Mexico High School - Mascot Yearbook (Mexico, MO)

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Technical School Adds New Classes Three new vocational courses for girls became available this year with the move into the new area technical and vocational school. The three-Child Care and Development, Health Occupations and Industrial Sewing-joined Clerical and Secretarial Practice classes offered also on a three-hour basis in previous years. child Care and Development, taught by Mrs. Annabel Gooch, enrolled 15 pre-schoolers ranging in age from two to five years in a nursery school lasting from 1-3 p.m. five days a week. The children were prepared for the learning process and encouraged to use their own creativity and free expression in their activities. The children enrolled on November 15 to permit students to spend the first two months of school training in supervising, planning activities, selecting books, and getting a general idea of the supervision of a nursery school. The first semester concentrated on the care of the child and the second semester on his development. Another new class, Health Occupations, under the supervision of Mrs. Viola Halpin, encouraged stu- dents to go on to further education in related areas. Students practiced taking pulse and respiration rates, giving baths, and other procedures using a life-size doll, Mrs. Chase. A perfect patientff Mrs. Chase never complained but always had plenty of ailments. Assigned to a doctor's or dentist's office or to the Audrain Hospital for two hours daily three days a week, students spent two-week periods at each post, in addition, to serving as nurses' aids at the Audrain Hospital. Occupational Sewing was available to girls who had had at least one year of high school home economics. Beginning the year by making nurses uniforms for the 44 girls enrolled in health occupations, the sewing class did alterations in addition to repairing zippers, and shortening coats and dresses to this year's shorter styles. The first semester's work stressed personal sewing with the following semester adding tailoring of drap- eries, curtains, and upholstery. In describing the course, Mrs. Mary jane Smithey, instructor said that it was a good opportunity for girls to learn a trade useful to their future families as well as to them- selves. Realizing the importance of an even hem in tailoring clothing, Patty Walker carefully measures the length of a coat for Kathy Deimeke. tabovei janet Furlow uses a dictaphone to gain typing speed in Clerical Practice.

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Academics 93 ,,,,t....-ww'-'-'H Repairing minor accidents in Auto Body Shop, area students Cary Graupman and Eddie Boyd, and Jerome Lucas, MHS senior, get training for future vocations. fbelowj Cheerfully slicing a choice cut of meat for a customer, COE student Cary Little gains practical work experience. A '

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-runaw- 3 W5' iff: Actual procedures and equipment used in the field of Health Oc- cupations are shown to student Sharon Allred by Duane Rankin, physical therapist at Audrain Hospital. lbelovvj Creativity at its peak comes to light in Child Care and Development as preschoolers use finger paints in the creative arts section under the supervision of student Alberta Reinerd. Academics 95