Dondero High School - Oak Yearbook (Royal Oak, MI)

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Parts Make a Rounded Program For a long time the public has pictured home economics as con- sisting of lust cooking and sewing. This is not true. Today the home economics course takes in seven areas consisting of child develop- ment, clothing and textiles, family health and safety, family relation- ships, food and nutrition, home management, and housing and home furnishing. Students are taught theory, develop techniques, and are offered practical experi- ence in the areas according to grade level. The Oak has condensed the seven maior areas into four -- family living, sewing, commercial foods, and interchange of ideas. All the parts of the circle displayed at the right make up the whole educational program available to any young girl who is interested. Family living, the first quarter, takes in home management, hous- ing, and home furnishings - all of which are essential for any girl. ln these related classes the stu- dents learn the proper way to set a table, prepare a menu, interior designing, and manage a home. Basic fundamentals are taught to novice sewers such as, the oper- ation of the sewing machine, read- ing a pattern, and tricks of the trade in turning out that finished look. Adding to the interest of the course is Miss Emaline Hornac, a home economics teacher who studied at Maxines in Paris one summer ago. Miss Hornac brought back numerous ideas and fresh styles from her trip which she in- corporated in her classroom studies. Making up the third part of the circle is commercial foods, a new course offered at Dondero this year. Mrs. Egeland instructs the pilot commercials Food course at Don- dero and Kimball. The course is designed for the young men or women who like to work with foods. Because of the tremendous growth of the food service industry there is an increasing demand for well trained personnel in this field. The program starts in the Junior year with a school day composed of two hours of laboratory experi- ence and one hour of related foods instruction theory, plus the regular school subject required for grade eleven. The course includes health and sanitation, safety and accident prevention, commercial cookery, food service, and equipment. The two hour laboratory is in an actual school cafeteria and stu- dents are taught to participate in food preparation as it actually is under working conditions. During their senior year, stu- dents electing this program attend school for a half day and work on supervised cooperative work train- ing programs in local food service establishments the other half of the school day. Students are paid at rates customarily paid to begin- ning workers in the iobs they hold. Commercial foods, like the other vocational training fields, can be a beginning step in preparation for advanced community college and state college preparation in the food management field, or the stu- dent, upon graduation, can step out into immediate employment. The interchange of ideas is im- portant in the last quarter. Students study child development and fam- ily relationships through the stimu- lated give and take of a discus- sion. Questions such as baby sit- ting fees, care of a child, settling an argument are all presented and answered among the students. The four parts constitute a circle of intensified study to give each student a well-rounded program. , I Vligsy ,. ,, Ll ,,,,wnuv' clockwise: Cindy Showers Mrs. Kirtland and Ellen Vollback Mary Ann Gadowski Elaine David

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Seeing is believing seems fo be fhe Science lheme. Allowing The sfudenl fo discover the answer through experimenfs and enlarged reproductions not only is more convincing, buf also provides for a more inieresfing class. lncorporafing lhe fheme in his Biology class, Mr. Puchalla poinfs ouf fhe bones of fhe cal fo Tom Faraday and Kafhy Kappheim. CLower righfj Sherida Baum and Bob Hicks search for fhe answer in fheir Chemisfry class laborafory. Discussion, a viial pari of any experimenf is carried on by Mark Sevald, Fred Miller, Pefe Tompko and Ron Noble Ibelowj in Physics class. The science program as a whole is based upon giving fhe sfudenf fraining in basic reasoning, in logical fhinking and fhose necessifies needed for a complefe and full life.

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