Parkersburg High School - Top Talk Yearbook (Parkersburg, IA)

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HOMEMAK ING 1 UPPER LEFT PHOTO, Left to Right-Anna Mae Engelkes, Alma Jean Brown, Frances Kalkwarf, Roberta Wiley, Carol Jones, Sally Watson, Lois Rutledge, Eleanor Ascher, Evelyn Cordes, Shirley Palmerr, Virginia Van Tassel, Marjorie Galpin and Ruth Jane Adolfs. LOWER LEFT PHOTO, Left to Rgiht-Thelma' Jean Fleshner, Shirley Etjen, Marjorie Cramer and Flora Kramer. UPPER RIGHT PHOTO, Left to Right-Marilyn Tidman, Minnie Siebenga, Cornelia Freesman, Anita Lei-mms, Erma Johnson, Audrey Freeseman, Kath- leen Behnke, Dorothy Claassen, Irene Pruisner and Jean Holmes. LOWER RIGHT PHOTO, Left to Right, Standing -Velma Blohm, Minnie Siebenga, Kathleen Behnke, Elizabeth Darby, Kathleen Brown, Irene Pruisner, Dorothy Claassen and Jean Holmes. Seated+Aud- rey Freesemzm, Erma Johnson, Cornelia Freeseman. HOME ECONOMICS I The Freshman girls began their first work in the Home Making department, with the study of color and how it applies to the home and also to clothing. This was followed by a clothing con- truction unit , which included learning the parts of a machine, how to use and care for the ma- chine, the simple essential con- structive process, in general how to sew. The garments made were aprons, pajamas, jumpens, skirts. blouses, and dresses. The next unit was a Foods Unit , in which .they planned and prepared foods -suitable for break- fast, studying the calorie value and food value. Different groups then planned, prepared and served a Ioiw cost breakfast for their own groups. To close the Foods Unit'. a class breakufast was served. The class -was divided into committees. which were given a certain part of the work to plan and carry out. Table serving manners, and cus- toms were also studied. The Foods Unit was follow- ed by a unit in Family and other Relationships . The high light of this unit 'was a skit given by five girls of the class. The final unit of the year was one of design This unit helped the girls of the class to think about design in the home as well as in clothes, enabling them to choose styles of clothing which show good taste. HOME ECONOMICS II The first unit consisted of the preservation off food, after which the girls together with Home Mak- ing class III canned peaches, pears, and tomatoes. Apple fbutter and grape jam fwere also made. These were used later in the Food and Nutrition unit, and in the serving of dinners. This was followed by a cloth- ing construction unit , in which each girl was to have at least one make-over project, garments made were dresses, blouses, pajamas, slips, and skirts.- Thursday afternoons class time was devoted to a well-spent and tCont.inued on the next page! l x

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coMMsRc1A1. s UPPER LEFT PHOTO: Shorthand Class. UPPER RIGHT PHOTO: Bookkeeping Class. SHORTHAND NEWS tSe.niorsj The shorthand class work dur- ing the first semester con-sisteJ mostly of learning the shorthand vocabulary and reading letters and articles in shorthand, characters from our text, and drill on dicta- tion on previously studied mate- rial. We also began taking dicta- tion on simple new matter material. The second semester work con- sisted of dictation and transcrib- ing, both new and old material. Dictation on new material for fire minutes was given at 40 to 90 words a minute: two to three min- utes dictation was given at 60 to 100 words a minute, and for a period of one minute dictation was given at 100 to 120 words a minute. The class finshed three books The third book had very little new material in it, consisting of drill work, on previously stlidied vocab- LOWER PHOTOS-Typing Classes ulary with ju-st a small amount of new material. It is especially de- signed for drill and for develop- ing our speed in writing of short- hand forms. Also much new mat- ter was dictated, the latter part of the second -semester being devoted largely to new matttr. TYPING NEWS Uunioi'-sl The typing class, because of its size, was divided into divisions. Each division spent about one period on drill and speed-accuracy work and one period on exercises on projects each day. Speed and accuracy received about equal em- phasis during the drill period, while neatness of appearance as to placement of the exercises on the pages and typographical errors were the special thought of the other period. Even here the time element entered because great ef- fort was put forth to make the first attempt in producing an ex- ercise so good that -both additional time and paper might be- saved. BOOKKEEPING NEWS lSoph0moresJ The daily double period plan for Bookkeeping permitted the course to be taught by the teacher instruc- tion and teacher supervised study plan. This insured a better un- derstanding of the subject matter by the various individuals in the class. our War Bond Investment Is Your Investment In America - - - I ' I

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BASKETBALL A PLAYER'S VIEWS OF THE SECTIONAL, DISTRICT TOURNAMENTS fBy Bob Stickleyl Let us travel to the Sectional Tournament at Grundy Center to see some of the first games 'the Crusad- ers played in their advance to the District. It was on a Friday dur- ing March when we journeyed to Grundy with a lot of confidence because we were playing a team with a poor record. When we got there, although we didn't like to admit it, we were plenty nervous and it was beause of this that we sang our theme -song, Marze Doats- to take ou.r mind off the game. The game got under way as scheduled at nine-thirty. The oth- ers were a little nervous too, but wae all recovered to come through with a 53-19 victory. The next night was to be the biggest game in the career of the six seniors of Parkersburg High. 'The boys including myself were more shaky than ever but we were also more determined than ever to show Grundy's powerhouse that we could play good basketball. We took our positions on the floor, Blair and Hook at forwards, Mc- Dowell at center, and Haack and myself at the guard spots. Al Huisman was at the sidelines wait- ing to come in at any moment to relieve us. The game see-sawed back and forth for the first part of the game and there never was much difference in the score. At the half the score was Parkers- burg, 19 -- Grundy Center, 16. We were pretty quiet during the half time but we felt more confident and a lot more determined. We had a tussel the last halt and it was really close all the way. The final score was 31 to 29 in our favor and from then on, the rest of the evening was full of compli- ments and congratulations from everyone. Even the Grundy boys, HOMEMAKING tContinued from preceding pagej timely - making of sponges C-bandagesl at the local Red Cross chapter rooms. The first part of the second sem- ester -wa-s spent in the studying of a home nursing unit . Bandag- ing was taught and each girl had to pass the making of the differ- ent bandages. The highlight of this unit was a field trip which both Heine Economics groups U and III were fortunate in taking- that of visiting the home of Mrs. Watson to learn about care Of the patient and the .sick room. These were illustrated by the making of the bed, reading of the thermom- eter, and how to preserve the life of the hot-water bottle and the icebag. Y The last unit of the year was that of Foods and Nutrition Meals were planned and then served. Table manners were re- viewed. The highlights of the unit. was the serving of the Board of Education dinner and also the Faculty dinner. HOME ECONOMICS III The frst unit was of preserva- tion of food , in which we, to- gether 'with home making II canned fruits. A large portion of the year was devoted to sewing, Many beautiful garments were made from old things. Garments such as blouses, shirts, dresses, pinafores, hats, julinpers, slippers, purses, towels, dish cloths, and scarfs were- made. During the first semester, Thursday afternoons were devoted to making sponges tbetter knowm as bandagesb at the local Red Cross Chapter rooms. A course in salad making , was offered the latter part of the semester. The girls did all of the planning, marketing, preparing and serving. This III year home making is really a Stiff Exam of the pre- vious two years of Home Making because the girls were expected to do A work and be able to get along without much help from the in-structor. As an extra proiect, the four girls painted the chairs. tables, stands, ganbage cans, and cabinets in the Home Making Laboratory. This greatly improved the aDD6aI'- ance of the kitchen. showing that they were, good sports, shook hands with us and wished us luck. Our knees were really knocking after it was over because we realized that we had done what no other team from this town had done. Won a sectional tournament. A week later, we journeyed to West Waterloo to play in the district tournament and our first opponents were fitve husky boys from Manchester. Because, like the ratings for the sectional, we were the under-dogs, we felt that we had nothing to lose and every- thing to gain by giving all we had to this contest. I think it -was be- cause of our nervousness that we couldn't get started and the score at the half was 16 to 10. During the second half, Huisman, our for- ward for the game, led an attack and a victory by helping us come from be-hind and defeat our rivals by a score of 24 to 23. The next night, Saturday, we played West Waterloo, in the finals of the District Tournament This game proved to be the last for us six boys. We took the floor about 8:30 and we were confront- ed by a strange crowd of albout twenty - filve hundred people. We were going good that night and we got an early lead on the Wahawks and at the half time we were ahead about two or three points. Right after the last half started we started clicking and went into an eleven point lead But we soon had ,trouble when the Waterloo team start- ed its fast break working. They scored several baskets that last quarter and 'with thirty seconds left to play they tied it up. .The garne went ilnto an overtime and if took a free throw by a 'Waterloo bov to end this amazing game. The final score 35 to 34. COACIPS VIEW These six boys were a swell bunch of players and they made a swell combination on a basketball court. They worked hard and al- though they had their own partic- ular nights, they worked together and played to win. They should be given a lot of credit for the fine work they 'have done this last year, and I don't believe they will ever forget the good old days when they played basketball for Parkersburg High School as the Crusaders.