Springfield Trade High School - Beaver Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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Miss Elisabeth Harvey Learning to sew seems much easier when one can be part of a congenial group in this pleasant, home-like room. Ann Gaudette Nancy Harris Lillie Stovall Audrey Yefko Miss Harvey explains how to package food correctly.

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FOODS AND CATERING “What delicious food!” and “Isn’t this a lovely room!” are two frequently overheard remarks from tea room guests. And they are well-deserved remarks, because these students work hard to keep up to Miss Doris Gilson’s high standards of perfection in food preparation. First-year girls learn to wait on the guests courteously and correctly, while the boys hurry around in their white uniforms doing the work required of any well- trained busboy. Out in the kitchen are the second and third-year students, and one can hear the orderly bustle which accompanies the serving of forty hungry guests awaiting their luncheons. On Friday, the work for the Wednesday and Thursday luncheons begins with planning the menus. After careful selection and rejection, with the entire class having a part in the decisions, the choices are made. Then, on Monday and Tuesday, preparations begin until, by Wednesday noon, all is in readiness and enticing odors fill the entire “C” building. When the faculty wishes to celebrate a special occasion, one finds them usually in the tea room. Then the foods department works doubly hard to prepare all sorts of tempting pastries and decorate the tea room with appropriate trimmings. The tea room has been proud to serve many distinguished guests as well as special student groups, both from other schools as well as our own. Most seniors have the opportunity of eating in the tea room with their class advisers, and occasionally a faculty member has time to enjoy the delicious food. This department affords an interesting and profitable education for any student desiring work in this field. Food preparation is carried out by the second and third-year students.

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VOCATIONAL HOMEMAKING One of the most important careers today, for any girl, is that of making a home. Here, in a model three-room apartment, girls are learning this all-important art. All aspects of the actual care of a home are learned by these students. This includes planning and furnishing a house, food preparation, clothing and laundry. Attitudes, habits and personality development are also stressed. Christmas finds the holiday spirit at large in this department; rows and rows of gay cookies in the form of stars, bells, angels, santas and all the other traditional Christmas shapes are to be found awaiting their decorative icing. Each Tuesday finds these young homemakers busily hurrying with their preparations for a luncheon served in the apartment dining room. The guests are selected by the girls and may be their mothers, faculty members or visitors to the school. Under the leadership of Miss Elisabeth Harvey, the girls learn not only to keep house, but to find enjoyment in living and making a home. These cookies look pretty and taste better.