Maryville High School - Maryvillian Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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MR. DELBERT C. DICK Industrial Arts Freshman Class Sponsor B. S. in Education NWMSC M. S. in Education Iowa State College, Ames hop Boys Master Skills Through drawing, manipulating hand tools, and operating power machinery, shop boys have produced useful projects in industrial arts. The hum of motors blended with drilling bits, buzzing saws, and whirring wheels to create a busy atmosphere for the 115 students in six shop classes. Such Work is all a part in learning to change raw materials into useful products. The development of creative ability and skill are the objectives for students in Mr. Del- bert Dick's industrial arts classes. HARD AT WORK soldering and shaping metal are these metal workers, Gary Wright, Philip Wilmes, John King, and John Still. 12 1-. AFTER DEMONSTRATING the drill press in shop, Mr. Delbert Dick is ready to let Larry Ross, Richard Thacker, Joe Christen- sen, and Roger Heflin operate it. NEEDED HELP is given to this industrial arts student, Larry Jones by J. R. Calkins and Mr. Robert Fine, student teacher.

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1 l 5 MRS. J. WELDON WHAN explains how to double-stitch a hemline to two of her home economics students, Gerdur Jonsdottir and Jonnelle Schrier. HSDIELLS GOOD! exelairns Dixie Sisk to her kitchen partner, Dixie Clouse, and in- structor Miss Betty Williams. MAGIC MEALS became a reality for senior homemak- ing girls, who proudly display the results of a cake dec- orating unit. They are Connie Newberry, Barbara Logan, Charlene Adams, Beverly Logan, Marjorie Carr, Marilyn Hanna, Dorothy Schafer, and Ellen Spire. MISS BETTY WILLIAMS Sophomore Class Sponsor ,. li 1 ,l l P6 Girls Learn Basic Skills Cooking and sewing provided MHS coeds with an opportunity to master numerous homemaking skills. Approximately 180 girls participated in the program supervised by Miss Betty Williams and Mrs. J. Weldon Whan. During the year, the girls studied sewing, food preparation, and home man- agement. These future homemakers put their knowledge to use many times when they held teas and lunch- eons for MHS faculty members. Some also entered garments they had fashioned in the District Wool Contest. MRS. J. WELDON WHAN Vocational Home Economics Social Co-Chairman R-II CTA Sophomore Class Sponsor B. S. in Education NWMSC Vocational Home Economics B. S. in Education NWMSC 3 0 W.. ,-o I .- --- - x .20-

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IMPROVING SPEED and accuracy in the use of the adding machine is one of the goals of clerical practice students Ro- berta. Thompson, Diana Vawter, and Marilyn Hanna. PROUD TYPIST is senior Fred Poppa, who has just achieved twenty-five words per minute. Sharing his pride are his teacher, Mrs. Robert Brown, and a class- mate, Jim Kish. MRS. ROBERT BROWN Basic Business Bookkeeping Typing I Sz II Freshman Sponsor B.S. in Ed., NWMSC Students Favor Commerce The commerce department at MHS ranked high with a majority of interested students this year as over one-third of the student body was active in some part of the commerce program. Let by two instructors, Mrs. Robert Brown and Mrs. Otis Wagner, students gained valuable busi- ness experience from units on filing, consumer eco- nomics, office practice, and business law. Typing, another important phase in the com- merce program, provided many eager fingers with the challenge of achieving forty words per minute. SHORTHAND ERRORS are pointed out by Mrs. Otis Wagner to future secretaries Charlene Harrington. LaVern Keyes, MRS. OTIS M. WAGNER Co-Sponsor, Student Council Advanced Business Typing I 8: II Clerical Practice Shorthand I B.S. and M.S. in Ed. NWMSC