New Athens High School - Vespa Yearbook (New Athens, IL)

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Peggy Wildermann, Kathy Brown, Frances Winter, Sharon sewing of the garment. . . . Freshman girls agree that their Bald and Miss Jean Tate hove learned by experience that double period of home economics passes quickly as they marking and pinning patterns eliminates mistakes in the hurry to complete their sewing projects. . . . Jean Tate, B.S. The study of home economics makes successful homemakers. The home economics department is under the skillful supervision of Miss Jean Tate. The beginning home economics students learned the fundamentals of cooking, through the use of basic recipes, and sewing by making simple aprons, skirts, and blouses. The second year students further applied these skills by planning complete meals, budgeting an imaginary family for a year, designing and decorating a dream home and sewing more complicated garments such as dresses. Near the end of the year, following a unit on home nursing, the sophomores visited the Red Bud I Iospital, where they were taken on a tour of the Maternity and Children’s wards. Senior home economics students prepared themselves for the more immediate future through discussions on dating, going steady engagements, marriages and child care. They visited Straubs Jewelry Store where they studied various types of silverware, china and crystal. To illustrate the wedding plans they would like to make, the senior girls put together scrapbooks containing pictures of their trousseau, wedding, reception and honeymoon. Later, as a culmination to the unit on weddings, the senior girls, accompanied by Miss Tate, attended a bridal fashion show at Stix, Bacr Fuller in St. Louis. Refreshments served teachers and students by the sophomore girls began an afternoon of Christmas festivities. . . . Sophomore girls, Carol Weber, Lorraine Brown, Patsy Bruns, and Karen Lischer, work industriously to meet the deadline on the Christmas room decorating contest. . . . Senior girls, Mary Ann Ruess, Judy Emery, Janice Woeltz, Frances Knewitz, Helen Grott, Carla Walborg, Sandra Kraus, and Doris Steinwagner learn how to cope with small children by baby sitting during their unit on child care.

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 Be sure the sides of the steer feeder ore in perfect alignment ' Elroy Parker advises Albert Winter and Herbert Parker . . . “Did you know there were so many parts to a petunia?” Mr. Taylor asks Karen Lischer, Ruth Ann Roe, Karen Nadler, Lorraine Brown, Patsy Bruns, Betty Mohr, Sharon Bald, Evelyn Miller, Joyce Weidemonn, Ronald Kniepkamp, Carolyn Emery, Harold Weigand, Roy Albert, Dennis Breithaupt, Dave Skorcz and Lela Mae Falkenhien. . . . Please move my sheep feeder over in that corner” Bonnie McBride, one of the two girls now enrolled in agriculture, asks Charles Lompc and Lonnie Schuetz. . . . Guests at the FFA Barnworming anxiously await the announcement of the Chapter Sweetheart. Agriculture-producing for lining Through the study of biology and agriculture Mr. Dennis Taylor helps the students gain knowledge relating to living organisms. The biology class took walks through the fields in search of examples of the plants which they had studied from their textbooks. One of their most interesting projects was the collection and identification of insects. In order to learn the various muscles, organs, and respiratory systems of mammals the class disected frogs and crawfish. Crop rotation, contour and strip farming, and the most effective types of fertilizers are a few of the modern ideas of farming covered in Mr. Taylor’s agriculture classes. In the spring and fall the students offered to test soil for farmers living in the surrounding area. In addition to studying the soil and planting, the students also constructed farm eejuipment such as hog houses and cattle feeders and learned how to care for and operate various farm machinery. A visit to the Purina Experimental Farms in Missouri, where the agriculture students saw examples of the farming theories they had discussed, climaxed the year’s studies. Dennis Taylor, B.S. . . . Karen Lischer, Lela Falkenhein, the minute organisms in biology. . . . Accurate soil testing Joyce Weidemonn, Evelyn Miller, Sharon Bald and Carolyn by members of the agriculture class determines the correct Emery find that microscopes are indispensible in studying amount of fertilizer necessary to increase farm produce.

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The study of sociology and speech aids better community living. Sociology and speech classes are under the direction of Mr. Kcrmit Jackson. Sociology is the study of people and their relationship to one another. 1 hrough informal conferences the students discuss the problems of society, democracy, and marriage, acquiring many valuable standards that will aid them in facing the problems encountered in a community. The speech class learned the proper method of oration. A debate was held during class concerning the improvement of the school system. As the year progressed the students learned how to present their opinions and ideas verbally. At the Christmas assembly the class presented a one-act play entitled ‘‘Muggsy s First Christmas”. Sociology students gather the information needed for their semester themes on the sociological problem of their choice. . . . Kermit Jackson, B.S.E. . . . Confusion results when the Maxwells mistake burglars, Muggsy and Elmer, for their uncle and companion who are to visit them at Christmas. . . . “Gee Elmer, I never had a Christmas present before’ , says Muggsy mournfully, during the final dress rehersal of the speech class Christmas play. . . . Mr. Jackson explains to the speech class the importance of correct pronunciation and enunciation of words.