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Show PRDVO HIGH SCHOOL RECEIVESIOQO GIFT Special to The Tribune PKOVO .ov 4 At a meeting of the Home and School association held this eenmg in the Central school the association through its president, ilrs E E Corfman formally presented to the domestic science department of the high school $700 worth of equipment and $300 cash This gift represents work in the m terest of domestic educat on on the part of the women of the associat on The need for and benefit of education n the cubnarv art impelled the asso ciat on last year to prom se the board of education $o00 to ass st in the es tablishment of a domest c science de partment Th 6 was accepted and the work was begun last year n a small wa This ear a laboratory was in stalled equipped with modern electric cooking fac 1 ties supplied bv the asso ciation and Miss A lvian Parkinson was placed in charge of the department. Fifty four high school girls are taking the course and samples of heir work offered on several public occas ons evi denced a high order of ability ony the part of the student cooks Instead of $500 sb first promised by the association the amount has been donbled. It was secured by the association asso-ciation from entertainments and donations do-nations by public spirited citizens and firms The board of education has appropriated ap-propriated $1000 and the department is establ hed on a sure and permanent basis The ind cations are that it will have to be enlarged in the near fu tare as there are now more applicants for the course than can be taken |