Lincoln High School - Prowler Yearbook (Thief River Falls, MN)

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YH A.. .N1,x ...I -Q-Q., Winona V. Anderson Eilene G. Johnson V Home Economics Home Economics :wa-6 Junior Class Advisor Seventh Grade Advisor ,X Learn by Doing .QQ Q .,. ,Qs in What's that horrible oder? The home ec. classes must have burnt something! Those two people are obviously talking about the home economics cooking department, used by home economics students for half of the school year. Learning nutrition, actual cooking practice, and table manners, practiced by eating what you cook, are the main activities of the class. Wearing clothes you made yourself gives one a feeling of accomp- lishment. Students make anything from aprons to coats and suits, sew- ing the more complicated garments in advanced home economics. ln seventh and eighth grade home ec is required but is an elective for the last four years. Industrial training, commonly known as shop, is designed to give the student a practical training in the operation of hand tools and elect- rical machines used for wood handicraft. Putting this knowledge to use, the student is capable of making things like tables and lamps. The course is required of seventh and eighth grades and is an elective for freshman and sophomores. The agriculture teacher, Mr. Nelson, who is a part-time farmer him- self, gives the students first-hand information on modern farming methods such as soil conservation, crop rotation, and newer methods of caring and breeding of animals. There are four courses of agriculture, one offered each year starting with the ninth grade. The fourth course is called rural sociology. Unlike the other two subiects mentioned here there are no required courses of agriculture. Left row, top to bottom: J. Arthur Johnson Industrial Arts Harriet Y. Overboe Home Economics Stanley Nelson Agriculture Verner Johnson Industrial Arts Camera Club Advisor Prowler Photographer Advisor 10

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Culture and Communication Appreciation of music, acquired through the study of composers, scales, tones, and musical terms, is the obiective of the seventh and eighth graders in the required music classes taught by Miss Halvorson, who also gives violin lessons to those desiring them. Optional vocal lessons are given to students by Mr. Summer- side, director of the high school choir and music supervisor ofthe public elementary schools. Five minutes to three the band room becomes a iumble of voices and instrument tune-ups. At 3:00 the band is fairly well settled, so Mr. Harmon, the band director, takes over for the hour. He also gives instrumental lessons to students wishing them. Art, taught by Miss Troumbly, is a living thing. Boys and girls are made to understand that selection and judgement, as well as creativity, are important. This subiect, required of iunior high stu- dents, teaches them an appreciation of design, form, color, painting, and other fine arts. Telling children's stories was one of the assignments in Miss Hoffman's speech classes. fOn this particular assignment, Mike Haiostek told a story, after which a small child rushed home and said, Mike Hockey-Stick told us stories todaylui Radio plays for different occasions are given by members of the class over KTRF and the public address system directly to the student body. However, the main obiective of speech class is concentrated on helping the student develop speaking ability. Frank N. Summerside High School Vocal Music, Grade Robert S. Harmon School Music Supervisor Instrumental Music .i-fwya Top to Bottom: Godelyne B. Troumbly Art, Grade School Art Supervisor Patricia Hoffman Speech, Dramatic coach Judith E. Halvorson Junior High Music if nur' W.

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Sylvia Hendrickson Typing Shorrhand ll Sophomore Class Advisor Log Advisor Marvel A. Kristianson Y Bookkeeping Shorthand ll Take a Letter Business, the world of opportunity , is a commonly quoted phrase with a lot of truth in it. Here at Lincoln four business courses are offered. Business relations, required in the ninth grade, is the first. This course, taught by Miss Bennett, teaches social-economic living - the business aspects of citizenship. The student gains an under- standing of how business functions and the part it plays in daily life. J-U-J-space is a typical exercise often heard in Miss Hendrick- son's typing classes. Besides learning speedy and accurate typing technique, students learn the care of typewriters, correct English, proofreading, business forms, and good work habits. Bookkeeping is the course giving actual business experience in the classroom by working a practice set which includes all the trans- actions that go through an average business office. This course, taught by Miss Kristianson, is useful to one's personal, social, and business I e. Using shorthand with speed and accuracy is the specific obiective of the stenography course which prepares students for various kinds of office work. Secondary used of shorthand are in taking personal notes, recording telephone messages, and even writing letters. To qualify for the course one must have at least a C average in English. A trained student must be able to write legible shorthand as fast as one can talk. Distributive education, the course with the slogan, Earn while you learn , cooperated with 2l downtown businesses the past year giving the students actual on-the-iob training besides regular class- room work. Here each student gets two credits, one for classroom work and one for iob work. The course is limited to thirty seniors. The training includes over-the-shoulder job instruction as'well as the re- lated classroom instruction. ln addition, more general instruction is given in human relations, advertising, and retailing. Students are rated on job performance once every six weeks on a rating sheet filled out by their employer. 11 5 . , , 'refs if w-f4f's A I 1 Mary C. McNellis Distributive Education Shorthand Senior Class Advisor Mary Ethel Bennett Business Relations