Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Whether you're planning to seek information or just spend some time in leisure reading, the library is an ideal place. You'll find a large variety of books there; books of travel, science, history, sports, fiction, and many others. Miss Dunlap and Mrs. Goss are always present to offer additional information. To assist them, they usually have fifteen to twenty students each semester, each student earning a credit for his work. In one semester this year, the library received about three hundred books. Some of these are three books containing the most famous works of art by El Greco, Van Gogh, and Renoir. To keep up with the demands of today, the library always has current publications on hand, such as the new books, The Effects of the Atomic Weapon and Survival Under Atomic Attack. The librarian . Mitt Myrtle Dunlap and Mr . Gladys Got . Various students in the library use the many research materials. Bernice Ekstein, Jane Frick, and Bonnie Anderson check the maps in the almanac, while Bob Brandt reads a magazine and Diane Tenenbom looks up a big word in the dictionary. Facial expressions vary as the students work hard in third period library. 27

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The Horn Economic Instructors. Seated is Miss Catherine A. Downing. Standing are Miss Cora I. Wilson, Mrs. Lucille Stanley, Miss Ada Malueg, Mrs. Helen Diamond. Home B conomics Just a short distance from Old Main lies the home of Davenport High School's branch of Home Economics. The Home Eco- nomics building, once Grinnell College, has the atmosphere of a real home. Decorated to suit the needs of the course, the interior is supplied with modern facilities, such as the new fluorescent lights that were installed this year. Our Home Economics staff conducts courses in Clothing, Foods. Dietetics. Home Arts and Crafts. General Homemaking, and Home Management. Clothing offers instruction in basic and more advanced principles of the construction of garments, cloth composition, and design. Foods I and II and Dietetics help students to plan and prepare meals economically, and study the composition of foods. Home Arts and Crafts offers lessons in knitting, crochet- ing. embroidery, and textile painting. The various units of Home Management are de- signed to show students the best methods of child care and guidance, and living com- fortably on an economical budget. While Audrey Guenther, Audrey Soenke, Pet Mullin, end Joyce Hull wetch, Mrs. Eugene Long bethes her tiny beby, Doboreh JoAnne. The demonstretion we» cerried on in Home Menegement. Susie Cempboll. Betty Mertens, Merlene Jeck. Glorie Biere model creetions of their own design. Judging the show ere stending: Jo Ann Ackermen, Miss Core Wilson. Soeted ere Ber- bere Celletz, Kety Souder. Miss Cetherine Downing.

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ROTC Tho Battalion Officers. Soatod are James Lindsay. Ed Gehlo. Standing are David Sass. Robert Sass, Jack Hanna, and Jeremy Jager. The Davenport High School ROTC Rifle Range. 28