Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Deciding which colors and lines are best for different shapes and sizes are Phyllis Crawford and Doris Heb- ler, both students of Adult Living. One of today's homemakers biggest problems is maintaining a good budget. CHS Foods students, Pat Schaecher and Beth Hutchison, prepare for this problem by comparing foods in the muskrat and mink lines that produce equal servings and equal nutrition, but differ in cost. Homemakers Practice Arts MISS CATHERINE DOWNING Department Head Family Life Home Economics MISS CHARLOTTE CARSON Home Economics Young Adult Living Because approximately 23 per cent of Davenport Central girls marry the first year after high school and 45 per cent are married two years after graduation, CHS’s home economics department assumes an im- portant duty. Interested girls may elect any of the three courses carried through two semesters and offer- ing two credits each, which deal particularly with the art and science of personal, home, and family living, with practical experience in such skills as clothing construction, foods and nutrition, home nursing, money management, child care, and home arts and crafts. For college bound seniors or future business girls, a young adult living course presents information about personal living, consumer education, and marriage in a manner in which girls will be able to utilize it in future situations. Family life education attempts to instill each stu- dent with understanding — of himself, his family, his friends, and his marriage. Designed to improve per- sonality, to develop leadership, to accept future re- sponsibilities, to foster wise shopping, and to improve present and future homes, home economics trains girls for the biggest career in their lives, through the belief that America will be no stronger than her home.

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MR. OENZIL NELSON Department Head American Government MR. ROBERT BALLARD Sociology Physical Education Coaching No, the battle of the bulge did not take place here!” jokes Mr. William Freese as his American history students laugh as well as learn. MR. TED CURTIS American History Economics It's all clear to them!” hopes Mr. Don Grensing as he completes his explanation of the social security problem to sociology students. 29

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 But Moscow can’t be only two hundred miles away!” resolve these ROTC boys, Bill Eye, Dick Knuth, Ed Daasch, Dick Wulf, and Ron Johannsen as they study and plot maps. Getting a more realistic taste of Army life are these ROTC boys as they practice shooting targets at the CHS rifle range. Expert marksmen from ROTC classes are members of Central High’s Rifle Team, who “fire away” in competition with area schools. ROTC Provides Future Leaders While the academic departments prepare students for leadership through knowledge, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps enhances theory with actual practice. Past President Eisenhower once described the program as “designed and perfected to develop the qualities of leadership required in both military and civilian enterprise.” With this in mind, ROTC strives to foster patriotism by movies and discus- sions on Anti-Communist activities, good citizenship through understanding, and leadership through actual experience in commanding groups, making de- cisions, and assuming greater responsibilities in a chosen field. Additional incentives to leadership occur outside school hours through the Service Club, Officers’ Club, Rifle Team, Drill Team, and Color Guard, all integral factors aiding to satisfy the goal of the ROTC department. CAPT. CARL MORRIS Military Science and Tactics SGT. DONOVAN DARLAND Military Science and Tactics SGT. ROBERT CHIPMAN Military Science and Tactics SGT. OAVID VROOMAN Military Science and Tactics