St Louis Park High School - Echowan Yearbook (St Louis Park, MN)

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ABD or ABC? John Kane is pondoring over his task of sorting type in the printing shop. He may be expressing his creative ability in the preparation of tho type for an important school function. the Future Besides instructing a student in industrial and technical processes, the industrial arts may furnish a student with a lifetime hobby from the skills he has achieved. An industrial arts course may provide a person with a background in a trade which will determine his lifetime occupation. When we consider separately each section of industrial arts, we can see that each class covers specific areas of interest and talent. In our print shop, for example, the students become acquainted with today's modern printing processes. Through the instruction received in woodworking, the boys are taught how to properly use hand woodworking tools and power operated machines. An interest in mechanical trades or mechanical engineering may influence a person to partake of the opportunities that are provided by the machine shop. Wood projects ore useful products to possess if they are properly made from the first step to the last. Gary Klimmek seems to be applying his skills by staining a table. Who knows? In the future, he may be a famous furniture designer and constructor. Tom Stephenson is in the process of cutting a piece of steel for part of a machinist vise on a horizontal milling machine. The knowledge of forming and mochining metal is necessary in producing our automobiles and homo conveniences. 19

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Sorb Cornwell, Sue Mittlcstocdt and Josie Rydoll find good housekeeping more difficult than they hod expected it to be. They now realize that it takes more than just time to do housework; it requires strength as well. Good table setting is an asset to overy home because it makes a meal more appealing. Linda Schein and Jean Wolfgang hove finally attained this goal of success; however. Miss Thomas will be sure to see many flows with Normo Bohm and Raleigh Fittcrman's setting. Footsteps into Although students in the three classes of home ec. study different phases of homemaking, they are all taught the basic skills to some degree. General skills in all areas of homemaking are studied in home ec. I, while the students of home ec. II concentrate on the preparation of food, making of clothes and managing and furnishing the home. Students of home ec. Ill go into the above areas more deeply, but also study child development and architectual styles of homes. Marion Tonkin has come to the conclusion that when moking a skirt out of so much material if becomes almost os difficult to find the needle in the material as it would to find if in a haystack.

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Vocational and This is not tho Supremo Court. It is merely Ed Gale's conduction of a mock trial. Tho defendant and the plaintiff socm to respect his authority in rogard to his organized proceedings. Business low and administration applies to the management and organization of business. In tho future, Ed Gale may be on Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Preparation for a business career is an important part of our school's curriculum. Different business techniques are presented to the students in order to acquaint them with business procedures. Excellent instruction and equipment are available for bookkeeping, clerical and stenographic vocations. Business machines are tho instruments required to exercise specific skills. The operation of a dictaphone is demonstrated by Pam Reeney. This skill is an essential part of a stenographer's occupation. Actual experience in business is revealed by Sandra Zorn's participation in a part-time job. Occupational relations provides the training that is necessary to secure a full-time position with a company offer graduation. 20