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

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U ocational homemak LU) | The model three room apartment is the hub about which the activities of this department center. It is a home which the girls of the Vocational Homemaking Department learn to care for. They cook, sew and clean as any good house- keeper does, and what is more important, they learn of the pleasures that come from making a home. In learning to make their own clothing, the girls also learn how to dress eco- nomically, how to select fabrics that will look and wear well, and how to choose styles and colors that fill their individual needs. Every Tuesday the girls plan and prepare a special luncheon which is served in the apartment dining room. Guests are of their own selection, and may be visitors to the school, their parents or instructors. There is fun, too, in pre- paring special dishes for the various holidays: cookies and fruit cakes for Christmas, pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving, heart-shaped cakes for Valentine’s Day, and all the other holidays are celebrated as they come along. Miss Elisabeth Harvey The knowledge and practical skills which these girls are acquiring during their Shop Instructor school days will serve them well in their future homemaking. Making edible Easter bonnets are: Grace Murphy, Joyce Bond and Barbara Steele. — — Two recent guests at lunch were former principals, Dr. George A. Burridge and Mrs. Margaret C. Elis Student hostesses are Joyce Bond and Barbara Steele. Z oe ey: Charlotte Martin Grace Murphy Althira Jacobs Clara Precanico Loes Remington Lois Shea

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ke Winks and cater, Lg The tea room, which is operated in connection with this department, provides valuable experience for these future restaurant workers. Miss Doris Gilson, under whose supervision and instruction these students work, guides them in the planning of the menu, and the preparation and serving of the meals. Wednesday and Thursday of each week finds a “full house” of forty guests. These may include visitors to the school, representatives of various industries, parents and friends. Instructors occasionally find time to bring a group of their students, thereby initiating many young people in the pleasures of eating out. Students from other schools have the opportunity of dining here when Inter-School Student Council holds its annual meeting. The work of the first year students is mainly in the tea room itself. They -— learn to decorate and arrange the tables, under the direction of Mrs. Louise i Johnson. Menus are designed and made, flowers and other seasonal decora- me hg? tions are planned and arranged. These students also learn to serve the meals Ries Done. Gilson prepared by the second and third year boys and girls. Shop Instructor Many qualities of good citizenship are developed by these students: courtesy, efficiency, neatness and dependability are but a few characteristics necessary to success in this field of work. Robert Lyle slices ham and Rose Jutras prepares the gravy for a tea room dinner. Ernest Asselin tries out various recipes for making popcorn balls. Ernest Asselin Julie Clancy Barbara Chestnut Beverlee Duffy eA Mills th 4 - if Eldred Gould Rose Jutras Robert Lyle Irene Nizinski