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left: 



Instructor Dorothy Catlin (foreground) supervises as girls 

 prepare meal in model school kitchen. 



Right: Rosemary McCaslin (left) and Evelyn Brinic learn how 

 to wash clothes properly in a modem machine. 



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In sewing classes the students learn 

 to make, by hand and machine, attrac- 

 tive, serviceable clothes designed for the 

 individual's figure and personality. 

 Knowing so many of these home skills 

 gives the average Rochelle high school 

 girl the poise and assurance of girls 

 many years older. 



Asked what they liked about home 

 economics. 



Freshman Chris Stone said: "I have 

 learned how to do things quicker and 

 easier." 



Sophomore Norma Holmes; "Our 

 home economics teacher explains so 

 many more different things than you 

 could learn at home." 



Junior Helen Van Kirk: "I have 

 learned to cook, care for the home and 

 children, budget income and plan 

 things I just wouldn't have taken the 

 time to learn at home." 



Senior Ruth Keele: "I have learned 

 to sew and cook much better, how to 

 save time and money by planning and 

 budgeting. The methods are more ad- 

 vanced and modern than you could 

 learn at home." 



Under the direction of K. E. Weh- 

 ner, vocational agriculture instructor, 

 farm youth planning to remain on the 

 farm are taught the scientific bases for 



successful farming practices. Like the 

 girls in home economics, they learn by 

 doing. 



The farm mechanics machine and 

 woodworking shops are equipped with 

 a splendid array of tools, engines, ma- 

 chines and other equipment. In the 

 farm mechanics course alone, at least 

 100 separate tasks must be performed. 

 They range from the hanging of a gate 

 to the pouring of bearing babbitt. 



Work includes gas and electric weld- 

 ing, forge training, repair of farm 

 equipment including automobiles and 

 trucks, sheet metal training, care of 

 tools, use of concrete and metals, paints 

 and woods. 



The girl, too, who has little enthus- 

 iasm for the quantity theory of money 

 or the economic and social significance 

 of the industrial revolution can bend 

 her energies elsewhere. Besides learn- 

 ing how to run a home efficiently, she 

 can prepare for a business career by 

 learning how to operate office ma- 

 chines. 



Well-equipped with business ma- 

 chines, the Rochelle high school's 

 thoughtfully planned commercial 

 classes train the student to the point 

 where she can step into the average 



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Girls 



learn to serve appetizing meals 

 how to act as a good hostess. 



Veneta Purvis uses electric typewriter 

 Maxinc Busse the adder. 



.Corn planter Is repaired by Don Kettleson (left) and George Hintzsche. Right: 

 structor K. E. Wehner (right) shows trailer with scale made by students. 



In- Don Alcock (left) and Bob Johnson weld 

 sprocket in farm mechanics shop. 



JULY-AUGUST. 1946 



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