Shickshinny High School - Legend Yearbook (Shickshinny, PA)

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THE NEW SCHOOL F L Garuson Memonal School Dedxcated to commumty servlce and ln lastmg memory of a belov ed cltlzen who 1n thought ful kmdness provlded for the future of ShlCkSh1I'lnY Seven af-

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lyk Y COTTAGE a large number of students spend enloyable hours 1n home econormcs and 1ndustr1al arts classes The two upper floors ol the cottage are devoted to home econom1cs cours es lor the g1rls whlle the basement IS used by the boys for classes 1n mechan 1cal draW1ng sheetmetal electr1c1ty and woodwork The l1fSl floor lncludes a cookmg laboratory a umt k1tchen and a d1n1ng room where the glrls learn to prepare well balanced meals and to serve them attractlvely On the second floor are a ew1ng room a bedroom and a nursery where the glrls are taught sewlng bed makmg and ch1ld care Mrss Hess and Mrs Nlcholson have charge of the glrls department ln the basement under the guldance ot Mr Keller and Mr Howell the boys produce many useful household artlcles Sxx .X Beautifully situated among large maple trees is our white cottage, Where . ea

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ASSEMBLY PROGRAMS Under the ausplces of the very act1ve Everybody Helps Club weekly as semblres have become the rule 1n our school Every Fnday afternoon has found the student body IH the audrtorlum for an assembly conducted by the members ot that club Guest speakers who have appeared at the e assembhes rnclude Attorney Roscoe Smlth of Wrlkes Barre Rev Robert Graham of the local Presbyterran Church and Rev lra Button of Sweet Valley Entertalnlng and mstructlve programs were presented by the Venetran Glass Blowers and by the celebrated p1an1 t Dr Van Zandt Movmg prctures were shown twrce on one occasron by a representatlve of the Pennsylvanla Game Commrsslon to explarn the work belng done by thls Commlsslon 1n con servatron and restocklng and on another cccaslon by a lleutenant ot the U S Recru1t1ng Statlon at Scranton who howed lnterestlng travel prcture deptct mg lrle ln the U S Navy Among the out tandmg programs was that of Aprtl l9 when the Club a1d ed by three prormnent resrdents of the town conducted a constrtutron el1m1na txon contest The purpo e ol thrs p ogram was to select from our 23 competltors two contestant and two alternates to repre ent our school 1n the contest spon sored by the Amerrcan l..eg1on held on May l at lrem Temple rn Wrlkes Barre The wmners of our elrmlnatlon contest were El1zabeth Srmone a sophomore and Angelo Paradrse a freshman The alternates were Earl Barrall IUHIOT and Wrlllarn Robrnson a sophomore The Contest was conducted 1n the man ner of a spellmg bee wrth Mr A W Brown askmg the questrons Rev Robert Graham of the Presbyterran Church act1ng as Judge and Mr l A Gallagher as trmekeeper All the queshons used were ubmltted by students of our school and chosen by a committee of the Everybody Helps Club. Eight Jus l