Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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AGNES HENDRICKS, B.S., M.A. Home Living, Clothing MARY A. PERISHO, B.S. Home Living, Related Scietice Miss Perisho and Miss Hendricks are the capable leaders of our home economics department, which includes courses in clothing, foods, and home living. Miss Hendricks directs her students in good grooming, correct posture, dressmaking, and relative subjects. The girls have made gowns for the Red Cross as their projects, rejecting the alternative of sewing for themselves. Miss Perisho instructs the girls in cooking and the purchasing value of foods. These students are taught the essentials of a well balanced diet and VOCATIONS Home Living and Agriculture menu and how to arrange a table attractively. The Agricult ure Department is designed for the hoys who plan to engage in farming after their graduation from high school. The course is under the direction of Mr. Hamilton. The boys study soils and crops, animal husbandry, and farm management in the first three years. The fourth year they may choose a major and a minor subject from either crops or animals. They learn the principles theoretically and then gain practical knowledge by actual experience. An important part of this course is the study of the care and repair of farm machinery. Miss Hendricks teaches the use of the sewing machine. Tin cooking class prepares to bake a cake.

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COMMERGE In this age of machinery and big business a large number of typists, bookkeepers, and general office workers are needed. Our large commercial department, taught by such capable instructors as Miss Wright, Miss Kisser. M iss Steidl. and Miss Gallatin. develops many students each year in skillful secretarial work. Miss Wright teaches a two-year course in Gregg shorthand and in second year typing, in which the pupils do most of their typing from the shorthand notes. The job of teaching the students who desire only one year of typing is ably taken care of by Miss Kisser, who also has a class in bookkeeping. Miss Gallatin and Miss Steidl introduce the freshmen to business in general business training. This course includes a study of money and banking. Fifth Hour Typing Class various kinds of business transactions, occupations in the commercial field, and many other related problems of business. Miss Gallatin also teaches first year typing to the juniors who are planning to take two years of typing and shorthand, and Miss Steidl gives instructions in commercial arithmetic. With the increased demand for commercial workers, this department renders an important service in the defense program. MERLIE L. GALLATIN, B.S., M. Ed. MARY IDA STEIDL, B.A. Typing; Civics, Business Training Shorthand. Business Training STELLA RISSER ZULU Z. WRIGHT Typing, Bookkeeping Shorthand. Typing

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1. Farm hoys in the workshop. 2. L. Smittkanip assists A. Sisson in showing his Class A Sheep. 3. M. Tin ker and E. Poynter exhibit their prize beef calves. DON H. HAMILTON, B.S. Agriculture The Future Farmers of America is a nationally known organization. Almost every school having vocational agriculture has an F.F.A. Club. Each year some of the members enter their stock and compete at the Edgar County Fair. Several of Mr. Hamilton’s students placed in the higher divisions last August. Malcolm Tucker’s beef calf was chosen as the grand champion and Eugene Poynter’s Angus calf was selected as the reserve champion. Arthur Sisson entered the only Class A pen of sheep. Allen Bouslog took the blue i ibbon on his colt. The F.F.A. Club helps its members in solving all agricultural problems. A. Bouslog won first place on his Percheron colt. F. F. A. Top Rou: . Keys. Barr. Enplum. Brinkerhoff. Malone. Richey. E. Wall . Thompson. Second Row: Ople, Reel. I.nd- iliplon, Waymire. Krahel, Weil, lunkhon er, I). Key . Third Row: Hamilton. Butler. F. Walton, Eastham. Dunlap. Ma- llieney. Vielor. Deem. Fourth Row: R. Walls. El sherry. Cash. Eon, Sisson. Smittkanip, Perkinson, Garvin. Fifth Rote: relief P. Watson. Creech, Hofmann. Poynter, Bledsoe. White.