Jennings High School - Jen Echo Yearbook (Jennings, MO)

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Arms at length! Touch your toes on one. Up on two., are directions to physical education class. Twelve lvlr. Livingston shows Seniors Paul Pini, Denny Karner, and Franklin Pyles various college catalogues as they discuss plans for the future. CURRICULUM MEETS NEEDS OF ALL Guidance plays a unique role in school life. Its unusual qualities lie in the fact that the purpose of guidance is to assure scholastic and vocational suc- cess. A visit to the guidance counselor can help solve course, college, or career problems. Extensive test- ing programs and personal counseling help to guide students into the proper program of studies in ac- cordance with their abilities and interests. Providing health education, leadership training, and wholesome recreation in the form of intramural and varsity games, as well as competitive sports, the Physical Education program at Jennings is an excellent one. With its chief objective directed towards benefiting all the students--not just a few privileged to engage in competitive games--the athletic program consists of such varied activities as baseball, basketball, wrestling, track, cross country, tennis, golf, and tumbling for boys, and hockey, basketball, tennis, softball, volleyball, and tumbling for girls. Nancy Mosier and Suellyn Seng look on as Editor John Klotz checks their beat re- ports. Out from behind presses and stacks of paper come the inkstained stalwarts each with pen in hand and nose-for- news. Into every crack and crevice of reporting the news, features, and sports. This vital information is printed in a tri-weekly newspaper, The Growl. our Alma Mater, these 20 students pry,

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A primary function of the home- making program is to prepare girls for home and family living. Both Home Economics l, II, and III Classes seek to help pupils in understanding them- selves and to acquire skills and attitudes that will enable them to function intelligently, efficiently, and cooperatively as members of a family, both now and in the future. The program includes both classroom and home projects such as food preparation and serving, and clean up. All sewing is done in class. Nancy Shaw and Diana Oertli demonstrate the proper way to bathe a baby as they learned in their unit on Child Care. SUBJECTS WITH A For Juniors and Seniors who plan to go to work upon graduation, the Co-operative Occupational Education Class is of vital interest. Its primary purpose is to furnish students with an opportunity to learn an occupation of their choice with an on-the-job training while still in school. Students study the occupation in a class period and then work thus bridging the gap between school and industry. Three years ago, in 1958, more people were I 1 .. tear.,-.ii ., . 's?Zfs?s?1s:zsfg1ff.sif . . PRACTICAL ASPECT killed in automobile accidents than all the dead in the Korean and Revolutionary Wars. All these in one short year! According to estimates, probably 45,000 will die this current year. Jennings School System, realizing that this wholesale slaughter is taking place on our nation 's highways, has set up, with the help of Goddard Motors, a Driver 's Education Program which teaches fledgling drivers the safe way to drive. Val Graczyk is running off cards for a custom All aboard! says Mr. Creath to driving student, Marlene job on the printing press. Goette.

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