Madill High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Madill, OK)

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Drive rs Trained in Sheb Scott and Kathy Butler learned to execute the low-arm handstand in tumbling classes. Cliff Davis sketched a drawing to be turned in for a grade. PHYSICAL EDUCATION. Physical education, designed to keep students physically fit, trains youth in good sportsmanship and in the rules of the game. This year physical education classes were available to senior high girls as well as senior high boys. In this course, students were given a working knowledge of various sports. MECHANICAL DRAWING. Lettering and mech- anical drawing are necessary for a place in the industrial world. MHS students were given an opportunity to try their hand at drawing floor plans for houses and other buildings. INDUSTRIAL ARTS. With a soft whirr and a slight vibration, a board came off the trimming machine ready to become a part of a tabletop or chair. In industrial arts, boys tried their skill in mastering the art of woodworking. Filling nail holes with plastic wood was one of Bobby Davis' duties on his shop project.

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I Business Courses BUSINESS MATH. MHS students were given an opportunity to enroll in the business math course added to the curriculum for the first time this year. During the school term, pupils learn- ed its value in personal use as well as business use. Many useful topics like banking transactions were studied. CONSUMER ECONOMICS. The purpose of consumer economics was to help students acquire sufficient understanding—a layman's understanding —of those economic principles that affect their opportunities to earn a living and to regulate their personal business affairs. Their goal was to be able to perform personal consumer busi- ness activities efficiently. Mrs. Billye Herndon was glad to show Terry May how to work a business math problem. Roy Edgar and other economics pupils took notes on a new lesson. ECONOMICS. Attention was directed throughout this course to the everyday happenings in pupils' lives which are related to familiar economic and business problems. Pupils learned that many of the problems of the individual, of America, and of the world today are primarily of the economic nature. BUSINESS ENGLISH. This course illustrated the principles of the written word to the student who is preparing for a career not necessarily in business itself but in a life allied to, associated with, or affected by industrial activity. Business procedures that require effective personal ex- pression were especially stressed. Consumer economics students often read and dis- cussed a class assignment. Due to illness, Brenda Reese finished her busi- ness English course at home. 19

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Ford Galaxy VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE. A great variety of activities and subject matter was offered to vo- cational agriculture students. The emphasis of the program was often learning by doing. This thinking often took the students far from the classroom. HOME ECONOMICS. Girls found sewing and cooking much easier when they learned to op- erate the electric sewing machines and modern kitchen facilities provided for their use. The home economics department trained MHS students for homemaking chores of the future. DRIVERS1 EDUCATION. In a special training car, students applied practical knowledge learned in the pre-driving part of their course. They learned to execute turns safely, to stop at stop signs and red lights, to move with caution always, and to re- turn to school without accident. Brenda Holt, Martha Duncan, and Judy Yow busied themselves while preparing a low-cost meal. Danny Wilson and Dennis Busby performed many useful jobs through the vocational agriculture pro- gram . Charles Byars inspected the instrument panel be- fore Carl Marris began his turn at the wheel. 21