Plainview High School - Plain View Yearbook (Plainview, TX)

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Vocational Vocational training at PHS includes Vocational Agriculture, Home- making, Shop, and Mechanical Drawing. To all boys interested in farming or ranching, three years of study are offered. During this time a wide scope is covered. The boys learn scientific farming, crop rotation, livestock raising, and other things useful on a farm. Girls are offered three years of homemaking, cooking, sewing, tailor- ing, child care, and the basics of home managements are taught. These courses equip girls to be better homemakers. Shop and mechanical drawing are also popular subjects. They offer an opportunity to develop manual skill in wood-working, architecture, and construction. GENE BARNETT M.S., Texas Tech; Voc. Agriculture MRS. MEOTA CARTER B.S., North Texas, U.; Homemaking TOM L. DUFFEY M.S., Colorado State U.; Voc. Agricul- ture MRS. M. T. BURELSMITH M.S., Texas Tech; Homemaking BEN WHITE B.A., Eastern New Mexico U.; Indus- trial Arts Betty, Mrs. Carter doesn't believe a word you're saying. 23

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MRS. F. W. DODSON M.A., Sul Ross; Typing, English-Eng- lish Commercial The commercial department encompasses the following courses: Typing, Shorthand, Bookkeeping, Diversified Education, and Indus- trial Cooperative Training. In D.E. and ICT students attend classes for half a day and work at various businesses in the afternoon. In the earn as you learn program, students receive their high school edu- cation while acquiring on-the-job training. Completing these courses equips a student for positions such as secretary, stenographer, or bookkeeper, and lays foundations for the business world. GIFFORD HODGES M.A., Sam Houston State; Industrial Cooperative Training MRS. EARL COX M.E., Texas Tech; Typing, Booking SAM S. COWAN B.S., North Texas; Diversified Educa- tion Take these glasses for instance? 22 MRS. JERRELL CATE B.B.A., Howard Payne College; Busi- ness Subjects

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Do it just like me, girls! DAVID E. POWLEY B.S., North Texas State U.; Health Physical Education P.E. classes stress physical fitness with some emphasis on recreation- al activities, which will benefit the individual in later life. All students of PHS are required to have 1 V2 credits in physical education, if he is physically fit, or be enrolled in a course that is equivalent in order to graduate. Every student in PHS must take a physical fitness test three times a year. Activities in P.E. include football, badminton, trampoline, table ten- nis, shuffle-board, and special classes in tennis, golf, and track. PHS boys are entered in all areas of competitive sports, and girls compete in volleyball and baseball. Taught this year for the first time in PHS, Health was a requirement for Soph, and given to upperclassmen as an elective. The course pro- vides wide information on mental health, the physical body, the in- dividual as an individual, and psychological reasoning for under- standing people. RUTH GRIFFIN B.S., Texas Tech; Girls' Phy. Ed. DEVERELL LEWIS B.B.A., Texas Tech; Football Coach, Phys. Ed. You will have to go because he doesn't have his shoes.