Bushnell Prairie City High School - Beta Pi Sigma Yearbook (Bushnell, IL)

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Bruce Paul and Paul Runyon are the careful freshmen workers using the power table saw. Jan Hensley and Larry Moore are two seniors who enjoy the carpentry work they learn in the ag shop. l'Ag classes emphasize scientific farming Students of agriculture prepare lor their future occupation as tillers ot the soil by extensive study in the classroom, applie cation in the well-equipped shop ol the principles learned, and alert observation on field trips. Studyina animal husbandry, even to the construction of shelter tor stock and poultry, the Hao boys acauire conf tidence in their ability to nianaae their own tarrns someday and become the fuf ture providers ot America W4 WILLIAM THORNTON, M.E. Agriculture

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Young scientists secure good background at B-PC Offering four years of science, B-PC is doing its bit to prepare the nation's future scientists. The only required science course, general science, is taken by fresh- men as an introduction to the higher sci- ence courses offered. This general course puts in the minds of the students questions which can only be answered by further study in the science field. Living in such a complex world, we are in constant need of the basic fundamentals taught in biol- ogy, chemistry, and physics. Knowledge which a decade ag-o was considered so technical as to be studied only by spe- cialists is teething-rings for today's high school science majors. W id 1'. ' JOHN CAMPBELL ROBERT CHYNOWETH 8.5. of Ed. M.S. of Ed. Science Science Biology student Bert Lowe discovers an entirely new and Although this maze of test tubes and technical apparatus ap exciting miniature world through the lens of a microscope. pears ominous to us, Judy Smith seems to know exactly what she is doing.

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-wands Home Economics prepares girls for role of housewife LANORA BRAND, 8.5. BARBARA SAMOORE, 5.5. Homemaking Homemaking With a five-unit cooking lab at one end, a twelve-machine sewing department at the mother, and a family-living center in the middle, the home economics depart- ment is able to handle very efficiently all the various phases of homemaking the different classes cover. Practical applica- tion of the fundamentals of sewing, cook- ing, food preservation, home nursing, and child care gained in the homemaking cour- ses prepare the novice household mana- gers for the role of actual housewives, Emphasizing the difference between mere- ly keeping house and making a home, a course in family living helps prepare sen- ior boys and girls for marriage. NWN xr' Freshmen culinary artists, Janice Curfman and Judy Filbert, till cream-puffs, the products of one of their first cookery labs in the basic fundamentals of baking. iii Proving that the man's place is in the kitchen, too, Dan Zook and John Williams make cinnamon rolls, with the helpful advice of George Grand, husband of one of our home economics instructors. 79