Las Animas High School - Trojan Yearbook (Las Animas, CO)

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Interior Manual Training Department

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DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND ART The Domestic and Art Department was organized and laboratory equipped for each, three years ago, under the supervision of Miss Adelade Young. Since that time the work has progressed under the supervision of Miss Edith L. Givens. In the Domestic Science classes the work is corelated with the home work as much as possible. Study is made of the different foods, in regard to production, care of food value, place in diet, cost, ways of serving and so forth. Practical lessons in planning and serving of meals are given. In the Domestic Art classes different garments are made. In connection with the making of these some study is made of the textile fibers, of the history of costume, of care and repair of clothing, etc. In addition to this some study is made of the home in regard to sanitation, which includes arrangement, construction, decoration and furnishing. This year the courses have been altered so as to place due emphasis upon the conservation of foods and the observation of the strictest economy iii all phases of the Home Economics work. In the Domestic Art classes particular attention has been given and due emphasis placed upon Red Cross work. MANUAL TRAINING The importance of Manual Training in the school has long been realized. Some years since a beginning was made in the Las Animas Public School. However, not until the erection of the new High School Building did they have adequate quarters for carrying on the work. It again took on a new impetus when the department was moved to its present quarters in the basement of the Columbian Building. Several hundred dollars have been spent for machinery and equipment. We now have one of the best equipped shops in the valley. The work has progressed this year under the supervision of Mr. F. W. Voss and his successor, Mr. K. F. Morrison. Much interest is displayed in the department and several elegant articles of furniture have been turned out by the various pupils. The tendency every where is to emphasize the practical. Bent County High School with its Manual Training and Domestic Science departments is keeping abreast.

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i£ iterarg SONG OF THE ANNEAL STAFF 1 Our band is few, but tried and true Our leader frank and bold, And everybody trembles When the Annual’s name is told. Our fortress is a downstairs room, In the basement, fast and strong; We know the rooms around us As the faculty know our throng. We know their walls of plaster white, Their doors that stand ajar, Our safe and silent room there Behind its sheltering bar. II But woe to us of the Annual Staff, Little dreaming the time is near; On us shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear, When waking to our “copy due”. We grasp our pens in vain, And the blank, white sheets that face us We cover with inky stain; For they who fail to be on time Will have it called to mind By hearing the voice of the editor On every hollow wind. III Then our commencement brings release From planning, writing, toil.— We talk the Annual over. Forgetting our turmoil. The campus rings with laugh and shout As all its pages praise. And campus flow’rs are gathered To crown our High School days. With merry song we mock the winds That in the treetops grieve, And gazing long and tenderly We look back ere we leave.