Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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Vocational Courses Train High School DEMONSTRATING the proper methods of canning fruit are homemaking students Lila Hester and Phyllis Cunningham. 12

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 PHYSICAL FITNESS and a knowledge of athletic skills were the major objectives of MARJORY LANE and SHARON COL AH AN this year in the girls’ physical education program. The girls’ PE class strived to achieve good sportsmanship as well as physical fitness. Calisthenics were introduced as a major division of physical education. Push-ups, curl-ups, knee-bends, hip-walks, and other exercises were used to improve our school’s health standard in an attempt to meet the requirements suggested by President Kennedy. During the fall, the girls took part in soccer, bowling, archery, and basketball. Additional rules were added in girls’ basketball, causing more action in the game, and thus, stressing the object of the sport. Toward the end of November, the girls and boys PE classes combined for two weeks of social dancing. Winter games included tumbling, ping pong, badminton, volleyball, dodge ball, black bottom, and mushball. Spring brought the outdoor games of hard ball and soft ball. These games were held on the football field. New equipment this year consisted of new archery,and basketball apparatus. FELLOW TEAM mates stay alert while Maureen Floyd and Merrianne McCaffree struggle to gain control of the ball. Major Aim Of Physical Education Program DAILY CALISTHENICS are essential in girls’ physical education classes for the achievement of co-ordination and muscular development. 11

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Students For Jobs In Specialized Fields LEARNING TO TYPE is nearly as important as learning to write. All students should have a basic knowledge of typing and shorthand fundamentals especially if planning for a more extensive career in business. Instructing such courses at MPHS for the last eight years was JULIA DUKE. Through the typing course, students acquired such skills as typing business letters and preparing legal documents as well as increasing their speed as a typist. SHORTHAND aided students in gaining a profitable position in a business. Skills that are received from the shorthand class included; learning useful business phrases, using correct puncutation, and drafting reports as well as gaining accuracy which is required in a business. BRENT CALDWELL, bookkeeping and accounting instructor at MPHS, stressed the importance of having knowledge of bookkeeping to his students. Such skills as preparing statements, journals, ledgers and recording business transactions are acquired through the bookkeeping course. VAST VARIETIES of topics were introduced this year in GLORIA EVERNDEN'S home economics, class. Childcare, interior decoration, personal grooming, planning nutritional meals and sewing were among the many skills studied. Typing, bookkeeping, shorthand, home economics, agriculture, industrial arts, wood and metal shop and drivers training are the many courses through the vocational department. MARY CORCORAN, home economics student, applies finishing couches to her sewing project. RON GARRONE assists Bill Shires in combining solutions for testing soil. 13