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

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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

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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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1 -if K f ,N 83. ,J 31 Area Vocational School Area Vocational School Left to Right: Clarence W. Pope, G. Fred Hanson, Ted Mills Alice L. Wold Careers For Tomorrow The Area Vocational School, under the supervision of Mr. Pope and located in the Carl Wennberg Building, is a very active part of our school system. Courses in electricity, taught by Mr. Mills, auto mechanics, taught by Mr. Hanson, and nursing, taught by Mrs. Wold are the main divisions of the school. Along with actual vocational training, students are taught mathematics, basic science, elementary bookkeeping, and business management, as related to the above vocations. High school students may start a course and finish after graduation. The school is open to people from all over the northwest, their tuitions being paid by their home school districts until they are 21 years old. Sixty-two local farmers, all ex-Gl's, are enrolled in three classes known as Institutional On-Farm Training, an important but little-known division of the local school system. Besides classroom instruction, the class members receive on-farm training which includes planning buildings, crop rotation, enlarging farm operations, dairy proiects, and keeping farm records. Country school teachers-to-be take a one-year teachers' training course offered by the local school system. Graduation certificates allow them to teach in Minnesota for two years, after which they must go to summer classes to be eligible to continue teaching. This course, without the summer courses, roughly equals one year of college if education is continued. Institutional On- Farm Training Teachers' Training Department Left to Rightg Lester W. Swanson, Theodore P. Kusmak, Frank A Bernice M. Troumbly Hobbs