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

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Vocation is no vacation The Venango County Area Vocational Technical School offers programs of vocational education on a technical, skilled, or operative level to all interested students throughout the area. The fifteen different vocational courses offered are: Air Conditioning and Refrigeration. Appliance Repair, Auto Body, Auto Trades, Basic Electronics, Building and Maintenance. Carpentry, Cosmetology, Distributive Education and Marketing, Drafting. Food Preparation. Home Health Management Assistant. Machine Trades, Petroleum Production, and Welding and Metal Fabrication. Also, one technical course. Data Processing, is offered which requires all academic courses. An advantage for the Vo-tech student is that he she. unlike the academic or general student, is ready and prepared for a job immediately after high school. However, there are many vocational or technical students who. after high school, go to technical schools or even college. After training two years, a Vo-tech student is eligible for the co-operative program if he she has high grades, excellent attendance, and a recommendation from his her teachers. The co-op program allows a student to work a part-time job rather than attending the Vo-tech school. This year new restrictions were set concerning attendance. No more than fifteen days should be missed by the end of the first semester or a letter is sent to the parents. If more than 25 days are missed throughout the school year, a Vo-tech student is expelled from Vo-tech. The Vo-tech Student Senate, which is similar to Student Council, is the student governing body. The senate sponsors the annual Vo-tech Week, the most important activity taking place which involves all. The vocational or technical student, the same as the academic student, gets as much out of the course as what he she puts into it. Top left: Welding and Metal fabrication — Jeff Eismont uses the tools of his trade. Left: Cosmetology — Lisa says. Two heads are better than one. Far left: Carpentry — Sorry. Mike, the day is not over yet! Bottom: Vo-tech teaching staff — Row I: Ed Geopfarth. Ruth Krug. Josephine McMullen. Mary Figler. Jenny Huber. Judy Huffman. Clair Bayne. Row 2: Dan Baker. Gayle Oviatt. Sarah Shafer. Horace Kelly. Ray Konetsky. Dan Kendall, Yvonne Wolf. Bill Flickner. Harry Grandis. Stanley Parker. Linda Steffee. Row 3.- Bill Clark. Jim Schoffner. Bob Garrity. Norman Nilsson. James Culbertson. Linda Campbell. Larry Baughman. Joe Brown. Charles Hayes. John Johnston. Doris Hue-gal. Row 4: Fran Laver. James Krug. Bill Sundo. Byron Enos. Robert Sopher. Thomas Mays. Will Burke. Charles Grace. Bill Burns. Jeff Lelner.

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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

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Vo-tech . . Top left: Auto Trades — Let's see. bolt A into socket B? Top right; Carpentry — What will I do next?” Middle left: Drafting — See my new design for Playboy magazine? Middle: Home Health Management — It's a boy!” Middle right: Auto Body — It’ll be on its way to Mexico tomorrow! Bottom left: Building Maintenance — Say What?” Bottom right: Basic ELectronics — Sammons Communications wants me.”