Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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Tantalizing aromas and buzzing sounds emerged from the home economics classes as students learned to cook and sew. Second year students attended a home show in Indianapolis in connection with their study of hous- ing. The nine-week study included designing a home, decorating, color, and studying period fur- niture and furniture arrangement. At the end of the nine weeks, the students planned their dream homes; drawing the home to scale, telling the size family they wanted, and planning the color scheme and how they would arrange the furniture. Freshman students learned to plan and serve three breakfast meals and three lunch meals. Each girl in the freshman sewing classes made two garments; usually a skirt and shift. Senior home economics students learned how to plan weddings and the fundamentals of family re- lations. The students also worked on advanced sewing. Three-fourths of the special home economics class was made up of boys. This class studied manners, meal planning, money management, physical fit- ness, insurance, stocks and bonds, and manage- ment of time and energy. Skirts change to long pants as boys make up the majority of Mrs. Jerilyn Power ' s fourth hour special home economics class. Hayward Belloh mixes the butter and sugar while Gary Thocker rolls the graham crackers for making English toffee. Home-ec classes visit Home Show, plan home Sophomores Becky Coffman, Debbie Critser, and Louello Hacker work to improve their skills in sewing class. They learn the basic fundamentals of buying and fitting a pattern, cutting out the ma- terial, and piecing the garment together. 13

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Operating farm largest project for agriculture students Junior Dennis Marple prepares to spray a tree with insecticide The vocational agriculture students helped landscape the Baptist churchyard as well as spraying the trees. Vocational agriculture students leased and op- erated 15 acres of land on the east edge of Martins- ville. The boys did all the work including the plan- ning, planting, h arvesting, and marketing. They had their own equipment consisting of a farm planter, mowing machine, cultivator, rotary hoe, and form wagon. One of the local implement dealers donated a new truck and tractor exclusively for the boys ' use. A supervised farming program was carried on during the school year and continued through the summer. Mr. Telfer, agriculture instructor, visited each boy ' s farm to advise and counsel him on his project. Some students chose beef, corn, hay, or soy beans to raise as their project. They kept a record on their project and studied it for its value in their future farming. Besides farming, related occupations such as farm service, conservation, farm chemical manufacturing, and veterinarian work were studied. Freshmen and sophomores basically studied live- stock enterprise and soil while juniors concentrated on landscape, gardening, pasture management, and farm shop skills. Mr. Telfer instructs and assists Earl Hazel and George King in putting together a gate to be used on the Agriculture farm. 12

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Where do I go from here? seems to be senior Tom Watson ' s thought OS he studies the directions for making a radio. He worked on the project in Mr. Ronald Adamson ' s second hour electricity class. Woodshop students make Seniors Nancy Neol and Maureen Davee work in Mr. John Mann ' s first hour drafting class. They, Brenda Goss and sopho- more Leonna Houchin were the only girls who took architectural drafting this year. Junior Larry Thocker polishes the mahogany electric guitar he made in Mr. Paul Brooks second year woodshop class. He used electrical parts and a fingerboard from an old guitar. Woodshop students had a variety of projects to choose from, including cedar chests, coffee tables, candle holders, bookshelves, crossbows, lamps, and signs. Tv o second year woodworking students made special projects of their own. Junior Larry Thacker made an electric guitar in 18 weeks. Senior Mike Brown worked on a five-foot, nine-inch china cabi- net made of fir. Mike completed it in 23 weeks and spent $30 on it. According to Mr. Paul Brooks, woodshop instructor, the retail price of a com- parable piece of furniture in a store would be be- tween $75 and $100. Boys were not the only ones who studied archi- tectural drafting as four girls also took the course. Boys in electric shop learned the basics of elec- tricity and did repair work for other classes. They could often be seen mending headphones and mic- rophones that were used in the Spanish lab. Mechanics classes tore down a car and rebuilt the engine using the parts which they had. 14