Oakville High School - Tillicum Yearbook (Oakville, WA)

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Exterior View of Shop Future Farmer.: of Amffrira Woodzvorkivzg Shop Jlflarhine and H015 Metal Shop Clarrroom ana' Laboratory F.F.A. OFFICERS President ...... ....................... . Yice-President . . . . .. . Secretary ...... . . . Treasurer ........ . . Reporter .......... . . . . . . . . Farm XVateh Dog ... ......... .. . . Conductors ........ . . . Maurice Be Adviser .......... ................. .. Frank Gwinn Charles Clodius George Anderson .. lidward Brant . Elvin Isaacson .. Emil Jackson nnett. Bill Caliill Mr. Arnidon Page Twenty one

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VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE Through the leadership of Superintendent R. L. Lauderdale and the geI1CI'OUS cooperation of the school board and community, this department was added F0 the curriculum of O.H.S. in the fall of 1935. After considerable difficulty, the services of G. A. Amidon, a competent and experienced instructor were secured. Inheriting the old manual training shop, a part-timew interest in the music room, and whatever other rooms that were unoccupied about the bsiildinc'-the first year's efforts were duly made. That these efforts were fruitful was attested to by the fact that the tax- payers of the district voted funds for construction of a building to adequately house the department in June, 19365 and construction of the same was com- pleted during that vacation. The new building has proven an ideal layout for this line of school work and has enabled the development of many new lines of vocational work. Enter- ing the building through a corridor from the main building, a locker room offers individual lockers for all students. The class room, 22'x4O', is equipped with a large laboratory table, library shelves, and other needed features. The wood working shop is large and light, being 48'x3O' in size. Adjoining the woodshop are separate rooms for lumber storage, lavatory, paint room, and metal working shop. Large double doors permit the bringing in of autos or farm machinery for repair, and the removal of any articles made, up to the size of a hay rack, out of the shop. The three courses in Agriculture offered, starting with Freshman classes, are Animal Husbandry, Crops and Soils, and Farm hlanagement. In connection with each course the students also carry on a supervised farm practice project on their home farms. Besides the formal class study and recitations, each pupil is directed in carrying on a program of individual study, from supplementary books, bulletins, and farm papers. The shop work includes such practical lines as farm wood-working, leather and harness repair, rope work, tool sharpening and repair, soldering and tin work, hot and cold metal work, farm machinery repair, and many other similar phases of work. FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA The Oakville Chapter-Future Farmers of America-was organizezd during the second year that vocational agriculture was taught in O.H.S. This organization is a national society for vocational agriculture students only, under the various acts of congress providing for this work. The purposes of this organization are to promote a professional interest in farming and farm life, and to stimulate cooperative effort and social relationship among the members. After adopting a constitution and planning a program of work that was satisfactory to the State Supervisory Department, permission to install the O,H.S. chapter was secured, and the officers of the Centralia School FFA. were authorized to carry out the installation ceremonies. This was done -on the evening of hlarch 24, followed by a cafeteria lunch. There are two degrees of membership in all local chapters of F.F.A.-the HCreen Handw degree for all students enrolled for the first year in this work, and the l'F.F.A.'l degree for students who have completed one year's work and a satisfactory home project. Page Twenty

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. SCHOOL CALENDAR . Sfpimnbfr- fczlzuary- 8 Mixer. 4 School starts. 23 Football team chosen. 15 Debate with Onalaska, here. Z4 F.F.A. introduced. 20 Y.M.C.A. game. 25 Special A.S.B.emeeting. 22 Debate Kelso, there. 27 Shelton game, there. OCf0bf'7'- 29 Tenino game, there, 2 Acorns play first league football game. February- 9 P.T.A- meeting. 5 Rainier game here. Z0-23 Teachers' Institute. 12 ROCheStfff game, there- 24 Sophomore-Freshman party. 17 P-T-A. Play' 25 Report Cal-ds. 19 Freshman-Sophomore party. 25 One-act play contest. November'- iwarrlz- 6 Junior party. H U I 19 Philip Foxwell. ll Armistice Day program at I Ilcjchester, football game. 24 Montesano Music Dept., here. 23 Debate, Olympia. Hero. 30 lgiinstrel show, given in Cosmop 25 junior Class play. 26 Thanksgiving. Apfifm 21 Oakville hlusic Dept., to Mon December- tesano' 2 International Four. 23 Crashing Scclety' 4 Debate with hlorton, there. 30 Juniopsenior banquet' 18 Operetta. 111513,- 22 Last day of 1936 school year. 3 Davis Light Opera Co. 6 lXflothers7 tea. l4 Band concert. l5 hflusic meet at Ocosta. 20 Big and Little Sister party. Z3 Baccalaureate. 27 Commencement. 28 Last day of school. Page Twenty-two