Northwest School of Agriculture - Red River Aggie Yearbook (Crookston, MN)

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N.W.S.A. Home Project Winners War, TOP ROVV: Urbaniak, Swanson, Simonson, Karlin, Grove, Gordon, Valor, Glass. FRONT ROVV: Filipi, Neegaard, Eggen, l-lamre. Solmonson, Mcliibben, VVang. HOME PROJECT VVORK The Northwest School of Agriculture is a twelve months school and this is made possible because of supervised work carried on doing the summer months by the students. Throughout the history of the Northwest School home project work has been a fundamental unit in the school curriculum. Beginning in a small way it has grown in such a marvelous manner that it efficiently fills the needs of the students during the summer recess. Project work in sewing, canning, preserving, baking. embroidering, and hem- stitching for girls, and in tractor operation, livestock raising, pure seed production. corn and potato growing for boys, is required of all students. ' Beginning in l92l, a Home Project Exhibit has been held each year at the school. For the past seven years the Parent's Visiting Day Program has been scheduled on the same date. Each home project student prepares an exhibit of products grown or work completed in the project, including records of cost of pro- duction and financial results. These are exhibited and judged on Home Project llav. HOME PROJECT AVVARDS 1930 . AGRICULTURE Silver Trophy for best work in Agricultural Projects. .. ,.,, Arthur Grove Reserve Championship in Agricultural Projects . . .. Herman Simonson Livestock Project. ...,...... Harry Tangen Plant Collection Project.. .,... Emil Hoppe Potato Project . .. ....... Verner Karlin Poultry Project ...... .... . . Paula Buck Pure Seed Project ..... Mlngvald Anderson Leadership Project ..,... Herbert Schroeder HOMES ECONOMICS Silver Trophy for best work in Home Economics Projects. . ,, Esther Dalager Reserve Championship in Home Economics Projects .,..... .. .. . Arlene Hill Dressmaking . .. . .......... Nora Hamre Canning . Johanna Candle Baking ....... . ...Belle VVang Fancy VVork .... ..... N ora Hamre Eiglzly-om' r X

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if N.W.S.A. if TOP ROVV: Greenley, Flom, Mr. Connery, McCall, Letnes. BOTTOM ROVV: Donley, Knutson, Pearson, Tangjercl, Peterson. Debate Debate is one of the most important activities at the Northwest School, and interest is growing in it year by year. The question for debate this year is, Resolved that chain stores are detrimental to the best interest of the American publicfy This has proved to be one of the most interesting and instructive questions of recent years. The lnterschool debate this year will be held with lVIorris and St. Paul. This is the first year that St. Paul will be in on the triangular debate and this has stimu- lated a great deal of interest in debate in the Northwest School. This year there has also been the added feature of a debate between the various classes at the school for the class championship, which was captured by the Senior class. Another new feature has been the debates with various High Schools. These have not only been very in- teresting, but have served as excellent practice. VVhen Mr. Avery, the former debate coach at this institution, left a year ago, with an excellent record behind him we felt that his place would be very difficult to fill. However, Mr. Connery, the new coach, has very ably taken up the work so thoroughly advanced by hir. Avery, and he enjoys the utmost confidence of his squad, and has already proved himself to be a very effective coach. The result of the lnterschool debate, in which the Aggie affirmative meets the St. Paul negative at Crookston, and our negative meets the affirmative at lworris is unknown at this date. But whatever the verdict may be, the year has brought the finest possible training for the debaters themselves, training which will mean as much tc them as any of their educational experiences. Eighty X Y-,, W

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N.W.S.A. S GRAIN AIUDGING STocK JUDGING Grain Judging liach year a grain judging team is selected from among the students to represent the Northwest School in competition with other agricultural schools of the North- west. The contest is held during the Annual Winter Shows at Crookston. Last fall, the largest number in the history of this school, answered the call of Nlr. E. R. Clark, the coach, for candidates for the team. They showed very keen interest in their work up to the last minute. ln this contest classes of the common grains are placed and reasons are given for the placings. One hundred and thirty- five samples of cereals, forage crops, potatoes and noxious weeds are identified, either in seed samples or plant specimens. The members of the team, because of placing third, only a few points behind the leaders, and because of the experience they gained, feel that their efforts were well' worth while, and the rest of the squad, with their experience, will strive for a better record next year. -C. L. P. Stock Judging Stock judging is one of the many educational activities of this school. The stock judging team of this school competed with eight similar schools from North and South Dakota, hlinnesota and lylanitoba, Canada. The judging team this year won first place in the contest, and brought home the silver cup for the first time in the history of the school. The keen interest of the many students who worked for the team and the never dying spirit of the coach, Mr. G. YV. Wiglit, accomplished that which the school has never done before. Jesse Filipi, the high man of the contest, Allan Hoff ranking very high in the contest and the good work of Clinton Donley, upheld the honor for this school. All the men who went out for stock judging, whether they made the team or not, found that it was a very worth while activity. liipllly-two t X