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a THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES COLLEGIATE AND VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE SOUVENIR EDITION--MAY 7, 1930 Oshawa Girls Will Take Courses In Home-Making Arts Girl Students Are Given Choice Of Wide Variety Of Subjects In New Vocational Departments By Miss V. |, LIDKEA Head of Household Science Department, Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute HEN a girl enters the Collegiate and Voeational Institute, she may choose one of courses the commercial course fitting her for a stenographic position; or the aca- demic course leading to university; or the technical course, The tech nical school offers a training for girls which will educate them and fit them for a remunerative position. directly on leay ing school, It is interesting to know that there are girls engaged in gainful occu pation in this city, in other than steno graphical positions, These girls are en gaged in food preparation and serving, clothing work, nursing, and as salesladies For too many years there has been training school for such positions, ' technical school is prepared to meet that local need, Not only does it prepare a girl for a remunerative position, but as well for her life work of matrimony, To day, statistics show that there are as many married as single women engaged in gainful occupation, A technical train ing gives her something upon which she can depend for the few years preceding matrimony, and in her later years as well, The technical school offers a training which was formerly gained in trade, often as an apprentice without pay, But it must be clearly understood that a technical school is not a trade school, where trade experts are turned out, and are not to he accepted in trade as such, Academic Subjects The girls enter the course with en- trance standing, Fifty per cent of their timestable is allotted to academic sub jects, the other fifty per cent to technical work, The academic subjects are Eng lish, History," Physiography, Arithmetic; Spelling=--subjects that are correlated with technical work, The examinations writ ten in June in these subjects are the same as those written by students in the academic section of the school The arithmetic however is applied arithmetic including problems and also rapid ealeula tion. Along with this the girls are taught Bookkeeping and Typing, Very often a girl as dietition or manager of a food shop in asked to plan and type the menus, do the buying and keep the books, For all of this, the i Bh school trains her, Technical Subjects The technical subjects are Sewing, a study of textiles, Cooking, Home Nursing Laundry, Home Management, The course in Home Management is outlined to teach the care of house furnishings and uten sils, At present there is a definite educa« tional trend towards raising the standards of daily living--impressing the necessity of absolute cleanliness--not only personal, but in surroundings Many of our girls are planning to be nurses, The Technical Schools of Ontario are being recognized as the right and proper places to train students who ex pect to follow the nursing profession Since they are obliged to take two vears in High School previous to entering a hospital, it is quite evident that the diete tics, food work, Home Nursing and Sew! ing are most useful to them, A Great Opportunity The girls in this institute have an op portunity that is offered to very few in the province, Fach girl takes her turn for a week or two in the school eafeterin preparing food in large quantities, It might he her duty to prepare soup for twenty-five people or macaroni and cheese for fifteen, The time will come when one of our own technical graduates will assume responsibility, - This is the hest training a girl could possibly have for a dietetic position, She might hecome manager of a food shop, a waitress, or a tea-room hostess, or a dining-room super visor, Girls with initigtive start tea rooms, especially in the summer and make tremendous sums of money out of the tourist trade, This shows that it is pos sible for a girl to 'convert her technical training into actual dollars and cents directly on leaving school, She thus in creases the family income and becomes an independent person, Domestic Art As wel as Domestic Science for girls the technical school gives a course in Domestic Art which includes Millinery and Dressmaking During the first and usually the second vear the girls are obliged to take a gen eral course which includes hoth Domestic Science and art, This enables them to find out just which phase of the work they are hest suited to When the girls have decidéd the course for which they have special aptitude and also special reference they are allowed to specialize, For example their entire time might be devoted to Dressmaking, Mil linery or Foods the following year, The course in Dressmaking covers quite a wide field since it embraces the follow ing: textile study; pattérn making, de signing; drafting of patterns; use of com mereinl patterns, fitting and actual con struction of garments, The course in Millinery as vet is not so well developed on account of the Tact that hats are largely factory made, , However with the decided change in styles recently we ex pect to begin a course in Millinery just an soon as the style trend justifies same Meets Needs of Industry It is the aim of the technical school to meet the needs of Industry, Therefore the teachers Keep in touch with employers to ascertain just what training our stu dents should have to fit them for positions in their own locality, For instance the merchants cooperation is enlisted to give us a clear outline of the duties required of employees on entering their stores Since so many of the girls from ow school get positions as sales elerks we intend starting special training classes in salesmanship, On investigation we have learned that employers in the city of Oshawa up to the present time have heen obliged to accept untrained help but that they are only too anxious to give trained students the preference, This seems to he a step in the right direction Should a girl decide to become a nurse, designer, pattern maker, interior decora tor, ete, more intensive study along these respective lines is required after leaving technical school, Branches -- MONTREAL, REGINA, STEEL LOCKERS The Pedlar People Limited Head Office--OSHAWA OTTAWA, CALGARY, VANCOUVER All metal lockers in new additions of this school built and instal. led by us. Write for prices TORONTO, LONDON, WINNIPRG, Class For Adults Since the Faster vacation we started a class of adults in Dressmaking in the af ternoon, It was interesting to learn that there is a demand for training of adults even in the daytime, Any classes offered meet with a hearty response from the public showing that there is a need for training even after school age, It is also an interesting fact that there are as many women entering industrial pursuits after the age of forty as before twenty, This proves that education along these lines is not only for two or three years sub sequent to marriage but also after mar ringe, Women have almost as serious a problem of choosing their life work as mien, The technical school aims to assist them in making their choice. and also gives them training in that particular line, THE DANCE OF THE LEAVES roared, plain; From the west, the west wind Roared o'er mountain, hill, and Caught the leaves up in a whirl, Leaves of Nature's handiwork, From the tree tops to the ground Ground of whirling dancing leaves, Leaves piled up in heaps of gold Gold of Autumn's plenteous dower, Dower of heauty lost too soon, Lost "neath Winter's blanket white Ruth Morrison, 213 THE DANCE OF THE LEAVES Autumn's wind doth fiercely blow Through the treetops high, Heattering gay leaves to and fro, Warning "Winter's nigh," The leaves ure here to revel now, Dressed in many a hue; Gowned In scarlet, erimson, gold, In emerald, just a few, They, with Joy, dance through the alr Plutter in the grass; separate with utmost care; Gather In an mass, Autumn's dance 18 over now; lenves have ceased to play Winter spreads her blanket white Now she's here Lo stay, Annie Anderson, 21 When a student enters the Oshawa Col leghnte and Vocational Institute it sumed that he is coming because he wants an education, A student who is not seri ous in doing an injustice to himself, his parents, his teachers and his fellows Students, therefore, are expected to con duet themselves in sich a manner that the school and they will mutually profit hy their attendance In in Cafeteria Useful and Educational THE STUDENTS' CAFETERIA 'NE of the innovations provided in O the new wing of the Oshawa Col legiate and Voeational Institute, and one of the show places of the school, in the cafeteria, provided so that students who live at a distance, and are unable to go home for their meals, may secure a hot lunch, at a very small cost, within the walls of the institution, With seating ca pacity for 160 students, at small tables cach accommodating four persons, the cideteria typifies everything that is most up-to-date in modern restaurant practice The room is large, airy, and well-lighted, and the boys and girls have separate sec tions, divided hy a long railing, In the kitchen, which is, of course, the most im portant part, only the most modern equip ment finds a place, and the cook "who presides over it has conveniences which make it a pleasure to prepare meals for even so large a family The meals are all prepared hy an ex perienced cook, who works under the di rection of Miss Lidkea, the domestic sel ence specialist of the school, Miss Lid kea prepares the menus which are served from day to day, so that the students can he sure of having simple but wholesome and inexpensive Food When the cafeteria is operating pro perly, a purchasing committee, composed of teachers and students will he appointed to supervise the buying, thus affording the girls a splendid training in home economies An accounting committee, also to be composed of students and teachers, will also he appointed, with the object of training the students in keeping business accounts Thus Mr, O'Neill's idea of making the cafeteria educational as well as having it serve a highly prac tieal purpose is to he put into effect, so that even in their provisions for meals, the students will be learning things of a very practical nature THE COOKING CLASSROOM