Roosevelt High School - Rohian Yearbook (Virginia, MN)

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Joan Berquist displays her sewing proficiency as she puls the finishing touches on a garment. As the world turns, the homemaking profession brings new and helpful skills for future wives, teachers and business or society women. In order to acquire the techniques of a home- maker or a master in this field, VHS offers a start with the offering of several classes. Among the classes offered are homemaking, a semester of foods and a semester of clothing; advanced foods, a full-year course of cooking: and advanced clothing, a full-year course of sewing. Homemaking presents the first facts in meal planning and essentials in clothes making. To prepare a main dinner, to improve on eti- quette or to cook with the holidays, advanced foods presents girls with suggestions and ideas related to many hidden secrets in cooking. Advanced clothing is apparent in the halls as girls wear wool outfits or a skirt or dress made over from a coat, suit or jacket. Clothes for tots are also an experiment for the seamstresses. The home economics courses are a beginning for the endless opportunities and professions that effect every young lady in the future years of marriage or in business or society. Homemaking Provides Skills For Future Housewives And Professionals Serving a meal involves careful planning as Beth Maki and Mary Kay Kozar discover. 20

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Peter Hanson makes on of the many constructions in plane geometry. Recipe For Success In Math 19 Dennis ( aughey, plane geometry teacher, uses one of the latest class room aids, an overhead projector.

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With characteristic good humor, Mr. Willard Nelson surveys his shorthand class before announcing a quiz. Proficiency and accuracy are two of the many points learned in typing classes taught by Mr. John Beste and Mr. Thomas Mehelich. Business Is Business Mr. John Beste “revives” his well known typing technique during a free hour. The object of commercial courses is to enable the students to gain a thorough working knowl- edge of what goes on in a business office of today. They are taught the use of various business ma- chines such as the mimeograph, various calcula- tors, and this year's new machine, the dicta- phone. This machine is like a taperecorder from which students type from dictation. This gives them the experience in transcribing which will help them if they go into the business field. Those students who are aiming for a more specialized job may be found delving into the intricacies of the curves and loops of that fascinating and useful subject, shorthand. Many students can be seen slaving over their debits and credits and trying to make their cash prove in another business course, bookkeeping. “You forgot to plug it in. Mr. Thomas Mehelich! 21