Upper Darby High School - Oak Yearbook (Upper Darby, PA)

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Upper Left: With senior stenographic students jean Cyckowski and Betty Crouthers at the wheel, a cominercial-office duplicator turns out morning sheets in mass-production fashion. Upper Right: Typists keep their eyes on the books and off the keys. Lower Left: The excel- lent business background of UD commercial graduates results from training by Mr. Minacci, Mr. Forsgard, Miss Garen, Miss Scott, Mr. King, Mrs. Hup, Miss Richards, Miss Kerr, Mrs. Danehower, Mr. Rhile, Mr. Bernardino and Mr. Milne. Lower Right: Mr. Bernardino checks C O M lvl ll R C I , The eommercigil department, directed by Thom.is -I. Millie, offers courses to those Upper Darby students who plain to enter thc business world immediately zlfter high school. The courses :ire similar for :ill sophomore commercial students. However, in their junior year, students are per' mitted to brunch out into one of the four fields covered in the curriculum accounting, general business, sxilesmenship or stenogriiphy. A special course in distributive education. which is open to sill senior commercial students, combines regular classroom subjects with iictuzil working experif ence in loezil business establishments. The DE course is supervised by joseph E. Rhile. 20

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M v i Witli instructors in hotli the ancient antl motif ern languages, the forcignflanguagc department is ahlv to otiicr courses in Latin, French. German .intl Spanish, Miss lvlary A. Taylor, antl thc six other incinlwrs of the tlcpartlncnt comhinc their It-aching of thc languages with tlcvcloping stu' tlcnts' untlurstantling of the pcoplc who speak them. Augmcnting :lic classroom work, the Latin cluh, lc Ccrclc Francais. tlic Deutsche Gesellf schaft, and la Sociedad Panamcricana provitlc an outlet for use of the languages, in conversation and in song, and for such activities as the prof duction of plays in foreign languages. Through thcsc mctlia, the cultures conncctctl with the languages arc transmitted to the stutlcnts. Thus, the language department helps to instill greater umlcrstantling of other nations in language stu' 5 Fi tlcnts. Upper Left: Advertising the beauties of South America to UD Spanish students is one of Miss Goodman's travel posters. Upper Right: Virgil proves absorbing to the seniors who work with Miss Noble in fourth-year Latin. Lower Left: Miss Taylor indicates the lesson of the day for fellow foreign-language instructors Mr. Clugston, Miss Goodman, Mr. Stermer, Miss Chris- man, Miss Grunberg and Miss Noble. Lower Right: It's right there, sophomore Gini Trimble asserts, pointing out Paris for members of Miss Chrisman's French II class. AVS' ' +V cgi, :Pio 19 gifs

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MATHEMATICS llppcr l5.nrhy's m.1thcm.itics dcpatrtmcnt, pop' ulgirly know .is the umllllln dcpsirtmcnt, instructs ccwllcgcfpi't'pni'.it4wry studciits chiefly in two gun' cml ficlds plant' gconictry, which :ill mcmhcrs of thc it1llcgcfprt'p4ir.1ttwry group must rostcr, :ind .ilgulwrqt Supplcnicnting thcsc haisic ITlQlfl1CI1lQlllCS coursus nrt' the mort' .idvxmcud studios in trigf onomctry, solid gcomctry :md aidvginccd illgClW1'll. Coursus in workshop iniitlicimtirs :irc offered for .lI'lS'QlllLlfCI'.lliIS :uid commt'i'ciail studcnts. This your Mr. Dir-hl. lic.id of the klCPll1'UUL'1'lf. xmd his aissistaiiits hgivc conducted survcys to dctcrmiiic the cffcctivcncss of UD's math prof gram. Thcir findings hgivc rcsultcd in scvcrail chzmgcs to hc introduced iirxt ycznr. The prcsciit plain of otfcring trigoiiomctry :md aidvzmccd .ilgchrii als liailffycair courses amd solid gcomctry us it thrccfpcriodfpcrfwcck course will hc clizmgcd to includc hzilffycair courses in trigonomctry amd solid gcomctty amd an fullfycgir course in aidvzmccd tilgclwrii, Nlorcovcr, the dcpiirtmcnt plains to install spcciail zilguhrzifrcvicw clzisscs for scniors who plum to tgikc collcgcfcntraincc cxximingitions. Upper Left: It takes a lot of figuring, but senior Wilma Prewitt gets the answer with a little supervision by Mr. Hartman. Upper Right: Mr. McDonnell's joke merits a laugh from his Algebra II class. Lower Left: Topping the roster of UD mathematicians are-Seated: Mr. LeCates, Mr. Hartman, Mr. Diehl and Mr. Shullg Standing: Mr. Wolfgang, Mr. Twoes and Mr. McDonnell. Lower Right: Two math students collaborate to explain a tough geometry 21 , Q 5