East High School - Echoes Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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Household Arts Aid the Home LEARNING FLOWER arrangement is one of the projects of the home decoration course. Here, Betty Egbert and Flenda Pharris, both '58, arrange an autumn bouquet of pyracanthra to create the desired effect. Giving information and advice on how to adjust to marriage and homemaking is the job of four teachers first semester and five second semester in the House- hold Arts Department of East High. The purpose of this department is to bring part of the home into the school to help students create better homes for the future. Five hundred and fourteen boys and girls band to- gether to learn more about domestic and economical ways of living in the courses offered. Courses are personal living, for sophomore girls only, home and society, home decoration, home management, foods, and clothing. Home and society boasts the largest enrollment in the Household Art's department with 122 students, divided evenly between boys and girls. Boys foods, a second course opened to boys in the Household , Art's department, is a semester course designed to teach boys the fundamentals of cooking. Nell Holder Helen White Roberta Roberts 1 PEARL CROSS Miss Pearl Cross, head of the home economics department and a teacher at East for 19 years, died November 7. Her generosity, consideration, kind forgiving nature, and understanding toward all problems and people, made Miss Cross a beloved teacher, friend, and colleague. DISPLAYING HER TALENTS as a seamstress to Open House visitor, Mrs. Jean Thompson, is Diane Fulton, '59. 13

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0 Ethel Cadman Aimee Samuel Bernice Taylor Bissell Summers Studious groups of Aces cramming facts and figures into their minds may be found in any of East's four study halls almost any hour of the day. Over 2000 of the 2700 students enrolled at the begin- ning of the school year, escape buming the midnight oil by working at least one hour a day in a study hall. Four study hall teachers, headed by Mrs. Bernice Taylor, take on the task of supervising classes carried on each hour of the five-day school week. Study Halls are Periods to Use STUDY HALLS are now beirg supervised by Mrs. Bernice Taylor, Mrs. Aimee Samuels, Mrs. Ethel adman, and Mr. Bissell M. Summers. Mrs. Taylor is shown checking role while students prepare to do their as- signments. Libraries Encourage Students to Read Over 800 students crowd into East's library daily to take advantage ofthe current stock of magazines, reference books, and the nearly 16,000 books lo- cated there. With an average of 350 to 400 books going in and coming out of the library each day, Head Librarian, Miss Francis Strickland, a staff of 34 student assis- tants, and five full time helpers never find a dull minute. The increasing de- mand for reading material has been met by filling the shelves with close to 1000 new books, added this year. Francis Strickland Mary McCaffery Carolyn Benson i ' 0 i7'lii:ifE5sz?Qf'?5 5'L?Q5fFf'f'Q L if 1- BEATING me DEADLINE by a minute to Save 2 y at I cents in Library fines is Mitchell Lane, '58. ,', ' . gr ii --'- - I2

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