Somerset Area High School - Eaglet Yearbook (Somerset, PA)

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1760 ... C., lEN'll'IRlE Novus iGW:2s.i- .f, 5 N -1 4 '-.. ,... - 1 ... A SARIITEL T. Rowan, B. S. EDYVARD W. CLEEVES, B. S. Uxivnnsri-Y or IXIARYLAND conNm.L Uxivisasrry The Agriculture Department Thc agricultural course was added to the possible fields of study in Somerset High School, September, 1930. Our school authorities saw the sensibility of recognizing the largest industry in the county and offering special training for it in an up to date school. Agriculture includes. in addition to those fundamentals included in all courses, special training in the principles necessary to carry on farming, particularly in Somerset County. Each boy picks some specific project in which he wishes to specialize. It must be a worth while farm enterprise carried on a business basis with the idea of earning money by actual farming as well as learning farm cost accounting. Projects give the student a start in their chosen occupation. As a boy advances in school his project increases in size and scope so that when he graduates he is able, without any sudden change to follow his project as a full time farming schedule. ' The agricultural course is 0118 of the few that puts a boy in position to go into busi- ness for himself. 21

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760 E4 lEN'lYIRlE.NCUlllJS HARRY SHULTZ, B. OF ED. DOROTHY SHoEIxI.aKER, B. S. ELIZABETH MILLER. B. S. OSHKOSH STATE nRExI-:L INSTITUTE CARNRGIE INSTITUTE TRACI-IERs' coI,LEo1-: or TECHNOLOGY The Industrial Arts Department Industrial arts is a course which appeals to something in most boys. It was opened at the beginning of the school year 30-31 and has been crowded from the first. The room fills with boys at the first sound of the bell and does not empty until the next class chases them from the benches. The work consists of planning and making various articles of furniture or some other in ood work. Each piece must be carefully planned and drawn before any work is started. Then the lumber is cut and fitted. assembled and painted or varnished. VVhen dry it is ready to take its place in any part of the shop or home. This department shows many boys a line of work with which, otherwise, they would not become acquainted. It enables them to choose from a larger field and to choose their life's work. llfany find in it a useful and worthwhile hobby that gives them many hours of happiness as they continue to make things. -..ggi 20

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Dina -fg.,4 lEN'lTlPllE.N4UNLJS The Home Economics Department Another of the more recently acquired courses in our school is home economics, which department is well and adequately equipped with sewing machines, cutting tables and ironing boards in the sewing room. The cooking department is fitted with stoves and sinks. A smaller room is to be equipped as a model dining' room. The course is divided into two distinct parts, vocational and fdomesticl home eco- nomics. The vocational course aims to fit girls for making home economies their life work either as dieticians or as clressmakers and designers, while domestic home economics is intended to fit girls as home makers. Child care is also a branch of this course. The cooking department has served several luncheons during the year and together with the sewing group put on an interesting chapel program which illustrated the practicability of home economics. 22 Egg-