Harmony High School - Ferguson Yearbook (St Cloud, FL)

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We also attended a Fashion Show in Skowhegan. In Home Improvement, we con- sidered what we want in a home, how to judge values when we 'buy, build, or rent, ithe -basic rule for color and design, furniture styles, arrange- ments, and expressing our individu- ality' In Home Management, we studied buying guides. how to 'become a wise consumer and to reduce the cost of maintaining and improving our homes. The last few weeks of school were devoted to Personal Problems. In the last two years we have each com- pleted four home projects. We recommend the Home Ec. Course to any girl wishing a home of her own or any other career, as this course will be most helpful in other kinds of work. We wish to express our thanks lo Mrs. Matijczyk, Mrs. Reed, Mrs. Cross and Miss Ham for their pa- tience and guidance during this course. We have enjoyed the past three years of Home Ee. very much and hope our next and last year will be as enjoyable and successful. Florence Folsom Gloria Curtis Winona Knowlton Patricia Gourley '54 FRESHMAN SCIENCE OF DAILY LIVING We started the Freshman Year With our first course in Home Ec. We owe our thanks to poor Miss Ham. She's almost a total wreck- The first unit was Personal Groom- ing, We learned a lot from it. We tried some good dishes at home Tho' our mothers had quite a fit. The second unit was Vocations, A help to our future lives. We'll make excellent career girls And to some poor men, good wives. Our next experience was in sewing And we learned the parts of a ma- chine. She showed us how to oil it- And how to stitch a fine seam. The third course was Nutrition, We planned a 'balanced meal. We haven't finished the course as yet, But are hoping to learn a great deal. We studied Vitamins from A to K, And what they mean to us. We learned about the minerals Calcium and Phosphorous. Our other courses will include You and Your Spending Money. We'll learn the facts about all this Which we spend so fast it isn't funny. The next unit is child care and guid- ance, Which we think will be great fun. Living with Yourself and Others, Will help us in the years to come- We plan to have a Silver Tea, Which will be quite exquisite. We're raising money for the living- room set To make it look swell when you Visit. We went to an annual fashion show Out Skowhegan way. We saw many styles and colors That will help us day by day. We're looking eagerly forward to Another happy year, With Miss Ham, our Home Ec. teach- er To guide, direct, and cheer. Letha Gray Arleen Ames Dawna J. Olson Wilma McPherson Betty Cowette Mildred Adams Class of '5-6

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WHAT WE HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF THE HOME EC. COURSE In our three years of Home Eco- nomics, We have learned many things that are useful to us now and will be in the future. In the beginning of the Freshman year, we studied Personal Appear- ance and Grooming , in which we learned about 'becoming colors, pos- ture, types of clothes for different figures, hair-dos, care of clothes and care of hands. Another subject was Nutrition iifr Health. We studied the im- portance of good foods in our daily diet. We made charts on the basic seven and food nutrients and also took up calorie requirements- Our Personal and Social Living unit taught us how to get along well with ourselves and others. In Budgeting, we studied how to get our money's worth, the influence of advertising, and informative la- bels. Our Sophomore year brought us cooking, home nursing, clothing and child care. In cooking we canned, planned and cooked meals. 'Our Foods also in- cluded table etiquette and table ser- vice. In home nursing we discussed Causes and Symptoms of Illness, Ill- ness and How to Meet it. The Pa- tient in Bed, Food and Nutrition, Nursing Care in Special Conditions, Home Emergencies, Personal and Family Health, Community Health, and Home Nursing Procedures. In child care, We devoted our dis- cussions to baby sitting. Our last project of the year was Clothing, in which we studied parts and uses of a sewing machine, tex- tiles, patterns, and sewing by hand. For clothing projects We made a dress, a house-coat, skirts, blouses, baby clothes, and pajamas. The work in the Junior year has been more advanced. It has included Clothing, Home Improvement, Home Management and Personal Problems. We learned to recognize many fab- rics, and visited the cotton mill in Waterville, the woolen mill in Guil- ford, and the local yarn mill,

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SENIOR PLAY Seated l. to r.: L. Gardner, I. Downs, F. Folsom, W. Knowlton, P. Gourley, Mr. Connolly, Director. Standing l. to r.: D. Huff, V. Linkletter, G. Stadig, R. Curtis, D. Howell. SENIOR PLAY Hardly had we seniors gotten ad- justed to our new exalted positions before it was announced thalt we should start planning for the annual Senior Play. After a series of demo- cratic meetings, and much discus- sion, we hit on The Zombie , a mur- der story. Since it required six women and six men, We summoned four junior class femmes to our assistance. Final- ly, the cast was as follows: Dr. Reeder Gerald Stadig Adele Luella Gardner Irving Stafford Victor Linkletter Doris Sterne Iris Downs Robert Packard Herbert Pelkey Lynn Beula Patricia 'Gourlev Lawrence Delmont Howell Michael Dana Huff Mystery Woman Winona Knowlton Se nora Fernando Florence Folsom Margot Constance Burr Zombie Rodney Curtis Our hearty thank-s go to Mr. Con- nolly, our coach, who stuck with us when the going was rough, and final- ly succeeded by his slave-driving tac- tics to get us to produce the play in a manner which was related by the audience as being one of the- out- standing jobs of play production in Harmony High School. Thanks also are exftended to the four junior girls who put so much into our play, and to the junior boys, Gordon Lombard and Zane Cray, who were in charge of the sound and lighting effects. We hope that next year's play will meet with the same success which ours has.