Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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MISS ORISSA FROST MISS MABEL ROBINSON PRIN. F, LAWRENCE STUART MR. EARLE RICHARDS MR. FOREST WARDWELL

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WHIRLPOOL, BOARD - 1936 Editor-in-Chief Earle H. Sawyer Assistont Uditer Evelyn Morrill Literary Editor farie Pousland Business Managers Charlotte Verrill Charlotte Foster Personals Editor Gerald Kimball Socialis Zditor arla Whitney Exchange Editor Jeanette Harmon Sports Editor Ronald Colley Alumni Editor Marjorie Winslow Faculty Advisers Miss Orissa E. Frost F. Lawrence Stuart

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HOME ECONOMICS SENIOR We sonior girls are very srateful for having the Home Economics Course to our advantago this year. We opened the first period of the year with a food's course. This consisted of the value, preparation and serving of food. The following period was devoted to hoiwe nursing. This was to teach us the functions of the body and the cere that should be given it during health and illness of any kind. The third course, although new to us, wes very practical. We loarned how to choose tne correct houses, how to furnish them conveniently, and the art ot interior decornting. Wo finished this course feeling that wo wore ready to make a house excecdingly liveable. The next subject consisted of child care and developmente We actually experimented with children. Two girls carried on a story hour for children which proved to be very successful. The last two periods were given to sowing. In this subject we learned how to sew both ty hand ond machine. By the end of the year all had accom plished enough to make ony type of garment. Tho sonior and junior girls organized a Home Economics! Club. Socials were given to raiso monoy and with this money we purchased curtains, four chairs, a table, and a cabinet. During the Homo Furnishings Course the soniors painted tho new furnituro. The Club has also provided for social functions here at schools Part of the year's work was to do threo complete projocts. These projects wore done at home or outside of class and they gave us the practical exporience thatve needed. Ponnoll Institute has something to bo proud of when we consider this Home Economics Course and its value to tho girls. -- Norma Prince, '36. Sophomore-Junior We wish to thank tho people responsible for our Homo Economics Course hero in Fennoll. I will try to give a short summary of what we have done. For the first twolve wceoks wo had a course in sowing. Many garments wero made and note-books had to be kept, In the notebooks were many samples of different plain and fancy stitches. In the second twelve weeks ve took cooking, which has proved very suc- cessful. We served hot lunchos to the students of the school during the winter months. At the end of this course we had a Mother-and-Daughter ban- quet which was very successful and proved to our mothers that we really can cooke In these last twelve weeks we are taking personal health and hygiene. If any girl is planning to take up the profession of nursing, I om sure this course will be very helpful. In class we give demonstrations of diseases and their care, ond as in other courses, the note-books are very important. For the 18 points credit the girls must pass satisfactorily her class work ond three home projects. She chooses the three home projects with her mother's help. Many of the girls took sewing and there are many dresses worn in school today, made by the girls. Others took cooking meals, doing washing and ironing, ond packing lunch boxes. These all prove helpful, both to thomselves and to the mothers. We plan to give a public exhibit of our work ond posters. .