SUNY at Cobleskill - Voice Yearbook (Cobleskill, NY)

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Department The students in Dietitics and Institutional Management receive practical experience in planning menus, ordering food and preparing and serving meals in a well organized cafeteria, which caters to the entire student body. Practice in food cost control and accounting is gained through keeping the records of the cafeteria. Class work includes Organization and Administration, Purchasing, Equipment, Professional Relationships and other related subjects which train for food service positions.

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Home Economics r The institute at Cohlcskill maintains a full-day Nursery school to provide practical experience for the students electing the Child Study curriculum. Twenty-live children arc enrolled at the present time; their ages ranging from two to live years. Each child study girl actually participates in the Nursery for one-half of her senior year. While working with the children she is not only responsible for their physical care, but for proper social and emotional guidance. She also gains experience in preparing a daily noon meal which is suitable for children of pre-school age. In classes, emphasis is placed upon standard requirements for a good Nursery School. The routine care ol the child in sickness and health, is studied, as well as his social, mental and emotional needs. The student is also prepared to teach simple music and crafts to the child. 22

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Agricultural LIVESTOCK: The school herd has recently been put hack on the official Guernsey Herd Testing program. Students in Livestock with Herdsman Vernon Van Tassel, '41, and Mr. Col Iyer, who is teaching Dairy Herd Improvements in the absence of Mr. Hewes, are working out a breeding program for the school herd. FRUIT: Almost any day through the winter, boys could be found in the packing room grading and ring' packing fine McIntosh and Delicious apples. The addition of a lahoralory'sized cider mill and press and a freezer cabinet widens the scope of the work in fruit. The freezer is used by both Home Economics students and Agricultural stU' dents in practice packaging, freezing, and holding vegetables and meat. DAIRY INDUSTRY: The new equipment in the Dairy Industry laboratory: the pasteurizer, a walk-in cooler, a modern ice cream freezer with holding cabinet, a homogenizer, and a bottler, make work in dairy industry interesting to the boys. Of course, making and sampling a batch of ice cream doesn't detract much from the interest of Dairy Industry courses. 24