Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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■ ■ ■ ■ F. H. N. ■ LO REE CAVE B.S., M.S. HOME ECONOMICS The past year has seen a complete reorganization in the Home Econom- ics Department. Formerly there were two distinct departments — the Do- mestic Science and the Domestic Art, with a head of each department. This year the two departments have been placed under one director, who is head of the Home Economics Department. This new arrangement is proving much more satisfactory as it brings closer co-ordination in the sewing and cooking work. The schools of West- ern Kansas must have a woman who can teach both lines of work, conse- quently the present system tends to more adequately meet this need. If you want to know what we are actually doing come over to the In- dustrial Building and taste our cooking or talk with the girls on any subject, such as business of the household, dietetics and home nursing. The sparkle in their eyes and the spring in their step tell their own story of their knowl- edge of health. The spring of the year found the girls blossoming out in attractive, new spring bonnets and dresses made in the millinery and sewing classes. Cooking in large quantities is no problem to the girls, as they have fed from fifty to two thousand eight hundred people. We are specializing in the Science of the Home — that oldest and most basis industry of our race and we are putting it to such practical use that it speaks for itself as to value. We are training teachers who will go out into their different communities and closely link together the school and the home. Page Twenty-six

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• ■ F. H. N. JAMES E ROUSE B.S., M.S. AGRICULTURE The enacting ' of the Smith-Hughes bill by Congress created a great de- mand for teachers of Agriculture, This department is directing its efforts toward the preparation of teachers for this work, with the hope of placing teachers with the best preparation in positions of this kind. The depart- ment is further able to prepare teachers through the carrying on of project work in connection with the classroom. In addition to the project work a garden of thirty acres is maintained under irrigation. This garden is rented in small plots to the students and faculty. Students are able in this way to earn their way through school, often making from $200 to $300 from an acre of ground. There is a dairy herd of thirty-five high-grade cows, headed by a pure- bred Holstein bull. This dairy herd supplies milk for the school cafeteria, as well as suppying an outside demand. Four thousand acres of Normal School land are under the direction of the department. Twenty-five hundred acres of this land is farmed by tenants. There are about 1,000 acres of permanent pasture land, and the addition of farm equipment has made it possible to feed the livestock without purchas- ing feed. Page Twenty- five

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F. H. N. EDWIN DAVIS B.S. MANUAL ARTS The movement for consolidated schools in Western Kansas is creating a demand for teachers who understand and sympathize with the problems of country life. No doubt the consolidated school will demand higher qualifications and much more experience on the part of the teachers of industrial work than the average high school of the past. It seems that the general opinion of the superintendents, school boards and many others is that it does not re- quire special training to become “Manual Training” teachers. If a community supports the industrial department of its school properly it has the right to expect that its young people shall receive worth-while instruction from competent directors. It is the aim of these departments to do their part in equipping young men to go out to teach the wood working and mechanical drawing in the schools of Western Kansas. In addition ever} ' ' student from this or any other department should add to his school experience the experience that is only gained by working at that particular trade or business during the time when school is not in session. Page Twenty-seven lyD 192 1 •