Mount Lebanon High School - Lebanon Log Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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STUDENTS PRACTISED DEMOCRACY EXECUTIVE BOARD OFFICERS SCHROEDER ...----.-............... Vice President OWEN ..--... - - -President Spring Semestcr MURRAY- - . ---- President Fall Semester FEISLEY . . . ............. Secretary STUDENT COURT lf you ever got a little slip saying, Report to Student Court, Room 5, it was a sure sign your case was being brought up. Anything from chewing gum in class to breaking a window was tried by this law-conscious eight sponsored by Miss Taylor. The members of the court, com- posed of one member of the lower classes and two from each of the Senior classes, settled dis- putes either by arbitration or by a stiff sentence. The court was a rather young organization, hav- ing been started in April of '42, Some days there were no trials, other times the jury and judges were overworked! The court tried cases Tuesday after school and the judges and other court mem- bers had a closed conference Monday in ac- tivities period. So beware, kids- crime does not pay! EXECUTIVE BOARD The meeting will now come to order. Will the secretary please read the minutes of the last meeting. With these words, Executive-Boarders went into another of their weekly huddles. Business ranged from formation of a new squad to drafting of workers for the next dance. Under Miss Taylor's guidance, however, all was efficiently, effectively cleared up. Aside from sponsoring various school functions, E. B. announced formation of the Achievement Committee and the Medical, Girls' Gym, and Home Room Bulletin Board Squads. The Rifle Club was elevated to the status of other Mt. Lebo A athletics. All 'n all, Executive-Boarders from 12A to lOB, had quite a snappy time of it but did a swell job of keeping our A. M. ticking smoothly. STUDENT COURT FIRST ROW fseatedlz Miss Taylor, Lichty. SECOND ROW: Strickler, Briant, Schroeder. THIRD ROW: Metly, Lewis. EXECUTIVE BOARD FRONT ROW: Steele, l. Giltillan, Murrer, Kraemer, Richards, Bulger, Cummings, Massey, Chandler, Brooks, Wyrough, Mitchell, Nelson, Callahan, Volrnrich. SECOND ROW: McCall, Pritchard, Montague, McVay, Boushee, Lamark, Phillips, Murray, Owen, Schroeder, Feisley, Perkins, Seiger, Miller, Marshall, Iohnson. THIRD ROVV: Field, Young, Belin, Babbitt, Walther, McGrath, Thomas, Mcliennett, Poellot, Provost, Lopez, Gordon, House, Bergman, Hurley, I. Adams, l. Williams, Moritz, D. Adams. FOURTH ROW: Fry, Schober, Specht, Leathers, DeGiovanni, R. DeLonga, Marlowe, W. Gilfillan, McMinn, Brown, Darden, DelGrande, Corbett, Lambie, C. Adams, Carvlin, Nickeson.

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THEY COORDINATED HOME AND SCHCOL MISS FISHER MISS DUFFY MRS. MOWATT Home-School Visitor Attendance Secretary Supervisor of Testing lf a square were changed to a circle of the opposite color with lines perpendicular to the diameter, what would a triangle, similarly changed, become? Remember such brain- teasers? By inquiring a bit, you would have found that Mrs. Mowatt, a newcomer from Pitts psychology department, was responsible for all those rather baffling psychological tests. She also gave individual personality and vocational apti- tude tests. Her schedule included the evaluation of tests of the elementary schools and a survey of college work done by Mt. L. graduates. . .,.. . ELLA B. ION Vice Principal When Miss Fisher left for Slippery Rock State Teachers' College, Miss Gordon came from the Iunior l-ligh to be our Home-School Visitor. As Miss Gordon said, her work was chiefly to make friendly home calls and extend a cordial welcome to new families in the community who enter stu- dents in our schools. lt was Miss Gordon who would phone or call at our homes when We were ill to offer sympathy and any possible assistance. She also helped check attendance and issued work certificates to job-hunting students. l have to stop at the Attendance Office. How many of us have said that when we wanted to plan our courses, to have our schedules changed, to get back into school after an absence or even to get back into classl lt was Miss lon, our busy vice-principal, who answered our questions. Be- sides planning the schedules for about twelve hundred of us students and fifty-one teachers, Miss lon sponsored the Class Rank and Achieve- ment Committees and the Attendance Squad. This year she added the new task of arranging those classes for Messenger Training and First Aid as a part of civilian defense. Miss Duffy, Miss lon's faithful secretary, helped to manage the Attendance Squad, com- posed of about twenty-five girls, who collected and filed the attendance cards and kept track of all our comings and goings.

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THESE WERE OUR TEACHERS .... Bald Beck Behen Bell Billingsley Burrows Clark Cribbins Cribbs Doak Elliott Fisher Frobese Gilbert RALPH BALD, B.A. Mr. Bald Works all year around. He teaches lOB English and sponsors the Hi-Y Club during the school months, operates a tennis shop tPittsburgh Racquet Shopl downtown, during the summer months . . . a champion tennis player himself both in high school and college, he still enjoys the sport in his free moments . . . acts as an Auxiliary Policeman during air raid drills . . . studied at the University of Pittsburgh for his Bachelor of Arts degree. MARGUERITE BECK, M.A. ln many professions the German language is a very necessary tool. Miss Beck, by her capable teaching of Deutsch is thor- oughly preparing students who plan to enter such fields . . . sponsors the Scholastic Committee . . . students who stand at windows irritate her particularly . . . bridge, bowling, and gourd collecting comprise a few of her outside diversions . . . wants to study Spanish . . . has been abroad twice, visiting Germany, France, and Switzerland. RUTH BEHEN. BJ-L Miss Behen shows our aspiring artists the finer points of draw- ing, painting, and metal jewelry designing . . . poster, bulletin board, and arts and crafts squads function under her supervision . . . for defense work she has volunteered her services as staff assistant at the Blood Bank in Pittsburgh . . . earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Carnegie Tech . . . results of her instruction may be seen on all the bulletin boards and in the display cases. MIRIAM BELL. MJ-L. M.D. Dr. Bell. attended Transylvania College, Lexington, Kentucky, and Women's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . . . spent ten years in China . . . is a camera fan . . . rides horse- back . . . owns two horses and part interest in an Arabian horse . . . enjoys symphony music . , . plays the flute . . . is interested in astronomy . . . discovered a star . . . has visited most of the forty-eight states . . . liking nature, has taught at a camp in Maine for two summers, MARGARET BILLINGSLEY. B.S. One of the nicest recent additions to our old Alma Manimy is Miss Billingsley . . . likes our school very much because every- one is so friendly . . . her pet expression which she uses cone stantly during nice weather is, Yes, we're going out today . . . side interests include camping and other forms of outdoor life . . . spends her summer vacations at camp in the Laurel Mts., or at school . . . ambition is to supervise physical education. MERLE BURROWS, M. Litt. Mr. Burrows teaches our commercially-minded students book- keeping, economic geography, business principles, commercial law . . . operates the Lost and Found Department after school . . . likes gardening and department store work . . . is an Air Raid Vlfarden . . . would like to have retail training under the George-Dean Act introduced in Mt. Lebanon High School . . . Grove City College bestowed upon him his B.C.S. degree and Pitt his M. Litt. MERCER CLARK. M. Ed. Mr. Clark, instructor of the boys' health classes, became popu- lar as assistant coach of football and basketball . . . is on hand in the blackouts as an Air Raid Vtfarden . . . his name has already become associated with basketball, his favorite sport, during this, his first year at Mt. L .... did his undergraduate work at Vtfaynesburg College, attended Pitt for his M. Ed. degree and has done further work at the University of Colorado. LOIS CRIBBINS, B.S. From the expert way some of our biology students dissect their frogs, it looks as though Mrs. Cribbins will be responsible for some future butchers . . . Alma Mater was Penn State . . . as for the students l think the majority of them are swell and I usually get quite a kick out of them . , . biggest interest is keeping a house going . . . her hobbies are out-door sports . . . summer vacations are spent camping or collecting, specimens, often with various biological groups.