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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SCHIIIH AIIIIVITIES IJIVHIIP CHARACTER The second semester Student Council officers check the Red Cross boxes turned in by the home rooms: Corinne Walters, secretaryg Robert Gordon, presidentg Phyllis McCabe, senior vice presi- dent, and Robert Birch, junior vice president. Mnfmp . 9.1! NW o n ,. KHSSHUXES President Donald Carroll Q left, instructs com- mittee chairmen: Robert Stout, publicityg Harry Fre- ker, Christmas decorationsg Donald Wilke, activity ticketsg Joan DiGiorno, Red Crossg Edward Reese, dis- tributiong Donald Merritt, lunchroomg Linda Lewis junior tea dance.