Rogers High School - Rogerian Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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♦.. preparing for the road. Sportsmanlike Driving is the title of the text book and the topic for many a discussion in driver education classes. Driving students attend class on a five day week basis — three days in the classroom and two in actual experience on the road. Attending a driver education course not only gives an excellent driver education program with credit applicable to graduation, but also lowers the insurance rates of the trainee. ... preparing for the home. Girls enrolled in the homemaking department learn skills considered a must in the life of a housewife. Cooking, sewing, the management of the modern home, and even the planning of a budget are taught to avail each girl of a broad background in homemaking. Shown at left are sewing students at work on one of their latest creations — students learn to design, pattern, and sew their own dresses. Another facet of homemaking is shown by Barbara Wheating, Janice Duvall, and Connie Kwiatkowski, who, by the way, were the top three honors in the departmen ' ' s cherry pie baking contest with Connie ' s creation winning first place.

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Molten steel is worthy of protective measures os Rogers boys learn during practical experi¬ ence gained in shop courses. From left, Jerry Fisher, Tom Kronberg, and Jerry Urbanski don goggles, protective gloves and shinguards before learning die casting skills. Learning to read upside down and back¬ wards is no easy job, either, as these boys in the print shop can testify. With stick (a device used in the setting of type) in hand the apprentices tackle their job printing with zeal to turn out jobs for other departments of the school. . , preparing for the job- Need a table, lamp, or book¬ case? The well equipped boys in Rogers wood shop are the boys to see. Students enrolled in wood shop start with elementary woodworking projects and work toward becoming first class craftsmen. The boys are fur¬ nished with the fnest of tools with many of their projects going into actual service as gifts to their parents. li ' ' f ■ - n ] • 1 1 J

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Panel discussions are one way of pounding world history into the sophomore students usually registered for the course. The history of the world, from Caesar Augustus to Dwight Eisenhower, is taught from various angles to generate in the subject which serves as a background course for nearly every major. Fred Pomeranz, Sue Derderian, and Robert Arehart engage in a three way report that varies the daily routine. Looking back over the year ' s studies in American history seems pleasant to these students of the junior level social science. Dealing strictly with happenings on home soil, and a required course for those in the junior year, the class may deal with everything from the Articles of Confederation to our present constitution. Ronald Meeker and Becky Meinka appear happy with their experience in American history. The absorption of heritage ... A black-board type map of the United States is featured in this scene also taken from a history classroom. This particular map may be washed before providing the background for a blank map test in which students fill in the 13 original colonies, divi¬ sions of territory, or the identification of the nation ' s 49 states from their outline alone. Pat Black and Janice Dressle demon¬ strate the U. S. as it probably was near 1840.