Northwest Area High School - Northwester Yearbook (Shickshinny, PA)

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FIRST ROW: Mr. Koch, Russell Beishline, Robert Barchik, Walter Ridall, Otis Farver. SECOND ROW: Alfonse Truskowski, Abe Monroe, Bernard Kalie, John Yustat, Ronald Huffman, Charles Pszeniczny. THIRD ROW: Frank Zalesny, Charles Eckhart, Donald Deitrich, Philip Ciampi, Dale Hargraves, Wayne Robbins. Future Farmers of America The Future Farmers of America is an organiza- tion for boys interested in agriculture. The group attended the farm show in Harrisburg. The sopho- more members attended the poultry show, the jun- iors the farm product show, and the seniors the livestock show. A fund-raising activity was the Record Hop with Jim Ward and Dave Teig spin- ning the records. Our school was host to the Luzerne-Lackawanna Future Farmer Judging Contests. The following contests were held: dairy cattle judging, land judg- ing, poultry judging, farm mechanics, and safe tractor driving. The Northwest chapter will be represented at the Pennsylvania State Future Farm- ers Week by two delegates-Frank Ridall and Otis Farver. In the photo to the right Robert Barchik and Abe Monroe are observing the soil strata. Abe placed sixth in the contest. Among the group of boys in the photo to the left, below, are Frank Zalesny and John Yustat who took part in the contest to evaluate the skill in driving a tractor in a safe manner. The winner of the shop judging contest shown in the photo to the right, below, was Neil Metcalf. The contest consisted of identifying 200 tools and materials and demonstrating seven skills. xi the ff. f' W 1 1 I I i

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Here are the artists who did such a fine job of illustrating the school paper. Sitting: Ar- line Edwards. Irene Maransky, Janet Lowe. Standing: Kenneth Naugle, Donald Winans. T' 5 lhlflllfiiffli- it B 3 Pictured with Mr. Kbvalski are the members of the staff who served as reporters for local newspapers. Their weekly columns gave subscribers of the papers a resume of school ac- tivities. The following are the re- porters and the papers for which they wrote: Caroline Titus, The Mountain Echog Marie Busch, The Berwick En- terpriseg Patsy Koch, The Mountain Echog Becky Bogert, The Berwick En- terpriseg Arline Edwards. The Blooms- burg Press. Something new was added this year when Northwest took part in the 7-UP CAN- TEEN show held every Saturday morning on WILK and emceed by ,lim Ward. On the show representatives of each partici- pating school described the outstanding activities of their school. Shown to the left with Mr. Kovalski are Northwest's radio reporters, Judy McLaughlin and Marie Busch. These girls also appeared on Mickey Santora's radio show on WBRX in Berwick. m mmmtmi

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SITTING: Mr. Edward Augustine, Gloria Zubris, Nancy Mincavage, Betty Learn, Arline Ed- wards, Pearl Gryziec, Kathryn McDaniels, Carol Ditata. STANDING: Mr. Gale Gregory, Martha Zubris, Alfred Gizenski, Tony Conser, Gary Benscoter, John O'Donnell, Lynn Williams, Larry Adams, Irvin Post. tudent Council The Student Council is made up of representa- tives from each class, two faculty members, and the two supervising principals. The purpose of the organization is to give the representatives an op- portunity to present the problems of their fellow students to the group and attempt to find solutions for them after pupil and faculty discussions. Among the activities undertaken by the Council was the selection of special assembly programs to be presented to the student body during the year, planning the Harvest Ball and the Christmas party, holding occasional locker inspections, working on the constitution of the organization, and making plans to produce a student handbook. Fuling the need of a student hand- hook. the Council took its production as one of the projects for the year. ln the picture to the right, the offi- cers of the Student Council are shown with Mr. Gregory, one of the faculty advisors, examining and discussing sample handbooks which were secured from various other high schools. u ful affair. Members of the Student Council and Mr. Augustine are getting ready to decorate the gymnasium for the Har vest Ball, a semi-formal dance which proved a very success