Shaler High School - Shaleresque Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Assistant Principal Mr. VVi11kler is a man of many and varied duties. the first and foremost being to take over the running of school in the ahsence of Mr. Hench. A-Xnioiig his other obligations is help- ing students with their problems. Activities Director Mr. Bold, our Activities Director, directs all high school activities. ln addition, he is responsihle for use or rental of all buildings. Principal Mr. Harold E. Hcnch, who has been associated with Pennsylvania puhlic school all his professional life, has served two years as principal of Shaler High School He was recently appointed to the position of supervising principal to succeei Mr, R. C. Rogersg he will assume his new job in july. Under Mr. Hench's lead ership the academic program has been strengthened and requirements for gradu ation in hoth academic and commercial courses have been made stricter to insur the maintenance of diploma values. 19

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Sbaier's School Board Eniarges the john B. Good Thomas R. Neely Fred L. Pfischner Mrs. Paul F. Phelan Norman H. Rea Solicitor Board of Education The Shaler School Board is composed of seven citizens elected by the residents of the township to provide educational facilities for the youth of the community. This year has been a busy one for the Board. ln addition to their regular duties of maintaing schools, hiring teachers and admin- istrators, formulating policy, and planning for the future needs of the school district, board mem- bers dedicated Shaler junior High School on Scott Avenue in October and awarded a contract in March for the R. C. Rogers Elementary School to be built on Scott Avenue. The elementary school is expected to be in use this fall. John S. Reno Albert H. Ruff H. H. Russell Paul J. Tate Secretary Supervising Principal Mr. R. C. Rogers. on September l, 1960, retires from his position as Shaler's first supervising principal after a long and distinguished career. ln l93l when Mr. Rogers became supervising principal of Shaler Schools, there were tour ele- mentary schools and the high school. Twenty-nine years later, on the eve of his retirement, there are five elementary schools, a new senior high school, a one- year-old junior high school. and the R. C. Rogers Elementary School under way.

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English Courses Stress Our Need for the Ability Shaler seniors have the opportunity to choose the English course which will best suit their needs. Academic English stresses a thorough review of grammar and a complete study ot English litera- ture. Commercial English contains no literature, but rather places emphasis on grammar as it is used in the business world. General English offers spelling, graniniar, literature. and writing. A requirement in all the three courses, academic. commercial, and general, is book reports. Every student is required to read and report on six books which deal with various subjects of interest to the individual student. Charles Fortier holds the microphone as Hill Riggs records his information speech. Term papers, themes, and speeches are require- ments for all English courses. juniors read two novels. They choose from The Bridge ol San l.uis Rey. Scarlet lsetterf' and The Red Badge oi Courage. ,Iunior stu- dents learii the fundamentals of writing from both a creative and a business standpoint. They demonstrate their writing ability in themes and in term papers on original research. Sophomores devote one semester to the study of graniinar. The other semester is given over to poetry and the reading of fzflizfx Caesczr. Freshnian classes do as much original writing as possible. ln the course of the school year, each student is expected to add at least 300 new words to his vocabulary. They also concentrate on becoming familiar with several authors. They read from many ot the most ianious selections. such as David Copperfield by Diclcens. Shaler students in their English courses learn how to speak and write well. Seniors have an opportunity to acquire special training in these fields by electing extra courses in Speech and English Composition Each is a one semester course and may be elected regardless of the type of senior English taken. Ann Perry, jim ljunmire, jim Evanvik, and Bill Maneese look over Mr. Sandcrson's shoulder as he onetes trcni their English literature buck.