Arkansas City High School - Mirror Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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Vocational Ag. Classes l-lave Extensive Activity program Filling the current demand for vocational education, the Ark- anas City High School, furnishes a course in vocational agricul- ture under the direcion of T. C. Farris. The course is, first of all, a laboratory course, planned around three projects, major, minor, and continuation. These projects consist of raising and breeding farm animals and cultivating plots of gound. By the time he graduates a boy may have a plot of ground planted in feed crops, a litter of pigs and a cow or two. In short, he has a complete farm, which with his training may be set to work earning him a living as soon as he desires. In this mechanical age farm shop training is almost a necess- ity. Here the boys learn to use all kinds of wood and metal working tools as well as the forge. Thus after two years they are able to repair almost any kind of farm equipment. Each year the class conducts a potato variety contest. The potatoes are tested for yield and market value. The most out- standing activity of the class deals with cattle judging. During the year boys are sent out, individually or in teams, to fairs and stock shows to judge cattle. Then in the spring a group of the best judges are chosen and called the Judging Team. This year Harold Mueller, Athur Rahn and Delbert Higbee were chosen. Those on the judging squad were NVilliam Post, Lloyd Cochran, Wendel Beeks, John Wei1', Gilford Golf, Walter Baird. and Pat Sommers. The class sponsors a chapter of Future Farmers of America which is a nationwide organization and acts as a guide to all extra-curricular activities of the department. Although the Future Farmers plan their year's program in detail before start- ing to- carry it out, they have meetings each month in which they discuss current developments of argricultural methods. In the fall the club prepares a booth for the county fair. This spring they cooperated with the Farm Bureau in distributing 130 bags of certified, tested potatoes among club members and to farmers in southern Cowley county. The solution in which the aggs dipped the potatoes killed scab and fungus diseases, thereby giving the potato, as a seed, a better chance of growing. An important project of the F. F. A. is the distributing of a carload of western breeding ewes among their members. They raise lambs and ship them cooperatively to the fat lamb market at Kansas City, Missouri. In this project the aggs learn of the new movement toward cooperative farming. The F. F. A. program also provides for recreation such as a basketball team, a turkey dinner at Thanksgiving, a skating party and a three days camp at Wentz's in the summer. In the mill-work class taught by W. A. Sneller, boys may learn to use tools and gather a knowledge of woods, nails and screws. Mr. Sneller stresses habits of working harmoniously together and obeying orders as being equally important as the knowledge of the subject itself. The class offers very few individual projects since the work consists of odd construction jobs about the school. Experience in turning on both wood and metal lathes is offered by this department. PAGE 18 DALE HINES lmlustriale- football. NADINE HOLMES General--Ark Light Staff, senior play. ALFRED HOWARD General -- foutlmll. conference president. DIMPLE JOHNSON College Prep. -Sheeilers. conferenu secretary. LOUISE KEMPICR College l'rep.'f Glee Club, Messizllu.

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CIGSS of '36 EVANGELINE GEER-General ROBERT GIBONEY-College Prep. Pep Club, conference president. LAUREDA GOFF- -Cullcxre Prep. Girl Reserves. KENNETH GRAVES --Ind ustrial Future Fa rmers. RICHARD HALL-College Prep. Banrl, orchestra, Glee Club, opera, Messiah quartet. GAIL HARDEN-College Prep. Honor Society, Pep Club, head cashier. DOROTHY HEATHMAN-fColIege Prep. Secretary of Girl Reserves, Glee Club, Messiah, conference secretary, Ark Liyzht staff, Mirror staff, Pep Club, Quill and Scroll. FRANK HENDERSON-General Ark Light staff, Junior Tatrol, Pica Club. DELBERT HIGBEE-Inalustrial Conference president, Student Council, intramural athletics, Future Farmers. MADGE HILL-College Prep. Glee Club, Messiah, Girl Reserves, conference health officer. PAGE 17 ,

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CIGSS of '36 JACK HOLLIS-College Prep. Glee Club VIRGINIA HOLMAN-College Prep. Editor oi' Mirror, Girl Reserves, opera Ark Light staff, Quill and Scroll. JACK HORTON-College Prep. Intramural athletics, Student Council. FORREST HOUSTON-Industrial Course. DICK4 HOWARD-College Prep. Senior play, business manager of Axlx Ln.,hL Messiah, Hi-Y, Honor Society, Pep Club opeia Glee Club. JUNE JACOBS-College Prep. Girl Reserves, Ark Light stuff. EDWARD KELLEHER- --Culle-gc l're1mratory COIIISL. HAROLD KELLER- -- General Opera, Glee Club, quartet. NAOIVII KETCHUM--Coliexe PrerrarnLm'y Gnu:-,e OSCAR KIMMEL-Industrial Course. PAGE 19