Tuscola High School - Jungle Yearbook (Tuscola, TX)

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',,'..1'l'fi-zu AN EQECTRIC REFRIGERATORD AND THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS av DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES ON THE HOMED THE NAME WAS CHANGED FROM HOME ECONOMICS CLUB TO THE HDMEMAHIND CLUE IN THAT YEAR. IN THE SPRING OF l94O STELLA MAE TAYLDR. GERALDINE WHITE. ALDA MARIE BLACKVOOD, VER- NA HOWARD, AND LOUISE ANDERS. ACOOMPANIED BY THE IN- STRUCTORD MRS. HARRY HOLTa ATTENDED THE RALLY IN DAL- LAS AND BOTH STELLA MAE AND LOUISE WERE AWARDED HON- ORS IN THEIR SEPARATE DIVISIONS. IN THE FALL OF V959 THE CLUB WITH THE AID UF THE F. F. A. FIRST PREPARED THE COMMUNITY BOOTH FDR THE WEST TEXAS FAIR IN ABILENED AND WAs AWARDED THE PRIZE OF TVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS FOR FIRST PLACE. AT THE FIRST OF UGTOBER IN i940 THE CLASSES CARRIED DUT THE MILI- TARY THEME IN THEIR BOOTH BY USING TExAs FLAcs AND A BACKGROUND MADE OF RED, WHITE. AND BLUE COTTON SEEDS. THROUGHOUT THE PRESENT YEAR THE ENTIRE DEPART- HENT HAS COOPERATED IN RAISING THE NECESSARY FUNDS FOR THE WDRKI BY SELLING CANDIES AND COLD DRINKS AT THE BALL GAMES, BY PREPARIND AND SERVING SANDWICHESI BY MAKING AN WODD FELLOW' QUILT WHICH WAS GIVEN T0 A LUCKY NUMBER AFTER CHANGES HAD DEEN SOLDI BY SPON- soRINc '42' TOURNAMERTSD AND BY PREsENTINc A THREE ADT PLAY, JESSICH'S JOURNEY- THIS MONEY' ABOVE THE DURRENT EXPENSES, IS TD BE USED TO IMPROVE THEIEPART- MENT IN ITS NEW QUARTERS NEXT YEAR. THE NEW HOME OF THE HDMEMAKIND DEPARTMENT WILL BE BUILD DURING THE SUMMER OF r94I. AND IT IS HOPED THAT IT WILL BE READY FOR OCCUPANCY WHEN SCHOOL OPENS IN SEPTEMBER. THE OLD GRADE SCHOOL BUILDING WILL BE RENOVATED AND ALL THE UPSTAIRS WILL BE cDNvERTED INTO A COTTAGE FOR HDHEMAHIND STUDENTSD THE PLANS CALL FOR A CLOTHING LADDRATDRY, A FOODS LABORATORY, A LARGE RECREATION ROOM WHICH IS ALso COMBINATION LIvINc-DIN- IND RDDM. AND A BEDROOM. THE PLANS ARE T0 ADD SOME NEW FURNITURE TO THE DEPARTMENT, sUcH As: A NEW BEDROGM SUITE, SEVERAL NEI SEWING MACHINES, cook STOVESD .sINKs, AND TABLEIIITSQ NEW WINDDW CURTAINS AND MANY sMALL ARTICLES AND BRIC- BRAC WILL BE ADDED T0 MAKE THE DEPARTMENT ATTRACTIVE. CONCLUDING THE CURRENT YEAR'S IORKQ THE STUDENTS GAVE A STYLE SHOW IN THE HIDH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM. HERE THE dlRLS SHOWED THE WORK THEY HAD DONE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, DURING AND AMUSING AND ARTISTIC PROGRAM CLASS PROBLEMS OF PAJAMASD HOUSECOATS, AND SCHOOL AND TAILDRED oREssEs WERE SHOWN? WHILE ON DISPLAY WERE some Home PRDJEDTS: KNITTED GARMENTSD CROTCHET, BED SPREADSI ETD.