Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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THE ROUND-UP Mr. S. A. Axtens Manual Training Instructor Manual Training Department No other department in the High School curriculum offers to a wide-awake energetic boy so much enjoyment and practical knowledge as the Vocational Department. To know how to do cabinet work and carpentry after you are out of school is an asset. With the Mechanical Drawing Department, The Wood Turning Department, The Cabinet Making Department and the Department of Carpentry, each fitted with modern hand and power tools no real boy ought to go through High School without having some years of Manual Training to his credit. E. C. NIELSON,

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THE ROUND UP Miss Christine Frandsen Attended Rawlins High School 1910-1914; Attended University of Wyoming, 1914-1918; Instructor in Home Economics in Rawlins Schools since 1918. Home Economics Department Home Economics has eventually found its place in the education of our school girls and the school is unusual indeed that does not offer some instruction along this line today. The field of Home Economics work is especially extensive in colleges and in large High Schools many courses are offered in this work but in our school it is a special or elective subject and largely consists of instruction in cooking and sewing. A two years’ course is offered, given under the following classes of one semester each: Poods, Elementary Sewing and Costume Designing, Dietetics and Invalid Cookery, Dressmaking and Textiles. After taking these courses as part of a liberal education a girl is going to be better able to judge and select materials, to dress more becomingly and to know what kind of food her body needs to insure good health. It matters little what type of work a girl may take up for a few years of her life because there are very few indeed who will not, sooner or later, have used for all they have learned in domestic science classes. Since we hold the view that High School only marks the beginning of knowledge, that it is only a stepping stone in our climb for greater things in life than earning, then surely Home Economics has its function in the education of every High School girl.

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THE ROUND-UP Mr. W. D. Fletcher Graduate of the Battle Creek School of Physical Education. Wheaton (111) College, 2 years. Elmhurst (111) College, 3 years; Professional baseball, basketball and football, 3 years, in actual competition. Department of Physical Training and Athletics While Rawlins High School was unable to compete in interscholastic athletics during the past year, basketball, the major sport, was fostered with the idea of maintaining in the High School, material for the future. This was accomplished by the institution of an intra-school basketball tournament and by correlating basketball work with Physical Training classes. The aims of Physical Training—excluding basketball were to provide recreational deviation from the regular school work, to stimulate an interest in wholesome sports and games and to build up bodily strength and vigor through exercise and play.