Yazoo City High School - Mingo Chito Yearbook (Yazoo City, MS)

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Home Economics MRS. RALPH C. HUNT Homcmaking MSCW, B.A. One of the most meaningful and useful courses that is offered at YHS is that of home economics. Girls taking this course not only study the values of being an efficient housekeeper, but learn such arts as dressing smartly and improving one’s- personality. Laying and cutting a pattern were tedious tasks that preceded the sewing session. Altering a garment for perfect fit was made easier when using the full length mirrors in the fitting room. Cooking brought delicious aromas through the halls of YHS. The joy of eating the food prepared by home ec girls was always marred by the thought of unwashed dishes. Planning budgets, furniture arrangements and work schedules were skills the students acquired during the year. With this training the girls no doubt will ap- preciate their present home more and be successful homemakers in later years. “Where shall I put my bed?” is the query of Carol Wilkin- son. Teresa Jennings ponders before she answers. House planning is only a part of the many phases of homemaking, hut a very valuable art for a young housekeeper. This method surely does beat the clothesline. The home- making class experienced a year of leisure with the newly installed washer and dryer. Even Miss Hester used it to clean her basketball socks. “How do you like my suit?” asks Nelda Dangelo. All four girls made their outfits and are model- ing them before the FHA Club. Who knows, we may have the “best dressed women” of the United States in our midst. 23

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Commerce MISS LOUISE HENDRIX Shorthand. Type- writing, Sec. train- ing. MSCW, B.S. MISS DOROTHY MITCHELL Bookkeeping, Busi- ness Eng., Business Training, Typewrit- ing. Miss. Delta, A. A., Delta State, B. S. in Ed., U.M., M.B.E. The Commercial Department of YHS during 1963-64 proved to be a big success in the training of students for commercial business. Even though some of the students will not actually go into commercial business, they were taught the various subjects of typing, shorthand, book- keeping, secretarial training, business English, and busi- ness training. Perhaps the five minute timings and tabulation prob- lems in the typewriting classes taught by Miss Louise Hendrix and Miss Dorothy Mitchell will bring back memories of hours of adding, subtracting, and dividing only to have the whole thing wrong. Transcriptions in shorthand and practice sets in bookkeeping sometimes discouraged the want-to-be-perfect students into inces- sant indolence. After a year of hard, tedious wTork, many of the eager students showed their interest by applying for positions in business. O.K., Hugh Nelson, flipping back for answers won’t get the job done. Having a practice teacher like Buddy Upchurch was so exciting that Jane Beale couldn’t possibly make a timed writing. Every time he spoke she made a mistake. Tap. tap, tap. Bookkeeping requires accurate use of the adding machine, and a swift finger as the one Ricky Carson has. 22

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Vocational and Industrial Arts MR. A. L. BOND Diversified Occupations and Distri- butive Education, M.Ed., Miss. State MR. BOBBY G. TOWERY Industrial Arts and Mechanical Drawing, Jr. and Sr. High School, B.S., Miss. State Univ. Kenneth Woodruff hopes that his figuring was right as he finishes up his latest model of a what-ya-call it. Diversified Occupation and Mechanical Drawing classes provide the student with an education to help him after graduation from high school. Diversified occupation offers education designed to help a person enter into and make progress in the fields of advertising, marketing, and distribution of goods and services, and in occupations that involves producing, manufacturing, assembling, and repairing of goods or services. Mechanical drawing classes aid students who plan to enter the profession of commercial art, drafting, and engineering. Mr. Bond lends a helping hand to Betty Monday and Janell Kight as they labor over a problem in vocation. Practice teacher, Scottie Taylor aids young boys in the art of sawing a block of wood. “Watch those fingers!”