Jefferson High School - Nautilus Yearbook (Lafayette, IN)

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Shop Classes Teach Useful Skills Printing students, Earl Idle and Earl Glick, busily pile and package newly-made attendance slips for the o ffice. Diversified opportunities for vocational training were offered to pupils of Jefferson through the schools fine Manual Arts Depart- ment. Woodworking classes constructed many practical and interesting projects, testing the pupils ' skill and ingenuity. Auto mechanics classes learned a great deal about the nature of motors and engine repair, and electronics pupils studied electrical phases. Print shop pupils applied the skills they had learned by actually printing dance programs, identification cards, school forms and station- ery, and the Booster. Machine shop pupils learned operational pro- cesses for many complicated power tools and were eventually able to manufacture vices and hammers. Mechanical drawing acquainted pupils with drafting techniques and machine fundamen- tals. Architectural drawing, as well as many other facets of drafting, was also touched upon. Auto shop students, Mike Haupt and Keith Runkle, combine efforts in figuring out their machines in class. In his junior year Joe Bell is learning the basic funda- mentals of constructing and finishing wooden objects.

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Home Ec Develops Domestic Ability Interior Decorating, an addition to Jeff ' s curriculum, offers girls ideas to improve their future homes. The Jeff Home Economics Department set its goal at preparing students with the funda- mentals of living in our modern society. Class- es in clothing, foods, interior decorating, and family living were designed to instill in the pupils a knowledge of the latest methods of providing for a house and family. One semester of interior decorating, a new course this year, gave instruction in home de- sign and helped prepare students for similar and more advanced studies in college. The delicious aromas coming from the foods room caused many passersby to ask themselves if these girls in Foods I, II, and III might provide competition for the cafeteria cooks. Girls in clothing are proud to say, I made it, when asked about a new dress. How to sew and save money in the process is a valu- able skill learned in these classes. Family living provided boys and girls with a proper background and attitude toward future marriage and family life. Pam Traviolia discovers that she must follow the cookbook direc- tions very carefully for success.