Morenci High School - Copper Cat Yearbook (Morenci, AZ)

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DRIVER EDUCATION Just jump in, and away we go! Sixto Herrera, Ray Mendoza, Mr. Thelo Motes, Marie Guevara, and Olga Luna are getting ready to try out the school's new driver training car. Our camera caught these lucky few getting ready to take the I960 Studebaker Lark for her first run. Lessons in driving stress safety and courtesy on the highway. Screeching wheels, grinding brakes, and narrow escapes are part of a busy day in dri- ver training class. Crowded highways and the high accident rate have forced the school to train students in the proper handling of an automobile and the rules of the road. Each student has thirty hours of class work before he may take the wheel of the new Lark. He then has to get fifteen hours of driving time. The purpose of driver training is to teach each student to be a safe and courteous driver. RIGHT: Mr. Thelo Motes received his B. S. degree from Arizona State College and his M. A. degree from Arizona State University. He is active in Lions Club and in his church. He enjoys farming and hunting. 22

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COMMERCIAL Typists learn vocational and personal use of office machinery. ABOVE: Richard Creary pays close attention as Mr. Lemons explains the error in his work. Mr. Paul Lemons received his B.A. in Education from Arizona State University. He teaches general business, business economics, and bookkeeping. He sponsors the sophomore ABOVE: Aurora Gallegos, Betty Duarte, and Carolyn Clemmons work earnestly at learning to operate the calculating machines, in advanced typ- ing class. class. Mr. Lemons is a member of the Latter Day Saints Church and is activity director of the youth group at this church. His hobbies include hunting, bowling, and insurance. Knowledge gained from bookkeep- ing, shorthand, business economics and general business, as well as typing, sets the student on the threshold of the business world and acquaints him with economic problems of everyday living. Bookkeeping presents the basic principle of accounting and shows the student how to prepare inventories and financial statements. General business and business economics inform the student of business procedures as they affect the consumer, such as handling money, budgeting income, buying goods and services, and life insurance, using communications and travel services. BELOW: Gloria Martinez, Duvi Con- treras, and Celia Guerrero attempt to operate the mimeograph machine after receiving instructions in typing II.

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HOME ECONOMICS Girls receive instruction in fine points of cooking and sewing. Patricia Smith and Ruth Diaz prepare cookies in first year home economics. Snip, snip, snip goes the sound of scissors as the busy girls learned about straight of the grain, nap of the material, and many other things they need to know to complete attractive articles of clothing. With the fashion show in mind they started their second project of the year. It was different and more difficult than the first; this way the girls practiced advanced sewing. Soft ball, hard ball, soft crack, hard crack are just a few of the tests the girls used in candy making. Later they used the candy thermometer, whichwas a big help. They learned how to prepare a meal with color, using the fundamental nutrients. Preparing a Thanksgiving meal taught the girls how to co-ordinate so everything is ready to eat at the same time. RIGHT: Yolanda Herrera is all ready to put her cookies in the oven. Miss Joy Rogers teaches the home economics classes I and II and sponsors the junior class. She received her B. S. H. E. degree from the University of Arkansas. Miss Rogers attends the Assembly of God church, where she is vice president of Sunday School, song leader, and assistant leader of the young people's group. Here she is helping Corina Alvillar fit a skirt. 23