Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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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

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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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Sene Gordon Manual Training If one were to go into some of the homes of Our Town today, he could not help but notice certain interesting pieces of furniture. Why? Because they are outstanding and very beautiful. And, where did such rare pieces of furniture come from? Well, here is the whole story. They were made in the manual training department of Casey High School under the very capable direction of Mr. Gordon. We find that boys enter manual training courses thoroughly untrained, some even unable to drive nails straight. While in this course, they are first trained in handling and becoming familiar with the simple tools and are worked up to the more important and complicated tools. After becoming familiar with the simple tools and after learning to care for them, the student then advances to the machinery. There are the different machines necessary for working wood and for producing finished pieces, and the student is taught to operate them. Safety is stressed throughout the course. While in the course, the student first makes very simple articles, and as he advances, he makes the more complicated articles. Before the course is completed, he has had training enough to make many of the pieces of furniture used in the modern homes of today.