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

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From triangles in plane geometry . . . Charles Venturella and Linda Comet explain a theorem to the class. Gordon E. Porter Plane Solid Geometry Intermediate Advanced Algebra Trigonometry W. Ronald Webster Plane Geometry Math-From Plane To Solid Mathematics Prove it was a command resounding from each room of the mathematics department. Approximately three hundred seventy-five students had no trouble doing so if they had mastered the work each day, as had been advised by the four teachers in this department. While the plane geometry students were struggling to prove postulates and theorems, the Algebra II classes tackled binomial equations. Identities were baffling in trigonometry; properties of solids, in solid geometry. Advanced algebra students studied equations and were given a glimpse of calculus. . . . To pyramids in solid geometry. Mr. Porter, Charles Kun-selman, and Cathy Moon discuss how to find the lateral area of a regular pyramid. Harold L. Wells Algebra I Advanced Arithmetic Joseph M. Young Arithmetic Reading 20

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Students Become A-OK Employees Mr. Mohr teaches Georgia Beach, Betsy Tarr, Diane Rhoades, and Judy Myers the techniques of running ditto and mimeograph machines efficiently. Miss Snyder watches Gayleen Chelton correct a typing error. George E. Mohr Secretarial Practice Shorthand II Consumer Economics Office Machines Adv. Arithmetic Edith M. Bell Adv. Arithmetic Shorthand I Bookkeeping II Arthur Erbe Bookkeeping I General Business Mary Ellen Snyder Typing I II Business Education The business education department of Oil City Senior High School offered many opportunities to students wishing to pursue a career in the business world. Students were able to elect either the secretarial course or the clerical course, his selection depending upon his abilities and aptitudes. Four teachers in this department, striving to equip students with the skills and attitudes they would need when they became job seekers, stressed typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, office machines, business arithmetic, English, and related subjects. In May senior business students were sent to various offices in the Oil City area. This work experience program gave students an opportunity to learn what the business world requires of its employees. The goal of this department was to prepare students to meet the rising challenge of the modern business world. Through repetition Sharon Heffern, Frances Lape, Charlotte Conn, and Jackie Peterson become proficient in shorthand. Jackie and Charlotte are quizzing the other two girls with brief form flashcards. 19

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Science s Challenge-Turbulence or Tranquility In chemistry many special projects were undertaken by the students. Honors could be won by these projects if they were entered in the Science Fair. The students in biology learned the basic facts of living things to gain a better understanding of life. The advanced course took the annual trip to Warren State Hospital and Polk State School and Hospital. An elaborate machine for demonstrating wave motions was given to the Physics Department by the General Telephone Company. In the field of projects, several boys worked on two solar powered radios. This is what we have to look forward to in advanced biology, Mike Crawford explains to Shirley Slesnick as he lifts a pigeon out of a bucket filled with formaldehyde. Warren Anna Biology Adv. Biology Clarence W. Burch General Science Health Robert C. Lafferty General Science Senior Science Lloyd S. Bromley Chemistry Senior Science Harry Etzel Physics Physical Science Philip N. Wallace Science Geography English The tensile strength of different types of wires is tested in physics lab. Mr. Etzel explains to Max Skiba, Robin Horne, Ken O Neil, Bill Walters, Jim Etzel, Bill Passauer, David Downing, and Denver Slagle the fundamentals of this experiment.