New Kensington High School - Taleoken Yearbook (New Kensington, PA)

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Ken Hi's DeparTmenT of The Exchequer Students SUULWQS .qgank Though The headguarTers oT The STudenTs Savings Bank are raTh- er small in size, members oT The bank sTaTT carry no small responsibiliTy. They TransacT business Tor all The organizaTions in The school. Juniors and seniors QT The Commercial DeparTmenT Till These posiTions. William Yeager and Tom NesbiT, messengers, make Their daily Trip down Town, rain or shine. Emily Drag and Sarabyrle Beard seem To wriTe endlessly in ledger and iournal. The checking accounTs are CLOWIWIGTZCLLIT One hundred TiTTy-eighT TuTure stenographers, secreTaries, salesmen, book- keepers and bankers make up Ken l-li's Commercial Club. Besides claiming To be The largesT club in handled by BeTTy Thomas. The Taleoken and School AcTiviTies Tunds are in The hands oT Genevieve Tro- ianoski. And The Tellers who cheerTully change your Tive inTo ones or sell you a TableT Tor a nickel are MargareT Bonidy and Jean Glass. Miss DoherTy oT The Commercial DeparTmenT supervises all These acTiviTies. To handle The numerous accounTs neces- sary To run The business oT a communiTy oT some eighTeen hundred sTudenTs requires no liTTle accur- acy on The parT oT The bank sTaTT. school, iT also iusTly claims To be one oT The oldesT and peppiesT. lT sponsored conTesTs To deTermine The besT TypisT and The besT shorThand sTudenT. GreaTesT oT The year's underTakings was The Com- Commercial Club Grows in Numbers and EnThusiasm mercial Club Open l-louse held in March. The seniors clemonsTraTed Their skill in shorThand, while The iuniors showed They had rhyThm by Typing To music. The book- keepers worked under The di- rection oT Mr. Kordes and The bankers wiTh Miss DoherTy. OTher TeaTures were demon- sTraTed by The oTFice pracTice class and displays oT various Torms OT commercial work on The bulleTin boards. Members oT The club served as a regis- TraTion commiTTee and guides, TaculTy members supervised all deparTmenTs oT The exhibit. T731 1 i

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KenTonian's Big Three Examines One Issue and CorrecTs The NexT '-jiCe lt07ll6U'l DespiTe The Tact ThaT This year's sTaTT sTarTed ouT wiTh only Three veTeran news- hawlcs, The KenTonian Tor I939 has been one oT The besT published papers in Ken l-li Tor some Time. The aim oT The sTaTT, which changed The paper's moTTo Trom Our World ExacTly As lT Goes To Our School ExacTly As lT Goes, was To give an exacT as well as inTeresTing accounT oT Ken l-li's sTudenT liTe and sTudenT acTiviTy. Several ouTsTanding TeaTures oT This year's publi- caTion were The increased number oT phoTographs and The increased use oT original linoleum cuTs. The Iinoleum cuTs were producTs oT arT TalenT pres- ent on The sTaTT. The phoTographs were, according To a sTaTT member, The resulT oT sTaTT eTTorT in bor- rowing, begging or Taking pic- Tures concerning weelcly news evenTs or TeaTure maTerial. l'lighlighT oT The TirsT semesTer was The l-lallowe'en issue, in which every arTicle had a Hal- lowe'en head line. AT The beginning oT The sec- ond semesTer The sTaTT was compleTely reorganized, alTho EdiTor-in-ChieT Sam Conner, AssociaTe EdiTor BeTTy Mc- Garr, Business Manager Geo. Esa, CirculaTion Manager Don JusTham and a Tew oThers re- Tained Their Tormer posiTions. The highlighTs oT The lasT se- mester were The April Fool issue and The Tinal FuTuroscope i T721 issue. ln The April Fool issue vivid accounTs were given concerning such improbable incidenTs as a hurricane sTril4ing The school, I2 TeeT oT snow Tall- ing over nighT, and a sTudenT body equipped wiTh scooTer-bilces Tor The purpose oT Traveling Through The halls. The FuTuroscope publican ToreTold occur- rences which mighT perchance beTall members OT The graduaTing class in The disTanT TuTure. The sTaTF also parTicipaTed in a number oT acTivi- Ties which were noT direcTly connecTed wiTh pub- lishing The KenTonian. Five KenTonian represenT- aTives Traveled To Irwin, Pennsylvania, where They met oTher sTudenTs and helped To organize The WesTmoreland CounTy Press Club, aT Norwin High School. Our School ExacTly As IT Goes

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gfzx Lives Up Qoard of Qqcfivifies The Bgard gf AC- fivifies merifs fhe praise of fhe enfire sfudenf body. lf would be no easy faslq fo find a group more con- scienfious and efficienf in handling the various emergencies which arise in a school fhe size of Ken l-li. This organizafion consisfs of four faculfy and six sfudenf members, fhe laffer being elecfed in fheir sophomore year fo serve during fhe remainder of fheir high school course. At fhe regular meef- ings every fwo weeks, fhe board handles such rou- Camera Abouf a year ago fhe Camera Club was organized under fhe direcfion of Mr. l-ladden. Despife ifs relafively shorf exisfence, if has blossomed info an organizafion with one of fhe largesf memberships in Kenl-li. lfs popularify is undoubfedly due fo fhe confesfs which are held each year, fhereby chal- lenging fhe inifiafive and in- dusfry of fhe club members. Thus, the already fiery enfhu- siasrn of fhe embryo phofog- rapher is increased subsfan- fially by fhe award of prizes. Time affer fime fhe enfhusias- fic amafeurs sally forfh fo do or die. Af leasf fhey are dead sef on geffing a per- fecf phofograph. The firsf fhng fhese would-be phofog- raphers learn is fhaf few pic- fures furn ouf perfecfly. Buf l74l fine business as nomfnafions of class officers, appli- cafions for organizafion of clubs, permissions fo sponsor anyfhing from a slrafe fo fhe publicafion of a yearbook. A schedule of evenfs and dafes is made af the beginning of fhe year. The board also selecfs fhe enferfainmenf for fhe regular sfudenf assemblies. The annual banquef is held in Novem- ber. The acfivifies of fhe board begin on fhe firsf day of school and are nof finished until fhe reporf cards go ouf fhe lasf of May. does fhaf defer fhem? Never l Many can be seen near fhe school and every place else imaginable, sprawling in undignified posifions, eyes glued fo fhe cameras, defermined fo make a perfecf picfure. Camera Club Prefers Them Candid Board of ACi'lVIi'I9S To lfs Name