Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
CAMP CURTIN JUNIOR
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

The Domestic Science Department,
Miss Frances Hamilton and Miss
Marie Finton, instructors, are meet
ing enthusiastic classes in the finely
equipped Domestic Science Depart
ment.
Demonstration by the teacher
to the class group of the prepara-
ton of a new dish, individual pre-
paration by each student at her own
desk and cooperative solving OF GER
tain problems are the methods
chiefly used. Mothers ideas are al
ways welcome in informal discus
sions, remarked one of the instruc-
tors in a recent interview. Eight
housekeepers are appointed by the
teacher from each cooking class.
give each student in her respective
group the experiences of all the
duties of housekeeping.
IN lessons recently observed with
Sections 9B9 and 7A4, Housekeeper
No. l, cleaned the gas stove after
class with articles specified on the
housekeeping Bulletin"
Housekeeper No. 2. cleaned the
sink and drip boards. emptied the
garbage pail, scrubbed and lined
1t with clean paper.
Housekeeper No. 8, busted the
kitchen, dining table and chairs,
cupboards, stools, desks and shelves
at the end of the kitchen.
Housekeeper No. 4, saw that each
girl was neat and clean and equipped
with complete uniform at the begin
ming of the lesson.
Housekeeper No. 5, inspected the
desks at the end of the lesson, saw
that the desks were left neat and
clean and with full equipment.
Housekeeper No. 8, was respons-
ible for cleanliness and tidiness of
the china closet and the linen and
silver drawers.
Housekeeper No. Z, was respons-
ible for cleanliness and tidiness of
the supply closets.
of the refrigerator, of keeping it
clean and of economically disposing
of left over food.
Every girl attending Camp Curtin
has learned the general care of the
kitchen and how to prepare these
practical and dainty dishes: baked
apple with whipped cream, cheese
toast, creamed vegetables, creamed
soups garnished with croutons. Two
hundred receipts are in the filing
box which each student receives. e
Hospitality to the teacher and
to any chance visitors as guests is
part of each lesson" remarked one
of the instructors. "and proceeded
to tell the group, that at the begin
ming of each period one of the class
should extend the invitation to stay
to lunch, the self-appointed hostess
to prepare the extra dish or dishes,
place the best silver and china on
the dining table and do the serving"
This training is meant to prepare
the girls for the hostess courses that
they will take later in senior high
school and college," said the instruc-
tor.
After lunch" each student
washed the dishes and utensils that
she had used in one of the aluminium
pans with specified dishwashing
articles and according to notebook
rules. Then she wiped her desk in
side with her scrubbing cloth, and
put her dishes away. After rubbing
the outside of the desk and scrub
bing the top with brush and scrub
bing cloth, she secured the dishpan
and put il on the burner for in
spection.
She returned the unused supplies
to the shelves and to the enamel
lined drawers, the articles that she
had used in cooking and serving.
In Section 9B9, the following girls
were housekeepers: No. /, Harriet
Adams; No. 2, Frances Carr; No. 4,
Mae Moore; No. 5. Retta Jarrett;
No. 6. Edith Nipple; No. 7, Mar
garet Kulp.
Mary Foltz, ninth-year student,
was appointed housekeeper No. 8,
and Dorothy Kennedy, Section obi,
was housekeeper No. s.
Other members of Section 9B9
were Doris Fair, Violet Forsythe,
Lillian Kleinman. Rose Kleinman,
Henrietta Lebo, Anna Mae Lightner,
Ella Newmark, Irene Nisley, Mary
Owens, Blanche Robinson, Pauline
Shaffer, Sarah Sheesley. Rhoda
Smith, Mary Smith. Beatrice Smed-
ley.
In Section 7A4, the housekeepers
We're: No. 1, Blanche Clark; No. 2,
Elizabeth Goodyear; No 4, Helen
Gingrich; No. 5, Evelyn Howard;
No. 6, Ruby Jamison; No. z, Helen
Martz.
Lillian Klick. from Section SB1,
was housekeeper No. 3 and Julyanna
Wierman also from Section sB1, was
housekeeper No. s.
The other girls in Section 7A4,
were Lena Cohen. Elizabeth Giant,
Marie Green. Laura Killinger. Mabel
Mary McKeever, Arvilla