Grand Junction High School - Tiger Yearbook (Grand Junction, CO)

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We learn practical skills for better everyday living. Demonstrating the fine art of baking a cake, Norma, Christine, and Phyllis check their ingredients. Lessons such as these give future homemakers practical experience of value. Juanita stitches a seam by machine, as Dianne does handwork on a garment. Both are a part of the work in dressmaking offered in the homemaking classes. Finding this electrical saw to be completely fascinating, Jerome utilizes some of the modern power equipment available in the renovated shop. Boys are taught everything from making billfolds to lawn trellises. Studying the principal parts of the radio and their repair and replacement typifies the work in radio shop. Tron tests a small set for electrical troubles. Working at Gavins is fun, discloses Evelyn, and I get school credit for it. As part of a well-rounded curriculum, distributive education offers seniors a chance to earn while they learn. Learning to detect engine troubles and to correct them are the main purposes of auto mechanics. Here Jack and Joe repair a rear axle. Page 23

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We prepare to take our place In the world of business. Working industriously. Betty types a form letter which is a part of the work covered in the one-year course offered. Lessons in theme writing, speed and accuracy, and composing at the typewriter are also taught. Vieva, Mary Jo, and Lola demonstrate the methods used by stenographers to transcribe shorthand notes at a typewriter. Besides the teaching of actual shorthand characters, emphasis is placed on taking dictation and transcribing while typing. From the elementary algebra book in view this student works problems that he knows will help him master the fundamentals of algebra and general mathematics. With the help of compasses and protractors, Harvey and Bob industriously work on plane geometry problems that will help develop their critical thinking and an understanding of logical proof. Preparing for her future career as a secretary, Pat uses the modern method of dictation, the dictaphone. With foresight, school authorities obtained these instruments for practical training in secretarial practice. Trigonometry students use a transit to determine distances out of their reach. This diverting work is part of the one-semester course offered to those who expect to do scientific work or major in college mathematics. Page 22

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We delve Into the vast field of modern science. Intrigued by their experiment in the wave length of sound, Stedman, Patsy and Walter view just one phase of the basic and interesting course of Physics, which also includes the study o light, electricity, forces and pressures. Terry Lee and Suy examine drops of water under a microscope, typical of the interesting work covered in general biology. Besides a general survey of plant and animal life, students acquire and develop a scientific approach to everyday problems. Absorbed in the task of combining zinc and sulfuric acid, Bill demonstrates before his chemistry classmates one of the diverting experiments which varies the ordinary work covered in textbooks. Searching for geoolgy material with which to write research papers, Joan and Joe look through reference books in the school library. Although this class devotes most of its time to local geography, some time is spent on the history and origin of the earth, including the appearance of man. Page 24