Covington High School - Puffs and Patches Yearbook (Covington, VA)

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Students Train For Careers in DE and ICT Mr. J. S. Anderson, with the help of local businesses, is responsible for classroom and on- the-job Industrial Cooperative Training. Follow- ing the order of DE, ICT students attend a class- room course and then depart from school promptly after their required number of classes to report to their jobs. ICT gives the students an opportunity to learn many practical skills such as electronics and auto mechanics. J. S. Anderson, B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Mechanical Drawing, ICT Pro- gram; VICA for ICT Program. DR. JECKYL AND THE THREE STOOGES?? ... No, it’s just Mr. Rose and his three most earnest students, Nancy Dressier, Becky Price, and Janet Burkholder, viewing DE projects. FIRST? . . .Richard Pauley and Barry Witt seem to be having a conference with Mr. Anderson’s paddle. Just the same, all appear to enjoy the ICT class. Leonard J. Rose, Sr., B.S., Roanoke College, Uni- versity of Virginia, Vir- ginia Polytechnic Institute, Richmond Professional In- stitute; DE I, II, III; DECA Club. The Covington High School Distributive Education Department offers vocational training to the business- men and women of tomorrow. First year students receive instruction which proves VEiluable to them in their pursuit of a business career. Second and third year students, when given the opportunity to apply this knowledge on the job, prove that they really have learned the meaning of courtesy, salesmanship, and dependability. 24

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Homemaking Will Be Vast Help In Future Home Economics, a program devised to teach young girls homemaking, is a very active part of the CHS curriculum. In Home Ec. classes, girls learn cooking, sewing, and fashion design, along with other details and aspects of running a successful home. When learning to cook, each girl takes a turn pre- paring a “specialty” for the other girls to sample. In the sewing classes, each student has a class project and a home project. Mrs. Hall and Miss Hepler, the instructors at Covington High, are very helpful when a student needs advice on anything from how to construct a buttonhole to how to wash and dry dishes. In addition to classroom activities, the Home Economics classes have given many socials and teas for the faculty. Also, they have a Mother-Daughter Banquet in the spring. HIRED HELP? . . . Jeannie Dressier and Lynn Arritt put their home- making knowledge to use. Truly, the course, a very practical one, provides instruction that the girls, who literal- ly are the “future homemakers of tomorrow”, couldn’t get along without. Harriet Hepler, B.S.,M.S., Radford College, Rich- mond Professional In- stitute, University of Ten- nessee; Home Economics; Future Homemakers of America. Mrs. Mamie B. Hall, B.S., Madison College, Univer- sity of Virginia; Home Economics I, II, III, IV, V ; Future Homemakers of America. MINI-SKIRT? . . . Mrs. Hall checks the hemline of Jean Scott’s class project. 23

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New Equipment A ids Commercial Department Beulah A. Jones, B.S., M.S., Longwood College, Mary Washington College, Madi- son College, Virginia Poly- technic Institute, Bowling Green College of Com- merce (Ky.); Typing I, General Business; Future Business Leaders of America. Mrs. Virginia A. Williams, B.S., Concord College, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Shorthand I, II, Typing II, Bookkeeping, Office Pro- cedures; Pep Club. IS IT FUNNY? . . . Debbie Tyree and Miss Jones look on the “happy” side of typing. TRY, TRY, AGAIN . . . Mrs. Williams never “gives up the ship”, even though Nancy Salyers looks as if she were studying Greek. Business courses at CHS give the students an idea of the vast- ness of the field of business. Per- fection is stressed in such fields as typing, shorthand, general busi- ness, bookkeeping, and office pro- cedures, a class which was added to the curriculum this year. The Business Department at Covington High is definitely pro- gressing with the times. In order to familiarize the students with modern office machines, CHS has secured for their use both a full key and a 10-key adding machine, printing calculators, transcribing machines, duplicating equipment, and a Selectric typewriter. Such a variety of equipment enables the commercial students to select a specific area of business in which they feel they would be interested and also set definite goals for their careers. 25