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

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I 8 C.H.S. Offers Eight Commercial Courses as Practical Arts MR. REDMAN DUNHAM AND MRS. CARL BASKIN head the commercial department of C.H.S. Mrs. Baskin, in her second year at C.H.S., teaches typing, shorthand, general business, and secretarial practice, and is a junior class sponsor. She received her B.S. degree from Southeast State College, and her outside interests include SeMo Club, Dance Club, reading, music, her church, and the vice-chairmanship of the Demo- cratic County Committee. USING THEIR MINIATURE FILING SETS are secretarial practice students McTernan, Robinson, Bennett, and Hudgings. MR. REDMAN DUNHAM is one of our oldest C.H.S. faculty members in terms of service, for he completed his thirteenth year at C.H.S. this year: Mr. Dunham teaches bookkeeping, business law, business English, and consumer economics. He graduated from Drake University with a B.C.S. degree and from the University of Missouri with a M.E. degree. Mr. Dunham's outside interests are his birthday book of C.H.S. students and friends and his fightin' chickens. How many lines did you get on the rhythm drill? Did you get all that dictation? These questions could be heard from some of 145 students in the commercial department, one of the busiest departments in C.H.S. this year. Five clases of typewriting were necessary this year since sophomores, as well as iuniors and seniors, were allowed to enroll in the course. A second class, secre- tarial practice, also made good use of the typewriters as well as the dictaphone, the teletyping set, the Olivetti computing machine, and the recorder. Other commercial courses were bookkeeping, short- hand, business law, business English, general business, a preparatory course for more advanced commercial subjects, and consumer economics, which teaches the minimum principles needed for wise management of ones personal business affairs. I MR. I-IORACE DUNAGAN of the First State Bank talks to the consumer economics class about banking.

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Machine Shop Course Added in Industrial Arts MR. HARRY DARR, shop instructor, shows Don Wallace how to use the electric saw. Mr. Darr, head of the industrial arts department, also coaches track and is assistant football coach. His outside activities include helping to sponsor the Key Club and fishing. This is Mr. Darr's eleventh year at C.H.S. He received his B.S. degree at Northwest State College. This year machine shop was added to the many other industrial arts courses taught by Mr. Harry Darr. General shop and beginning drafting are offered to first year students, and machine shop, woodworking, and advanced drafting are offered to second year students. The purpose of these courses is to acquaint the students with tools, materials, and the processes of industry. A total of l25 boys took industrial arts courses this year. SHOP STUDENTS Bruce and Beck use the planer. uw. .A ,,,.4 FINISHING Tl-lElR WOODWORKING PROJECTS to display at Open House are shop students Prince, Wallace, Medlin, Trosper, Warren and Dinnell. K., .G ,V Y. . . -. . ,mn-re , ,.-M..-r...,... ......-.,......B,..,...,--.-.-..-.-..,.,.......r,:-:,- .ur .-. 4 f.,

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Home Economics Trains Future Homemakers MRS. HELEN BAKER, home economics instructor, praises Brenda Bradford for her freshly baked nut bread. Mrs. Baker teaches i Home Economics I, ll, and Ill, sponsors the F.H.A., and is a freshman class sponsor, She graduated from the University of Missouri with a B.S. degree, and has now taught in C.H.S. for thirteen years. Her hobbies are sewing and travel. Everyone enjoys a good home, but not every- one knows how to create one that will be enjoyed by all of its membersl This statement expresses the purpose of home economics in C.H.S. The three courses offered include the study of home and family relationships, home furnishings, home T r. My ,,, . the sick, the selection and construction of gar- ments, the improvement of personal appearance, the preservation of foods, the preparation of foods for special occasions, and planning for the nutritional needs of the family. These many activities of the classes will not be forgotten by the home ec girls, visits in Caruthersville homes to study the homes and furnishings, trips to the grocery stores, meals prepared for our families, the faculty, and ourselves, meet- ings with other school groups, and the sewing which we did for ourselves. Several of our group entered cooking and sewing contests. Judy Turnbow won the Betty Crocker Award and Pat Swiggart the Necchi Sewing Award. X sf , 2f1r.'h.f. ' management and budgeting, and home care of A ...f4mv 4 ,. as ,se ,..n PAT SWIGGART proudly shows her beautiful first place Necchi Sewing Contest Trophy to second and third place winners Jean Stovall and Ann Adkins. NlAKlNG FOOTSTOOLS is an interesting proiect for home economic girls, Lane, Goodale, Brooks, Wilson, and Stovall.