Central High School - Pemican Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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.4p A sharp staccato fills Mrs. Price's typing class as Arinda Barker and Sandra Deal pound busily at their task, gaining skill for future careers. students for success in thc future. Under the direction of Mr. Berryman T. Cudd, the business education department at HPHS offered courses in typing, bookkeeping, shorthand, and business mathematics. Business mathematics offered students an opportunity to work with such problems as aliquot parts and skills related to the field of business. A dictaphone machine, a spirit duplicator, and a mimeoscope machine were used in con- junction with the typing courses. Business English and accounting principles were the new courses offered in the business curriculum. They both added to the develop- ment of HPHS business leaders. 43715 Mr. Cudd helps Gwen Stout, Zona Lanier, and Sylvia Embler to organize and record the endless rows of figures they encounter in bookkeeping class. Abstract Art? Not at all. Shorthand students Patsy Safrit and Fonda Hampton write the strange hierogly- phics that have meaning only to the initiated.

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QW W ev 5 4 I , i lr? 1' -.., ...., ,WJ T-Al , .. ' fi, ln the attractive practice house quarters on first floor, students of home economics planned programs on child care' and develop- ment, clothing, foods, health, housing, and interior decorating. In addition to learning about aspects of family living, the future homemakers gained skill in planning and working harmoniously with people of their own age. Home economics courses at HPHS sought to make the students aware of the value of a good home. The girls learned to cook for their families and to plan and make many useful garments. T h r o u g h the development of practical homemaking projects, the students learned to Home ec and work independently toward the solution of personal or homemaking problems. ln addi- tion, they learned the management of re- sources -- time, energy, and money - as well as the techniques of housekeeping. These courses helped students to meet the actuali- ties of everyday life and become trained for solving future problems. Miss Estelle Carobateas, practice teacher from High Point College, talks with home economics students on rules of health. 'fab Ll I In home economics class, Linda Cecil and Brenda Skeen demonstrate c table setting for four. business courses prepare Ann Dillion uses a sewing machine in home economics in preparing her term project, a dress. l

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Industrial arts offer chance to create. The hands of this mechanical drawing student, Perry Auman, grow in skill as he enjoys the challenge of making an intricate drawing on special green paper. Students of HPHS who elected industrial arts courses gained knowledge and practical skill in designing, drawing, and building vari- ous articles of wood and metal. In mechanical drawing classes, students learned to make detailed working drawings, including blue prints and house plans. In wood shop courses, the boys made a variety of articles. Using hand and machine tools on rough oak, cedar, and walnut, they turned out prized results: cedar chests, ward- robes, and bedroom suites. The scream of a buzz saw punctuates the air as Bobby Dunlap works rough rasined boards into smooth, shin- ing table tops. 5564. F . 'f iez.,,, 1 - 1 'bb . ,A ,,,, Sgyg, -A-I' Kenard Johnson, Joe Nelson, Dewey Reece, Lloyd Stone, Bill Michael, Bobby Hedrick, Phillip Teer, and Larry Hedrick display their outstanding pro- jects which won awards in a state industrial arts contest. Service trays, ash trays, and lamp sta-nds were produced in the metal work snap by boys who had mastered the operation of welders, metal lathes, milling machines, and surface grinders, as well as metal casting procedures. Members of this metalworking class look on with ob- servant eyes as H. M. Daniel solos on the metal lathe.