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

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Health and Safety Imperative In World Crisis Realizing that health and safety influenced each student, Senior required tenth grade health and eleventh grade safety classes. Determined to help in the prevention of cancer in the world, Mrs. Bartlett taught its causes and cures to the girls' health classes. This information was followed by a cancer notebook project. Another problem that our generation is concerned with is the crowded highways. Through safety education, students learned the standard rules and used them in Mr. Houtz's driving classes. Eva D. Bartlett Health Civics Emily Fry Head Nurse James L. Enos, Jr. Physical Education Highway Safety Education Blair Hildebrand Athletic Director Health Fire! Fire! Not really. This is a practice fire drill held periodically throughout the year. Students are instructed beforehand as to which exits to use and the correct procedure on leaving the room. Some drills are timed by the city fire department. J. Francis Houtz Driver Education Anabel S. Samonsky Physical Education Ball 3! cries umpire Mary Turk after Dixie Tingue catches the ball. Spurred on by her teammates, Mary Crosby waits hopefully for a good pitch. Soft ball is played by members of the girls' gym classes in the spring. 29

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Styles do change; therefore, girls in the homemaking depart ment iearn how to modernize old hats. Patty O'Brien (rights displays her product to Elva Knight. Homemaking A project on the renovation of furniture was responsible for the sparkling new look in the home economics room. In addition to this skill, sewing, cooking, nursing techniques, and child care were taught under the capable supervision of Mrs. Best, Mrs. Matthews, and Mrs. Krug. Scholarships, the Betty Crocker Award, and the Crisco Award gave the students added incentives for their work. Training for girls in the vocational home-making course was more concentrated and designed to prepare them for securing a position upon graduation. Students in the general homemaking course were prepared to adapt the many phases of home economics to their individual problems and interests. Successful Homes - -A Successful Nation Students learn the useful art of renovating old furniture in the homemaking department. Pam Piercy assists Mrs. Matthews in putting springs on a chair. Betty Rishei Best Home Economics Ruth Mead Supervisor of Homemaking and School Lunch Program 28 Ruth Ann Krug Home Economics Edith M. Matthews Home Economics

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Food For Thought So many choices. Wally Morrison and Pam Sterner deliberate over the desserts at lunch time. CUSTODIANS—Front Row: Mr. Richard Ahrens, Mr. Rowland Plowman (foreman), Mr. Adolph C. Kulling. Back Row: Mr. Henry Thomas, Mrs. Betty Snyder, Mr. Howard T. Tock. Custodians Clean floors, washed blackboards, shiny windows, warm rooms, dustless furniture—these we take for granted, giving very little thought to the work required to do these jobs. Yet, during each day and night of the school year, six custodians, supervised by Mr. Plowman, perform these tasks, which not only add to our comfort, but which maintain a healthy atmosphere. Then, too, if we occasionally think about the work of the janitorial staff, we think of it in terms of the school year. Few of us stop to realize that all summer long, while we are enjoying our newfound leisure, these people with the help of part-time personnel are preparing the building for the new term. To these people and to those of the maintenance staff who are never too busy to be our friends we say, Thanks! LUNCH ROOM - STUDENT STAFF—Front Row: Mary Jane Sylvester, Helen Neil, Janet Horn. Row 2: Marcine Shontz, Peggy McClintock, Judy Strickland. Back Row: Elva Knight, Crystle Strouse, Mary Anderson. 30