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

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FINE ARTS The Fine Arts Department —music and art—provide the students with artistic or music aptitude with an opportunity to elect courses stimulating to aesthetic as well as academic growth. The OCHS. Band, A Cappella, Girls' Choir, and Girls' Chorus provide the music for the pep meetings and school games, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter programs, as well as presenting several concerts throughout the year. An art course for each class is provided for the student who displays artistic ability. C. FRANK PULEO Music tf PHILIP RUNZO Music Mr. Stollsmith searches for the right can of paint. PHILIP B. STALLSMITH Art Others Fade While Art Lives On Mr. Stallsmith gives Phillip Wilson some helpful criticism on his portrait painting.

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EDUCATION 4 WAYS Health-Physical-Safety-Special Mrs. Somonsky teaches the girls' health classes and Mr. Russell, the boys' health classes. In this course physical fitness and good grooming and importance of personal hygiene are stressed. Later the girls work on cancer booklets while learning the danger signals of cancer. Caution, Courtesy, ond Common Sense are the three C's of Highway Safety. Here students learn thot driving is a full-time job, ond thot it consists of more than sitting in the driver's seat steering the wheel. Mr. Enos and Mr. Lynch are the teochers The Special Education class renders a great service to its students and to the community by providing more specific attention to each student's needs so that he can take his place as a self-supporting individual in society JAMES ENOS Health Physical Education BLAIR HILDEBRAND Athletic Director J. FRANCIS HOUTZ Driver Education ROBERT J. LYNCH Health Highway Safety Driver Education RICHARD T. RUSSELL Health, Science ANABEL S. SAMONSKY Health, Reading 27

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JOHN W. ASKINS Industrial Arts JOSEPH A. BANYASZ Welding PETER J. DESANTO Mechanical Drawing Blueprint Reading H. ERNEST HEASLEY Auto Shop EDWIN J. JAKUBOWSKI Machine Shop ARCHIE C. MATHA Machine Shop PETER S. SCIERKA BLAINE E. STOVER ROBERT E. ZIEGLER English, History Mathematics, Science Vocational Education Director Manual Skills Are Essential VOCATIONAL The vocational department consists of the welding, outo mechanics, and machine shops. In each, a boy can receive the basic training that he needs to get a job or to further his education in his chosen field. The boys elect a battery of classes including such special ones as blueprint reading and industrial arts. Dennis Kurtick helps Mr. Jokubowski adjust a machine.