Waterford High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Waterford, CT)

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DOROTHY MITCHELL WESLEY STOFFEL Home Economics, NANCY VILLENEUVE Industrial Arts, Drafting, FRANK ALLEGRETTI Department Chairman Home Economics Driver Education Industrial Artsg Golf Coach JOHN GOGGIN JOHN HARDY JAMES LUSK D. GEORGE WILLIAMSON Industrial Arts Woods, Electricity, Drafting, Electricity Industrial Arts Drafting Here students work in elec- tricity. Learning how to repair electrical equipment safely will prove handy in their later home life and is especially profitable for boys planning to become electricians.

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Basic Skills Are Needed In A Complex World With the computers and complex machinery of our modern age, there is strong need for men and women who know how to operate and repair those instru- ments. High school shop teaches the basic knowledge and skill for working with machinery, with wood, with WMM...-J electricity, and with automobile motors. Although the skills learned in shop are often taken for granted, they are essential to our present society which could not exist without mechanics, electricians, plumbers, or carpenters. Equally important are the basic skills of home making, cooking, sewing, budgeting, and child care, which are taught in home economics classes. These skills help the wife run a home and family, smoothly aided by the household machines which save so much time and drudgery for today's homemaker. Even though technology may make life even easier for the housewife of tomorrow, the essential human abilities will always be needed. Richard Santora masters skills in drafting with the assistance of Mr. Williamson. ln drafting students ac- quire a sense of proportion and design. Rosemary Christina models her own work in homemaking. nursing that will profit them even in the future home which Here girls learn essential skills in cooking, sewing, and home may be run by push buttons and robots.

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HThe future belongs to the fit, both mentally and physically. The old adage, HA sound mind in a sound body illustrates the goal of the Waterford High School physical education program. In the boys' phy- sical education classes, skill, coordination, and sports- manship are taught in team and individual sports, football, basketball, baseball, soccer, track, cross country, Wrestling, golf, tennis, and gymnastics. The girls gain grace and supple, healthy bodies through archery, modern square dancing, field hockey, softball, bowling, basketball, badminton, tennis, vol- leyball, and gymnastics. The pace of the modern World is increasing, re- quiring healthy, stable individuals who can make many demands on their bodies and nervous systems. Today's astronauts and aquanauts perform skilled feats which may be only a taste of the physical skills our generation may be called upon to exercise. Let us be prepared for these exciting eventualities. Mrs. Rettig tells her gym class about their activity for the day. A slight change this year is the presence of names on the back of gym suits. In Boys P.E. rope climbing requires extreme strength and ability. Steve Stanley struggles to maintain his grip and climb still farther.