The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-15

To provide additional equipment
LIE in the way of lathes, saws and
other machinery for the high school
manual training department in order
that high school boys may have
larger facilities for manual work AID
broader scope for manual activities
in which to discover their abilities
along manual lines. To provide.
further, less restricted program OF
projects by enriching the content OF
the manual work. To this end the
work in the manual training depart.
ment will be directed toward practi.
cal and unitarian ends.
To provide equipment In connect.
10 ion with the high school manual
training department for the mending
and repairing Of boots and shoes. This
Department will be under the direc.
ton and supervision of the manual
training instructors, and boys will be
taught how to sole and to repair their
own shoes and the shoes of their
friends II they care to do so at the
actual cost OF the materials used.
2 To provide equipment for com.
O' mercial department In the
high school and to provide we'll
trained, experienced teacher for the
department so that our boys and girls
may have facilities and opportunities
for discovering their abilities along
commercial lines and be given train
ing that will fit them adequately for
profitable employment in this and
other communities.
\ To provide opportunities for
Il. evening school work whereby
persons of any age who are EMPLOY
ed during the day In office, store.
shop. mill Or factory, may have cppor-
tunities to further their education
while engaged in wage.earning oc.
equations. The evening school will
he conducted and directed by the
head OF the commercial department
of the high school. and those courses
will be offered for which there is
reasonable demand.
= To offer elective courses III gard.
~. ening and agriculture TO all the
high school boys and girls so that
they may be taught by trained. ex.
perienced instructor how to grow
vegetables, fruits and other food pro-
ducts with the end that this Commun.
ity, through these classes, may contri.
butte materially to the successful car.
rying out of the national program for
production, conservation and economic
consumption of Americas food sup
ply. And with the further object OF
teaching our pupils to become pro.
ducers as we'll as consumers and TO
a hohifo ~ ind,tctru Golf.
reliance and personal thrift. The
generosity of one of Fairmont's pub.
lic-spirited business men in furnish.
ing the school with ample garden fac
ilities without cost makes practical
work in agriculture possible for the
one.hundred and twenty-five boys and
girls who have already enrolled for
these courses.
e To provide, in the Butler School,
". equipment for one additional
cooking center for girls in the gram.
mer grades for the White, Fleming and
Butcher Schools. This equipment is
modern in every detail and will be
used for community work whenever
possible. Classes will be organized
for house.maids, for housewives, and
for city teachers. To provide, further,
we'll trained teacher who shall de-
vote her full time to the supervision
OF cooking in the elementary schools.
emphasizing this year, not only tina
preparation of meals. but the preser.
walton and conservation OF foods and
household economy.
Y To cooperate with the local Red
=" Cross Society through the man.
ual training departments and the do.
nestle art departments OF the public
schools.
(a) The manual training depart,
ments propose to make boxes
according to standard speCifi-
cations in which Red Cross
supplies are shipped to head.
quarters.
Cb) The sewing classes propose to
form themselves into auxiliary
units Of the American Red Cross