Stronghurst High School - Beacon Yearbook (Stronghurst, IL)

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f 5 ' 4-nit A -r, , v V Y riff If Lf e I ef F I A. LOTTO Learning to do, Doinr to learn Eerrzng to live Livin to serve. VOCATIC RL 'RICULTU v WHO I S OF 19'n Darin- the 'ca1 01 1049 1940, 18 vocativnel agriculture ooys covnleted 73 different liveetock and c on nroyects with a total net ice 0 O '6 The lar est a.5 noet p o-its le rovn of projects we.e t e SVIWC vrogccta in whlch 2 fowe and 150 1 Q ere car ied. A total of 0,JO w were o work v nredxce at 9 net nro'it of Sl 51. I Seven hebv beef calvee showed a net nrofit of 312A 66, ud11e five evee ani lambs nrcuuc d F DTO1i+ of S52 'H for t e oofs. Ia eddltiom the tumkey ani chzccen projecte e Y1CF6d their owners bg S713 27 Twelve boy CUTTICF e scccnderg n eject or core ann a total cf '9 le acres OI uv,ri coin HH drndacec 1? ch yre1ded 2 Bfh Ju Nels. He ne ofzt ex no covr, I: ur r co et fift cents vuvmel wa 311S.oo. r edaltif t'c bore raised I ac. 1 tatoea 'Hicn netted tree S?o.75 In emcral, vocational e F1CJ1tUTG t onfhu Q Q lla ro L42 u ofect work, em e 1 c c C Q rxc ltxze U ject 1 tre' mort -mo tert na'ft 'v ce r1c 1 me cmn se nec uffe 1D olnjcct vor., the etvdent lcarn bv QOIDQ 0 1 Tlere are tve t 11ve b ewrofled i he tvo agriculture cwu ees trle f6B'a These bcyf ere ce ryiu on the avera e 3 A acts e ch teff 1015 ere c rrf r Gov and li tcr IA ect rc boj 1' r lfxv f re ifteled an elfefs tv mc s e 0 r 000' bee ce vef, our re fc F 'Ure d lambs. L vc crlc u Jecte, a t eefe1 H e wo etoes. n 1 t I1P have ccrx rclec qu 0 . I 2 0 0 X ' .5 9 1' Q I l.' ' . ii -T , IU ' f-if 1, T' 'P N -. T . a 3 ' uv ' ve - ' -. , - vu ' , Q I '- Q 4. 5 I. U , ' . I 1. e 3 1' '.fl -. bl., - 0755 ' Q .- .. - .,. 4- .', ,. - -. z. I gf. 1 . L 1 ., J. 'l, . 3 1.. - l, -'1 .--,' I . -. A -Jn V ,K ' 13 35 my I -L. . E. F G ,c.r1. f - ' :ne ,.: .d , I I 51W gf. '. I -- . ., . . -eg. ft, 9 . . . . V 'V . .'! K. . A A Ai C ,. L N 9 s g':.4 .. br . . ' f .. ' ' . ' 3 . .. fre' . -. . f I I I3 on 0 'P ' . Y 'W . C. ' Q - - V . . .... . -A .. . M :U E,e t - , ' 'VF' 6 ', f.s 5 ..' ' ' i V I - ., is 7' Q Tr. t pr ' .' E' . . -'- ' 161: vm Vt A y' - . . a 13,1 r Q Au 1 I 1 . .n -' Jq , -fe - re 0 po- ! ' F l .WA ,. .. , Q Q14 - . . 5 ' Q at S r ,5.'r.t wa a .-L' ' . .- - ' - succese.u1 year. On the RVEFHLC, each bov han a net income of . e : '. : -. ' L .34 f Q V-. TY . hid Lk. fo ftg-tel ., Y Q 1- ro- . . .' -. 1 . 1. r -' .,f' tf rf ' 'Ltr ' ' , ' 5, , ' - -', , -n- . ,. ' ' ,. . a ' . . ., ,-. . .1 6 ZQ 1-fO-iv P? ECTS 1 . ' -' '1 N-- ' . rf-fs 1- - . 21 t ff z:1.. 13 : '- :'. 1: 1 -, . 55 3., wr.j. 9 .. Fi? ,gn ' 3: , 2 gi 4 P5 ..i be. T'...'j MSO O Q I I .1 FE. .:r.- A Z . t' .1 M' .oirff I-. l T' : ff A . H . hxf f u ' J' .1 el U' f r- a.- :.i.1n. 19 , M rn tTrec Fa 'cf wfcf , :Q4 , N-M fr rsisine A th I sd- ,,L,u, . ,, l . .L -en .. -se . .. 1 1 , t.

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XX FUTURE FAnMZRS OV AMERI A Tae Vocational Ag,1culture D J rtment or the Future Farmers of America is an active organization It practices the motto f arning ov Doing t us lu has set up a grouv of services which t illingly performs lor the farmers and citizens of the community Some of these services are as follows Analysis of unknowns, oalancinb ions, delousing poultry soil conservatlon, keeping d ir, herd records milk testina, candling eggs, testing seeds for germlnatlon, lnnoculating seeds, nlantinb and landscavlng, DGSD er dication and control, noultry culling pruning tre s and testing soil The members of the F F A have learned tiat it pays to co one ate, and now market coopeiatively mix protein and mineral coop- erativelv, and secure serum and views cooperatively Ore OI the spring activities of the den rtment 1S the develop- ment of Juagino teams Last year the F t Stock temn was composed of Elbert Hartman, Gaylord Mickle, and Harold Kemp The Dairy team was composed of Donald McIntyre, Toward Stimpson and Walter Wilcoli Lee Saben and Janes Lant Judged poultry, and Dale Wolfe, Donald.Annegers and Jack Dixon were the grain Judges The Poultry team placed in the B group in the State Contest and the graun team placed in the A group, Strpnghurst placed 8th. .Tack Dixon was 3rd individual and Donald Annegers placed 7th as an individual. By far the greatest emphasis in the agriculture department is ylacod on projects By constant effort and a gradual building pro cess the number of projects carried has been increased to an average of 3 per student. The quality of projects also has been greatly im proved and more and more emphasis is placed on showing. Last year the boys exhibited stock at the Sectional Voc tional Agriculture B?ur which was held at Yates City and also at the Henderson County F ir Over S300 in prize money was won at the fairs and with the improvement of stock that is evident these W1n.1ngS should be much higher in the future Recently, steps have been taken to organize a Swine Breeders association for the boys having registered swine The purposes of the organization are to promote the use of cooperative breeding stock, improve sales of stock, and to increase amount of publicity and advertising. The President the association is Donald Annegerlg the Vice President is Lee Sebeng and the Secretary-Treasurer is Bernard Galbraith. V ' Y , S -' ' - :'2:s- '- '- 0 LT 7'l'- i T 'iF ,, ,,.,.... W ....... X -n fl H ... ' v , . . - r 1. Ci c. .. I I O I I ' A . Q 0 T A . ., . ,A . L , - - nz., L- 1 L 1 - -- Q.-' ' 4' ' ' .4 4 o 0 r ' . I . . - ,n . . ' - 9' .fav 'A , G. v . . N . 1 . 9' 2 I I I I I 9 s f h CF . A . . . . - El , 9 , o T ' , ... A . , . - . Y' Q . . . . .. - - 1 - ,. 1 . . . L I A - . . - 1 2 a . I 1 I .. D' . . a 0 L . -t 1 , c .P Y I ' L , - I . . ' I I I c D D' I . . . . . 0 Q up . . , C ..- - C c a . Y . . . , 9. 1' ' ' z ' I I C, g . . . 4 '1 . . . 0 . . . , 9 . .. .

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X W 1 VCC 'T'Tu1AL AGING' TI' l ll FOP A USZF T' VOCATIOT A recent save of the 11111111 of the Stro1 fuse -Tlgn Scoool VOC9v10l8l Ag 1CQ1td e Cour es reveals tn U well over lf2ci'the boys who alfen agrlculture 1n the last o 'vea.s are already malclng tf1e11 l1x1nE, lrom a,gr1cultu.1e THIS survev was conducted arnoag, the boys who have graduated or left hlgh school between lqju and l9UO A total ol GM boys woo have taken some or all ol the agrlcultule coul ses oflered, who left nigh scnool dmring th1S tlme Of these 6M three ar deceased and 6 'moved to other hlbn schools and so vere not lvxcluded n tnls survey. It must be remembered that thls survey mxolves yodtn who are Stlll not ver old the oldest hav1nD gradu tea n l93U and so there are many w1o are stlll not establ1shed 11 tne1r flnal l1fe worlf 'mst also oe fememoered tfzat tl 1S survey 111VO1VP.u every bov wlo has taken any vocat1onal abr1culture course or Dart of a course These Oogys enzollec. when thev were 13 or 174 years old and o were oo 'young to have 1 ade any deflnlte declslon as to then' l11e voca'c1on. Fowever, w1th these Iaots 11' mlnd tuere were 53 boys lncluded 111 one o 3'lC1tV or another, 18 boys o 3? foo are not connected. mth vr1cultu.1 e, and 5 boys or ,O ar 11 colleges Co 1s1c.ev1n the 52 boys who are connected w1vh aerlcultule lj l 5,0 r now renters of farms, 59,0 are Iorrff laoorels, e1tner at home 0 av-,y Irom wr., w1t1 SO6C1I1C ages, 205 t home on the farm Wltl lncome from labor .nd also nt Drlsos OI trfelr olm such as SWIA s eep, etc and 16 Pf3 are paltders ln the none farm bdslness T e otl r no ol ooys the 18 wlo are lot oo mected w1th I rmlnf., h ve a Vilrletf of oocupatlons 2350 are 1n f1v1at1on, 10 wore 1n 1 C'OT16c, p mre 11snermen, 175 are round town w1th no deflnlt ,Joo 284: are WOILV1 Lg 11 s r11ce stat1ous 556' are in C C C Cal' ns, :Ld ,171 lorl 1'1 stores as clelks XM Y Y V ? N RN I 1 ' Y ' 'Y , ! FT il.- -' If -L LL' ' 5.11 V124 I1uS , ' . . 'rx ..- DJJ - . . Q , A L - . , , 1' J' ' is 1 '. - 1 . 4- -. 1- ' s ' .. ,, .QL .- . - r ' r s . . a 1 K- ,N 3 L . . f r .1 . N LLFIVX, L, , . , ., U -- .. 1 '.. ' ,' ,. : ' . J' 0 1 R A r- - b U . . .. . - , 1 5' . .- - J' ' -4 -'1 4' ' N- .L . - 1 . 1 1 1 ,Q 6 rs . 5 , x, e .H. . , . - 4 , . A L ' i L J. - . 0. M , .R V V V . , U X J 1 1: Y Q 7' F1 1 V J , L, -- Q. 4. L. 1 L. A Lg . '1 ' ., 1 1 ,F I -1 . Q, 0 ' - 1 U s 17 , xv RA ' n . . 5 . . , , , ,- . A. L- - L4 l - ' V - Q - -ff 111 the survey. A total of 32 boys or 98 lfip are now. on a farm , . - . ., , f 0 'gf . - 3' L t, 1- ' I' I . H . Q , - V, 3 .1 - Kazaa 5 'J 4 D W 1 C' - ' ' ' -..... 4 - -- 3 o , - , 5, ,-U a P Q 1 . 4 O - C- . -- 1 , - . ,. .. . . Y' ,Y fv q 3 . T - . A. x . , I 13 A - lx. 1 4 14 4 A ' L.. ' ,J 1.1.1 V Q., -- , . . H 'L e 1214+ 1 . ' C , I . '. Q ,. Q , I ' 1 I vy if Q . I3 1. . - . 'V . 3 I v, A' . . Q . x , . :L -le -1:3 ' , 1 - . 1 0 - A . s 4 . . . . 'Y C' A X- t nA. 9 I L4 4 -H - - -M - - -. 4 . 1- 1 .. I .1 - - 1- U 5 u- L. - . - 4 . - . f ' Q . L . 1' '-Q, -v Q r 1 V , , -s 41. 4 V - , v v Q -- . 5 ' 51, .., ,. ' -, Az- ' A J 4 L A x4 Q