Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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Home Economics One of the outstanding activities of Casey High is the study of home economics, which endeavors to teach girls to become better home makers, better wives and mothers, economical buyers, and to become the interesting persons that it is a joy to be around. The girls are organized into a Home Economics Club, which meets once a month with a program especially planned to teach the members something that will help them to make better homes or to be better individuals. During the past year program booklets were made which contained a complete club schedule for the year, and each member received one. For their meetings they had several women to come out from town and talk to them. Some of the special features were: a talk on life in Mexico, a rugmaking sewing machine attachment demonstration, a play review, Our Town , a demonstration on good grooming, and an illustrated lecture on paintings for the home. One of the outstanding fetes of the year was the Mother-Daughter Banquet, held in October with a Halloween theme. The banquet serves as an opportunity for mothers and teachers to become better acquainted. There are approximately ninety club members. The officers this year are: president, Berniece Snodgrass; vice-president, Jacqueline Whitworth; secretary, Patricia Burnett. Ruth Watts Is that the same recipe? It's the material I like.

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Walter Newlin Agriculture We hear so much about big business men, politicians, and other important people that we almost forget the farmer, the provider of our towns. But even though he is almost forgotten he is seldom idle. From 1918 to the present day the agriculture course in our high school has played an important part in community improvement. First, the course taught farmers here the use of limestone. Mr. Newlin showed the boys the results obtained from limestone, and they in turn told their fathers. The introduction of sweet clover, the sweet clover harvester, pasture improvement, and the use of legumes has made the agriculture course an outstanding feature in community life. The last of December wound up a pest elimination contest under the leadership of Morris Rennels and Lyle Cunningham. The idea of the contest was to destroy hawks, weasels, skunks, minks, and anything that was destructive to young quail, chickens, and other birds. The boys have taken several field trips. They went to Indianapolis to see the stock yards and a packing industry and to Chicago to the International Livestock Show. There was a banquet on April 20 for the F. F. A. members, their fathers, and for the men who attended the weekly agriculture conference held since the first of the year at the school by the agricultural department. Ought to be a good crop this year. F. F. A Members, left to right: Mr. Newlin (Adviser), Kenneth Garrett, John Cramer, Vice-President Gerald Hurt, Paul Phillippi, Stanley Poffinbarger, Reporter Bob Stephens, Leo Gosney, Morris Rennels, Carl Collins. Franklin McCash, Robert McDaniel, Lyle Cunningham. President Ivan Sidwell, Bill Fouty, Secretary-Treasurer Joe Cassidy. Doyle Henderson, Franklin Sherwood, Wendell Daughhetee, Bill Howe, Don Cox, Leslie Black, Bud Mawk, Bob Brown, Max Mawk, and Junior Chapman. Others in the course or the club but not in the picture are the following: Oliver Hosier, Darrell Mawk, Hobert Glosser, Jack Finney, Wayne Simpson, and Dolph Shute.

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Commercial Training .Our commercial department means much more to our town than it might outwardly appear to mean. It has meant jobs to hundreds of students, not only those who have stayed and worked in our town, but those who have gone out to benefit other towns with their skill and knowledge. It gives the student an ability which he can use to earn a living immediately after leaving school. It also gives him an advantage over those who have not taken any commercial subjects when it comes to getting a start in the business world. Our commercial department is well organized. It has developed many subjects of importance along with the regular courses of typewriting, shorthand, and bookkeeping. Among the other subjects that aid in making our students helpful in our town are, occupational guidance, commercial law, business English, and business arithmetic. In the past twenty years more than three thousand students have been enrolled in our commercial department. Some of these are the leading business men of our town, many are holding positions in business offices in our town, while some have risen to top positions in large business firms. T. C. Tade