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

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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

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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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Students Express Imagination In GARY POSTE, Chris Sparkman and Bruce Gibeau spend their art period working on special projects. DAN WOOLFY uses a plane to smooth out surface blemishes on his project. DEEP IN THE subterranean depths of the metal and wood shops lie treasures of untold wealth. Daily, HAROLD HAYES and LOYD WELLS, industrial education teachers, urge their students to dig into their imaginations and see what treasures will originate. After endless hours of sawing, pounding, grinding, gluing, and polishing, come an array of tables, gunracks , bookcases, fancy shift knobs, letter openers, and many more figments of individual imaginations. INTRODUCTORY SHOP, better known as industrial arts, has three objectives; to familiarize the student with the use of tools; to teach them how to read drawings; and to infuse the language of industry in each students' mind. MECHANICAL DRAWING is basically for students who wish to continue their education in the wide field of drafting, but it can be considered a good background for nearly every profession. This year, the class acquired 12 new-drawing desks and one drafting machine. ARTS AND CRAFTS is the division of industrial education which strives to give the scholar experience in expressing his imagination in various mediums. This year the students worked with metals, clay, and wood. 14