Peru High School - Narcissus Yearbook (Peru, IN)

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To O O O The colorful, merry, carefree, happy-go-lucky manner ot the Spanish people-the clicking of castanets, the sultry rhythm of a tango, the beat of rhumba drums, stories ot ancients guests for hid- den treasures, the lust ot greedy conguerors - excitement, adven- ture, and gaiety intrigue every Spanish student. Lucy Leslie and Paul McDougle seem to have caught the gist of it. Wilson, Beck, McCain, Kinney Peconge Mr Rector Grai Enyeart Chitturn Brittain iiEi5? f UE, ,

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I See P. H. S. Studes Preparing For Years l R. Scott, Gilbert, B. Biggs, Miss Tereba, Sharp, Kuhn, learn how to cook. Because the male species have always claimed, A woman's place is in the home, some ot the girls in school have taken ad- vantage ot this fact and are catching up on their homework Under the guidance ot Miss Tereba, the Home Ec girls learn the duties ot everyday home lite. Cooking, sewing, and other neces- sary household jobs are practiced, some- times with good results, but sometimes, bad ones. The amateur housewives go about their work in the Home EC kitchen and sewing room with sincere earnestness. A tew ot the Home Ec students put into practice what they have learned by helping at the cafeteria during the noon hour. Passing through the industrial building during the third period, one hears the faint staccato ot telegraph keys and the talsetto shrieks ot a radio set. Iust this year Mr. Rector introduced elec- tricity into the curriculum ot Peru High School. Almost immediately atter the an- nouncement ot the new subject, many ot the PHS servicemen-to-be signed up tor the course, which dwells on the study ot the Morse code, telegraphy, radio and other topics of electrical importance. This course is planned so that it will be very helpful to all boys and girls, who want to join the armed service in some special division, such as radio, telegraphy, or other divisions devoted to the study ot electrical science. .2U.

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Studying and Learning . . . Hilgemon, B. Aspinwall, Briner, Mohler, G. Wecht, Mr. Hale, and Houser at work in machine shop. Mr. Hale's machine shop, busy everyday with boys whose future careers will dwell on industrial art of some type, is a school of learning in itself. The machine shop houses the teaching of the essential facts of the care and manage- ment of lathes, drill presses, and other ma- chines which are of great importance in the modern, stepped-up factories of a nation at war. The machine shop course enables nearly all of its students to acquire positions in factories almost immediately after gradu- ation, because these students have acquires! the fundamentals of machine knowledge. ln the PHS machine shop there is a com- plete variety of machines most used in pres- ent-day war work. The contact which the boys have with the machines allows them to put to work the training they have re- ceived from book study of machinery.