Sanger High School - Golden Warrior Yearbook (Sanger, TX)

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'¥ Home Economics Actiiities Seventy-eight girls were enrolled this session in the Horae Economics Department. This enrollment proved to be the largest in the history of the department. On September 21, the V.H.E. Club met and organized. The following officers were elected: Mary Francis Ready, president, Ahbie lee Gentle, vice-president, Marguerite Neal, secretary and treasurer, and Theda Cherry, reporter. The club paid its fee and was given membership to the Texas and American Home Economics Associations• During the year the club served a Thanksgiving Luncheon to the Wednesday Study Club, a Faculty and School Board Supper, and a Father and Son Banquet. Several Club members attended a district meeting in Decatur on January 27. Among the interesting home project reports that wore made was one given by Marguerite Neal, a local H.E. student. The club sent four representatives to the State Homemaking Rally in Austin April 26-28, 1934. The department v on third place in the school exhibit of the pre-school children play- suits. The representatives from Sanger were Margaret Giles, Marguerite Neal, Dorothy Mae Gentle, and Joyce Spratt, A Nursery school, in child care and guidance, was spon- sored by the first year classes. This entirely new project for the students offers an opportunity to develop ability in guiding some of the activities of children. In the H.E. IA class a study of foods and health is conducted. This study includes the planning, marketing, pre- paring and serving of meals in various ways. In the K.E. IB class a study of personal relationships, personal grooming and clothing is conducted which includes planning, selecting and constructing of costumes suitable for the high school girl. in the K.E. IIA class a study is conducted of Foods, including the preservation of food, the planning, marketing, preparing and serving of dinners in various ways. This course also includes a study of Household Equipmant and Home Nursing. xn the K.E. IIB class a study is made of clothing. This course includes the. planning, selecting, and construction of tailored costumes, and play suits for children. Each pupil selects a home project during each semester in order to practice at home the lessons learned at school. xhis year, the Home Economics student teachers from N.T.S.T.C. Denton, Texas, have done their practice teaching in the local K.E. classes. The department has also been visited by Miss Isabel Crowe, Exchange student from New Zealand, attending C.I.A., Miss Peek, State Supervisor of Home Economics, and Miss Trickoy, District supervisor of Home Economics. These home economics loaders complimented the work of the department, which is under the supervision of Miss Ruby Leo Seal, very highly.