Monmouth High School - Maroon and Gold Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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F' is COOKING Under the instruction of Mrs. Courtney, two cooking classes are held each day. During this year a cooking course has been offered to the boys for a semester, differing from the one-year course offered to the girls. The foods course is set up to study the proper diets, composition of food, economical methods of buying and, of course, the preparation of foods. SEXVING Nearing the end of our tour of Monmouth High, we notice a door on which is tacked this sign, Please knock before entering . XVhat can this room be? lt says room 206. NVe knock loudly on the door, and the teacher, Miss Swan- son, answers the door. She invites us in, while our eyes rove about the room. It is the sewing room! There are girls sitting around the various tables or sewing machines working away on a blouse, dress, skirt, or some other article of apparel. Miss Swanson explains to us that there are four sewing classes, one advanced class and three beginner's classes, and one homemaking class which she teaches. It seems that the homemaking course is a new one started in September, 1949, giving the girls a general knowledge of cooking and sewing. The gills studied sewing last semes- ter and now are studying foods. It's working very successfully. As we start to leave, there is just one thing we want to know--A-why must we knock before entering?

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1 . .. - ...- VC DCATIC JNAT, AGRICULTURE lu years to come, the training being ac- quired now will he invaluable in many ways around the farm, shop, or whenever a need arises. Vocational Agriculture is a course connected with the farm youth of America and leads directly to the job of making farmers. Mr. Raeburn Rehn is the teacher and has done a line job of performing his duty. liach boy who takes ag must spend 7 hours in supervised study which means that he must also spend either 2 study periods a week in ag or all activity periods plus the regu- lar class time. Ag is connected with F.F.A. and many activi- ties are carried on jointly for each cause. INDUSTRIAL ARTS If Mr. Howard Noreen's industrial art classes continue with their constructive projects, they may have to begin paying union dues. Un- der expert leadership, these boys did themselves proud with such achievements as their building a stand at the football field. This is just one side of their assorted activities. They also work with metal, electricity, and anything else in the way of manual arts.

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1 1 1 l 1 1 ee 1 is 1 Sl'lClCt'll lil'HXX'll now cow liowl l 11101111 lirown how Cow nowll IIUXX' NOW' HKUXYN L'UXVlll So the story goes i11 sin-eCl1 class. llllllltl' thc supervisioii of Klrs, llarroll Lillltplllllll. the spa-4-cli class had anotlier siicccssfiil year. The speecli classes, 11121110 up mostly of seniors, learned the lllIlll2lllli'lllIllh of spec-Q11 making, conversation, and other essentials of speech. 'lllll'0llgllOllt the year the IHI7i'1'Cll classes studied lPZtllllllllllllCS, radio plays. voice training and personality develop- ll1l'Ill. .iiotions and gestures, and Illillly others. .Nn annual lilll'lSl1ll2l5 production is a feature of the spec-C11 Classes, and is presented hefore the student lmody. Blain' other artivities which the Slllxlxfll class carries on are also put on for the students' app1'ov:1l. l'ndcr Nlrs. lillIl1Dlll2ll1iS direction we feel that tl1e speech classes will continue to develop lvettcr pnlmlic S15l'Zllil'l'S Zlllfl more intelligent conversatioilalists. JOURNALISM Mr. Swanson's journalism class wrote news stories, features stories, editorials, featurettes and even put on two editorial campaigns this year. The class of seven learned about almost every phase of journalism this year. Besides studying and writing, the class took a trip through the Review Atlas. They also did a great deal in putting the Clipper together and distributing it on Fridays. Thanks go to Mr. Ronald Swanson for giving us such an interesting class. .26-