Warwick Junior High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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Homemaking Department Four teachers advise and coun- cil with girls of Junior High con- cerning the problems the students will some day meet as home- makers. The home ec department is a suite of five rooms including bed room, living room, sewing room, and two kitchens. Another phase of the homemaking business, and a very important one, concerns the matter of preparing meals. The home ec girls frequently prepare various kinds of food, and take advantage of the latest kitchen equip- ment with which the kitchens are furn- ished. In the picture above, Susan Thomas, Mildred Green, Karen King, and Patty Bammer seem to be a little uncertain about results. Joyce Cook, Billie Burgess, Helen Brant, Barbara Murray, Carol Rey- nolds and Delores Fleming begin les- son in sewing. One of the things taught in the de- partment concerns proper procedures for making a neat bed. In the picture above, Ruby Padgett, Betty Ward, and Kay Sommers try their hands at the task. 29 ■ - •

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Home ec girls Sandy McDonald, Merril Curtis, Reba Faubion, Betty Oliphant, Kathy Frost, Donna Stall- ings, and Joan Williams model hats decorated with homemaking items during a demonstration urging safety in the home. At Thanksgiving, FHA girls made cornucopiae for decorations in sev- eral places around school. The usual fruits of harvest time made good eat- ing as well as pretty decorations. Around the bake -sale table arran- ged by FHA members are Rosie Cherry, Carol Mabe, Susan Girton, Kay Nettles, and Flo Bleakly. The customer is not identified. 28

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Sure.... every group has rules. Wubby wanted to know about the rules and regulations we have at Junior High. Well,” said Dick, we think we are very fortunate in this respect. You see, we have an unusually fine faculty; we have a large student body but a very cooperative group. Students, or the majority of them, are proud of the reputation which the school has earned. So we do not need a great many rules and regulations. Also, every rule has a reason. There are no laws” at Junior High which are imposed just to satisfy the whim of someone in administration. For example, we do not chew gum here at Junior High. We do not because gum has a way of attaching itself to all sorts of inappropriate places. Perhaps our most interesting rules are actually unwritten laws concerning the manner of dress which we encourage. You know, it ' s funny, but people do tend to be- have according to how they are dressed. In the costume of a bum, a person acts like a bum; Sunday best” manners usually are displayed when one is appropriately dressed. And we have proved that being careful about our appearance has paid divi- dends. Student behavior at Junior High is something we can brag about. Other necessary rules concern tardiness, use of the library, absences from school, and other routine matters. The important thing, we think, is that with QUALITY a trademark at Junior High, we can hold rules to a minimum, and each of the existing rules has a very good reason behind it. It might be interesting, Dick told Wubby, to compare the rules we have in our school today with the rules that were common in earlier schools. Sometimes stu- dents think that school, and home too, restricts them too much. On the opposite page are some of the many rules and regulations, along with the punishments meted out for each infraction, which were in effect in a certain school 100 years ago. Let ' s take a look at them and compare them with rules of a modern school. 30