Falconer High School - Falconaire / Corridor Yearbook (Falconer, NY)

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HE Home Economics De- partment has endeavored to put finishing touches on some of the tasks which are characteristic of the home. During their class periods, Home Economics students have canned 105 cans of veg- etables and fruit, woven 26 table scarves, made 65 articles for the Red Cross, in- cluding sweaters, helmets, mufflers, and kit bags, The war has necessitated a more point- ed instruction in meat stretchers , sugar saving recipes and substitutes for each. Correlating with the experimental cook- ing is the intense study of nutrition- fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and the like. Beside the classes in cooking, the stu- dents have learned to refinish furniture or to make new kinds from the formerly unusable ones. The finished products -the result of the collaboration of Mr. Whites and Miss Thelander's wood shop and needlepoint groups respectively are gay stools and benches with covered, padded tops. Even a few dressing tables or pillows may emerge from all this. There is one project which has been started that will carry over a period of years. Those in the weaving unit have started making drapes for each of the windows in their room. It takes approxi- mately seven full yards to make a pair for one window, this explains the length- iness of the time element. Within the adjoining room rests the results of many a nimble finger-the sev- enteen completely remodeled garments with their neat stitches and their unique decorations. Some of these were tinted and dyed and others recut, but all reju- venated, for each student was required to make seven garments-one of which was something remade. Use it upg wear it out. Make it do or do without, By using what we have, we save added yardage for the armed forces. It is things of this sort which will bring lohnny Doughboy home a little sooner. ll RED CROSS CAFE- TERIA COOKING CLASS WEAVING SEWING CLASS

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AGRICUL- TURAL PRIZE WINNERS AGRICUL- TU RAL CLASS WOOD SHOP METAL SHOP HHN the Falconer Future Farm- ers became part of F. H, S. in l94l, we students lifted our eyebrows a little disdainfully and considered the organization strictly for hicks , However, in the brief interval of three years, this club has proven itself worthy of our deepest respect. Under the enthusiastic leadership of 'Brother Shoupfagriculture has acquired a new zest and appeal which the pupils in his classes truly appreciate. Rumor has it that when these nature-loving people tire of probing into text books, they put their assimilated information to the test by applying it to the Great Out Doors, ln this unique fashion, their large vegetable garden was planted. A new sink, milk tester and laboratory have added to the department itself, while pictured illustration of poultry and livestock have helped to clarify the rais- ing of farm animals. Putting this knowledge to use on their own domestic farms has not only given the Aggie vital experience, but also made for more and better production on the home-front. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that of industry, farming would Why the very blue-prints greatest dairy farms orig- whose ingeniousness took without the aid become extinct, which plan our inate from men root in a high school shop course, such as those offered by Mr. White. From crude raw lumber custom-made furniture is created which forces the astonished lad to study his varnish-stained hands a little dubiouslyfunable to believe that they were capable of such dexterity. And thats not all, for out of the two- year-old aviation addition, have come model airplanes which would demand high admiration from an older establish- ment. Yes, the world owes much to Mr. White and Mr. Shoup and to the Whites and Shoups all over the globe who are work- ing today for a better future. lU

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The meantng of hte here on earth rnlght be de hned as consrstlng IH thts to untold yourself to Work what thrng you have the faculty for lt ts necesslty for the hurnan berng the ttrst law of our extstencse Thomas Carlyle QQ! yy There rs a tlme rn every rnan s educatron When he arnves at the convlctton that envy rs tgnorance that 1rn1tat1on IS sutclde that he must take hlrnse for better tor Worse as hrs portlon that thouah the Wlde unrverse IS tull ot good no kernel ot nounsh mg corn can come to hun but through hls to1l be stowed on that plot of ground Whlch IS gtven h1rn to t1ll Ralph Waldo Emerson 12 V 1 , , . x , . V T 5154- ar f T1 . . . , . 1 I ll I J I -