Berrien Springs High School - Canoe Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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the Way for Future Vocations Minor repairs were carried out during the setting up of machinery in the new shop. Here Richard Parks and Thomas Motheny do work on base of table saw.

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MR. AUGUST H. LANGE Agriculture. Future Formers of America Club Sponsor, Junior Class Sponsor. Michigan State University, B. S.; M. A. MR. REXFORD J. KOETSIER Drafting, Driver Education. Junior Class Sponsor. Michigan State University, B. S.; M. A.; Western Michigan University. MR. JOSEPH JACHIM Shop, Industrial Arts. Notional Honor Society Faculty Council Member, Freshman Class Sponsor. Western Michigan University. B. S.; M. A. In the vocational area Berrien Springs High School offers courses in business, homemaking, agriculture, shop, and drafting. Many students are learning new and better office techniques by taking typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, and office practice. The additional room provided for this department in the new high school has made possible wider and more efficient use of the equipment available. The experience attained in the business classes should be extremely valuable in future office employment. In the homemaking courses students learn not only to cook and sew but also experience many other useful projects such as home decorating, and furnishing, canning, home nursing, any other things which will be of use to them as they become homemakers in the future. Fine facilities are available in the new building, and another year when equipment is complete the area should be quite adequate. Agriculture is a valuable asset to those students who wish to learn newer and better farming techniques. By taking agriculture they learn not only proper farm mechanics, but also how to manage a farm. In order to uncover creative abilities Berrien Springs High School offers courses in drafting and shop. These courses employ manual dexterity as is exemplified in the use of power tools. Arts and crafts is also available to those students who wish to combine imagination, creativeness, and manual dexterity. 16 Diversified Training Paves David Berkholz and Roy Disterheft cuf steel on band saw in agriculture shop. Boys were anxious to get to work after some three weeks in new school, for it was then that shop was completed.

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MRS. FLORA A. KOETSIER Homemaking. Future Homemaker of America Club Sponsor. Michigan Stole University, B. S. MISS SUZANNE M. REED Homemaking. Freshman Class Sponsor, Cheerleading Sponsor. Western Michigan University, B. A.; B. S. r v. Showing off new features in homemaking room are Elaine Mastin and Pat Appleget. Built-in oven and range and all new cabinets make this room a stand-out in the new high school. Girls work in port of homemaking area which is set aside by a dividing curtain in background. Section consists of sewing department under supervision of Mrs. Flora Koetsier. 18