Southern High School - Southerner Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Education S Dirge An angel-food cake pan is the center of interest in this Home Economics I class discussion led by Miss Carolyn Davis, teacher. These girls have since then learned to make good use of their pots and pans as anyone lucky enough to taste cooking can testify. The main project of the shop classes was a model of the school library, furnished and ex- hibited at the State Fair in Raleigh. While the boys in Agriculture are studying the arts of modern farming, others in Mechanical Drawing, with T -squares, compasses, and French curves, are drawing, their lessons on Southernls new draftsmen,s tables installed this year. Some of these ambitious boys go further and draw house plans and make scale drawings of their future homes. Vocational courses help to ready our stu- dents for a useful life whether they get further training or not and have proved to be many students, most valuable courses in high school. V.. I 8 . x Agriculture combines a study of farming with the work in the agricultural shop. Mr. Evans is working with Edgar Perry, james Taylor, and Ben Knowles. Wlliugggt The transmission and use of electricity is an important part of mo- dern day agriculture. With the help of Shaw, Mr. Ioe Howard of Duke Power Com- pany is shown demon- strating an ampere meter to the Agriculture III class. Page Eishtu-Three

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zaxff --ure e....-.,W,, F-F.-m m-fa.. ,. e r ,,.L A -M. , Skill comes slowly but surely to Mechanical Drawing students. Mr. Mc- Kneeley is shown explaining a drawing instrument to Eugene Vincent while Ben Cates, Wlesley Daniel, Buck Duke, and XVayne Kennedy concentrate on their work. Four Senior girls, Norma VVatson, Linda Ilutson, Ellen Mize, and Florence Currier, taking Ilome Economics III, are shown in one of the spacious and modern kitchens of the Home Eco- nomics Department. The Vocational Department of Southem has proved to be practical and interesting. For girls, Home Economics I and Home Eco- nomics II are required courses funless Latin is electedj. During the Freshman and Sophomore years the girls' talents for cooking and sewing are developed. Other arts of homemaking, child care, budgeting, and etiquette are acquired dur- ing these years. Home Economics III, an elective in the Iunior and Senior years, offers further op- portunities in various phases of more advanced homemaking. The students in the commercial wing certainly suffer when the delicious odors of fried chicken or freshly baked cookies filter into their classrooms from the Home Economics kitchens. Vocational courses for the boys at Southern are Shop I, Shop II, Mechanical Drawing, and four years of Agriculture. XVith the help ol modern machinery, various articles of furniture and many lovely gifts of metal and plastic are made by the skillful hands of shop students. 5 --.--.-................. ,, , Page Wallace Carden, Doug- las Green, Robert Tay- lor, Marvin Gentry, and Tex Barbee are shown as they learn how to use tools and simple appli- ances in Industrial Arts I. Vocation:

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Time for relaxation . . . for making friends . . . developing character and in- gr terests . . . sharing in rewarding experiences . . . being of service to the school and the community . . . a variety of activities . . . Band . . . photography . . . X , X M xx .xi , .X 4 , f A iww,xwff4s . shop work . . . newspaper . . . athletics . . . these and many more out of class experiences strengthen and enrich our Southern World. UUWIEE P1 Y Pace Eiuhtu-F our