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

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Health Department Health of the student is one of the main interests of the school. says Mrs. Dorotha Frantz. Mks. ITOROTHEA FRANTZ, Fourth Street, Sharpsville, has a variety of jobs concern- ing the health of the student. She is the school nurse, truant officer, and conducts Boy Scout tests. She did undergraduate work at Penn State, Thiel. Edinboro State Teachers College, and the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh. Mrs. Frantz, a grad- uate nurse, trained at Sharon General Hospital and has had experience at the Greenville and Sharon Hospitals. She has been at Hickory six years. Treatment of people in the health of- fice, home visits, supervising health and dental examinations, keeping all the first aid kits in the building up-to-date. and investigating lengthy absences by tele- phone or visits to the home, all make up the day's work of the school nurse. Two years ago the health department added the May registration and physcho- metic examinations of the pre-school children to the program. This part of the program has a great deal to do with the parents, for it gives them an outline of the school health program and creates a better home and school relationship. The health department gives every pupil a dental and a medical examin- ation every two years. If the pupil wishes he may have chest X-rays, the Volmer Patch test, or shots for various diseases. Dr. Francis L. Lally, Sharpsville, was the medical examiner this year and Mrs. Grace Edmunds, the medical assistant. Dr. L. R. Landay, the dental exam- iner, has been at Hickory ten years. The dental clinic is supported by the Com- munity Fund. Students may get dental care for a minimum fee on the request of their parents. The health room is a combination of office, emergency room, dental clinic and a small adjoining room with two cots. I7

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,., Q r was is xxx Guidance Department The tasks of our Guidance Depart- ment are innumerable. The work of this department consists in giving students help in their educational and vocational choices, in their social and moral respons- ibilities and in their avocational inter- ests. Our counselor, Miss BE'r'rY Lou .ART- MAN, contacts and administers a psycho- logical examination to each first grade pupil in a pre-school clinic before he en- ters school. Through an elementary in- telligence testing program in grades I, 4, and 6 and a comprehensive achieve- ment testing program in grades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, she becomes acquainted with all available information on the pupil and helps in selecting his curriculum in grades 9, IO, l l, and 12. The final selec- tion is handled through curriculum plan- ning forms signed by the pupil. Throughout the student's stay in school, Miss Artman follows his educa- tional progress, has conferences with him when he is having difficulty or failing a subject, helps him to adjust to his present 16 curriculum or select another, is available for help when the student begins to look forward to his entrance into an institu- tion of higher learning, and serves as a source of information on occupational trends. As a result of the guidance service, members of the senior class through in- dividual interviews are able to secure in- formation about themselves after they have taken a battery of tests, including mental ability, vocational interest, and specific aptitude tests. Acting in co-operation with the ad- ministration and Miss Artman, Mrs. Sara Tarr, Dean of girls and Mr. Dick Stew- art, Dean of boys, work closely together in an attempt to solve boy and girl prob- lems. They are chiefly concerned with the student's personal problems, social irregularities, human relations, health and personal hygiene. All students in the junior-senior high school have benefited from their regularly scheduled lecture and movies on sex education, emotional health, and human reproduction.

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,ai Home EC Advisers The Vocational and General Home- making Department was changed this year from a two-year elective course to a three-year elective course. Miss DOROTHY Hovis, Superior Street, Grove City, teaches vocational home- making and has been adviser of the Fu- ture Homemakers of America for the past five years. She graduated from ln- diana College with a B.S. degree. The first year in the course includes the care of equipment, food preparation, preservation and nutrition, good groom- ing, clothing selection and construction, child care and development, personal and social relationships. The second year consists of tailoring, food and nutrition, family relationship, consumer buying, home planning, fur- nishings and home nursing. The third year includes textiles, ad- 18 vanced tailoring and clothing, homebuys and leisure time activities, budgets and family finance. Also, refinishing of fur- niture, interior decorating, vocations allied to homemaking, and advanced foods such as preparation for parties and luncheons. Miss MAXINE DICKEY, 696 Cedar Ave- nue, Sharon, received a B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State College. She teaches junior high homemaking, general home economics, related arts, and is sophomore Tri-Hi-Y adviser. The related arts and general home economics class made drapes for the clothing laboratory this year. Other pro- jects were drapes made for the living room, and refinishing the furniture by the third vocational class. The second vocational class made drapes for the food laboratory.