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

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COMMERCIAL The Ever Important World of Business The curriculum of the Business Deportment consists mainly of typing, shorthand, and secretarial practice. Students gain information and experience which will help them to become qualified secretaries. The classes are conducted like offices to give the students a sample of what the business world is like. Further experience is acquired during the student's training period at downtown offices. EDITH M. BELL Shorthand Advanced Arithmetic Bookkeeping GEORGE E. MOHR Shorthond Secretarial Practice Typing Consumer Economics JOAN PIFER Typing GEORGE W. SNYDER, JR. Bookkeeping General Business Advanced Arithmetic Miss Pifer checks Joe Wolozyn's typing progress. 25

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LANGUAGES The Goal-to Comprehend the Thoughts of Other Nations Under the sole jurisdiction of Mrs. Rebecco Skinner and Mr. Bruce McFall the Language Department endeavors to produce students who can speak and understand foreign languages. Here at Senior, French, Spanish, and Latin are offered. Emphasis placed on fluent conversation in these languages dominated the courses, especially in French and Spanish classes, with grammar studied only when it was necessary in order to speak the language correctly. During the first year students leorn the fundamentals of the language so that they will be prepared for conversational fluency in their second year. SPECIAL READING The Goal-to Overcome Reading Deficiencies REBECCA SKINNER Latin BRUCE McFALL French, Spanish Mrs. Skinner prepares her daily Latin lesson. A special course in reading improvement is fought by Mrs. Helen Barnette in the moke-up room behind the study hall. The course is designed to help students who have certain deficiencies in reading. A series of tests is given to each student to help determine the scope of his reading problems. Then the student begins working on the specific phoses of reading in which he showed weaknesses on the tests. HELEN BARNETTE Remedial Reading JO ANN MATEJCZYK Spanish Mrs. Barnette gives a timed reading test to Stephan Dalber and Jim Russell.

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Mr. Dordes conducts an experiment for his chemistry closs. WARREN J. ANNA Biology RAYMOND F. DARDES Chemistry HARRY ETZEL ROBERT C. LAFFERTY Physics, Science Generol Science SCIENCE 26