Marceline High School - Marcello Yearbook (Marceline, MO)

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Home Economics Homemaking is one of the most important and outstanding careers for any girl. In home economics I and home economics II one can learn the most time- saving and economical ways of running a household. Through these courses the girls are taught person- al appearance, home management, care of the sick, child development, and sewing. With this knowledge, we have a vision of more successful homemakers of the future. The picture above shows textile painting which is one of the activities of the related art class. In this course girls are taught home decoration, the relations of art in everyday life, and art from the exterior as well as the interior of the home.

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The vocational agriculture department is still striving to serve the public in an efficient manner. The reason for installing vocational agriculture in the high school as set forth in the Smith Hughes Bill is to assist present and prospective farmers in becoming more efficient in farming. The meaning of present farmers. of course, is those now engaged in farming which are our adult farmers of which our veterans constitute a large part of that group. The prospective farmers are the high XB ' ' z if -' l f Agriculture school boys that are actually planning to farm for a lifetime occupation. To be able to enroll in the all day program of vo- cational agriculture, the boy must be able to carry on a supervised farming program. He must be able to show actual ownership of his projects which go to make up his supervised farming program. His in- struction on the farm is considered of as great if not greater importance than his instruction in school, The boys learn by doing in vocational agriculture. This year the boys have been able to show a total net profit of approximately Sl2,000.00. Their over all goal is to start as a freshman and continually build on to their supervised farming program. Within two ' years after graduation, they hope to have accumulat l ed enough stock to start farming on their own, O P instruction offered. We have an over all enrollment of about 180 in the agriculture department throughout the year. 31 of this number being the all day students, some prior graduates, others are veterans enrolled in the Institu tional-On-the-Farm Training Program, and of course the remainder of the adult farmers taking part in the

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L.- More clearly understood and more uniformally written are typewritten letters. Typing is not only a speedier way of writing. but it does away with the extra time spent in trying to decipher various hand- writing. To understand our modern economic system, a knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting is essential to all. This course is designed to give the necessary skill and understanding to those who wish to operate businessesz also the preparing of government reports, such as income tax returns, sales tax returns. and so- cial security returns is studied and mastered, Commerce Shorthand, typing, and bookkeeping comprise the commercial department of Marceline High School. They are practical arts of real value to students pre- paring to enter a vocation immediately after graduat- ing from high school. Shorthand to most of us is Greek. but to those of us who know and appreciate shorthand, it is a definite time-saving device. M 'Sf lan.. I ' I in is