Langley High School - Aeronaut Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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BUT PllPll-llil Miss Hunt's class in Home Economics 1 teaches Ruth Hoffman. La Raine Miller, Janice Smith, Ruth Bernard and Miriam Lutlon how to make and wrap gifts for their mothers. Learning how to use the drill press are Glenn Mil- heiser, Kenneth Burns, Donald Shar and William Shimer of Mr. Durkin's class in Machine Shop, now elective for seventh grade boys. juNiou I-lion Voc:.xT1oN.xL Pkooa.-iM The junior high vocational program stresses eofordination of mind and hand. Instead of studying out of hooks, the pupil studies machinery. Seventhfgrade hoys take wood or metal shopg eighthfgraders take print or meehanf ical drawing. Shops are elective in the ninth grade. The home economies courses aim to awaken interest in the homemaking arts. An attempt is made to create in school the atmosphere of the home. This, the heautiful new department rooms achieve perfectly. Seventhfgraders and 9B's take elothingg eighth-graders and 9A's take foods. Hlill ,f 9' V.:-un ia Shirley DiGiorno and Patricia Downing learn how to decorate a fruit cake in Miss Miller's Foods l class. Operating the laundry unit are Betty Sousa, Dorothy Crane, Beverly Lenz and Sally Cross. E gr,

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lIlASSlS Alll llAlIHlIl-I3 In the foreground are Ronald Eisenbach, Stanley Grace. Ronald Peters and Andrew Ondrilc of Miss Bridge-water's 7A2 art class, fainting a panel of the Gingerbread House for HANSEL AND GRETEL. The Fehruary 1949 semester witnessed a radical change in the junior high school program. An attempt was made, as an experiment, to prof vide for individual needs, interests and aptitudes. Required suhjects now are: English, social studies, arithmetic, science and physical education. Art, music and vocational suhjects are elective. ln the ninth grade, algchra is offered to those who made xi normal grade in arithmeticg others take general mathematics. Languages, also, may he selected if a pupil's record is normal in English. In Miss BelI's 7A class in social studies, Robert Miller and Sally Parkinson are locating Italy and its Alpine neighbors on the globe. Roberta Garnett is also interested in locating these. -M a- x W .Q ie, ,ig f x f 'Z ,K Q s argl' . I The Girls' Chorus, Miss Howard leading, is seen here preparing for the Christmas assembly. First row: Margie Fisher, Patricia McCabe, Shirley Seng, Nancy Schmitt, Mary Jane Kury, Harriet Miller. Ullllll

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-wr - .htt- . 'l qw' ,i W. may t ,,,.6h ,Q f i 'xg, 5 xx.-X Siimoit Hman Coirizsiis Ama V.-xmun Wilma Matter, of Mrs. Kirkland's History 3 class, points out the growth of the Roman Empire. In the foreground are Carl Kraus and Daniel Kozlowslcig in the rear, Dale Boyd and Helen Wilson. lIlA The scnioi' high conrsc conipriscs the tenth, must mzilic 7fl'2 on si iniithcmatics tcst or takc eleventh :intl txvcltth gziiclcs, Thc stntlcnt must 1N2llllClNi1llCS rcvicw in IZA, cairn twcntyfsix cn-tlits to lic g..itln.itctl: six in lflcctivc suhviccts strc: world history, American ljnglish, four in history ftwo of thcsc in llnitctl govcrnnicnt, sociology, cconomics: zilgchrai, planc States historyj, two in scicncc, two in mztthcf and solid gconictry, trigonomctry: ltiology, chcinf matics :ind toni' in physical ctlnctition. No stnl istry, physics: Latin, Frcnch, Spanisln consumer Llcnt may talxc .1 foreign langnigc or shorthaincl ccluczttion, rctail stlling, typing, shorthtintl, hoolv unless hc has gi C grgiclc or hcttci' in English, kccpingg music: :irtg clothing, foods: printing, or unlcss his parcnts insist. ln IIB all seniors wootl or mzichinc shop, mechanical Llrawing. Noreen McCarthy, of Miss Patterson's English 3 class. reads her idea of the ideal Christmas message. Sealed: fleftj Willizlni Mc- Suley. Shirley Mciliuleyg fhack left, ,lean Otlog ffrontj Jerry Wairiiialii, Patti Heilman, Margie Fischer. ..-I-'A SSES