Pendleton High School - Papyrus Yearbook (Pendleton, IN)

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Hugh Rider, student teacher in sociology and Eng- lish, instructs the juniors. Mrs. Rittenhouse assists the physical education girls in a difficult relay. Denetig Lykins shows Mr. Swander her completed design in art class. I

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...and'F ' C. Martin, T. Rogers, and L. Gardner repair a tire while B. Ellis, J. Neely, D. Fisher and G, Mingle finish some carpenter work. Home economics prepares girls for a home- making career. Whether they plan to get a job or get married, girls need to know something about homemaking. Home economics starts in the seventh grade where the girls have six weeks of sewing and six weeks of grooming. In the eighth grade they begin preparing simple foods for six weeks and then have six weeks of clothing. Mrs. Woschitz, student teacher, gives Tony Foutch assistance in typing. It flu i J. McCoy, M. Merrill and S. Sheets try their luck at making a sponge cake under Miss Burton's supervision. The freshmen have home economics as a full year course with cloth- ing construction and meal preparation more complex. The sophomores study health and home nursing for one semester and then begin baking, preparing meats, and preserving foods. Last fall they took a trip to the Market Basket where they witnessed a demonstration on meat cutting. The juniors and seniors, during their study of child care and de- velopment the first semester, visited grade school, the public library, and the hospital in Muncie. During the second semester they studied house planning and furnishing. 23

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0 0 , I I I 1 Educators today say that students need to develop skills which require the use of their hands as well as those which require the use of their minds, The Pendleton High School student does this by taking Industrial Arts. His freshman year is devoted to learning how to make a working drawing in Mechanical Drawing. As a sophomore, the student is introduced to metal and wood areas by making things With his hands and hand tools. He is introduced to a few power machines but only as an introduction to the following years. As a junior, he learns to operate all power equipment in making projects and passing skill tests. Mr. Cross explains perspective and scale to R. Merrill. He also learns about gas and electric weld- ing and repairing small gas engines. A sen- ior studies power machines and gets into a little auto mechanics. Mr. Pompllin approves as W. Conner demonstrates the use of a drill press to P. Young and J. Ander- son. During each year it is important for the stu- dent to remember what was learned the year before, to keep in mind the hand processes, drawing and operation ot a machine. The most important thing a boy can and does get from a shop class is exploration and ex- perience.