Rushford High School - Valley Legend Yearbook (Rushford, MN)

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In recent years there has been a general attempt in elementary and secondary education circles to offer courses that will better suit the needs of the students in a given community. Since more people of high school age are attending school now, and since only a small percentage go on to college, the trend to make the school curriculum more practical has net with approval and interest. In this section of the state, Rushford has led the way in the establishment of special departments. The Commercial, Hone Economics, and Industrial Arts departments wore started several years ago, and they have been expanded steadily. With the addition this year of work in agriculture, we feel that our school is offering a well-rounded program and that the needs of the community are being better served than ever before. That the students are interested in vocational subjects is evidenced by the large enrollment in these special fields. Work in Industrial Arts and Home Economics is started in the fifth grade and nay be continued through the twelfth grade. Courses in Agriculture and in the Commercial department are confined to the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades. COMMUC I AL In the Commercial Department there arc over a hundred students enrolled in General Business Education, Typing X, Stenography XI, Stenography XII, and Bookkeeping. There are twenty-one typewriters, three of which arc new. A new mimeograph was purchased this year which makes mimeographing a plcasuro. Besides the use of the regular 85 x 11 inch sheets, the machine will take 9 xl4 paper and 3x5 cards. As other duplicating devices we have the Ditto and hectograph machines, neither of which la new. All three are in daily use.

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Henning W. Swanson .............University of Minnesota Agriculture Learning to do, Doing to learn, Earning to live. Living to serve.11 Leona S. Sommer................ University of Minnesota Commercial Department The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Evangeline M. Twist ........... University of Minnesota Home Economics Department Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Leona H. Hottman ....... . Mankato Teachers' College Junior High Social Studies The price of wisdom is above rubies. Phyllis G. Kohl .............Gustavus Adolphus College Junior High Mathematics, Giris' Physical Education Reason’s whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words—health, peace, and competence. Maricllyn Johnson ............ University of Minnesota Junior High English, Junior High Music That best portion of a good woman's fate-Hcr little, nameless, un re me'mb c red acts Of kindness and of love.

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 New Bookkeeping books, entitled Personal and Business Use were purchasod this year. They contain short practice sets to give actual experience. Budgets arc given to the stenography students to help then train for secretarial work as a part of the required work. Bach student assists a specified teacher for practical exporianoe. In stenography the students are drilled in vocabulary Gregg tests. They also set up business letters in a forn that is used in business. In Stenography XII, Helen Golbenson has obtained the average speed of one-hundred and twenty words per minute in a five-ninuta test in dictated transcription. In typing Joyce Johnson has obtained the average speed of sixty-five words per ninute in a ten-rainuto test. In Typing X offered to sophonorca, working for speed is less important than nccuracy, personal style is used in typing business letters, Manuscripts, and telegrams. Donald Woxland has obtained the average speed of forty-five words per ninute in a ten-ninute test and Edna Lou Kiorland, forty-four. Miss Bonner heads the Commercial departnent and teaches most of the subjects. She is assisted by Miss Hottnan who teaches the ninth grade class, AGRIC ULTURE By the addition of agriculture to the school curriculum, this year’s work was made especially interesting for the farn boys of good old R.H.S, All of the credit for an interesting year shouldn't go to the addition of this subject but to that addition of a capable instructor, Mr. Henning W, Swanson. Without Mr. Swanson we just wouldn't have Ag and without Ag wo wouldn't have Mr. Swanson. Agriculture is being taught to three high school classes this year. The freshmen make up Ag I with an enrollment of eight farn boys. The sophomore farn boys, twelve in number, nake up the Ag II class. Ag III is a combination of seven seniors and five Juniors, looking a total of twelve.