Pottstown High School - Troiad Yearbook (Pottstown, PA)

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ll, I Home EC Sfudenfs Cook Up Ways To Sew Up Fufure Sfudenrs faking The home ec courses learned fhe fine arfs of home management cooking, sewing, and family living. They could choose befween maioring in home economics or elecfing lhose courses of grealesf inreres+ To fhern. Bachelor living classes nofed a rise in The number of boys falc- ing an in+eres+ in +hese acfivifies. The boys made useful sewing proiecfs, cooked, srudied consumer educafion, ancl learned fhe repair and use of household appliances. These classes doubled in +he lasr year, showing fhar more men were inferesfed in learning 'ro handle home life by fhemselves. Frances Smilh

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Acacfemic Classes Resuff ln Well-Rounded Sfudenfs All s+uden+s in all courses are required To sludy cerlain fields of common knowledge. Academic classes in English, malhemaf- ics, hislory, and science are conducled. These basic areas of knowledge are infended +o prepare sludenls 'ro iuncfion effi- cienlly in sociefy as cilizens, workers, and family members. Hopefully, sludenls are expecfed 'ro emerge from 'rheir sfudies ready lo communicale wifh ofhers, balance 'rheir checlcbooks, and allack The problems of daily life wifh logic. Sim -f V ,, f' 1. wwffa Jan Frilz Charles l-lamilfon William Kerr Emily Pefrilla ' f' if ' E J' jg tf ' nf' f aim . Y ,ery '

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New Shops Wi'den Choice Of Courses For STuo'enTs PoTTsTown l-ligh School's vocaTional deparTmenT had more To oTTer in '77, ln addiTion To business educaTion which oTTered cler- ical pracTice, bookkeeping, secreTarial, and daTa processing, There were also The Trade indusTrial courses. The program included 22 Teachers and I2 vocaTional shops. They were appli- ance repair, auTo mechanics, Tood service, healTh service, home economics. mechanical drawing, machine shop, Technical draTT- ing, wood shop, and Two new courses - cosmeTology and build- ing mainTenance. CosmeTology was very popular and had over 40 sTudenTs enrolled. AddiTional room had To be provided Tor The new courses, so Tour shops - draTTing, elecTronics, building mainTenance, and cosmeTology - were relocaTed in The vocaTional annex, one wing oT The Tormer lnTermediaTe School which was converTed To meeT These needs. Thus addiTional space was gained To supply The vocaTional sTudenTs wiTh The Tools of Their TuTure Trades. A work Training program, known To The sTudenTs as co-op, allowed Those sTudenTs who qualiTied To learn on The iob while conTinuing Their academic sTudies which led To graduaTion. ? 'T -A 4,.- William Weaver John H RoberT orosky Kovach b Q RuTh Cressman Thomas Work Dennis Laub Barbara Tagerf Beverly STubanus Jack Sfrange Joseph Rinaldi Thomas Palladino