Luverne High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Luverne, MN)

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Senior high home economics girls utilize there spare time with their pro- jects. Drill shavings and sawdust are familiar sights to Industrial Arts students, Ron Fick and Gary Korthals.

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Vocational courses: A cycle of training and retraining for life's tasks Keeping with the current trend of the popularity of vocational schools, LHS has broadened its vocational curriculum. Next year, it is hoped that the scope of vocational courses may be on a semester basis. LHS has also kept up to date with currenttrends including Women's Lib, as indicated by the enrollment in such classes as Graphic and Industrial Arts. Within these classes, females constitute one- fourth of the enrollment. The objective of vocational courses is to prepare students for fareers in spe- cialized fields. With classes like farm mechanics, home-economics and typing, students are given a genuine insight into what they may expect in later life. Larry Goembel and Phil Maras examine the results of their silk-screening project in Graphic Arts. Students obtain the skills of typing through the means of trial and error.

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Distributive education provides an experience outlet for business prospects Virginia Swenson, Jolene Reu and Cindy Van Wettermg work diligently on their Office Procedures assignments. Pat O'Toole, a Nelson's department store employee , demonstrates the art of salesmanship to Distributive Education students Rochelle Wills. Dawn Maxwell, and Jeri Staeffler. Our present educational sys- tem is so designed to acquaint students with their future occu- pations. What better way is there to become acquainted vdth something than to actually ex- perience it The newly design- ed Distributive Education class is set up in such a way. Instituted as a two-year pro- gram, it is now in Phase I, at Luverne. The class is design- ed to teach students the fund- amentals of a business-orient- ed vocation the first year and and then let them actually ex- perience it in an on-the-job- training atmosphere the sec- ond year. Enthusiasm about this new op- portunity is high, as indicated by the formation of a club, DECA, consisting of students enrolled in Distributive Educa- tion. With Office Procedures, Bookkeeping, Business Math and the newly formed Distribu- tive Education class, to name a few, LHS certainly offers a variety of courses to business prospects.