Rock Port High School - Bluejay Yearbook (Rock Port, MO)

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home economic closses creote This year Mrs. IO Tarp kept her students hopping, The girls held a Christmas Fair, in which they displayed crafts they'd made: they traveled to Omaha for a visit to food fac- tories as a part of their consumer education: and studied var- ious subjects as grooming, dating, and family relations. Shown upper right are Sheryl Elliot, Wanda Lingerfelt, and Lori Ebert who entered the Make lt Yourself With Wool contest. 2:24 'r LT' Y',' QV' ' 3 .QQ l,, , f 1 ' iii 5 -Q 5' ,aa ir W 'E 'NME n ff-xr s ...K tt, W ,ff 'mf xiseffr 1 j Above: Mrs. Tarp is caught by surprise while cooking. Above: Cooking was the favorite pastime of these two girls. 3 5 Below: Home-ec girls and their mothers get together at the Mother's Tea. xl gfhxrlf x Below: The girls really got down to business preparing for the art fair.

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vocational carpenters build house. A new program was added to the Rock Port High School curriculum this year that proved very successful. lt was Vo- cational Carpentry, and the object of the course was to build a house. The first year class consisted of twelve junior and ' senior boys. Although some of the specialty jobs were sub- 5'9f f'g f 4- W. La... - if W W.. l I fra? 13,537 Nj. - contracted to local tradesmen, the students had the distinc- - 5 M tion of building a house with their own hands and picking up 'f M-rg. L . iw Vlwlp if-Q qt., a lot of knowledge that they can later put to use. The in- ., - 1 ,L as f M rea - f A A Wa, .q....yfpg1.f- structor ofthe class was Mr. John McLaren, Lower lefty Dave , ' 14 . 6 i 15' ,ss it , , , , yy Q .i'fT2,g5,2 f.N,1.. af :jfklili Sherwood, and Marion sort na1ls. Lower middleg Ron mea- ififf'5Li.f-?-- ' .. A' f.f5.' ' 1 sures dry wall as Kenny and Martin look on. Lower right: Ron The house the Carpentry C , . H Z wr X 6 f 3 all :,, , I ,rw ,K it 5 r A Viri' I lass built. 'res PM Ne. 4-mai, W Ne. Www' e WS A M.. at si r r Y ,. ,X WMWX 2 + 5 A ' sl. 111 . 3 X. 4 z . . ' ff iff, i + f Randy and Rick work in the Bathroom. and Mr. McLaren measure width of window. Kenny nails sheet rock to the ceil- Sam and J. D. sand door edges. ing. Jit 5'-fii , . 7 am 42291 if af was 1 '.,- - .r , I fi

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-,x business ed gets us prepared The business classes were taught by Mrs. Phyllis Fay and Mr. Dennis Gates. Mrs. Fay taught Book- keepingl and II and Shorthand. Mrs. Gates taught Clerical Office Practice, Business English, Business Law, Typing, and Basic Business. This year Mrs.Fay was aided in her work by two student teachers, Mrs. Kathy Runkles and Mrs. Judy Clark. Mr. Gates also had some assistance from Mrs. Jane Bennington. By the end of the year, all of the business students were quite prepared to step out into the world with a good knowledge of how to manage business transactions of various kinds.