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

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Besides the regular school work the boys are re» qulred to have some project at hone such as raisin- a calf, a pig or a few acres of corn. A fow of tho many things the boys have learned are the identification of over thirty different kinds of seeds, the identification of the different broeds of hogs and sheep and, above all, they haw learned to test nilk. Each of the boys is keeping a record of his home herd’s nilk production. F.F.A.--P A R T-TIME CLASS With a total of thirty-two ”Ag students, Mr. Swanson organized the Rushford Chapter of the Futuro Farmers of America, At the first meeting the following officers were elected. President ............ Raymond Humble Vice-President .................. Styrk Isbcrg Secretary.............. Lawrence Sonin Treasurer ................ Lyle Iverson Reporter ..............Arnold Hatlevig Altogether the F.F.A. has hold six meetings which were held on Monday nights of every other week. The meeting consists of about an hour and a half of recreation—basketball having been the favorite. Besides their own meetings the boys have attended a meeting of the Houston Chapter. At this meeting the Rushford F.F.A. basketball team lost to the Houston boys. The members of F.F.A. have made several trips during the year. The longest, and of course the best, was the trip to the Hornol neat packing plant at Austin on Saturday, February 27. Another interesting trip was to the Hybrid Yield Trial at Money Creek. This the boys thought to be a very good trip as they got out of school for it. a grain-judging team, consisting of five F.F.A. boys-Lcland Torgerson, Marvin Anderson, Ronald Eahoun, Roger Hinlie, Milton Helleland—participated in the grain judging contest at Waseca, Minnesota on March 16.

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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.

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On April 27, a dairy cattle judging team made up of Arnold Hatlevig, Styrk Isberg, and James McManimon went to Austin where they won tenth place out of twenty-three groups. Orrin Rlungdvedt, archie Luhmann, and Lawrence Sorun spent the day studying neats at the Austin plant. Mr. Swanson accompanied them on the trip, Another ”agn class is made up of young farm boys outside of school. This class is called the Part-time Ag class and has an attendance of about thirty-five. Tills class meets on Thursday nights to study farm problems which nr presented by Mr. Swanson or any member of the class. Occasionally they have an outside speaker. When the probl ms have be n thoroughly discussed, the boys have what they call a social hour. It usually lasts about two hours or more. This time is spent either in playing cards or basketball. The crowning event of th year for both the F.F.A. and the Part-time class was the Porcnts-Sons banquet on April 3. There were one hundred seventy-five pooplo in attendance. The following program was presented. Toastmaster .. Group Singing Welcome....... Responses .... Tho Part-time School Musical Selections... Reading .............. Recognition of Guests Vocal Selections..... Addross............... Song ................. Superintendent J. T. Hanson F.F.A. President, Ray Humble ... ..... . Mrs. Styrk Isbcrg ............ Mr. T. S. Hjos .............. Robert Highun ............ Orrin Klungtvedt ............Lelond Torgerson ........... Tilnan Torgerson ............... Lester Holz ........... Mr. H. W. Swanson .. University Para Quartet .............. R«.E. Hodgson ...........God Bless America