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

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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

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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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rufwq Jack Pershing demonstrates how the router-shaper is used in making dove-tail ioints for drawers. HERBERT CLUTTS, B.S. of Ed. Industrial Arts airs some -s ur- s ..,. :': ---.: E :,,, Qlk- . il., '- Industrial arts, new at BAPC three years ago when we moved into our new building, continues to be one ot the more popular elective courses a- mong the boys. The first year, the 5452 Q, irsr r N boys take a general course, and then perfecting their skills in various types of workmanship their second and third years, they become able craftsmen in woods and metals. Practical shop skills are gained in industrial arts Working under the intent gaze of Donnie Hart, Dale Curtman smooths out a piece of metal on the new metal-shaper. ,ar ,inf . .views i