Arthur Hill High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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C l I I Hnmt md img IQ-t-tling, clothing anti housing tht- family with best possible grave and efficiency livery boy and girl needs to know the art of homemaking. The wide range of this subject is shown in the picture of the exhibit used in the department for the Parent-Teacher Open House. Courses offered each semester are clothing, foods, boys' home economics and home management. In the tenth grade class units include planning, preparing and serving meals, doing the family marketing, promoting good health habits, studying textiles and improving ones appearance and personality. In the eleventh grade units emphasized are constructing a silk or wool dress, planning a clothing budget, constructing children's clothing, knowing where and how to buy and assembling and making a layette. ln the twelfth grade plans include preserving foods, taking one's place in the community, managing the home, studying millinery, planning and preparing foods for special occasions, doing art needle work and understanding its use in the home, buying ready-made garments and embracing the cycles of historic costume. FOO DS Earl Harrison and Fred I-lain, boys' home economics class members, are pictured preparing their first complete meal. The study of the quality, vitamin value, preparation and serv- ing of food led up to this project. As housekeepers, many of the boys have proved themselves worthy of the near white aprons and caps they wore in class. Besides learning the quick, efficient way to do the little household tasks, they also study the selection and care of clothing. The faculty of the homemaking department pictured at the right includes Miss Florence E. Wells, department head and clothing instructor, and Miss Lorna I.. Lange, foods instructor. CQl.OTl-IING Clothing courses help girls to know and judge the quality of materials, select suitable styles, how to plan and budget the family wardrobe as well as htting and altering a pattern and making garments. ln advanced classes millinery and tailoring are studied in addition to other garment construction and study of textiles . Girls of the department in their interest in infant care have built up an infant care library. Material was acquired from health associations. ln school and community service work the girls made infant layettes, childrens dresses, knitted for the American Red Cross and designed and constructed costumes for pageants and the Band Bounce. '77 HEI E HKINE CLDTHlNG1.Z.31 Panos ,za : , ants Home Ecuutmtcs A Home nnnnscncut tt' wi ....... A clothing class pictured on the right shows Elaine Miller, knittingg Lillian King, putting in a hemp Gloria Smith, knitt- ingg Marion Link, Carol Weiland, Loretta Leikam, Dorothy Dollhoff and jean Vasey. HOME MANAGEMENT Family relationships, choosing friends, acceptable manners and customs, making the home the center of family life, mak- ing the house and grounds convenient and suitable are some of the important units of the classes in home management.

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E S . 1 E S E a E HOME ECONOMICS CLUB Uniting the most interested students ot the home manage- ment, foods and clothing classes, is the Home Economics Club. The club was made up of both girls and boys. Presiding over regular meetings and special affairs the ofhcers pictured around the dining table include: Mary Love, presidentg Geraldine Price, treasurerg Mary McQuiston, vice-presidentg Frieda Krass, vice-president, Rosemary Rapp, secretary, Mary jane Bell, secretary first semester, and Williilin Melton, treasurer second semester. Annual affairs consisted of a formal initiation, a Christmas party, a mother and daughter banquet in May, and several parties during the year when they entertained Home Economic Clubs from other schools. A typical picture of a homemaking class would include boys and girls as does the one with Ray Holbrook, Mary ,lane Bell and Marilyn Klopf. 71