Morgan City High School - Tiger Yearbook (Morgan City, LA)

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HOME ECONOMICS.DETARTMENT The home economies department has undergone many chang- es in the thirty years of its existence and is new in a spe- cially built four-room apartment in the new building. H Home economics was taught for the first time in 1912. Two small rooms in the basement of what is new the Elemen- tary' School Building were arranged with a wood stove, ta- bles, and a few cooking utensils. p In 1917 the department was moved into a frame cottage which later was used for the cafeteria. Another move was made in 1922. Two large rooms in the basement fof the new high school building were attractively furnished, with electric ranges, sinks, cabinets, and suffi- cient cooking utensils to accomodate twenty-four girls in a class. There were four sewing machines, a display case, tables and cabinets in the sowing room. Interest grew in the work and in 1950 the girls of the department organized g club o When the home economics club was organized, there were twenty-six members, today, 1942, there are sixty-six mem- bers. This club is affiliated with the State and National organization of Junior Hemcmakers, a branch of the American Home Ehonomics Association. At the time the Morgan jCity club was organized, it was named. nOur Working Lassiesn, and has since been known as the C.W.L. Club. From 1950-1957 these girls were very active and bought many pieces of equipment for the department. In 1955 the home economics department had an approved list of reference books, adequate equipment, and fulfilled other requirements of the Federal Board of Vbcational Educa- tion. Since that time the department has been receiving Federal Aid from the George-Deen Fund. The fourth and last move of the department was made during the Christmas holidays 1941-42. It is new housed in a large, cheerful four-room apartment in the new building. The kitchen is arranged with cooking centers for each four girls. Those centers contain a gas range, sink, cabinet, and enough utensils to prepare meals suitable for a family, The bedroom and living room will be furnished in the near -future. At present there are eighty girls enrolled in the home economics classes. Since about 1955 the hone eeonomiws teachers have su- pervised the cafeteria with one or more cooks preparing the

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of Miss Chance of the English Department published a UWho's Who in Morgan City High Schooln. Mrs. Lytton Logan as in- structor in bookkeeping and accounting taught with her in 1954-55. In 1956, Miss Annie Lynch became instructor in book- keeping and accounting, commercial law, and salesmanship, and assisted Miss Ingram in the above mentioned activities. When Miss Ingram Left to go to L. S. U. to Work on her Master's Degree, she was replaced by Miss Maud Chaney -in 1957-58. From 1958 to 1942 Miss Esmee' Ste. Marie has taught 'shorthand and typewriting, and published nStudent Printsn,-and together with Miss Chance published each year an annual. Miss Lynch has continued as instructor of the other commercial subjects, and asxspensor of the Commercial Club. , The Department can boast of a large typewriting room equipped with twenty-six typewriters, a filing cabinet, and a mimeograph machine given to the department in 1956 by the Parish School Board. Next year we hope to have our other commercial room across the hall from the typewriting room and equipped equally as well. In 1940-41 for the first time our commercial work had a state supervisor. Our supervisor, Mr. George Thos. Walker of Baton Rouge, on his visits to our school had approved of the set up of our work, and its outstanding activities, sponsoring a Commercial Club and publishing Student Pfintg and The Tiger, our yearbook. ' General Business, as a prequisite to bookkeeping and accounting, and Selling to the Consumer are two new subjects introduced in 1941-42. Beginning 1942-45, only gng year each of bookkeeping and typewriting will be taught. It is new considered that an intensive year of each of the commer- cial studies will be sufficient to meet the needs of a high school student. Other than instruction offered by our department it has at all times proved most valuable to the school., The students in this department have typed invitations and pro- grams for all school affairs, made boxing and fgotball posters, mimeographed examinations, kept class records made questionnaires for surveys, typed and mimoogrgphod Wori for the P. T. A., Red Cross tests, Red Cross knitting instruc- tions, and are new making National Defense bulletins. The work of this department has many times proven 0 practical value to students each year as they lcavc schooi.

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meals. This year the home economics girls are doing all the food preparation, sorving,and cleaning. Names that should be included in the history and dovel- opment of this department are: Miss Effie Davis,fMrs. Herbert Cottenj, the first teacher. Lena DiMaggio, first club president. Grace Napoli, author of poem awarded a prize by the State Club. ' . Lela Mae Broussard, youngest member to attend a national Home Economics Association meeting in Chicago, 1935. ' Shirley Kurzweg, doner of Shirley Kurzweg Home Ebonomics Award. Carmen Mire, first girl to receive the Shirley Kurzweg Home Economics Award. MUSIC DEPARTMENT VOCAL Before the year 1912 there was no organized music in- struction in Morgan City High School other than a vocal quartet trained by Hrs. A. Storm, but during that school session a music department which met all state requirements was organized. In the first twenty-seven years of the department's existence, only vocal music was taught. The school's first vocal teacher was Miss Margaret Smith, who taught music and art in both the high and gram- mar schools. In her years of service she did much to better the department. Miss Smith's successor--Miss Marjorie Harp--taught mu- sic and history. Among her many accomplishments was the in- troduction into the school of assembly singing and training of quartets which received high ratings at music rallies, In 1955 Miss Velma Nichols replaced Miss Harp, who ac- cepted a position in another school. Miss Nichols chose in 1957 the select voices of the high rchocl and erganiggd them into tthree groups-wGirlsl Cleo Club, boys' Glee Club, and -' 'C' 'i'l , WC 3 .,'C'e1l E i-T fL -l fi iiiiiiifiiltag Saigfgftt .soups Nichols entered her glee clubs in tHe district ggd5giZteMiSS sic festivals at Lafayette and Natchitoches, and from bggh they brought haue top hgnors5oqThe glee clubs made remarka- ble progrcss Ullhg eir 1lSt fear. ihcy presented 3