Mount Airy High School - Airmont Yearbook (Mount Airy, NC)

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Vocational Courses Qive draining Whether the next step is college, a job, or homemaking, the MAHS student may obtain valuable training in vocational courses. Commercial, home econom¬ ics, and industrial arts departments off¬ er full schedules of classes: sewing, cooking, learning about home and family problems, building, drawing plans, typ¬ ing, bookkeeping, writing shorthand. . • MRS. BARTLEY (BELOW), new homemaking instruc¬ tor, checks cooking equipment in the home economics lab. PRACTICE ... DRILL .. . TYPE--typing students keep machines busy as they try for accuracy and speed. Betsy Coble, Linda Jessup, and Helen Busick prepare for a time writing. MR. GEORGE WILLIAMS, industrial arts in¬ structor, operates a band saw, one of the many up-to-date pieces of equipment in the shop. SEW TO THE MOON! Lynn Hennis displays the skirt she finished to be the first student to reach the moon on the step-by-step progress chart-bulle¬ tin board for home economics sewing projects. (BELOW) TRYIT THIS WAY, HARRY, suggests Mr. Williams to Harry Vaughn about a mechanical drawing as Gary York (LEFT) is intent on his own drawing. 28

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Red eve Added Smpfi sis 31 courses - excluding the general busi¬ ness and bookkeeping taught in the com¬ mercial department and the two Alge¬ bra I courses offered eighth grades for the first time - give students oppor¬ tunities in general science, biology, chemistry, physics, general math, al¬ gebra, geometry, and trig. Participa¬ tion in the NDEA has provided more equipment and reference tools in these fields. NOW, CHARLES LET’S go through this again, says Joe Smith to doubting Charles King as he explains a cosine problem in trig. NORMA HAYMORE,MIKE MOORE, and Jerry Miller examine science projects displayed in the library. The rock collection and the atomic display won honorable mention at the District Science Fair for Skip Simmons and Mike Moore respectively. Carol Perry as¬ sembled the leaf display. 27

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3ov $o6s, PersoneJ Siuicdment PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT. Mrs. Coble helps Linda Semones and Anita Easter become familiar with the various office machines used in the basic business class. SHORTHAND PLAYS an important part in the prepara¬ tion of commercial students. CREAM BUTTER WITH sugar and add one egg. Jessie Ward, Shelby Worrell, and Diane Easter further their know¬ ledge and experience in the important art of homemaking. THIS HOUSE, BUILT by the 1960 carpentry class, is hap¬ pily occupied by Coach Atkins and his family. The 1961 class is busy completing the seventh house (INSET) to be built by Mr. Williams and his boys.