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

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From Their Skills Will Spring Their Vocational Department The intriguing mechanism of a complex automobile engine, the baffling diagrams and blueprints by which machines were made, and the tricky formulas needed to refine gases were just a few of the problems vocational students were subjected to daily. In meeting these challenges, one hundred-four students and nine teachers displayed extreme patience and skill, realizing that a thorough knowledge of classroom work would lead to success in a related vocation. Though small in size, this department, consisting of auto shop, machine shop and oil and gas shops, provided invaluable knowledge for its students. Mr. Ziegler explains to Bob Amsler and Hugh Dykins how lo find the dimensions that apply to that blueprint. Blueprint Reading III concerns the exceptions to the rules of blueprint reading. John W. Askins Industrial Arts Edwin J. Jakubowski Machine Shop Peter S. Scierka English History R. Russell Buckham Petroleum, Natural Gas Archie Matha Machine Shop Blaine E. Stover Mathematics Science 26

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The unusual structure of Oil City High School provides on interesting subject for art students. Patty Cowden, Dennis O'Neil, and Gene Schiffer take advantage of a sunny afternoon to sketch the building. Art--The Perfection of Nature C. Frank Puleo Music Philip Runzo Music Director Fine Art Under the capable direction of Mr. Watkins, students readily became aware of the beauty in art. In his three senior high and two junior high classes, sculpture, architecture, oil paintings, and copper enameling took form and gradually evolved into excellent examples of creative art. An emphasis upon the importance of art in culture—past, present, and future—gave the students a well-rounded course in creative expression. Music groups will be found in the activity section of this annual. 25 Jacques R. Watkins Art Do os I preach, not os I practice, says Dave Myers. Although he was asked to pose this way for the picture, Dave explains that this is the incorrect procedure for playing a tuba.

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Success H. Ernest Heasley Auto Shop Carl T. Rorabaugh Vocational Education Director rt Robert B. Ziegler Mechanical Drawing Let the chips fall where they may, thinks Ray Dunkel as he surfaces a board with a planer. Supervising his work is Mr. Askins who also points out the fundamentals of this art to John Welms. Mr. Jakubowski instructs Bob Brown and Dave Lynn in the use of a precision machine which measures the accuracy of machine ports.