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

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GORDON E. PORTER Mothemotics MERLE STUCHELL Mathematics WILLIAM C. SWAILE History, Arithmetic W. RONALD WEBSTER Mothemotics The Square Root of Living Is Numbers MATHEMATICS The mathematics department helps prepare the students for the different fields they will enter For those preparing for college, plane geometry, trigonometry, and an extensive algebra course are offered. The three-year algebra course gives such a thorough knowledge that many students obtain high standings on standard mathematics tests. In business mathematics the commercial students receive a knowledge which will be useful in their special fields when they go into the business world. ANNA WILSTED Mothemotics Mr. Porter explains on algebraic function to one of his dosses. 22 Mr. Webster helps Koren Kinch in o pre-school class.

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ELEANOR DAUBENSPECK Librory LOIS S. WALZ Librory Mrs. Doubenspeck explains the book Mrs. Truby examines some of the Linda Bharne ossists Mrs. Walz in covering process to Linda Graham. library's new records. filing magazines. Both Mrs. Doubenspeck and Mrs. Waltz have contributed much to make our library one that we can be proud of. In their own way each of them has been a great help to the students and the faculty. This year the library has seen the addition of new book shelves in the conference room, book classification tabs, magazine files, newspaper racks, and an organized record department. They supervise the training of new student librarians, the buying of new books, and the binding of old books for the Oil City Area Schools. LIBRARIANS Books Are a Key to Knowledge LEANNA C. LEWIS English JOHN M. MASTER BARBARA A. TERRILL MARGARET D. REID VERNA G. TRUBY English, Journalism Speech, English English English Civics 21

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Understanding the Past Leads to a Better Future Mr. Floth lectures his U. S. History class. ROBERT L. FLATH History ROBERT C. ALLEN VICTOR A. BECK Problems of Democracy History Mr. Allen draws a map of South America for his P.O.D. class. The histories — U. S. History, World History, World Cultures, Civics, and P.O.D.—all help us to understand whot has happened ond whot is happening in the world around us. From the cavemen ond Caesar of Rome to radar and nuclear warheads, students at Senior are instructed in the why's and wherefore's of the events which make the world the woy it is. Sometimes the method used for this instruction is new, such os the television teacher observed in some of the world culture classes, but usually our teachers succeed in guiding us through the chapters of history. Without the Social Studies classes of Senior, our awareness of the world would be diminished; ond, as the future leaders of Americo, we would lack necessary knowledge. MARGIE L. McCASH History CLEMENT URBAN DAN WATSON World History Sociol Studies Geography HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES 23