Grand Prairie High School - Geep Yearbook (Grand Prairie, TX)

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I I 0 0 at Our Homemaking lab appears to be a home within the school. When studying cooking the girls work in the kitchen, which is actually many kitchen units in one room. Modern, easy to use sewing machines cut stitching time for many high school seamstresses. homemaking Miss Nadine Driver, Homemaking instructor pauses in the kitchen during a class period. The domestic skills of sew- ing and cooking . . . social graces . . . grooming . . . budgeting . . . marketing . . . the general process of man- aging a home . . . these con- stitute homemaking. Although Geep H ig h teaches its girls to be secre- taries, it also teaches them to excel in their most important future vocation . . . home- making. Sewing is one division of home- making which holds many creative opportunities for its girls.

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o 1 , 0 We hear snatches of music in the air . . . drumbeats now and then as the band marches first period . . . the new wing listens as the A Cap- pella Choir rehearses in the choir room . . . minds wander out of the classrooms as we strain to hear the musical fragments. All of Grand Prairie High School's choral groups are directed by Mr. Earl T. Keel. expzecomfewf Gur Music Department is the extra- curricular heartbeat of Geep High. Who can imagine a school year with- out the band programs at football games . . . the stage band playing at parties . . . the musical assemblies which are our favorites . . . the choir's Geep High Capers in the spring? music department Mr. Leon Breeden directs and instructs our football, concert, and stage bands.

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mee of business education From Mrs. Ruth Powell's shorthand classes come po- tential secretaries, many of whom obtain secretarial work immediately after high school. The click of typewriters . . . pencils scratching . . . dictation in a monotone . . . adding machines . . . Geep High's future business leaders hard at work. Typing and shorthand . . . bookkeeping and distribu- tive education-prepare us for the business world. As we study business routine there is always the emphasis on efficiency . . . accuracy . . . leadership. Our Distributive Education course is taught by Mr. John Rountree, who obtains part time work tor high school students. Typing instructors Mrs. Janelle Nelson and Mr. Gene Head iBook- keepingt often lend advice to busi- ness students. 3'