Luther L Wright High School - Hematite Yearbook (Ironwood, MI)

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SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE. The school of Domestic Science was built in 1904. It was the first building in Michigan to be erected exclusively for this purpose. T heschool was open for work about the 1st of March, of the same year. The first superintendent of the Domestic Science work was Miss Jameson, a graduate of Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Jameson and one assistant conducted both the sewing and cooking departments during the first year’s work. In 1 909 the building was enlarged and the size of the school was almost doubled. As the building now stands, it contains on the upper floor two large kitchens, a living room, a bed room, a bathroom, and two butlers pantries, and on the lower floor, three sewing rooms, a fitting room, a supply room and an office. Miss Stetson, a graduate of Pratt Institute, had charge of the work from September, 1904, to June, 1908. Miss Schurtz, a graduate of Stout Institute had charge of the work in 1909 and 1910. Miss Cora Burdick, a graduate of Stout Institute, had charge of the building since 1910, and four other teachers are employed in the various departments. The courses have been so arranged that any girl going through high school, o partly through, will have enjoyed the benefits of both the sewing and cooking departments. During the fifth and sixth grades, girls are taught hand sewing, mending of all kinds, and the making of simple garments. Girls of the seventh and eighth grades are taught elementary cooking, something of the study of foods and food values, and the general care of a house. During the ninth and tenth grades, the girls continue their training in sewing, taking advanced in sewing, and fitting. The cooking course is completed in the eleventh and twelfth grades. The training of these last two years comprises advanced cooking, household management, and serving of meals. The course in serving is very practical, each girl having a chance to be hostess, host, waitress and cook at different times and entertaining different guests. Throughout all the Domestic Science course the work has been designed and laid out with a view to the greatest practicability, so that any girl graduating from the Ironwood High school who has taken this course in Domestic Science will be well versed in the fundamental principles of good housekeeping, and able to enter a home and manage it in the way it should be managed. 22

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Henry Fieldseth. Ironwood High School, 1912. Assistant in Manual Training, 1912-13. 21

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Interior Views of the Manual Training School. 23