Higginsville High School - Blue Bird Yearbook (Higginsville, MO)

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BLUE Dre.. C 4? . Vocational Agriculture The Vocational Agricultural Department opened last fall with an enrollment of twenty-three students-eighteen in the Elementary Course and five in the Advanced Course. There are two phases of study in the Elementary Course: Plant Production and Soils and Animal Production. Each of these requires a year's work to complete and gives the student two units credit toward g1'aduation. This year we are studying Animal Production and have a splendid group of projects started. They include: Ten Sow and Litter projects, all except one using pure bred stockg four Poultry projects, all using pure ored chickensg two Ewe and Lamb projects, one using pure bred sheep, and one pure bred Cow and Calf project. It is hoped that these projects will furnish stock for a pure bred sale next fall. In this, we have a three- fold purpose: First, to create an interest in the boys for better stock and to teach them how to raise properly, handle, and sell good stockg Second, to make the boys a profit on their projectsg Third, to aid in the distribution of better breeding stock in the community. The Advanced Course is offered to those students who have success- fully completed the two phases of the Elementary Course. Students in this work enjoy the same privileges regarding contests, sales, etc., as do tnose in the Elementary Courses. However no home project is required and only one unit of credit is given for each year's work. The line of study pursued depends largely on the desire of the majority of the Class. This year we are studying Farm Management . Two Senior boys in this class win have six units in Vocational Agriculture at the end of this school year. Both last year and this year, the classes in Vocational Agriculture at- tended the American Royal Live Stock Show in Kansas City. Through the cooperation of the American Royal Live Stock Show Company, the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, the Railway Companies, the Hotels and various other Kansas City Commercial Enterprises, Vocational students were able to make the trip at a relatively small cost. This enabled many boys, who otherwise could not have afforded it, to see the Show. We plan on entering teams in the Stock Judging and Grain Judging Contests at Warrensburg and at Columbia this spring. Last year teams were entered at the Warrensburg Contest and won the following places: judging saddle horses, thirdg judging draft horses, fourth, judging dairy cattle, sixth 5 judging hogs, secondg judging sheep, first. It must be remembered, however, that the value of Vocational train- ing does not lie entirely in the judging of live stock, nor in the making of profits from projects. In fact, the greatest value is in the pre-paration of me boys to get more out of life, to make more efficient farmers, better citizens and community builders. PAQF 79 J V H

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QIQQL 8 QfffG9'QgLe5ifii or or Vocational Agriculture Fourth Row: Hayes Finley, Forest Fox, Bernard Starke, Harry Meinershagen Gilbert Schaefer. Third Row: Clarence Meuller, Albert Meinershagen, Leonard Voss, Vernes Atch- ley, Odes Kampschmidt, Herbert Humburg. Second Row: Edward Frevert, Frank Gray, Arla Hilgcdick, C. E. Neil, Instruc- tor, Forest Witthar, Ralph Froeschle. First Row: Johnny Fetter, Billy Koenig, Harold Rxekhof, Jack Spear, Roy Lieser Harold Speas, Fred Lefman, I AGE T8 ,J div! . T F -k.f Y 4fL A

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9 is .-5L' W The Commercial Department The purpose of the Commercial Department is to train those who wish to become workers in the commercial world. The typewriting class of H. H. S. of last, 1926-1927, took part in a number of tests for speed. Two of the girls, Frances Dennis and Caroline Scnmidt, won pins and several won certificates. Ten typewriting students tried in the O. A. T. contest, an accuracy test. Those receiving certificates were: Margaret Busch, Frances Dennis, Margaret Farrell, Roy Garner, Hazel Hagood, Helen Rutherford, Caroline Schmidt, Ruth Tempel, Evelyn Truesdale, and Georgia Lee Willard. Helen Rutherford received a bronze pin for submitting a copy showing the best Tyllllll. Ten shorthand students tried in the O. G. A. conte-st. Those receiving certificates were: Alba Berry, Lillian Blacke, Frances Dennis, Margaret Farrell, Irene Huddleston, Hazel Hagood, Caroline Schmidt, Evelyn Trues- dale, Ruth Tempel, and Eva Peacock. The unusual thing about this was that each of the ten persons sending in manuscripts received a certificate. Ruth Tempel received a bronze pin for sending in the best manuscript. In the spring of 1927, three of our typewriting students entered the Central Missouri typeing contest held at the C. M. S. T. C. at Warrensburg. Frances Dennis won first, for which she was awarded a gold medal. Caro- line Schmidt won second, and received a silver medal. This year C1927-19281 several members of the typewriting classes have won certificates and Helen Rutherford, Margaret Busch, Margaret Farrell, Frances Dennis, Evelyn Truesdale, and Caroline Schmidt have Won pins. We intend to enter the contest at Warrensburg in the spring. H. H. S. realizes the importance of training her students for the busi- ness world, by her ever increasing improvement in this department. MARGARET FARRELL. Jvagjv-4'