Roosevelt High School - Wy Hi Yearbook (Wyandotte, MI)

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Knit one ioops! Wrong classl The graduate who has had any course in Home Arts has a basic foundation for home making after graduation, Sewing and cooking may be directly applied to keeping a house. The gal who takes cooking will never have to live on a meager diet of bacon and eggs. Dating and marriage are open topics for dis- cussion in Home and Family Living. This class probes into all phases of getting along with the family. When a girl completes Home Nursing she becomes almost another Florence Nightingale. She has learned how to cope with all sickness which might occur in her own family. H o m e A r t s Horrors! We have to eat our own cooking. What is their pulse rate and temperature?

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For those who find working with their hands more interesting than academic study, Roosevelt offers four vocational shops-wood, metal, machine and auto. Many products of value have been fashioned in these work places. Christmas time finds all these shops humming with activity, an activity that provides beautiful gifts for fam- ily and friends. The gifts are valued because of their excellence and the fact that they were hand made with loving care. Work in the shops has led many a boy to follow his mechanical skill to a life's work of high pay and enioyment. No! That's not a sewing machine! i Industrial Arts Who invented these things, anyway? COfflf1S? Messy aren't we? R

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First Aid Quit laughing, it hurts! The gasping and groaning of the students in the next room may be chalked up to the fact that they are First Aiders practicing artificial respira- tion. This is only a small part of the study in- volved in the course which all students must take before graduation. The class studies the procedures to follow in simple accident cases, how to treat shock, and treatment for various types of poison. The highlight of the course comes when everyone practices bandaging. Anyone who walks into the class room at that time may mis- take the class for a collection of mummies. The cure is more painful than the injury. w 'ai ' is , rn Ouch! Cmon Rowland take it easy!