Weeping Water High School - Red and White Yearbook (Weeping Water, NE)

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Smith Hughes Home Economics Marie Ankersen Nellie Ash Tressa Ash Freda Baker Alice Bickford Wilma Burch Verna Colbert Olga Elgaard Jaunita Fleming Emma Johnson Rula Lane Mabel Lempka Margaret Lau Ruth Morse Evelyn Doty Mary Miller I Julia Pedersen Gladys Philpot Viola Sogard Nellie Schwab Mary Ellen Wiles Gladys Zessin Llydia Kilburn

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Smith Hughes Vocational Agriculture This department was called to our curriculum in the year 1922-1923. Then as the 34th department established in the state under the Smith- Hughes law. We are now proceeding in the second year of our growth. Probably no growth, so far as numbers is concerned, as we ran to capacity last year, but we have grown in equipment, material and text books, till we are probably as well an equipped department as is in the school and nearly as well as is in the state. A word might be said -of our efforts at the Annual Nebraska High School Judging contests. In the year 1922-23 Clarence Sogard was 10th in the wood working contest and the Babcock milk test. Elmer Klepser, Fred Marquardt and Robert Meyer as the livestock judging team was 10th. These results were good in view of the fact that there were 21 teams competing and this our first year. The year 1923-24 was also suc- cessful. Nissley Marshall was second in the Babcock milk test, Fred Kirchoff was 12th in the wood work contest. The livestock judging team consisting of Clarence Kintner, Harry Noell and Eldon Mendenhall was 18th in a field of 25 teams. This low standing was due to the ele- ments f'r most part. The late spring, consisting of rains, bad roads, etc., made it impossible to perfect ourselves, because we could not get the practice needed. The embryonic organization stage of the department is passed and it is now based on a firm basis which will allow it to produce its maximum work. Prof. Taggart leaves the first of August for his new position at Barneston, but by that time we will have had time to finish the work this year and start next year's work in such a way that his successor will be able to take it up where he left off. The boys taking the work are enthusiastic about it and appreciate its value. K

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Smith Hughes Home Economics Domestic Science was put on in Weeping Water High School about six years ago with Miss Abernathy as teacher. Smith Hughes system was started two years ago for the purpose of getting the girls interest- ed in the practical phases of home making. This year there are 24 girls taking Home Economics. They have learned how to prepare and serve a meal by serving noon lunches through the winter. How to select the foods which furnish all the ele- ments necessary for health and growth. Their Clothing course has taught them how to select becoming colors and lines, how to select good materials and how to make their own gar- ments. Wise expenditure of the income, convenient arrangement of the kitchen, planning of Work to save time and labor, and selection and ar- rangement of furnishing have been taken up in the house management course. The art course applies art principles to the home, teaching the selec- tion of colors, for the rooms, arrangement of rugs and furniture, selec- tion and hanging of pictures, painting of vases, cans and Woodwork. The girls have made curtains for the windows, a lunch set and table cover which improve the appearance of the department. They have painted the shelves, cupboards and woodwork in the pantry white, and painted cans to put the supplies in. We have tried to teach these girls to select with economic and artistic comprehension all things that go into the home, from articles of utility to the fine arts.