Jordan High School - Beetdigger Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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H445 '- K --P f ' ..,i , , lf' t Robert Hansen and Shirl Vfright ,lames Miller and Vaughn Price turn George Padien uses the cutting rejuvenate a farm tractor. out a lamp on the lathe. torch to go through a piece of metal. ln the shops students acquire general consumer knowledge and explore various fields as possible vocations. ln auto me- chanics they take apart, study, and put back together all moving parts of the standard auto. In farm mechanics they learn the skills required in the maintenance and repair of lay Toone, Gerald Ainsworth, and Gail At- kinson adjust a faulty carburetor. Agriculture helps boys with farm problems. Students take drivers' training and learn to drive safely, sanely, and cour- teously, and to pass the required tests for a driver's license. A photography class learns how to compose, focus, develop, and print pictures. Psychology helps students to develop into well-adjusted adults by helping them to understand their personality problems and mental maladiustments and to know what to do about them. Spanish, French, and German enrich the lives of and add culture to many. Vlath the installation of a Hammond electric organ, organ music now begins and Page twenty-tu o -.og , U I Q farm buildings and machinery. ln mechanical drawing, in- dustrial arts, vocational woodwork, boys learn to read blue- prints, make working drawings, use tools and machines, build and repair furniture. They learn welding for vocational and industrial arts, a relatively new industry with unlimited pos- sibilities. LeRoy jones polishes piece of metal. -muni- ends each assembly and students learn to play and to con- tribute greatly to the music in their communities. Others learn to play in band, orchestra, to sing in chorus or in smaller groups. Classes in speech and drama teach boys and girls how to prepare and give speeches before groups, how to interpret what others have written and how to put on plays. A coun- selor for the boys and one for the girls assist students to make better personal adjustment in their social and emotional lives, and to formulate and carry out their educational and occuf pational plans. The welfare counselor looks after the stu- dents' welfare.

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Y 'A Colene W'nre and Donald Ebert clean up after nrt production. A. F. Smith's class is engrossed in trigonometry. ,L ws... i 4' A1 .. ' A ,z X ' f F X f 55,7 I A ' J B Q, . 4 Glen Dunn and Berva Beclcsread pre- Royal D. Madsen adjusts a clarinet. ,loan Steadman, lacltie Hart, David Gourley, pare hydrogen. Cheryle Mously work a biology problem. For self-expression, leading to a respect for and a love of the beautiful, students take art-creative painting and design, crafts, and commercial art. They choose technical courses in electricity and radio, learn stage craft - new construction, showing of motion pictures, care of the sound system. lndus- try, home-making, even our armed forces depend upon sci- entists and their work. Students must be learned and able in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, the fundamentals of biology and general science, and physics and chemistry. ln the laboratory they see things happen first hand to under- stand better the world around them - the physical world of matter and energy, the chemical changes, the factors bring- ing about these changes, and the products resulting. These sciences are essential to future engineers, nurses, home econ- omists, doctors, dentists. Page twenty-one

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1 1 -'4' as gif' ,.. ,. sf' bs.-cf:. FHYC HCUSSCI' is One of Ihe mam' SIU- Beverly Curtis learns to file correctly. Sandra Fitzgerald, Shirlene Day, joy Goff dents learning to type. ln the stenographic department, with the objective of se- curing positions as wellftrained secretaries, students learn the fundamentals of a business office. They drill in shorthand and Mignon Domgaard oversees the sewing projects of Betty joan Fit:- gerald, La Rue Allen, Beverly Webb, Marilyn Stoffers, Darlene Withers. Q - - x L , 1 ln physical education and health girls learn speedball, soccer, soft ball, badminton, table tennis, archery, volley ballg the boys, the major sports. These make for physical fitness and teach timing co-ordination and sportsmanship, and develop skill and knowledge in many activities. ln health they become acquainted with bodily functions, ailments, and care. Dancing classes learn tap, ballet, square, folk, social, modern dances, emphasizing modern-an outer expression of inner emotions, which develops the dancer's creative expressions and rhythf mic co-ordination of balance, control, poise. Home economics a Nola Atwood study health problems. transcription, learn the use of various types of machines-the rexograph, the mimeograph, the dictaphone ften new dicta- phones were added this yearl and general office management. Deane Bennion's class in home management discusses problem of it s ' .v1'f M 'l A ' ' , A I ln!-C, I develops and promotes standards of home and family life. Sewing gives a greater appreciation of quality and good work- manship in clothing construction and household textiles, and considerable independence in sewing and solving clothing problems. In foods, they learn to plan, prepare, serve meals. They use six unit-kitchens with electric and gas ranges, dou- ble sink, cabinets, table. The girls have for use a new large electric refrigerator, pressure cooker, a modern laundry unit, a home-living apartment of kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and livingroom, in which in the spring they conduct a play school for four-year-old tots. Page twenty-three R iff ' s...i.