Austin High School - Austinian Yearbook (Austin, MN)

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EDUCATION -eq 5-sua Q i sci ...X Mgekg 'VS' c, A159 evra, XVMIRI-SN ffll'lk: Row I lW't3L'IR1-A Vs'If'l'IlRl.IN, l7:AIl-'R. Row J Pt-it its, liter INIAN. -IKJIINNUN. kt lNt'.i-tts. lkNNl l ll Mitct' llalllltwses twirl St't1l77.xl1t',s.x HOHIZ EC. Make a dressl Bake a pief Cook a mealf Can lruits and vegetables! Can you do all these things? Ciirls who have taken 'junior high home economics can. 'I'hey have many accomplishments alter two years' study. Students also learn about vitamins and calories, what constitutes a well-balanced meal, and what foods are tasty as well as nutritious. Learning correct color schemes. make-up, hair-dos. posture, and clothes styling is also included in the course. Another phase. home management. is brought in near the end ol' the year and is a stepping lti stone to senior high home econom- ics. Correct place settings and wait- ing etiquette are learned by senior high girls who join the Waitress Club. Besides having a few social meetings, the members get practica' experience by serving at community and school banquets. In former years. the Waitress Club has man- aged the serving of the Junior-Sen- ior Prom banquet with the aid o sophomore girls. Shop Advanced shop isn't all practi cal work. Before the shop is even entered. time is spent in the class- room gaining backgrounds. Boys interested in radios Erst read books and have lectures on radio parts. They then begin endless tinkering. Getting dirty and greasy doesnt come until after boys in auto me- chanics have also had some class- room work. The same holds true for welding, except that films are used to a great extent in this sub- ject. Automobiles and trucks art taken apart. welders do weld, ant radio men eventually do make thei own receiving sets. This comes ir time. .l1'KlNlliS JIEFVIERS f'urel'nI. nowf

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EDUCATION II ,VXI IH R IILXIYIM. YUlJXl.X IIII:Is'II.tNso'x. XllXlX LIRIIX lllll-X XX'IXlillX, MVN :Xxx lllllll KIlNlXllXl liXlxKl-X YIHMIXIX .IIN Mm tsp. I I I N llxxsox, t.I-XI x'II YI IlxIs'I um l't1fIIrI' tI'Ilt'l7e1's. Teacher Training Psychology, school management, rural sociology, and practice teach- ing together with professionalized subject matter courses are things which are studied by the teacher training department. Music, art, and physical education are taught hy the grade supervisors, Upon graduation, students will be employed in Minnesota rural schools. Students are selected from the graduating classes on the basis Miss M LIIQIQM' llltlSlt'l' ft'tltllt'l' of scholarship, personality, maturif ty, and health. lirom the number selected for the course, only three may fall below the upper third of their classes, scholastically speakf ing. Teachers-tofbe is dehnitely the aim and goal of every member in the teacher training department. Making arrangements for interf views and visitations to places ol' importance and interest to their particular subject are some pro-jects of the class, II,.MIII,RS IRAININI. IXNII SI'IxIIII IIIIx . , , I , IMHIJIII-. Mtvis .XxIwIIcI.IIx. lSIllllQ KMIIIII, llllll XXIIIII llXIllfl NIIIIIIIIIINI IllX I',IeIixt'x, Ill I Ii' .IXNI lwtsi I ix lftzlurt' lI'ilI17t'1'.s. I 5

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EDUCATION NOON HOUR ACTIVITIES Twelve o'clockl Bells ring- students desert the halls for the noon-hour. But that doesn't mean all activity in the building ceases, First, students go to the cafeteria for lunch, logical thing to do after four hours of grueling Work. CAlIl5'l'l5RlA S'l'lfANl illAl5l l7 Puri of daily line-up. After 12:15 they have their choice of leaving the building or participating in numerous activi- ties. Alternate days bring song- fests, dancing, and movies. Differ- ent members of the faculty preside over these affairs during various weeks. Students help by changing records and running the projector for movies. l'lllil'l SCHOOL LIBRARY CYKIIKIYIUIIQ up on reading. Open each day are the library, study halls, and typing rooms for students who have makefup work, or that favorite extracurricular-f '- detention. The library furnishes recreational 8 educational reading materials for noon-hour prospects. Silence prevails because of the noon-hour supervisors, who seem to hold a spell over the angelic stu- dents. Activities cease at 1:05- afternoon classes commence. PRO.IliC1'l'lONlS'l' HlflNE Ready to show lhut movie. I l 1 7