Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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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.

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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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M U SIC Last year our hoys’ glee club won second in the E. I. League contest. The girls ensemble won their contests and advanced to place second in the national contest. This group consisted of Mary E. Pearman, Patricia Murphy, Mary J. Lindsey, Marcella Trotter. Betty Saiter. Bessie Zimmerly, and Joan Dawson. They were accompanied by Virginia Jone3. Several soloists, including Virginia Adams. Mary E. Pear-man. Mary J. Lindsey, and Carl Batchelor distinguished themselves in their respective fields. In the instrumental division. Garold and Harold Furgeson and Janice Bence won honors in the National Contest. MARY MARGARET BEESON, B.S. Music Supervisor The students of P. H. S. are music minded and under Miss Beeson’s leadership. progress is made. She has charge of the girls’ chorus and girls’ and hoys’ glee clubs. On Palm Sunday, April 16. 1941, the girls’ chorus and glee club presented an Easter cantata, Easter Angels. directed by Miss Beeson. 30