Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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for future jobs their own homes. Male CPHS’ers are not idle either. While the girls learn culinary arts and dressmak¬ ing, the boys make wood articles and learn how to weld, fix a car, or sketch their dream houses. They also learn how to fix all kinds of machines and gain the basic knowledge of the soil. The some day breadwinners will be able to seek professions or do odd jobs around their own homes through their train¬ ing at the Hub City high school. Jean Cooke sews on a dress as Mary Fran Glassford presses a seam in senior home economics class. Jane Pugh and Heather Stacks bake a cake in a first year home economics class.

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Tom Piper puts the finishing touches on his elec¬ tronics project. Students prepare “Mmmp . . . What’s that cooking over in home ec?” was a familiar phrase heard in the halls of CPHS during the school year. Not only did the girls taking home economics learn the fine art of cooking, but they also learned how to sew, plan nutritious meals, decorate a home, and take care of children. Right now the girls find that sewing saves them a considerable amount of money and cooking provides satisfaction for both the chef and the taster. Eventually, these skills will help the future wives and mothers in Dennis Palmer acquires the necessary skills for fine welding.

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Phil Walker, Rita Overturf, and Keith Kruk compare Latin notes. Tape recorders help French and Spanish students improve their speaking techniques. S. Engstrom and J. Krull use the recording ap¬ paratus, as P. Struebig learns how to use it.