Bluffton High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Bluffton, IN)

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Departments Home Economics The home economics course, under the supervision of Miss Sale, provides a means by which girls may study such subjects as dietetics, food, clothing, home nursing, home management and household chemistry. The students taking this course have cafeteria every school day for the convenience of teachers and students. The department exhibits their 4-H work at the Bluffton fair in September. Safety Safety in all its phases—in the home, on the farm, on the road, or in the factory—is stressed in the safety classes conducted by Mr. Bolander, Mr. Ulmer, and Mr. Woodruff. The purpose of the safety course, which covers one semester, is to create safety consciousness in the students. Members of the class take great interest in creating safety posters and composing safety slogans. Agriculture Boys interested in agriculture enroll in the Vocational Agriculture course. The prescribed classroom study includes cattle breeding, dairying, farm crops, farm management, and horticulture. In addition to these studies, the boys do other interesting work. During the year they took up pruning and cattle judging. They also took field trips and obtained first hand information on practical farm problems. Mr. Blair is the agriculture instructor. Health Education Health education combines gymnasium work and class work to build a well-rounded physical education course. Basketball, baseball, volleyball, and other sports are taken up in gymnasium and in the classroom the human body is studied from a scientific standpoint. Mr. Larmore oversees boys making their own furniture. Art class gives anything from portrait painting to rug-weaving—true medium for self-ex¬ pression . . . No lead biscuits in this cafeteria . . . Future farmers of America—they learn what to plant and when . . . Mr. Woodruff tells his safety class to “Lose a minute and save a life.”

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Departments Commercial The commercial course is one of the four-year courses offered in B. H. S. Approximately one hundred students are enrolled, fitting themselves for general office and secretarial jobs. Included in this course are the following subjects: English, commercial arithmetic, biology, commercial geography, commercial law, typing, shorthand, salesmanship, bookkeeping, spelling, United States history, business practices, health education, civics, economics, and office practice. The advanced typing class typed letters for the Wells County Tuberculosis Association; addressed, filled, and mailed letters for the Tuberculosis Seal campaign; typed election material in the fall; typed all the Comet stories the first semester; cut stencils for teachers; and wrote many letters for individuals. Industrial Arts and Vocational Education The Industrial Arts and Vocational Education courses afford practical experience for the boys taking them. The courses of study take in vocational guidance, drafting, shop work, and printing. Through the efforts of Mr. Templin and Mr. Larmcre, the boys have a better chance of getting a job when they graduate. The printing classes print the programs and tickets fcr all school activities and publish the Comet, our school paper. Art The art department, under the direction of Miss Smith, is composed of students who are interested in art as a vocation and as a hobby. The work is planned with the purpose of satisfying the needs of all these students. Some of this year’s projects were charcoal sketching, mural painting, water color painting and pastel drawing, pencil sketching, dress designing, advertising, commercial work, and a limited amount of work in crafts. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Seniors leirn the laws of economics taught by Miss Shively . . . Algebra—brain gymnastics for earnest Freshmen . . . “Andy” McNown puts over a point in his Junior English class . . . Not a paperwad in sight. There’s good behavior while the cameraman snaps the library . . . Freshies battle nouns and verbs under Miss Monger’s expert guidance.

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y F a c u I t MARY SHAFER, A.B. Commercial Hobby—gardening SAMUEL M. WOODRUFF, B.S., M.S. Assistant Principal and Safety Hobby—mechanics and sports ROBERT N. BENNETT, B.M. Band and Commercial Hobby — farming and collecting silver dollars OLIVE M. GRIMSLEY Supervisor of Music Hobby—flowers and art GRACE E. RATLIFF, A.B. Librarian Hobby—gardening and reading JEAN SMITH, B.S. Health Education and Supervisor of Art Hobby—traveling WILLIAM C. RATLIFF, A.B. Science Hobby—farming and woodwork ALBERT J. BLAIR, B.S. Agriculture Hobby—fishing and hunting BESSIE K. SALE, A.B. Home Economics Hobby—knitting and crocheting 14