Mitchell High School - Gold and Blue Yearbook (Mitchell, IN)

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as Home Ec. Develops Domestic Arts The home economics students had excellent opportunities this past year to prepare themselves to be future homemakers. These future homemakers created a domesticated atmosphere with the arrange- ments ofthe sewing room, kitchen, living room, dress- ing quarters, laundry room, and bath. These surround- ings helped provide basic training in preparing varied foods, sewing practical clothing, studying design and color, nursing the sick, caring for young children, in family living, and other related subjects. Among their many activities and studies, the students found time to make and sell candy apples, receive guests, and have a style show. ln this show, the student models exhibited the many clothes that they had designed and made. Also with the help of their instructor, Miss Margaret Mclntire, the students chose their own theme, decorated, and wrote narra- tions for the show. Always the home economics de- partment added fun to work, and together they pro- duced healthy, experienced homemakers of the future. Jill Sanders prepares to mark model Linda Wilson's skirt for hemming. Home Ec. students. assist ed by visiting father. Mr Fred Hilgeman. give a dem onstration on home nursin to interested classmates.

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Physical Ed. Develops Better Bodies Guidance students. Bay Cox and Becky Nlctfourt. listen as Mr. Dunbar explains a question from their daily lesson. Considering our nation's added stress on physical fitness, MHS's Physical Education Department's goal gave students a chance to participate in a pro- gram of body building. Boys followed a well-rounded schedule which included calisthenics. volleyball. weight lifting. rope climbing. and running. Similarly. girls kept physically fit through volleyball. ring toss. baseball. exercises. and running. Besides this stress on physical fitness. an intense study of health played an important role in Mitchell High School. Various health. safety. and guidance courses schooled students in administering first aid. selecting a vocation. and developing a pleasing personality. Physical Ed. girls and instructor. Nlrs. Kizzie Stultz. are about to perform precision calisthenics as part oftlieir daily schedule. Mark Bundy takes his turn climbing the rope while Nlike Nlayden and Paul Stroud wait anxiously. P.. se.- -.... V: f W - i N 'f sl. S:. -a fSff1': i ll 5 I -- M 1 X N fi Y sei is vi? i gr t 5' also is , . Q 'EE ' . ,.., is , . 'Q -- IF i . t , .- N sf --., , -. , r B '10 ' f . ' , it 4-Li.-Yami: -Q ' -We - -. ' 75 c .. I c .. , ,Q x '--- H it -- H P N Q .L Li ' c . .LL i L .. i - gifai 1 ' t A' i .B . X i . + . A Bm in - . ,

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The Grains of Wood and Farming ,rmmr Nletal Shop students- Danny Karr. Woody Anderson. and David Duncan-work on machinery. under the supervision of Nlr. Crim. The buzz and pound of saw and hammer were common everyday sounds in the Industrial Arts Department. Here, smashed thumbs and pinched fingers were taken in stride for it was all a part of learning a trade. In wood shop, students learned to construct perfect pieces of carpentryg while in metal shop, drilling a perfectly centered hole was equally important. The use of machines was also taught in shop class along with printing and electricity. Mechanical drawing was another phase of the Industrial Arts Department. Sharp pencils, precise compasses. and manila paper were the tools of trade for drawing students. Making their drawings to exact scale proved to be quite ajob. W'ood shop students strive to construct masterpieces by leveling and straightening their wood. Mr. Vifoodrow Wagner stresses the importance of exact scale in mechanical drawing to his student. i