Stratford High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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oon man's responsibilities grew, not only did he have to care for himself, but he wagted tortake care of his f1amiljgI D U m B an givet em a more com orta e ' home. I-ledeveloped... If you had S800 to redecorate your room, how would you go about it? What would you buy? How would you decide what you really needed? In order to learn room decorations and floor plans, students were confronted with this situation in Home Furnishings, one of many courses offered by the home economics department. Home economics is the one course that everybody's going to use for the future, said Mrs. Reba Irwin, home economics teacher. ln addition to Home Furnishings, juniors and seniors were also offered single quarter courses of Consumer Education, Home and Family Living, and Home Management. Students of all grade levels could take Homemakingl and Il, for either one quarter or for a full year. Home Management covered more of the business side of the home -leases and stuff like that, said Junior Zingara Harrison, who took the course. It also had cooking in it and general functions of the home -like how to buy and rent a house, she 86 home economics added, Another course offered to the juniors and seniors was Child Development. This course, according to Junior Gigi Underhill, included watching a lot of films and going to the nursery once a week and working with kids of different ages. My favorite part, commented Gigi, was going to the nursery. lt was different from babysitting, you were really working with the kids and teaching them something. Students taking Child Development were required to complete a project. We had to do something for a child, explained Gigi, like make them a toy or teach them to read. Mrs. Irwin added, Every quarter each student fin any home economics classy had to do a home experience project. This project was required by the state because home economics was funded by the government. There was very little homework, said Mrs. Irwin, but the students had to do something at home that applied to what they learned. Sophomores, LeeAnn Sweet and Michelle Mangogna listen and learn about child care www---.5 Junior Ken Lucas kids around with school visited by the child one of the children at the nursery menlclass. Uiwfff 'M , 5

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Freshman Scott Boyd attempts to during a decisive play in his physical pass the ball by BH opposing player education class 'Rim Limbering up with arm circles, Jun- ior Sara Mueller and Sophomore Kim Kooistra, get ready lor Aerobic danc- ing in their pre, class. . ,A- :. -L -.1w-.,g-

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i 1 vi QW X A 'WI' 5 i 5. y y..y . When I went to the nursery school, we taught the kids something and they showed their teachers what they learned from us, commented Junior Karrie Lindsay. Sophomore Nancy Wardlaw curls her hair during a lull in home econom- We went to Kindergrove about eight times. Each time we got a different age group of kids. l played football with the boys most ot the time, remembers Senior Sandy Joseph. ics class. W ,.., ,, home economics 87