Jefferson High School - Acorn Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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... All Add Up To SRIVER TRAINING

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Watching the Clock... In HOME MAKING, boys and girls learn the responsibilities of caring for a home. We strive to learn a better way of living so that our homes and families may be more comfortable now and in years to come. The popular classes for boys illustrate the ever-widening of our curriculum. Home Ec classes study the planning and preparation of meals, clothing, the taking care of personal appearance, family relations and child care. Thus students become all-round home makers. S. Clifton is dressing the baby while N. Stafford and B. Burnett watch. Taking over the duties in the laundry are J. Yeatman, L. Koontz and M. King. During first period every day P. Hutts and C. Trussell attend to school business downtown, at the post office, Administration Building and at the bank. Here Pat delivers a package to Miss Donaldson. Many changes have been made in the HEALTH and PHYSI- CAL EDUCATION department since public school beginnings. Phys. Ed. 1s a required subject now for all students. No longer is it unladylike for girls to dress in shorts and participate in sports. There are many drills and organized games such as basketball, touch football, track, tennis, golf, wrestling, volleyball and tumbling, which not only develop our muscles but also encourage skills and sportsmanship. The pictures on the right illustrate only a few activities of the PHYSICAL EDUCATION depart- ment. First, in the two top pictures, boys demonstrate on the bar, while the girls line up for a relay. The lower pictures show three boys climbing up the ropes and in First Aid Class the girls are apply- ing their knowledge in the use of band- ages. Our DRIVER TRAINING PRO- GRAM is a welcome course insuring Roanoke of better drivers in the future. Students learn the mechanical features of a car as well as the skills of driving and all rules and regulations governing safe driving. On the opposite page, Mr. Byrd gives last minute advice and good wishes to a student before she takes her driver’s license test.

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Classes at Jefferson. The VOCATIONAL DEPARTMENT offers boys training in a definite field of work—welding, machine shop, sheet metal, automotive mechanics, graphic arts, woodworking, electricity and mechanical drawing. Three pictures above show the work of Jefferson’s Trade School. W. Plunkett works with the electronic ignition system. Upper right, P. Snellings and B. Carter work in the welding shop. Lower right, J. Hoal and R. Jenkins are setting type before printing a program for the last home football tessa x game of the season. And last but far from least in the life of Jefferson—Lights! Curtain! Another play begins. The audience sees a beautiful set, designed and built, staged and lighted by the STAGE CREW, which learns firsthand the technicalities of staging and timing. The stage crew is an important part of every play and assembly. Here, lower left, P. Morgan, B. Williams and M. A. Miller fix the curtain before this year’s Saturday evening’s production of the Senior Play, ‘‘Time out for Ginger.”