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Mrs. Margaret Fouts offers some assistance to one of the
students, Dianne Zehr.
Not only do the girls learn how to plan and prepare meals, they also learn how to prop-
erly set a table and serve. Marg Roseboom is shown serving the four girls at the table,
who are Sheila Willert, Bonnie Regier, Marg Miller and Sandra Sweitzer.
Family developments is one of the series studied this year by senior students. Looking
over one of the posters and displays, from the left: Marg Roseboom, Joan Tinney, Lois
Nielson, Sandra Sweitzer, Bonnie Regier and Marg Miller.
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1V14.13ILY1' J3RUINSMA
FPOcis Teacher
tiOnle Economics, similar
to the technical subjects is
taught on 4 semester basis.
From September to ,January
One -half of the Students take
Foods and Nutrition and the
other half of the students take
Clothing and Textiles,
From February to June the
students change rooms and
courses.
This year, for the first
time, we have operated under
a two room system and for
both the teachers and the
students it was "a treat".
At present in the Foods
room we have two. L-shaped
kitchen units each contain-
ing a 1967 model stove and
one 1967 model refrigerator
which is used between the
two units. Much new equip-
ment has been purchased to
improve the facilities avail-
able to the students.
During the summer vaca-
tion a third kitchen unit will
be added along the south and
west walls in lieu of the pres-
ent laundry area which will
be moved to the area be-
tween the Foods and Cloth-
ing Rooms.
With this new addition we
gain another 1967 model re-
frigerator and stove. This
means that more girls will be
able to cook more often and
in so doing do several as-
pects of one food unit instead
of just one or two aspects.
At the end of every two
years, the dealers who have
supplied the above applianc-
es to the high scho9lreplace
them with that years very de-
luxe models so that the stu-
dents may be kept abreast
with the newest develop-
ments in these appliances.
Some deluxe features
present in our 1967 stove
models are a rotisserie, an
automatic oven, minute
minder, an automatic self-
cleaning oven.
The pride of our Home Ec-
onomics room is having an
electric dishwasher which
really "sells" the girls on
Home Economics. After all,
everybody enjoys baking but
who really enjoys the clean-
ing up and dishwashing un-
less you are fortunate enough
to own an electric dishwash-
er?
In the laundry room, there
is a matching automatic
washer and .dryer set with
such features as the mini
basket for small loads, extra
wash cycle for extremely
dirty clothes and also a short
delicate cycle for nylons and
other synthetics.
The students learn to op-
erate these appliances so
that they can be a "helping
hand" to their mother.
The grade nine course in-
troduces the basics of bak-
ing techniques and home
management. Various food
topics are covered. Fruits
and vegetables may be pre-
pared in salad plates, cook-
ed servings or taste-tempt-
ing desserts and vegetable
plates.
Cheese was studied and
prepared in many different
quick, but nutritious after
school snacks. Milk was pre-
pared into smooth, rich, vel-
vety cornstarch puddings in
your favourite flavour of
'chocolate, butterscotch,
coconut, date, cherry,raisin
or chocolate date.
Flour products included
making muffins, tea biscuits,
Swedish tea rings, chelsea
buns, a jelly braid and a
sweet dinner roll for your
roast beef dinner in any de,
sired, shape of ClOverleafs;
fantails, bowknots, parker..
house or crescents,
Hamburg and hot dog buns
can also be made from this
same sweet dough recipe,
just vary the shape.
Home Management in-
Wives learning how to Pet the
table correctly, choosing ap-
propriate table linens, sil-
verware, glassware and
china. To highlight your table
setting and meal choose an
interesting and attractive but
appropriate centrepiece.
In grade ten the various
food topics of milk, eggs,
cheese, meat, vegetables and
fruits are studied in greater
detail than grade nine with
more difficult meal prepara-
tions.
Meat is studied in depth
in which both beef and pork
are broken up into retail
and wholesale cuts; the two
main cuts of meats and the
various methods to cook
them properly to enjoy a
hearty meal.
Each group prepared a
roast beef dinner in which
they cooked a tough cut of
meat, served two c ook ed
vegetables and one raw
vegetable with a quick des-
sert and finally a beverage.
Delicious meals were serv-
ed, eaten and thoroughly en-
joyed by the girls. Pastry and
&akes—butter, sponge, chif-
fon and angel -- were demon-
strated, sampled, evaluated
and made by the students.
Calories galore in this
course!
Pastry became delicious
cream-filled pies of four
flavours—chocolate, butter-
scotch, banana and coconut
cream. Magnifique!
In grade eleven a new
course has just been re-
leased and is in its third
year of use. Very little foods
and nutrition are present
except in the initial and fi-
nal units of Pioneer Life
and Food Customs around the
World respectively.
This course entitled Fam-
ily Development has four
basic units of Pioneer Life
and Times, How Families
have changed, The Family
Life Cycle and Families
Around the World.
Pioneer Times involves a
study of their way of life
with quilting and barn-rais-
ing bees, grist mills, maple
sugar and sugar.
In this unit we cooked a
pioneer meal enjoyed moose
steak and wild duck for
You're invited
to the SHDHS
FASHION
SHOW
Wednesday
May 29
2:00 to 4:00
meats, Best011 beans, sour
cream, biscuits; ,Johnny cake,
with, maple syrup for des-
Pert and tea,
The changes seen in fam,
flips in the past two or three
Centuries are incinStrializ-
ation, socialization, work-
ing Wives; time saving and
labour saving clinics, more
leisure and recreational fa-
cilities.
The family life cycle is
Studied very extensively In
its nine stages. The Newly
Married Pair, the Expect-
ant Stage, the First Child,
the Preschooler, the School
Age Child, the Teenagera t
The Launching Period when
the children begin to leave
home, the Empty Nest when
all the children are gone and
finally the Later or Retire-
ment Years.
The cycle has two very
broad categories, the ex-
panding and contracting fam-
ilies. Each stage has its own
developmental tasks or jobs
it must achieve in order to
have a successful mar-
riage.
Dating, pros and cons of
going steady, select a suit-
able mate for marriage are
topics which receive much
discussion and many ques-
tions from the students.
A most worthwhile and
interesting course enjoyed
tremendously by any stu-
dent who takes it.
Grade 12 course consist
of wise management of your
available resources, time,
energy and money. Today
this course is most import-
ant with the numerous work-
ing wives and mothers em-
ployed in the labour field
today.
These people know the im-
portance of wise manage-
ment when they are employ-
ed in two full-time and very
demanding jobs.
How can you make a work
schedule operate effective-
ly when company drops in
and you were going to do the
week's ironing, when every
other night of this week you
are very busy with scrub-
bing and waxingfloors, com-
munity and club meetings,
the week's baking and laun-
dry?
Everyone knows food
costs are constantly rising.
How can we serve our fam-
ily nutritious meals, accord-
ing to Canada's Food Guide
and still remain within our
grocery budget for this
week?
The girls learn to cook
low cost, medium cost, high
cost meals; also meals which
can be prepared in 30 min-
utes with the use of such
time-saving devices as auto-
matic ovens, electric fry
pans, mix masters, blend-
ers, electric knives and
home freezers which allows
a working woman to plan
and prepare the week' s
meals on the weekend and
freeze them until required.
The other half of the grade
12 year is spent studying
housing and interior design.
Under housing, we con-
sider the history of hous-
ing, the various types of
architectures, financing,
choosing a suitable neigh-
borhood and lot, the decis-
ion to rent, to buy or to
build your home.
In interior designs, the
various colour schemes are
studied and how they affect
a room and a person's feel-
ings. Bright warm colours
are used in rooms with
northern exposures to off-
set the cool effect from this
getting,
1-19w can furniture and col
ours of your fnrniShings in-
fluence the looks of ypur
room —.do you want, it to
appear longer, smaller, a
lower or, higher ceiling?
Household appointments
such as choosing glassware,
chinaware, silverware,
bathroom, kitchen and bed-
room linens are discussed.
The factors studied are the
various types available on
the markets, the construc-
tion used in producing each,
the advantages and disad-
vantages of each and approp-
riate prices.
Fuiniture arranging and
construction, are studied with
the students taking a trip to
Hopper-H ockey Furniture
Store to see the detail of the
various construction meth-
ods, the various furniture
styles available on the mark-
et today.
By the tithe a student has
completed four years of
Home Economics she has a
wealth of knowledge behind
her to know what she wants
in life, how to feed and care
for her family properly and
yet live within the means
of her husband's income.
There is a saying that
accompanies every Home
Economic graduate: "There
is a diamond guaranteed".
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