West Bend High School - Bend Yearbook (West Bend, WI)

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he ill Ooh I In preparaTion Tor home-making The girls in The domesTic science deparTmenT learn To cook and To sew and To perTorm many oTher useTul household skills. WiTh Miss KuehlThau as overseer, The girls work quiTe independenTly aT Their proiecTs. The domesTic science rooms in The vocaTional school are modernly equipped, which makes The course a greaT deal oT Tun. When sewing is begun, simple Things like smocks and blouses are made: buT by The Time The course is Tinished, The girls are able To make mosT oT Their wardrobes. Cooking is such Tun! EveryThing ThaT is prepared can be eaTen by The cooks. Some Times ThaT isn'T such Tun. OTTen some oT The Tood eaTen in The caTeTeria was prepared by The domesTic science girls. The caTeTeria pro- vides an opporTuniTy Tor pracTical experience. As The girls advance in The Tine arT OT cooking, They unde-rTake more diTTiculT Things. Luncheons were planned and Triends were inviTed. Some- Times The girls inviTed Their besT beaus. This Tended To prove The old adage, The besT way To a man's hearT is Through his sTomach. The Third-year class is indeed helpTul. Dur- ing The TirsT semesTer inTerior decoraTing is sTudied, while The second semesTer work con- sisTs oT a course in household managemenT. To supplemenT The domesTic science course Miss KuehlThau has organized a Home Econo- mics Club. The club meT every second and TourTh Thursday oT The monTh. The oTTicers Tor The pasT year were: Bernice Voeks, presi- denT7 Juneva Schmidt vice-president Edifh Degner, secreTary: Phyllis Mains, Treasurer: and Alice WolT, poinT secreTary. PoinTs were earned Through aTTendance, parTicipaTion in programs, being an oXTTicer and Through dona- Tions Tor home-made candy sales. When a girl has acquired 500 poinTs, she is given a pin in recogniTion oT ThaT achievemenT. The big evenT oT The year is The moTher and daughTer banqueT which is held in May. This aTTair gives The girls an opporTuniTy To display Their domesTic TalenTs To The besT criT- ics in The world, Their moThers. The Tavorable commenTs made by The parenTs prove The Thoroughness oT The course. The picTures below show The home econo- mics sTudenTs in Their club work and proiecTs. Top The T-lome Economics Club holds a business Topu BMO Mower and Dauqmer banquet SanTa Claus Threw kisses Ti T Th d Tic science mee ng. N . . . . . a e omes BoTTom -- Real Tood Tor real pracTice in eTigueTTe. Bolfom Prachce ln Sewlce 'S one of The Sublecis' parTy Page TwenTy TT ree l 1

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We ill Grow I One oT our school's newesT and mosT inTeresT- ing deparTmenTs is The agriculTure course, or- ganized on July I, I94O, as a Tour year course. Our agriculTure-minded boys responded whole- hearTedly and enThusiasTically To The new course. ForTy sTudenTs enrolled This year and TiTTy-Tive are expecTed To Take The course nexT year. There are ThirTy-Tive To TorTy parT-Time vocaTional agriculTure boys enrolled in aTTer- noon insTrucTion. Besides These, ThirTy farmers who wanT To learn more abouT Their chosen work spend Their evenings in a special agricul- Ture course. The agriculTure insTrucTor, Mr. l-lolzheuTer, is employed TiTTy per cenT oT The Time in The high school and TiTTy per cenT oT The Time in The vocaTional school. His job does noT end in The classroom, Tor he has Tield work in The counTry, on The home Tarms oT boys en- rolled in his classes, working ouT problems and Teaching The principles oT new Tarming meTh- ods as an aid To Their TuTure success. He worlcs Twelve monThs a year supervising The many Types oT programs carried on during The summer monThs. Over TorTy herds, num- bering 600 dairy cows, are TesTed monThly aT The deparTmenT's TesTing laboraTory. The boys learned how To prune apple Trees and oTTered Their services To Townspeople Tree oT charge. The FuTure Farmers OT America chapTer oT The high school is an organizaTion ThaT is spon- sored in connecTion wiTh The agriculTure de- parTmenT. While The F. F. A. emphasizes Train- ing in agriculTural lines, iT also gives The boys Training in public speaking and in aThleTics. The agriculTure sTudenTs learn pracTical Tarm managemenT by acTual experience in Tarm Tasks. A caTTle iuclging Team which aT- Tained The raTing oT good in a sTaTe conTesT is shown below in The upper leTT-hand picTure. The oTTicers oT The local F. F. A. chapTer are shown in The nexT picTure. They are Norman l-lembel, ReporTerg Ralph Wardius, Treasurer: George FalTer, President Carl Wagner, Vice- presidenT: and Carroll Hembel, SecreTary. Ex- amples oT The pracTical Teachings oT The agri- culTure course are The milk TesTing scene, and The insTrucTion Mr. l-lolzhueTer gives The sTu- denTs in rope splicing shown below. WiTh This spiriTed enThusiasm shown Tor our new agriculTure course bumper crops can be expecTed Trom The FuTure Farmers oT America. Top H LaaTsch Mr T-lolzhueTer, G. FalTer, Top -- N. l-lembel, R. Wardius, G. FalTer, E, Wagner N DeTTn-iann. C. l-iembel P. Lemlce, Mr. T-lolzhueTer BoTTom Cv FalTer M McCarTney, M. Derge. BoTTorn -- E. Wagner, P. Lemlce, C. Hembel THE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE BEND Page TwenTy-Two

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Paper fgures are sciufinized Mrs. Gill works beneafh a John Jaelcel submifs a Bend J. Nehring examines a by Mr Reis V Johnson and finely leffered sign done in posfer fo Dorofhy Weiss' drawing. J Scl owalfe arf class. crificism. Tradifion has if fhaf one who would be an arf- isf lives his life in a gloomy garref, wifh a menu of dry bread and cold wafer. Even fhe promise of such a morbid fufure doesn'f seem fo upsef fhe arf class. No anemic ascefics, fhey are characferized by fhe lusfy spirif wifh which fhey enfered info all underfakings. Buf why shouldn'f fhey? The class is fhree fimes as large as lasf year: if has a fine room in which fo work. and fhe sfudenfs are given a good deal of freedom. Perhaps only a few members of fhe class expecf fo follow arf as a vocafion, buf fhe course is one which is infer- esfing fo all. Mr. Reis worlcs on fhe idea fhaf fhe purpose of arf fraining should be fo fosfer individualily and originalify rafher fhan fo sup- press fhese qualifies. Accordingly fhe sfudenfs are given a rafher wide choice of subiecfs and media. Lyman Unruh did some fine figure slcefching and Rosemary Rackow made some good wafer colors. Dorofhy Weiss did every- Page il fenfy four fhing unusually well, while Willy Dhein's pic' forial map of Washingfon Counfy is being used by fhe hisfory classes. Af firsf some of fhe sfudenfs had frouble wifh liffle defails like perspecfive . . some of fhe buildings proved fhaf! Occasionally fhe class had crificism, guaranfeed fo be fhe mosf painless deflafor yef discovered. The class did some figure painfing, a few landscapes, and a number of indusfrial designs. Perhaps fhe besf fhing abouf fhe class is fhaf if is largely pain- less. The sfudenfs are seldom aware fhaf fhey are being faughfg fhaf's why fhey don'f resenf if. A maior accomplishmenf for fhe arf classes was Billy Boldf's winning of fhe disfricf l-lelen Mears arf confesf open fo all eighfh graders. Billy chose as his subiecl' an indusfrial scene in Wesf Bend. Affer a year all arf sfudenfs have learned much abouf arf and how fo re- lease fheir original powers on canvas. h,IOI3 n l'IiI . .