Dallas High School - Dragon Yearbook (Dallas, OR)

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS Course Titles Revised What, in prior years was known as Industrial Arts, has now undergone extensive change. The traditional course was replaced with Woods, Electricity, Vocational Agriculture, Metals and Power Mechanics; all became a part of Career Education. In Woods, students completed required projects and went on to individual projects which included such things as cabinet making and the building of small pieces of furniture. Along with Woods, Mr. Brooks Wagner also taught Electricity which dealt with the fundamentals of generator operation and the basics of home and industrial wiring. Mr. Gary Thayer completed his seventh year as Metals instructor and included information on the use of the lathe in making useful articles and acquiring a skill that could become an occupation in later life. Metals students also got to smelt ingots of aluminum and worked in casting. Mr. Lowell Buswell, who taught courses in Agriculture oriented shop skills, rounded out a talented group of instructors who efficiently adapted course content to a revised curriculum. Junior, Ron Linschied finds the belt sander the ideal tool for smoothing off the rough edges of his Metals I project. Steve Hillborn practices cutting a pattern from plywood on the band saw in Mr. Brooks Wagner's Woods class.

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Ceramics student, Cathy Mason paints glaze on her pot in the final stage of its constructions. Cathy is an active art student. Browning meatballs, Italian Style, for her Foods n class offers Sandy Wilske the challenge of foreign food. HOME ECONOMICS Home Economist Added Veteran Home Economics teacher Mrs. Jackie Gwinn headed the foods department and placed emphasis on speciality cooking. Included in her semester course were such unusual activities as baking yeast breads, fixing special breakfasts, cake decorating, foreign cookery, preparing fondue and outdoor cooking. The new addition to the Home Ec. staff, Mrs. Mary Ann Johnson, took charge of clothing. Areas covered included party dresses, tailored coats and lingerie, with cuffed knit pants being a favorite choice of girls in sewing classes. Thirty-five juniors and seniors enrolled for Courtship and Marriage classes first semester. Three class topics were: Knowing Yourself, Marriage Preparation and Adjustments During Marriage. Home Furnishings replaced Courtship and Marriage at the semester. Designing and Furnishing a model home were goals of enrollees and such things as color co-ordination, space utilization and interior decoration were stressed. Through a program of individualized instruction, homemaking students were able to become more confident in areas of special interest. Testing the flammability of polyester fabric, Patty Olbekson and Lisa Dickerson complete an interesting clothing assignment.

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Geometry students Cheri Risley and Twila Koenig try their skill in factoring a geometric equation. Students in the class spent much time on proving theorems. MATHEMATICS Enrollment Expands Greater emphasis was placed on Consumer Math, which covered math-matical facts used in daily life, such as interest and taxes; as seen with its increased enrollment. The ten students who took Math VII studied intermediate calculus and devised a giant slide rule. Those enrolled were more than had ever taken this class before. Other math classes experienced increased enrollment as well. Algebra n expanded to three full classes and areas covered included linear equations and Trigonometry. With the help of Mr. Bob Kenyon, Mr. Paul Olliff, Mr. Charles Wade and Mr. Frank Kettleson math at all levels was made challenging; with students grappling with such problems as logrithmns and interpolations. Success was easily attained in areas like factoring and venn diagrams, and the year turned out to be rewarding for the math-minded. Mr. Paul Olliff explains the complexities of an intriguing Math VI problem in Sine and Cos Sine functions to Lindsey Harms while Steve Veazie attempts to solve the problem on his own. Students are having difficulty in grappling the functions in terms of pi and two pi.