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

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Home Ec. Department prepares This year’s home economics department offers a total of seven courses which are taught by Mrs. Caren Breene, Miss Laura McConnell, and Mrs. Madelyn Selden, who is also department head. All ninth graders take home ec. as part of their Life Skills program. This Q week course is designed for developing skills for independent living. These include meal preparation, basic sewing, and a unit on careers. The general home economics course touches on each of the five areas of home ec.: human development, housing, food and nutrition, clothing, and home management and financing. Chef, which is open only to seniors, is one of the most popular courses. This course helps students learn to choose nutritional foods and use them in cooking. A variety of equipment is used as they learn to cook effectively and efficiently. A needlecraft course if offered which gives students an opportunity to produce creatively. Cross stitch, crochet, and needlepoint are emphasized. The topics in the child care program range from pregnancy and prenatal care to infancy and preschool. The importance of learning to deal and cope with children is stressed. At the end of the year, classes care for children in a day care situation. The social psychology course is designed to help the student understand himself and his role in society. Students also set and work towards standards and goals and learn about basic human needs. All senior general students are required to take one semester ot consumer education which studies the basic economic system with a concentration on related home ec. issues. These include budgeting, shopping skills, and housing and home management. for times ahead Top: Kelly proudly shows off her baby. Middle left: You're not putting Skoal on that, are you, Tom?l Middle: Sunny-side up or scrambled? Middle right: Finger-licken goodl” — Rick Miller Bottom: Is this class paying attention? 27

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Business Department meeting modem technology The primary purposes of the Business program are to provide job skills for those students who plan on entering the job market and to develop typing and accounting skills for personal use for nonbusiness students. The three major areas of specialization are: accounting, the system of classifying, recording, and summarizing business and financial transactions in books of account either by hand or by computers secretarial-stenographic. the emphasis of shorthand and word processing; and clerical, the use of typing and word processing. The business course is meeting modern technology with their equipment both new and old. With an IBM typewriter, IBM electronic 60, 75, 85 typewriters. Olivetti Electronic typewriter, two Radioshack computers and printers, and their two latest, the Xerox 620 memory writer, an automated typewriter, and the IBM display writer, a word processor, the business department can fully prepare a student for a secretarial or clerical related job immediately after high school. This year four students who were chosen because of their skills competed at Erie Business Center. Michelle Kleck, Shelly Borchert, Judy Cochran, and Kay Karns, who respectively competed in shorthand, vocabulary, typing, and accounting, placed fourth overall among the 17 competitors. Top: Would someone please turn the machine on? Middle left: aaa space jjj space Middle right: Do I really want to do this for a living? — Natalie Douglas Bottom left: When is this class going to end? — Gretchen Serafin Bottom right: Did you just proposition me? — Steve Snyder 26

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Industrial Arts students build their futures The Industrial Arts Department which consists of Mr. Frank Selden (department head), Mr. Don Porta, and Mr. Mike Hardy offers a choice of seven courses. The purpose of Drafting I is to enable students to visualize in three dimensions. It also helps them develop their technical imagination and to learn the language of drafting. Mainly Drafting I emphasizes drawing and sketching three-view drawings with drafting machines and equipment. Students may schedule four years of drafting including the advanced drafting course. This course specializes in areas such as architecture and machine drawings. Advanced students are also assigned projects including the designing and building of a model house. Metals I is an introductory course in metal working. Students learn to use basic hand tools and machinery. Work is done in the foundry making aluminum castings, forging steel, and making tools. As a continuation of Metals I. advanced metals provides an in-depth study of metalworking techniques. In this course, students are introduced to advanced machining operations by manufacturing complicated projects. The Wood I program gives students a chance to study the materials, products, and occupations related to the woodworking industry. Projects are constructed with the use of hand and machine processes. In advanced wood, students learn about consumer information while more work is done in project design and development. Photography is also included in the Industrial Arts Department. This elective course open to grades 10-12 teaches fundamentals of black and white photography. In addition, there is instruction on operating cameras, developing film, and printing photographs. The course is taught by Mrs. Judy Frost. Top right: Mr. Selden shows that much preparation is needed for tech drafting. Right: Beth wishes she had someone to play tic-tac-toe with. Bottom left: Mr. Porta lets his fingers do the walking. Bottom right: The unveiling of a masterpiece is eagerly awaited. 28