Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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Home in the School HOOPEE! What a year for the Home Economics Club! We got right down to hard work the day school opened as the club had charge of editing the “Peptomist,” the State Home Economics paper. The subject was Health. The club was delighted to have had this privilege. The members of the staff were: Mary Deane-Editor-in-Cliief Mauro Helms-Assistant Editor Dorothea Nevils- Assistant Editor Helen Mifka -Business Manager Through the cooperation of staff and club members the paper was a real success. This year we have been very fortunate in having several distinguished visitors. Mrs. Avery, our State Home Economics Supervisor, has been our guest a number of times and has given many books to our reading library. Miss White, a member of the Federal Board of Vocational Home Economics, spent one day in our cottage. Our new sponsor, Miss Julia Robertson of Harrisonburg State Teachers College, has shown her interest in us not only by visiting but also by the presentation of gifts. Our City Manager was among the local speakers at one of our club meetings. Our principal class project for the second semester has been the improvement of the cottage. The school board repaired our cottage. New furniture and furnishings were given by the State Department of Home Economics. Mrs. Avery wanted four girls to meet her in Richmond to help select the furniture. This op¬ portunity was given the girls who had shown greatest interest in interior decorating. For the first time Virginia has had the advantage of twelve months Home Economics work. This gives the girls a chance to follow up school experimental work with real home projects. Our State Supervisor elected nine schools in Virginia to do pro¬ ject work, our school being among those chosen. We may take any project which will be helpful such as “planning and pre¬ paring school lunches for the children in the family,” “taking care of our clothes,” or “flower gardens.” We gain information for our project through magazines, library books, conferences with the instructor, and talking with our family and neighbors. After this year’s work we feel this method of learning is de¬ cidedly the most interesting and worthwhile. Page Twenty-Three

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The Forensic Club The Forensic Club is the old Debating Club with a new name and two more activities—public speaking and public reading. Students may enter on one, two or three activities, provided they “try out” for each activity. During the fall, the programs were planned and presented with the purpose of preparing the members for the spring preli¬ minaries, which were held in the early part of February. Miss Johnson, Miss D. Richardson and Mr. Leadbetter were judges for the preliminary contests, which resulted as follows: DEBATING: Annie Daniel-Joel Noble Affirmative Mary Frances Wells-Mary Lee Bishop Negative PUBLIC SPEAKING: Margaret Argenbright Edward Parker PUBLIC BEADING: Frances Johnson Abraham Cohen Interscholastic Contests DEBATE: RESOLVED: “That the present jury system should be abolished in the Results: Crewe (aff)-0 II. H. S. (neg) Crewe (neg)-2 H. H. S. (aff) Chester (aff)-0 II. H. S. (neg) Chester (neg)-2 H. H. S. (aff) Suffolk (aff)-0 H. H. S. (neg) Suffolk (neg)-0 H. H. S. (aff) PUBLIC SPEAKING: Crewe (girl) -2 H. H. S. (girl) Crewe (boy) -1 H. H. S. (boy) Chester (girl)-1 H. II. S. (girl) . Chester (boy)-2 PI. H. S. (boy) Suffolk (girl)-2 PI. H. S. (girl) Suffolk (boy)-1 H. H. S. (boy) PUBLIC READING: Crewe (girl) -2 H. H. S. (girl) Crewe (boy) -3 H. H. S. (boy) Chester (girl) -1 H. PI. S. (girl) Chester (boy)- 1 II. H. S. (boy) Suffolk (girl)- l H. II. S. (girl) Suffolk (boy) 0 PI. IP. S. (boy) . U. S.” 3 1 3 1 3 3 1 1 1 p 1 0 9 2 Q Page Twenty-Two

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The Commercial Club it has grown to be one of the largest departments in the school, having at present approximately 112 students. The preliminaries of the State High School Commercial Con¬ test were held in Hopewell this year. All schools in the state maintaining a Commercial Department were invited to enter and these schools were divided up into groups. Hopewell and six other schools comprised group number three and Hopewell came out with some of the honors. Evelvn Benesek won the individual contest in shorthand. Adelaide Moseley won the prize offered in the Advanced Bookkeeping and Mary Mays was winner in Beginning Bookkeeping. The students will take part in these finals to be held in Fredericksburg. Aside from these activities the Commercial Department took charge of an assembly program. They presented a short play giving the contrast between the efficient stenographer and the extreme. This program also included a typing drill. May the Commercial Club of next year accomplish much and good luck to it! H Home Rooms 4-L SENIORS The majority of the staff members of the “Kaleidoscope” for 1931 are from this room and we are expecting to accomplish a lot and to do our best for the betterment of our publication next year. We are sorry to learn that our sponsor, Miss Mary Rives Richardson, will not be with us next year, but we wish to extend to her successor a hand of welcome and hope that she will have the success with the paper that her predecessor has had. We have been very fortunate indeed in having Miss Trosvig for our home room teacher this year. She has cooperated with us in every way and we appreciate her consideration and patience. We are determined to “hitch our wagon to a star,” and you may be assured that it will be the highest and most brilliant one of God’s candles. OMMERCIAL Department was organized in Hopewell High School in 1923 with comparatively few students enrolled in Commercial subjects. In these few years Page Twenty-Four