Gale Ettrick Trempealeau High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Galesville, WI)

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Quick, hide em before she comes! HOME ECS NEW LOOK The new look in home economics this year was a result of opening classes to the boys as well as girls. More enrolled in foods classes then before, and all offerings except Home Economics I were opened to both boys and girls. Home Economics concerns itself with the overall ideas of human growth and development, management of family resources and personal and family relationships. Yearh long courses are offered in Beginning Home Economics and the Family and semester courses in Food, Clothing, Housing and Home Furnishing, and Home Management. Future I-lomemakers of America is an integral part of the home economics program. ABOVE: Mrs. J. Jacobson LEFT: Miss L. Lebakken

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ABOVE: Mr. R. Christianson ABOVE: Mr. L. Drew NEW COURSES ADDED TO SOCIAL STUDIES DEPT. At the present time two credits are required for grad- uation, U. S. History and American Problems, these are required of the junior and senior classes. Students have a variety of electives to select from also. Political Systems and Civics for the 9th grade, World History for grades 10, 11, and 12. This year for the first time, two new semester courses have been added, Introductions to the Behavorial Sciences and Sociology. Next year the American Problems course will be re- placed by four new electives, two of which are re- quired. These new courses will be Introduction to Behavorial Science, Sociology, Consumer Economics and Political Science. With the additions of new courses and improvements on the older ones, the Social Studies department is preparing students for outside life and further education in a more modern and complex system of living. ABOVE: Mr. D. Lund

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I ABOVE: Mr. S. Prussing ABOVE: Mr. R.Duel1man AUTO MECHANICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE COURSES OFFERED The 1971-72 school year has brought many changes to the Industrial Arts Department. This year a new Vocational Auto Mechanics course is being taught. The department also hopes to start a Graphic Arts area in the near future. A new Industrial Arts Club has been formed this year and was honored as a charter member at the W. I, E, A. State Convention in Milwaukee along with eight other schools. Gale -Ettrick-Trempealeau was recognized as having one of the outstanding Industrial Arts Programs in the state. Mr. S. Prussing and R. Duellman teach Industrial Arts. In addition to semester courses in resource conserva- tion, soil and forest conservation, agri-business I and Il, a pilot course in environmental science and conservation was offered this past summer. Mr. Hendrickson also works with students on their individual projects and supervises the activities of FFA and WJDA.