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

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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

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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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22 The red wire is connected to the black wire The shop was no longer the sa¬ cred place for boys that it was, as girls slowly began to seep into such classes as Power Home Me¬ chanics. Girls had taken Technical Drawing for the last few years, but now entered into other Indus¬ trial Arts classes. Students racked junk yards and garages in order to find at least one 250 cc engine. They would triumphantly bring it to class, take the motor apart and then proceed to put it back together again in hopes that the engine would run even better than before it was tin¬ kered with. Many times the en¬ gines were assembled backwards forcing the mechanics to start all over again. Power Home Mechanics was a maze of wires, circuits and elec¬ tric toasters which burned the toast to a black hunk. Students learned why the fan goes off when you turn on the lights and why a blender won ' t work in a certain plug, not to mention what makes that annoying alarm clock go off. Besides the usual plastic mold rockets, students tried a new hand at tooling leather and cop¬ per. The copper was framed and placed in the front hall showcase. This was a change of pace from rockets, dragsters and other arti¬ cles made in the shop. While Jeff Bourne works diligently at the vise, Norman Washer looks on.