas in the different fields of art work. Modern art was also included in this art course. Mrs. Virginia Lake, XVest Middlesex, is art supervisor. She received a B.S. degree in art from Edinboro State 'IlC2lCllCl'S College and has done graduate work at the University of Pittsburgh and Wfestminster College. She taught in Youngsville and has been at Hickory three years. Mrs. Lake is in charge ol' posters. displays, and bulletin boards. 5 K. L. Dunbar Associates, Steam Power Plant Equipment, Box 352, Sharon 29

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Mrs. Charlotte Mercer, lllest Middlesex. was graduated from Vlestniinster with a B..-X. degree, where she did graduate work. She is the school librarian and the junior-senior Tri-Hi-Y adviser. She has been teaching at Hickory eight years. Mrs. Mercer makes Ollt the English reading lists, repairs library books and has charge of the lost and found, and the radio programs. ibrary and The library moved this year from the regular third floor room to room 29 on the second floor as a temporary change to allow room for another third grade section. There are approximately 2500 books in the library with about one-third of them in use. The remaining two-thirds, consisting of reference works, children's books, and both fiction and non-fiction books, left upstairs to be secured for use upon request. Some residents of the Township gave back issues of popular magazines adding to the reading material of the library. These magazines include-Life, Popular Mechanics, National Geographic, Sci- ence News Letters for use in reference work. These eventually will be bound. About 300 new books were added during 1949-50, with the most popular being the Teen Age Story Collection. In addition a New Atlas of the World was purchased. The library also sub- scribes to the Junior Literary Guild. An information and pamphlet file was inaugurated this year. The lost and found department is located in the library. Articles may be secured by paying a nickle fine for care- lessness. The nickles are used to pur- chase books and supplies for the library. Crowded conditions in the school do not permit proper use of encyclopedias and magazines. When the library returns to original quarters a greater amount of reading material will be available. The library has been moved to a small storage room three times in recent years to provide additional class room space. Raymond C. Huck, Quality Meats-Groceries, Pine Hollow Blvd., Phone 26541 28 Gilbert's Insurance Agency, Inc., Vine Avenue, Sharon 6270

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fBottom picture reading left to right, Pete B. Beatty, makes two trips a day to Bobby's Corners and X-fVheatland. He hauls about one hundred-seventy students a day and has thirty years service. james Campbell hauls about one hundred students. He has the Lackawannock Township and Clarksville routes and has eight years service. Arthur Hogue, makes two trips a day to Keel Ridge and Homestead Dairy, hauling one hundred-twenty students. He has fourteen years service. us rivers QTop picture reading left to rightj jack Dillinger, has one year ser- vice on the Transfer route. He hauls about one hundred-twenty students and has two trips a day. Russell Hogue, with two years service, has the New Virginia- Bethel route and hauls about one hundred ten students a day. T. D. Morrison, has one year's ser- vice on a Hickory School bus. He has the Transfer-Camp Reynolds run and hauls about one hundred- twenty students each day. Jim Wheaton, hauls about one hundred-fifty students each day. He has two years service and has the Cohassett route. Bill Anderson, hauls Russell Hogue's load of about one hundred students each morning. He travels the New Virginia-Bethel route. Howard Kilgore, hauls about sev- enty-five students each day on the New Virginia-Bethel route. He has one year's service. Ludwig Urban, has eight years service. He brings about one hundred students from Pata- gonia each day. Irvine Titus, not pictured, has one year's ser- vice and has the Buhl and Pine Hollow route. He has a total of about one hundred-thirty stu- dents to haul each day. Harry Auchter, not pictured, has the South Pymatuming route. He has one year's service and hauls a total of eighty-four students a day. Bob Bowser, not pictured, has the Baker Ave- nue and Patagonia routes. He has four years service and hauls about ninety-six students a day. Keifer's Sunoco Service, Hermitage, Phone 4974 30 Isaly Dairy, West Middlesex, Pa.