Lacon High School - Tickler Yearbook (Lacon, IL)

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Home Economics Club officers President --------- Ellen Hertz Vice President--Harriet Kruis Secretary---W--Jary K. Fisher Treasurer--uJosephine Grieves Reporter en---- V----Wilma Weers Advisor- ------- ----Liss Cline The Lacon Iome Economics Club was organized in October 1938 and affiliated with the Illinois Home Economics Association January 38, 1933. Two delegates are sent to the state meetings as Student Club Representatives each Veer. This year the club was represented by Ellen Wertz and Josephine Grieves. At the next meeting, the two girls passed on to their fellow members what they had learned. All members of the Home Economics Department are eligible for membership, or any girl who is in- terested in Home Economics. There are twenty-three members in the club thi' year, almost half the number of rirls in high school. Everv girl appears on the program sometime dur-, ing the school year. The purpose of the club is to bring together the girls who are interested in Home Econohios and who will aid furthering thc work of the school in the homeg nnd to establish a bond of friend- ship among the girls taking the same kind of work. heetinge are held the third Thursday of each month. The theme of the club this year is 0The Consumer and the New Economic 0rder.'

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The programs are made up at the beginning of the school year. It is built around the one suggest- ed by the American Home Economic Association. A11 the programs are not only interesting but very help- ful. Clever stunts, exchanging of gifts and valcnv tines, speakers, contests, demonstrations, and reports comprise the programs for the year. A social func- tion is held each semester. The meetings in the months of November, December and February are e little different from the meetings of other months. At the meeting preceeding Thanks- giving the program consists of talks on Thanksgiving. After the meeting light refreshments are served. At the meeting before Christmas games are played. After the games are played the club has a grabebag and than the Christmas goodies. A jcllv time is had by all. In Februar? the club always observes valentine lay. Each club.member makes a valentine and at this meet- ing they are judged. Then names are drawn and mn exchange of valentines occurs. Dorothy Been Marian Bestold Mies Cline Mary K. Fisher Garnet Forsythe Josephine Grievee Helen Lundholm Leona Isubach Blanche Herdian Lucille Heyers Catherinelnncahy Hembers 1954-1935 E11en'Wertr Elizabeth Nevitt Lois Hunt Lois Koch Harriet Kruis Anna Marie Latblo Florence Look June Nickel Betty Osborne Frances Shafer Lucille Stovall Awiims Wears