Cedar Falls High School - Tiger Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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Home Economics In our homemaking classes we want the girls to see homernaking as a challenging career worthy of her best effort and her most creative thinking, We attempt to teach the foundation skills and to be- come aware of good attitudes for the homemaker, The areas of homemaking covered are varied. Emphasis is placed on meal planning and preparation, wise buying of food, clothing, and home furnishings. Clothing selection and care are taught along with a clothing construction, Understanding children through their physical development and through their social development increases in student understanding of themselves. Family relations are another important area that is taught, Units are included on money management and the management of time and energy. Interior decorating and home planning are also in- cluded in the two year program. Throughout the year, the girls are introduced to the possibilities and challenges of being a professional Home Economist In each phase of homemaking the students are challenged with the statement Homemaking is the greatest career of a omin Miss Loving demonstrates thepro- per form for a formal acceptance to her Beginning Home Economics class, Sandie ihnsen and Marlene Lauber get their drawers of sewing equip ment st,1e show Kay Brambletteandludv Bertch watch as Dee Schafer Models a sewing proJect in the spring Nancv Pate concentrates knne Heichel Marlxs Tangen and 27 the kitchen a . H . . ,X x ,.. 5 .X ,. V . . . 3 ni? x 3 on sewing a straight seam, Bonnie Butler are busy at work in

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Mr. Haynes explains a procedure to two of his students, Industrial Arts Industrial Arts offers many mechanical skills to boys who desire to learn a trade Courses of woodworking, metalworking, mechanical drawing, printing and auto mech- anics are offered to the students. Many of the courses consist of projects to be com- pleted during the nine weeks or semester. Students are graded on these projects as well as on written tests. Many of the projects give the student opportunities to fix articles that belong to him or to make something for himself. In mechanical drawing students learn the procedures involved in a drafting shop. They leam how lines should be drawn and what certain symbols mean. In auto mechanics students are allowed to practice what they learn on their own automobiles. Industrial Arts students put the finishing touches on their projects. D

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Leon Cooksey forms a bowl on the pottery wheel. Larry Wymore demonstrates At present, three courses are offered in the Art Department. They are Begunung Art Crafts and Advanced Art, These courses are set upnot for a talented few but for the talmted many smce the average student has more abihty in art then he realtzes Art hke other subjects can be leamed 1f a student has the desire to acqture knowledge tn the held. Begtnning Art studalts are taught the bastc DFLHCIDIBS of art by means of projects whlch they complete during the year These projects oover var1ous flelds such as perspecttve color and dESlgL W1th the successful completion of each project, the student increases h1s store of knowledge, Each lesson is readxly apphcable to the next project. The emphasis in Crafts ls placed more dmrectly arustic feelings Soap modeling lS the first step and students later work w1th leather clay copper silver and other matertals Advanced Art IS the further study and develop ment of arusnc expresswn. Students select an area in wluch they are especlally mterested and do the majonty of thelr work 1n this Held Tlus year art students took part tn the all school art exhtbtt and desxgned programs and sets for school producuons hls sklll tn basket weavxng. Students help to clean and pack B111 Voorhees and Dave Hansen make use materlals as theartdepartment of some of the projects created 1n Crafts moves to a new locatton. 28 on the materials through which students express their