Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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n P n n □ zooonnonnnnno Home Economics By MYRTLE HJERTSTEDT Last year one of the new courses introduced into the Momence High School was the Home Economics course. We may say that it was then in its experimental stage. It has developed a little more fully this year, and we trust that it will develop to a greater extent as time goes on. This year the course was thrown open to a larger num¬ ber of girls. The Freshman and Sophomore girls have each met twice a week, and the girls who entered the course last year have continued work in the advanced class this year. The classes meeting but twice a week have been given chiefly the essential points relating to the preparation of each food class; the advanced class has had three cook¬ ing laboratory periods, one note-book day, and one recitation period a week, consequently in this class we have been able to spend more time upon each food—upon the theoretical side of things as well as the practical side. I feel, as I think the girls do, that they have received an unusual amount of practical experience in serving and working with large quantities. This has always appealed very strongly to me because of necessity we are compelled to work with smaller quantities in the lab¬ oratory than we would be doing in our own homes, and therein often lies the danger of the course being called impractical. I think when the girls show, as they have at the Masonic banquet, the Commercial . Club dinners, etc., that they are competent to care for large numbers, we may safely say that the work has been of real value to them. I am perfectly willing to admit that undoubtedly there are times when things may be improved upon—-but we mu it not forget that the girls are but amateurs—many of them having had little or no experience with things of this kind before entering the Home Economics course. The equipment of our Domestic Science department has been in¬ creased this year; we have added some necessary cooking utensils, and the Manual Training boys very kindly constructed a splendid cupboard for the set of dishes for which the girls have worked. These two years the girls have realized enough funds from “their dinners” to purchase a set of dishes, including four dozen of the necessary dishes for a department of this kind, and they will have a small sum left to invest in silver or table linen. The Department certainly appreciated the kindness of one of the women in this community which prompted her to present us with a refrigerator-—something which is vitally es¬ sential to any kitchen. I should like to add in closing that I hope all the girls who will be interested in the Home Economics course of this school in the future ; will be as conscientious and whole-hearted in their support and back¬ ing in all their work as the girls have been with whom I have worked for these two years. o r ?r 7r ?r tr rr n n o r o □ □ P P P P P P P P P n □ □ 30

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n Course of Study First Year English I, Latin I, Algebra, Physiology, General Science, History I, Manual Training. Second Year Caesar, English II, Plane Geometry, Physical Geography, Zoology, Botany, Commercial Arithmetic, Domestic Science, Modern History. Third Year Cicero or Vergil, English III, Solid Geometry, German I, Advanced Algebra, Commercial Geography, Commercial Law, Bookkeeping, Agriculture, Domestic Science, Business English. Fourth Year Vergil or Cicero, English IV, Physics, German II, American His¬ tory, Civics, Stenography, Typewriting, Domestic Science, Office Practice. Credits Required Sixteen credits are required for graduation. A credit is allowed for each full subject of five recitations per week, or its equivalent, carried successfully throughout the year. Ninety minutes of labora¬ tory work, typewriting, cooking, bookkeeping, manual training, or any other work in which there is no text-book work assignment are con- c sidered the equivalent of a forty-five minute recitation period. The o recitation periods are forty-five minutes in length, and each student 5 is expected to carry four subjects, unless special arrangements are = made to the contrary. = School Fully Accredited c The Momence High School is fully accredited with the University of Illinois in all work which the University will accept for credit from £ J any High school, including the work in manual training, bookkeeping, £ c domestic science, commercial law and commercial geography. No c credit is given for less than a semester’s work in any subject. £ onnnnnnnnnn Q ' oannaananaao

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onLnomnonno: ' onnononnnEioo o □ □ □ P P P P P P P P P P P Here ' s to Our D. S. Lab! Here’s to our D. S. Lab! Down the stairs and thro’ the hall. And then a room we have. Now a buzz and hum will fall As the girls get busy in the Lab. Here’s to our D. S. Lab! And the girls who made it strong. Last year they met but twice a week. And now it’s all week long In the busy, buzzy Lab. Here’s to our D. S. Lab! With doors closed tight to everyone; Not open till the goodie’s done. Then up the stairs there goes a wiff, That makes “some” guess with every sniff The D. S. girls are in the Lab. Here’s (too) to our D. S. Lab! A hustling, bustling, D. S. Lab. A dinner at seven must be had At the club rooms in the town; But our girls are all true blue! They’ll all turn out—in the Lab. Here’s to our D. S. Lab! One of the best of all the Lab’s. Be it lesson, notes, or cook, Be it what we make or book, Here’s to my D. S. girls—in the Lab! —MYRTLE HJERTSTEDT. O 20