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Show Miilfora Monitor PAGE 5 The Home Economics means of service, with its limited china, linen and Department (Past & Future) Interest in the artistic home and things culinary began long before we secured our commodious High School building, with its adequately planned space for Home Economics. While all of our students attended the now grade building, especial pains were taken by the faculty at the time to give instruction in the interesting vocation of the home. The present quarters consist of large, light, well ventilated rooms, which have built in cabinets and lockers. The kitchen is particularly well equipped with the recent addition of ‘some much needed hot plates. The dinning room as yet only affords meager Photos are the soon to be completed home economics lab in thennew high school. Kara Smith, Mitzi Wadsworth, Alison Carter, and Chalys Lamb are among the Milford High School students who will be attending Vocational Day at S. U. U. on April 18. More than thirty students from Mrs. Miller’s business classes, grades 10 through 12, will be competing this year. In the past ten years MHS students have placed near the top, frequently surpassing 3-A schools. Mrs. Miller competed as a shorthand student in 1961. She said her typing skills were developed later with practical experience. silver, and the sewing departmental work is somewhat curtailed for want of further chairs and tables for the increasing size of classes. However, what we lack in equipment we have more than made up for in number of students, interested in and taking Home Economics work. Over 60 percent of the girls in the school are actively class Sailed. and all others are hearty siererers of the work. The Science sixteen Domestic class, which splendid -_ MARCH 31, 1995 has young The highly satisfactory. girls have already served a practice breakfast, and dinner besides having had charge refreshment evening of several making a dress suitable in The Seventh Grade articles progressed well and many garments of beauty and practical use have been made. girls, seventeen in number, From the 1921/22 Beaver line, color and material for the wearer. at__—_—ihave been tussling with the affairs entertainments in intricacies of thread, cloth After knots, thimbles, stitches and the cooking completing : work planned for the midterm, the girls took up designing, drafting and have been seams, and : : applying — their carefully the high school. County High Year Book. knowledge to useful articles. The work on machine made Ss s to the Doug Carter s Thanks to the Family for sharing this from family memorabilia. women has for this year, so far, learned to can preserves, pickle and jelly, various fruits; after which work was taken up on food preparation, sanitation and laundry principles. The meal idea introduced been has and is proving Mandy Muir’s: project t of capturingBee from natural Gieete sources was one of the projects displayed in the Utah Power and Light division of the science fair. Nathan Johannessen and Aaron Bradshaw also presented projects. Next step in the Utah Power and Light competition was LER, Sevier Valley Technical College, in Richfield. March 30 at |