Halifax County High School - Haliscope Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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Vocational Classes Were important Halifax County High School’s Vocational Departments encompass home economics, co-operative training, and agriculture. The purpose of the department is to prepare its students for part-time jobs before graduation in some instances and full-time vocations afterwards in all instances. In scope, the subject matter presented in the classes of the department is extremely practical, as it must be in guiding students to¬ ward the specialized fields of their choice. The four years of home economics are closely related and offer increasing degrees of concentration on domestic industries: cooking, sewing, selecting and caring for cloth¬ ing, basic electrical repairs, budgeting finances, and pre¬ serving health. Family Living emphasizes methods for solving domestic problems and improving relations between family members. Diversified Occupations trains students both in the class¬ room and on the job for vocations other than selling. This special work of selling, or distribution, is taught by Distribu¬ tive Education through textbooks while in school and practical application while on the job. PracticalNur s ing closely parallels the course taught by professional nurses’ training schools. As in D.O. and D.E., class room instruction is supplemented and enriched by on-the-job application of the principles learned. Vocational Agriculture 9 and 10, meeting two periods daily, lays the groundwork in fundamental concepts and principles of raising crops and livestock needed for special¬ ization in Vocational Agriculture 11 and 12, which meet one period each day. -30- Sammy Seay and Gerald Crews prepare to use the power saw in agriculture shop. ! Mr. William Lowe, D.E. Co-ordi¬ nator, teaches correct telephone manners to Lorraine McKinney and Peter Sizemore on a special machine made for this purpose. 17

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D.O. student Ruby Williams, who works as a technician after school, x-rays patient Vicki Ferguson at the South Boston Hospital. 16

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H.C.H.S. Boys Students enrolled in the Industrial Arts Department receive valuable ex¬ perience and knowledge in their study. Eighth grade students may take indus¬ trial arts for eighteen or thirty-six weeks. They study free-hand drawing, metalwork, electricity, and hand-wood- working during this time. The ninth grade class is a full-year course and covers three fields-drawing, machine-woodworking, and bench metal work. The tenth grade course, also a full-year subject, is the most advanced; in this course machine-woodworking and general metal work occupy the students’ time. Similarly, the students in mechani¬ cal drawing, a tenth grade course, learn how to transfer their ideas onto paper in an orderly way. They learn to plan, sketch, design, and prepare working plans. These students also make practical application of their abilities by helping with the scenery in many plays and by supplying the majority of H.C.H.S. classrooms with speakers’ stands which they make themselves. Eighth-graders Lola Osborne and Ann Owens make use of the new archery sets used in the physical education classes. Pfiy sica! Sd. Developed Strong Bodies Physical education and health is a required subject in grades eight, nine, and ten. The physical education students are taught the history, fundamentals, and basic steps of thirteen different sports. The 500 boys enrolled in the physical education program participated in football, soccer, volleyball, softball, basket¬ ball, tumbling, and track while the 600 girls taking the physi¬ cal education program participated in volleyball, softball, basketball, tumbling, fieldball, rhythms, archers, and bad¬ minton. These students participated in these above sports through intramural competition designed to teach them team-work and the value of physical exercise. Driver’s training was offered to those students who had a learner’s license and who had completed the classroom study preliminary of the course. In the behind-the-wheel driving course, a fee of $3.00 was charged, and the boys usually received a ten percent deduction on their automobile insurance. 18