Langley High School - Aeronaut Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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llSllAl FEATURES I T WE DEVELOP SELLINQQ EXPERTS For six years Langley has been privileged to offer a course in distrihutive education. This provides the students who desire careers in retail selling the opportunity to learn both theories and techniques. For two semesters the student attends class three hours daily, then spends a minimum of fifteen hours a week doing practical work in the stores. Classroom work emphasizes display projects, puhlic speaking and consumer survey studies. Experience is gained in hoth writf ing and selling advertising, for the class, under Mr. Thomas Stevvart's direction, serves as the Interest, courtesy and co- operation are outstanding traits of the successful sales- woman. Margaret McClel- land, of the distributive education course, exhibits these qualities in selling a toy to a customer at Kaufmann's. HE Sl Illll HIGH PIHIISRAM business staif of the Ltmgleyaii. WE TEACH DRIVING, Too Langley's driving course, now in its second year, has trained approximately 130 students to he safe, courteous drivers of automobiles. Mr. Ivo Kirsch devotes half of his teaching day to this work. The course is open to students who are sixteen years of age or older. Class periods are spent in the 1948 Pontiac recently given the school for this learning course. At the end of the term the Pennsylvania Ivlotor Police come to Langley to give the final driving test. Those who pass secure their driving license. Virgilia Dinger, a student in the driving course, practises parking a car while Francis Kerr, John Hopkins and Mr. Kirsch observe her. Alvin Smith and Mary Murray check her techique.

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A Il THE Vlllllllll Al To the right is Mr. Winner's Advanced Mechanical Drawing class working on individual projects. Foreground: Kenneth Walters, james Schamming, Mr. Winner, Joseph Jordan, Mary Murray. The Advanced Printing class busily engaged at com- position, imposition and presswork: fforegroundj Peter Scholes, Richard Flippo, Crearj Mr. Kavan- augh, Joe Leone. The senior high vocational program is rich in opportunities for those who elect to take the varied assortment of courses offered. The senior girls make dresses, coats and suits worthy of any style show. The girls in cooking delight in the six newlyfequipped kitchenettes which give the real home atmosphere. Nor are the hoys less happy as they prepare in various shops for the trades which many of them will actually pursue as adults. Individual projects are stressed in mechanical drawing. In print shop the senior hoys print the Langleycm, programs and other printed material for the school. Those in wood shop make tahles, lamps, stands and desks. Recently introduced in machine shop are the plastic and alumnium articles which the hoys delight to make. In Miss Campbell's class in Advanced Clothing, Martha Thurston cuts out the cuff for the sleeve of her new blouse, while Phyllis McCabe cuts out her blouse. '51 Pl V I, jp ' I , .15 ' 1 x '22 4. af so X , ,I 1 V i .' 'Y if is I

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