Grimsley High School - Whirligig Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Home economics and commercial courses increase a More and more GHS girls planned for the future by taking home economics. During the year the girls worked in the kitchen and at the sewing machines, as well as getting first hand experience with children in the kindergarten. Their sewing creations were presented at the annual fashion show in January, which highlighted the year’s work. In family life and child development an equal number of girls and boys prepared for future home life. To supplement the course they saw practical demonstrations, heard family counselors, ministers and other suc¬ cessful advisors, took part in panel discus¬ sions—all designed to answer many of their questions about making a good home.

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PRACTICAL demonstrations prove abstract laws. Senior High’s science program led students through the wonderful worlds of biology, chemistry, and physics. To sophomores, tak¬ ing a field trip to locate mushrooms, dissect¬ ing a frog, peeking through a microscope to detect life in a drop of water—such new ex¬ periences made every biology class unusual. Juniors and seniors found chemistry and physics equally amazing. Especially on lab days, there was excitement in the air. In a laboratory a student could discover and prove — by himself and for his own satis¬ faction — that the laws in the book actually work. And there, abstract ideas became clear through practical graphic demonstra¬ tions. UIEMISTKA study includes individual research. Page 23

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Typewriters clacked as students put into practice those charts that they had memo¬ rized the first six weeks of school. Stiff fingers finally responded to the seemingly endless exercises, however, and finally at¬ tained the unbelievable speed of sixty words a minute. Shorthand students spent many hours learning what those scribbles meant, how to write them, and — hardest of all - how to read them back after they had been written. Future bookkeepers added and erased, then added again those long columns of CLERICAL PRACTICE students become adept in tin use of a dictaphone. student’s chances for home and business success TYPING speed and efficiency in letter-writing depend upon steady practice. figures, preparing for possible careers in the world of b usiness and finance. And skills learned in other courses were put to use in clerical practice, where students achieved a further mastery of many office machines. PRACTICE in using many machines help lit stu¬ dents for clerical work. Page 25