Reading High School - Arxalma Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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Home Economics Department Chairman - Miss Elsie V. Holland Food Preparation . . . Cloth- ing Designing . . . Personal Management - constituted some of the general areas of emphasis in the homemaking program at R.H.S. A chef's course for boys and a child care program for girls highlighted the special offer- ings of this department. Members of the home econom- ics staji prepare supply lists for their new class projects. Miss Blanche Spaar, Miss Charlotte E. Kahler, Miss Elsie V. Holland Helping students to design and make clothes for personal use were two major aims in M iss Blanche Spaar's clothing classes. Besides preparing meals for themselves and others, stu- dents of Miss Elsie Holland's classes gained experience in table etiquette.

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Art Department Designers . . . Craftsmen . . . Illustrators - as well as many other local people in profes- sional field of art gained ini- tial skills in their respective fields through the means of extensive art courses offered at R.H.S. throughout the years. As in previous years, not only did the art program pro- vide students with basic train- ing for professional careers in art, but for wholesome recre- ation and appreciation as well. A variety of crafts stimula- ting student imagination and creative ability were taught by Mrs. Lillian Norton. 25 Members of our art depart- ment and Miss Anna L. Tay- lor, Supervisor of Art for the Reading School District, dis- cuss the attractive features of a student ceramic project. ln her general art class, Miss Catherine Reilly, explains rel- ative proportion in figure con- struction. Q' 1 fr ry Q,-QW' 'X A we fxxs. ll