Tekonsha High School - Indian Yearbook (Tekonsha, MI)

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HOMF FCONOMICS. INDUSTRIAL ARTS (Top) Floyd Hinspeter works on one of his projects in the small engines mini course. (Bottom) Alice and Brenda Kelly concentrate on their drawings in mechanical drawing class. Students Gain Practical Skills Miss Rinette Griffiths, home economics instructor, helps eighth and ninth grade students learn a few of the basic needs of being a homemaker, such as cooking, sewing, and the basics of child care. Miss Griffiths also teaches the mini courses open to grades ten through twelve. The mini courses include home management, food and nutrition, men’s clothing and child care. In the Industrial Arts Department, under the direction of Mr. James Messacar, students learn the correct and safe way to use shop tools. Shop classes are offered to seventh and ninth grades, and various mini courses which include small engines, electronics, and welding. Mr. Messacar also teaches mechanical drawing where students learn to make accurate drawings using mechanical equipment and drafting techniques.

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(Above) Danny Schaffer enjoys” one of the many tasks of being a homemaker. (Above Right) Diane Saltzgaber labors at a home ec. project. (Right) Linda Millard looks amused as Sandy Cummins toils to thread a needle. 14

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(Top) Two seventh grade students are busy working on their mobile projects for Mr. Duane Richardson's social studies class. (Above) Students are pondering their scores from a test in Mrs. Polly DeVries' U.S. history class. (Right) Shirley Jordon expresses her opinion in a class discussion in a social studies mini course. 16