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

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Home Ec. Cooking, Sewing, Modeling Highlight Year What is homemaking? Homemaking is ripping out your zipper three times before you finally get it straight; then enjoying the much earned praise as you step forth and model the finished garment at the Mother's Tea. Homemaking is studying the vitamin and calorie content of various foods then planning a month of well balanced meals. Homemaking is feeling the excitement derived from taking a bite of your newly baked cake and finding the texture to be perfect. Homemaking is hiding yourself in the folding mirror while the teacher is trying to figure out where you are. laughing when your friend has flour on her nose, and silently gritting your teeth when you burn your finger on a hot pan. MRS. GLORIA EVERDEN Home Economics PREPARING BISCUITS AND APPLESAUCE for Home Ec. I class are Denise Floyd and Linda Campell. Girls are expected to eat what they prepare. 22

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 NO, THAT IS FIR and the other one is Myrtlewood. It says so right here ' Craig Sutphin and Richard Floyd try their hand at identifying different types of twigs in Jack Reeves biology class. MR. ROBERT BRIETKREITZ General Science MR. HALL THOMAS Chemistry, Physical Science MR. JACK REEVES Biology LaSueur, Brietkreitz Join Science Department Combining lab work and lectures, Hall Thomas, instructor for both physical science and chemistry, encouraged his students in individual research. Physical science, the study of geology, chemistry, astronomy, and meterology, had students producing gasses, making weather predictions, and forming crystals. Even though they avoided setting the school afire like last year's students, this year’s crop of chemists nevertheless had some unforgetable exper- iences in lab. Among these was the making of ethyne and hydrogen gasses which they then set fire to in order to observe the brightly colored flame, or the titration of acids and bases in which one drop could change a seemingly clear liquid to dark orange, purple, or red. In his first year at MPHS Woodson LaSueur led his physics students in conducting experiments to measure the speed of a falling object and the force of circular motion. 21

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LINDA MOBLEY, home ec. student, experiences the delight of a perfectly baked pie. Dresses Shown At Tea Mrs. Gloria Everden instructed Home Economics I, II, III, and Mrs. Marjorie Lane taught one Home Ec. II class. Upper classmen who have taken home economics before and are very interested in the subject acted as aides, thus receiving more of an insight into homemaking plus practical training in teaching. Sheryl Hunt-ley, Kathy Hurt, and Joyce Lillie aided in preparing and correcting tests and were in charge of decorating bulletin boards. During the course of the year homemaking students, according to their various classes, studied sewing, cooking, nutrition, dating, marriage, childcare, home nursing, grooming, getting along with ones family, house planning, interior decorating, and preparation for future vocations. Becky Siemer was chosen as Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow. Sheryl Huntley was appointed to McCall’s teenage fashion board and Janice Lundin was the department's Coed correspondent. Annually the department adds equipment in order to keep everything modern. A new Viking sewing machine was added this year so the girls would learn to operate all the latest equipment. BY EXPERIMENTING WITH PAPER home ec. girls learn the basis of weaving. 23