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

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Training for Safe Driving and Physical Fitness MR. JOHN E. EDMONDS. Physical Education and Coach; B.S., Masters, Univ. of Miss. MR. E. S. JENKINS. Athletic Director, Coach, and Driver Training; M.A. in Phy. Ed., Univ. of Miss. Under the supervision of Coach El Edmonds, the stu- dents of YHS improved in body and mind as they were paced through vigorous calisthenics and sessions on the fundamentals of various sports. The goal of the physical education course is to teach the way of a good sportsman as well as to furnish students with a healthful and in- formative activity. Students eagerly participated in sports such as dodge-ball, basketball, and football. Students at YHS take great interest in the Driver's Education Program which is under the direction of Coach Red” Jenkins. During the first months of the course the students study the basic mechanics of a car and numerous safety precautions. To complete his training, each driver demonstrated his skill in the specially equipped drivers' education car. There goes Norma Gill, she is such a conscientious driver! After a few of the gruesome films showing color scenes of fatal accidents on the highway, all YHS students began to drive more carefully. Wow, yells Weezie Phillips, if I were as good in Algebra as I am playing basketball, I'd be a genius. During the year students learn such valuable things as how to play baseball, basketball, and volleyball. No P.E. session goes by without an exhilarating drill in exercise. Students also spend one term on a first aid course. 24

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Commercial Department for Practical Training And I thought learning my a, b, c,’s was hard! exclaims Mary Sutherland in a state of panic preceding a typing test. OOQOOOQOOOO 00000000060 © oooooooee© © Now is the time for all good men to . . . reach 40 words a minute or fail the course. Have no fear, we know these boys will make it. Hands on your keys, eyes on your books, . . . Begin, instructs Miss Hendrix, one of the typing teachers at YHS. This is just one of the familiar directions repeated again and again by the proficient teachers of the Com- mercial Department. The five minute timings and tabula- tion problems in the typewriting classes taught by Miss Louise Hendrix and Mrs. Nelson Isreal brought back memories 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 incessant indolence. The Commercial Department aids the Yazoo City busi- ness community in many ways, one of which is by train- ing efficient office personnel and by offering night classes for adults and students. MISS LOUISE HENDRIX, Shorthand. Typewriting, Secretarial Training; MSCW. B.S. MRS. NELSON ISREAL. Bookkeeping, Business English, Business Train- ing, Typewriting; Miss. Delta, A.A., Delta State, B.S., U.M., M.B. Dear John, Have you ever thought about . . . well, about . . . bad breath?” Now, Norma surely your boss didn't dictate this letter! 23

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Vocational Training for Future Endeavors MR. A. L. BOND. Diversified Occupations, Distributive Education; M.Ed., Miss. State. MR. JAMES H. BURCHFIELD, Industrial Arts and Mechanical Drawing; B.S., Miss. State. To develop future leaders for marketing and dis- tribution in the community, YHS offers to juniors and seniors the enrollment in Distributive Education. There are two types of programs offered in D.E.: cooperative and preparatory. In the cooperative pro- gram, students in the morning take the academic subjects required for graduation and at least one period in Distributive Education; and in the after- noon they experience on-the-job training. The pre- paratory training consists of marketing and related subjects which permit the student to remain in school all day and continue with academic subjects. The student receives work experience on weekends and holidays. Mechanical arts, the language of industry, is a rewarding course to all students, but especially those interested in engineering. With such precision in- struments as the triangle and T-square, the students draw their ideas to scale. Ronnie Allen is one of the many YHS students who benefit from the Diversified Occupations course. While participating in the D.E. program, Jenell Be careful, Ted, this machine can easily chop off those little fingers, Kight works diligently as she keeps books for warns Mr. Burchfield. The woodworking students turn out top grade Hillary White's Builders Supply. finished products with skill and ease. 25