Caruthersville High School - Cotton Blossom Yearbook (Caruthersville, MO)

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 MR. EDGAR I. AILOR is the director of the three school bands, beginners, junior and senior. He also directs the vocal groups in the high school, the girls' glee club, mixed chorus and the various small vocal groups. Mr. Ailor is active in the work of the Southeast Missouri Music Educators Association and his church, and is a captain in the National Guard. His hobbies are hunting, fishing, model railroading, and coin collecting. MR. AILOR directs the girls' glee club (above) and the senior band (right). JOSE PEREZ autographs programs for Spanish class members at their annual supper. SWING HIGHER. BETTY.” yell Spanish students Foster, Brown. Hill. Speight. Prost. Rodgers. Bishop. L. Foster and Bracey. After eating a delicious meal of Spanish food, class members enjoy a Spanish game, knocking down the pinata. Music and Spanish Lend Spice and Color The music department was one of the busiest places in C. H. S. this year. The activities of the band, glee club and chorus are described in the extracurricular section. However, Mr. Ailor, music director, also worked with a number of small groups and soloists. The boys' double quartet, two girls' sextets, a brass sextet and a clarinet quartet gave generously of their time and talent to churches and local service clubs. The boys' double quartet and clarinet quartet received 1 ratings at the district contest, while the brass sextet won a first rating at both the district and state contests. The Spanish class, taught by Mrs. Dwight Moodie, was made more interesting this year through the presence of a special student. Jose Perez, a Venezuelan, attended C. H. S. classes to learn English before entering business school. The class members also enjoyed their annual Spanish supper which is held to acquaint the students with Latin American customs and food.

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MR. HARRY. DARR, instructor in industrial arts, is also track coach and assistant football coach. Mr. Darr's vocation is also his avocation, for his out-of-school interests are woodworking and sports. He is active in the work of his church and is an ardent fisherman. Industrial Arts Qives Diversified Training A sheet metal machine was the new addition this year to the ever-expanding industrial arts department of our high school. COACH HARRY DARR, shop instructor, helps Frankie Nelson read his blueprint. Washing their prints are Michie, Keeton. Edgerton. Johnson and Watkins. TEMPERING METAL at the forge are Curtis James and Larry McCoy. Working at the acetylene welder is Darrell Dugger. WORKING ON WOOD WORKING projects are shop students King. Tate. Swiggart. Sawyer and Wood. This year, as in previous years, the boys taking shop exhibited their projects - furniture, metal work, lamps, boats, and architectural drawings - at Open House. Among the larger projects completed by these students were the pouring of the concrete for the new cinder track and making four work benches and twenty-four drafting tables for the shop. Industrial arts courses, taught by Mr. Darr, only instructor, are general shop, wood and metal work, electricity, welding, lathe work, advanced wood working, mechanical and architectural drawing and boat building.

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MR. FLOYD BARNHART teaches Vocational Agriculture I, II. Ill and IV and is the F. F. A. and a freshman homeroom sponsor. Mr. Barnhart is not only a teacher in his field, but has the distinction of being the author of two widely used textbooks on cotton and soybeans. His community activities include active membership in the Rotary Club, farm activi-ities and directing the choir of his church. His hobby is music. AGRICULTURE STUDENTS Hardy. McClanahan. Medlin, White and Malone are studying seed samples for future use in a F. F. A. seed identification contest. Practical Arts Students Work With Head and Hand Students in vocational agriculture and home economics work with head and hand, according to Mr. Floyd Barnhart and Mrs. Nathan Wood, instru-tors in those departments. Vocational agriculture primarily concerns training boys to become better farmers. In addition to regular class work the boys get practical training in shop and supervised farm practices. The farm projects required of all students net them a nice profit each year. Girls in home economics study sewing, cooking, home management, child care, family life, good grooming, marketing, and budgeting. The home economics courses train future homemakers as well as girls who would like a career in this or a related field. In addition to regular classwork, many other activities kept the department bucy this year. During Home Economics Week in March, the girls' mothers and grandmothers were their guests at a tea. The department also presented a radio program on careers in home economics, and as a money-making project served lunch to the Lindenwood Choir. MRS. NATHAN WOOD samples the prize-winning cake made by home economics student Virginia Ann White at the County Fair. Mrs. Wood teaches Home Economics I. II. and III and is adviser to the F. H. A. and a co-sponsor of the Pep Club and the freshman class. She is also active in her church and the Business and Professional Woman's Club. Her hobby is sewing.