Ashland High School - Guide Yearbook (Ashland, OH)

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Some Class-room Activities . Do you know anything about culinary art? Wliy not join a cooking class? The cooking classes are open to both boys and girls. Funda- mentals of cooking and balanced diets are taught in this course. The F. F. A. judging team-This is just one of the many principles which are taught in this course. Some of the fundamentals are judg- ing fruits, vegetables, and live stock. A future stenographer typing from a dictaphone--In this department students are taught to type from copy or from dictation. As high as eighty words a minute have been typed by students. Setting type-After learning the fundamentals of printing the boys are allowed to try their hand at acual work. These peices of metal are characters which must be read backwards. A student in the general class room. Many subjects have no use for vocational equipment and must be studied by the recitation method. Some of these are mathematics, English, languages, etc. During their junior year the print boys receive their practical train- ing at the high school. All the printed programs and office forms are printed by these boys. Making herself a dress-In the home economics course a girl spends part of her time in the kitchen and a part in sewing. Girls are taught the proper care and artistic arrangement of the home. The Library is one of the most used places in the school, All six grades have access to the large assortment of books and magazines. The Library is open from eight A.M. to four P.M. Adding the quick way-In the commercial department bookkeeping, shorthand, typing, and ofhce practice are taught. The operation and ro er care of modern commercial ec ui ment are em Jhasized. l P 1 GUIDE 18

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THE PROMINENT STUDENTS. N competitive examinations with their fellow students, thirty-four pupils won the right to represent Ashland High School in the scholar- ship contest at Kent, May the seventh. The examinations were held in eighteen subjects. Ashland placed third in the district. The individual results are as follows : Donald Fluke Donald Darr Miriam Chandler Robert Fritzinger Willnur Hespenheide Ruth Hammon Elizabeth Olin Alice Richert Mary Davidson Miriam Guntrup Mary Bott Lois Hassinger George Oeken Donna Rupert Barbara Beach Louise Fisher First place Sixth place Fifth place Tenth place Sixth place Honorable mention Third place Fifth place Tenth place First place First place Second place Honorable mention Seventh place Second place Third place General Science General Science Algebra Algebra Geometry Geometry VVorld History French I French II English 9 English 10 English 10 English ll English ll English 12 Typing' II Top row. H. McNabb R. McConnell, Blulogyg G. Plice A. Baxter, Chemistry: D. Darr D. Fluke, General Science, 2d row: D. Plice G. Olin, Physics: R. Fritzinger M. Chandler, Algebrag R, Hammon W. Hespenheide, Geometryg 3d row: S. Mowiser D. Ritter, American History: W. Krill E. Olin, World His- tory, L. Fisher, Shorthandg V. Brattin, Typingg 4th row: A. L. Gates M. Gun- trup, English 95 M. Bott L. Hassinger, English 105 D. Rupert G. Oeken, English 11: 5th row: J. Norton B, Beach, English 12: J. Countryman M. Loris. Latin IQ F. Dixon M. Burdick, Latin II: 6th row: W. Barr A. Richert. French Ig M. Davidson M. Davis, French II. GUIDE 20