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

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Speech Department Speech, taught by Mrs. Sara L. Tarr, is our newest full time department. Organ- ized this year, 'it was opened to sopho- mores, juniors, and seniors with special classes for primary, elementary, and jun- ior high school pupils with speech diffi- culties. Meeting daily, the senior high school classes completed units in speech tech- niques, diacritics, choral speaking, radio and stage dramatics, and interpretation. Throughout the year an average of sixty students worked to eliminate their speech differences individually and in special classes meeting once a week in the primary and elementary grades and twice a week in the junior high school. Realizing that speech is the most im- portant means of communication as well as the body's most difficult mechanical process, the Board of Education equip- ped the speech department with a tape recorder, a four by eight plate glass mir- ror, and a file for keeping individual records. The department also has access to a disc recorder, record players, and an audiometer, and is in the process of 28 building a speech library of reference texts, readings, and plays. Entering the I Speak for Democracy contest, David Snyderwine placed among the first six in the district, winning a radio and a three-day-sight-seeing trip to New York City. Ronnie Seidle and Kenny Shannon were among the outstanding radio an- nouncers supplied by the department for the weekly school broadcasts over WPIC- AM-FM. Mrs. Tarr acted as the school's radio program director. Joann Bentley, Marianne Bintz, Margie Mogor, and Robert Stainbrook merit special men- tion for their work in radio dramatics. The classes enjoyed field trips to West- minster College attending the dress re- hearsal of Shakespeare's Tzuelfllz Nigh! and the annual Speech and Dramatics Institute. In connection with the speech pro- gram two night classes in adult speech education were introduced this year for Township residents. Financed by the Board of Education. the classes met once a week for fifteen sessions.

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athematies Department Beginning in junior high school, stu- dents apply their knowledge of numer- ical eomputation, obtained by their study of arithmetic the previous six years, to mathematics. The practical, everyday applications of mathematics are empha- sized, including measurements, percent- age, banking, investments, insurance, taxes, and graphs, while geometry and algebra are taught moderately. Although mathematics is not compul- sory in senior high school, students are advised to obtain skill and knowledge in it, because it is essential to everyday life. Senior high students desiring to take a mathematics course concerning routine problems of life may choose among gen- eral mathematics, consumer's mathe- matics, and vocational agricultural mathematics which discusses typical problems of farming. Students wishing to venture into ad- vanced mathematics may elect algebra I and Il, plane geometry, and solid geo- metry and trigonometry offered in one semester. Most colleges have some form of advanced mathematics as an entrance requirement. Technically, mathematics is the sci- ence of numbers and space, but funda- mentally, it is the foundation of know- ledge. MRS. MARY ciARRE'l l', West Middlesex Heights, graduated from Westminster College with a B.S. degree and has taught at Transfer, Brookfield, and Farrell. At Hickory for five years. she teaches junior high mathematics. MRS. VIRGINIA SNYDER, Sharon-Mercer Road, teaches trigonometry, solid and plane geometry, algebra, and general mathematics. She has been at Hickory six years after earning a B.A. degree and doing graduate work at Westminster Col- lege. MR. DICKSON STEWART, R.D. 2 Sharps- ville, received his B.S. degree from Thiel College and a Masters in Education from the University of Pittsburgh. Besides be- ing Hi-Y adviser and baseball coach, he teaches physics, algebra, applied science, and general mathematics, and has been at Hickory four years. 27

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English Instructors Required subjects of American and English literature, Zillll two year elective courses of journalism, Latin and Spanish are offered in the English and language department. MRs. HELIA FRUIT, Transfer, teaches freshman and sophomore English, and has been at Hickory for six years. She re- ceived a B.A. degree from Pennsylvania State College and did graduate work at Grove City College. MRs. PATRICIA RUNGA, Wheatland-West Middlesex Road, teaches consumers' mathematics and freshman English. She is director of the junior and senior plays, is junior Tri-Hi-Y adviser, and has been at Hickory for three years since she grad- uated from Westminster College with a B.A. degree. MR. MII.FoRn SHIINIER, New Wil- lIllflglOIl, graduated from Westminster College with a BA. degree and did un- der-graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, Virginia Military Insti- tute. North Carolina State College, West- ern State College of Colorado, aIId is working o1I his Masters at XVCSIIIHIISLCT College. Miss BETTY SINGER, graduated from Thiel College with a B.S. degree and is now residing in Sharon. She teaches sev- enth and eighth grade English. MRs. JANE MILLER, Greenville Road, Mercer, has a B.A. degree from West- minster and has done graduate work at the University of Michigan, Youngs- Lon, and Pennsylvania State Teachers College. Being at Hickory for seventeen years, she teaches senior literature, Span- ish, is Spanish Club adviser and is a II1eIII- ber of the committee of senior advisers. Miss HELEN LOUISE CRAIG, taught in Benezette and Huntington Mills before coming to Hickory last year, and teaches Latin, junior English, and is Latin Club and projector crew adviser. She received a BA. degree from Grove City College and did work at the University of Pitts- burgh. 29