Andrew Lewis High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Salem, VA)

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Inserting a bobbin in the sewing machine requires a little effort and steady hands for Debbie Vest. Mrs. Blake and Karen Stroud beam over a correctly sewn dart. 20

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Besides the additions to the cur¬ riculum, the English Department added a Book Nook , which is located in the English lab. The Book Nook , a small room within the English lab, separating rooms 201 and 203, contained all sorts of paperback books avail¬ able for students to check out. The general opinion of the stu¬ dents was that it was a good idea, but several felt that it was not open often enough. Much to the displeasure of the students, the English lab was no longer a place for gain time students who had nothing to do. It was, instead, simply where English labs were held and where students could go to check out books. Students were suprised to find that they had something constructive to do in every assigned English lab. It was not as in past years when English labs were sometimes used to do homework in other subjects or to read magazines. Mike Berry tries desperately to pantomime The Agony and the Ecstasy . Seniors Carolyn Wickham, Joyce Baughn, Mike Willis and Randy Sims nervously await their turn while trying to guess Mike Berry ' s book title.

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Adding a pinch of this and a dash of that, Mrs. Bell stirs another delicacy. Pin and fit, or sew and rip Jack Hartman finds that the only cure for torn pants is Terry Fogle and a needle and thread. Students who enrolled in Home Economics with visions of an easy class were certainly fooled. After a barrage of practical exams, Mrs. Bell ' s cooking students concluded that foods and nutrition add up to plain hard work. You are what you eat, was the motto of cook¬ ery classes, and many a student struggled to master food for the mind as well as for the body. In addition the class required home projects such as preparing a com¬ plete meal for the family. Said one student, I took cookery as an elective. I didn ' t know it was the hardest class ever. In dressmaking classes girls learned the basics of constructing a good garment and then put their knowledge to work making clothes individually fitted to their figures. In spite of Mrs. Blake ' s frequent admonition that it ' s bet¬ ter to pin and fit than to sew and rip, many a girl learn the self-dis¬ cipline of repeatedly doing a seam over until she got it right. In addition to creating fashions the girls learned to repair ready-made clothing. Warm spring days brought numerous boys with ripped trousers in search of girls with needles and thread. Liberated or not, girls continued to learn homemaking skills. In classes such as interior design, they were competing with the boys. Sexes aside, these students found that skills are necessary for a creative happy life. 21