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Efficiency Characterized School Operations
The domestic science teacher and a group of students planned, prepared, and served campus meals. Manual labor class students constructed and repaired school furniture and buildings. Students and faculty maintained vegetable gardens and cared for livestock. Domestic Science students prepared and served meals at special events and decorated for those events. One faculty member and several dairying students managed the school's creamery and provided milk for meals. Teachers supervised students out of class to perform tasks needed to maintain school operations, such as building and repairing furniture and buildings, digging irrigation ditches, and making clothing. [1]
1. "A number of students in the manual training classes are helping to build the dormitory in order that it may be finished before cold weather sets in." "Boys' Dormitory is Being Built," Lawton News, October 20, 1915, 1; Page sixty-nine of the 1915 yearbook contains an irrigation ditch digging photograph. Page sixty-six of the 1925 yearbook contains a picture of manual labor class students building a gym. A 1923 yearbook entry describes the financial logic behind teaching girl students how to make their own clothing. "Domestic Science," The Wichita (1923): 57.
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