Advance High School - Advancer Yearbook (Advance, MO)

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Classes Prepare For Contemporary Problems The Home Economics classes' subjects dealt vvitn problems in today's culture. Subjects discussed included interior decorating, consumer education, foods and clotning. personal culture, and the nevvly-formed cbild care and development class. All of our subjects are instrumental in makinga living, and are tnerefore interesting to tne students, stated Flay Davis, vocational agriculture instructor. lVlr. Davis's animal science and plant science classes utilized new books. Tney also concentrated on soil sampling and vaccination for cnolera and blackleg. lvlasonry class built a concrete block vvall six feet nign and twelve and one-nalt teet long, vvitn one window and a door, just for practice. lVlr. Davis instructed four ditterent welding classes. One of tne class projects completed was making tarm macninery to scale. Tney also did design welding.

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Newspaper Changes To Tabloid Format The journalism class expanded the size of The Hornet, the school newspaper, from a 7 92 x 10 four-page paper to a tabloid size of four pages, however, to cope with rising printing costs, the class published only every three weeks instead of bi-weekly. The class also solicited advertising to help pay for the increased size. The '74 Advancer, the school yearbook, again gained All-lVlissouri honors, the highest rating given by the Missouri Inter-Scholastic Press Association. The Advancer was also given a First Honors rating by Columbia Scholastic Press Association of Columbia University, New York City. The book amassed 943 points of 1000. Four students won five state awards from IVIIPA, class G Chigh schools under 450 en rollmentj. Gary Trout won third place for an editorial and second for an in-depth article, Nancy Towery and Lynn Hinkle second in advertising, Terrie Daniel second in photography.

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Left: Sewing his mother a dress for a clothing project is senior Steve Welch. Vocational agricultural instructor Flay Davis cleans the shop. Far Left. Patricia Johns cuts the meatloaf, Above Left, while Carol Bruce. Debbie lVloFarlin, and Steve Welch look on in anticipation of eating the full rneal the class has prepared. Showing a student a fine point of sewing is Mrs. Mary Long, home economics teacher, Above Center. Paul Warner fits the drill bit, Above, before adding a leg to a table.