Main Avenue High School - El Sombrero Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Industrial Education mi reaching tlio High School, all students desiring industrial work arc required to take the prevoeational work before specializing in any particular kind of shop work. This prevocational work consists of eight different lint's of shop work, and drawing as follows: (1) Bench work. (2) Cabinet making or Mill-work, (3) Pattern making, (4) Moulding, (5) Forging, (( ) Machine shop Practice, (7) Machine drafting, (8) Architectural Drafting. Students spend one-half term each on the above subjects, thus requiring two years to complete all. In addition to the above instruction the prevocational students are given much vocational guidance information concerning the trade of the shop in which they are working. This information covers the economic conditions of the trade such as the hours and wages; the working daps per year; period of earning ability; working conditions as to the affect on the health of the worker; mental and physical strain of the work; function and the importance of occupation, etc. Also the students are being taken to local shops and plants where the work they are doing is being done commercially. After the student has completed the prevocational work, he is permitted to specialize in any one of the courses offered for the rest of his time in High School. Those pupils desiring an intensive trade training in the Machine-shop Practice or the Automobile repair may take the Smith-Hughes Machinists or Auto-Mechanics Course. They may enter these courses at any time provided they fulfill the requirements of the Smith-IIughes act. English is the only regular High School subject studied in this course, besides the shop work of these courses, all students take the related science and mathematics and drawing. It is probable that next year a term of work in economics and in citizenship, in addition to the above related work will be done in these courses. Twenty-six

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 The Home Economics Department “Great oaks from little acorns grow,” is a time honored adage particularly applicable to the Home Economics Department. Through the efforts of Mrs. Eli Hcrt .berg. then president of the Womans Club, cooking and sewing classes were inaugrated in the High School several years after their introduction in the grades. Beginning with one teacher and half the credit allowed in other High School subjects, the department now boasts of seven teachers and more college entrance credits than any other Texas High School. The Cafeteria, which adds so much to the efficiency of the school is a part of the Home Economics Department. In addition courses ar offered in elementary and advanced cookery, dieteetics, house hold management and in sewing, dressmaking, costume design and millinery. The home nursing course which originated in this department has been transferred to the Science Department and under Miss Stoddard’s able direction has this year received half a college entrance unit. The first High School in the state to receive such recognition. The purpose of this department is to fit girls for woman’s most popular vocation—Home Making. That it has been achieved has been demonstrated by the ability of its graduates to preside over their homes, And even their Mother’s-in-law cheerfully vouch for their efficiency. Twenty-eight