Oil City High School - Oil Can Yearbook (Oil City, PA)

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Boh Clark gains experience with the oxy-aeeevlene cutting toreh while preparing tor are welding. Clean-up time in the shops reminds us of the old familiar rhyme, hlillll-il-Clllll-CllllJ Our tour men are: ,luck Krug, Frank Grzasko, -lohn Citlord, Melvin Xin-Clintoek. i Vocational A B C's Autos, Blueprints, Charts Vocational and Industrial ln the vocational department 109 hoys, pre- paring for trades or further schooling, alternated between the shops and classrooms. ln the auto shop the hovsi projects Were concerned With re- pairs to cars of the facultv, parents, and students. The petroleum refining and natural gas shop was the scene of the construction of an oil derrick. The boys also welded students, chairs and tables, and made tools. Those in the machine shop had many individual projects, such as the seniors, re- pairing Christmas toys. Two hundred thirty-eight hoys from grades ten through twelve took the industrial arts course this years Seventh, eighth, and ninth grade stu- dents Worked on projects such as hoats, footi- stools, Wall plaques, scrolled Wall shelves, and hook ends. The advanced group-grades ten, eleven, and twelve-Worked on coffee tables, gun racks, lamps, and salad howls, among other things. Each project required from one month to one year to complete. -5 af.: NY' 3 , . 1'w:.:w5'a17 'T 5 .xr .ax-3 . affix- -1' 1 . ', J: L.. 'Q ' ,q,sjg5S.p,f5?':71:fg1 Russell R. Bucldmm VVilliam H. Clark,Ir. Frank S. Hale ll. Ernest Hensley Petroleum and Industrial Arts Vocational Auto Shop Natural Cas Education Director

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Robert C Allen Vance D. Brown Ethel C. Caldwell Pr llvlcms o Civics, NYorlcl Histoiy, Dimocx mu Arithmctic XVorlcl Culturc Social Sfuclies Cuinlccl hy ii stuff of six social studies teachers, 738 students. through such courses as Ameri- can history, Civics, Pcnnsylvauiu history, problems of cleinocracy. world cultures, amd worlcl his- tory, explorcd the past and the prcsent. Pcrhups the word future should hc uclclccl, for thc scniors were shown, among othcr things, how to make out incomc tax forms. Oh! Confucius, whcrc art thou! Lust ycur 11 new onc-scmestcr course, worlcl culture, was uclcl- ccl to thc curriculum. This coursc can hc takcn along with thc worlcl history coursc or separ- utr-ly. The class of 1961 will hc thc first to hc rcquirccl to liuvc this suhjcct. XVC arc grateful to these teach- lleminttw Lurll Margie L, McCash Thomas Skinner .4 f Q I 1 . Y u k , S HH O X Ihstoryy Irigturyi L15 Ol ll Plllg, U5 til HOXX Olll 1'iiy.4i4-111 Education Civics World and its people hcttcr. So h T d f ' If p OITIOYQS S U Y Orelgn CU Ures. nton llixs C l Mis. Paitriciax Bc-aittv, Bmlmm Ili-Shong, lim hlL'clI'L'2l. liitriciai Strullen. zmcl Diiuic Stcxcns le-urn in Xlis C llilxull rlcl culturc incluclcs not only music :mal nrt hut also scicncc, lmlxits, customs, amcl circss.

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Eill Umvning tlw use of ll lxuucl saw for cutting he ll0Il1C. I Ir. Clark explains to Henry BllI'C'l11lHl1'NV5lil auicl semllecl wall shelf nucl other usi-ful urtielvs for 'YH Wx., Fred I. Lapek Curl T. Rorahaugli Peter Scierka xlilfllllll' Shop xl1lC,'llll'lC Slmp Englixll, History 23 -Q.. i ,ll llcmzilcl Dc-lm applies the principles of clvhxila-cl ClliLlXYll1Q' xxitli isometric prcmiectimi to ax l1LlllQl'I' lmlckvt while Nlr. Ziegler czillcrs suggestions. Y Blaine E. Stover Nl1llllClllllliL'F, Sciexlu- i- 5 WP' LL W? av mill' ' 1 A ,'i, A E, V:.V Robert B. Ziegler Nlecliaxriic-ul llitlwiing