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Home Economic Fashion Show Features Winter Scene

With strains of Winter wonderland filling the air. The annual Home Economic Fashion Show was held in the Coffee's auditorium on Friday, December 3.
Mrs. Gann and Mrs. Southern, the home economics teachers were presented with corsages in appreciation for their help in arranging the fashion show.

Home Economic Fashion Show

One student walked onto the stage modeling a sports outfit.

She is keeping in step with the latest fashion changes.
For she has chosen black tarpon cloth for her very stylish bell-bottom slacks.
Her slacks are fitted and slightly flared a the bottom.
For her jacket, she has chosen, red, gray, and black plaid cotton.
Her jacket features long set-in sleeves and a very low scooped neckline.

She walks to the edge of the stage, turns, poses, and exits the stage followed by other students.
Fads and Fashions during the 60s were pierced earrings, and paper mache pins for the Coffee girls.
For the boys are paisley shirts, new scrub denim jeans, with initials on the right back pocket, weejum shoes, and no socks.
The mod move is print shirts with London-look collars and cuffs which are paired with hip-slingers pants. The boys also are wearing London Fog Jackets in shades of blue, yellow, and beige.

The first semester was sewing.
The second semester was cooking, baking, how to arrange a table, flower arrangement, and furniture, and how to place furniture in a home.

1. Rich Short Cakes served with strawberries and whipped cream.
2. Waldorf Salad chilled and served on a bed of crisp lettuce and garnished with maraschino cherries
3. Italian Pizza -covered and refrigerated overnight. Brushed with oil added sauce and baked for 15 to 20 minutes at 450.
4. Pizza Sauce topped with, parmesan, mozzarella cheeses, sausage, smoked sausage, weiners, hamburger, and pepperoni.
5. Italian Spaghetti - brown meat in olive oil, drain and add onion, pepper, and garlic cook for 5 minutes and add all other ingredients. Cover and simmer for 2 hours.
6. Cherry Dream Whip- Graham Cracker Crumbs for the crust, dream whip mixture, for filling.
7. Refrigerator rolls
8. Types of rolls: Fruit Buns, Cinnamon rolls, Cloverleaf, Parker-House Rolls, Crescents Rolls, Braided Rolls, and Knots.
9. Notes on bread: Thick bread, yeast bread
10. Fried Chicken with mashed potatoes, salad rolls a cracker pie MEAL
11. Sunset Salad - jello salad
12. Baked Macaroni and Cheese
13. Tahitian Delight -Jello Salad
14. Never fail pie crust
15. Lemon Gold Cake
16. Lemon Butter Cream Frosting
17. We learned the difference between custards, pies, and puddings
18. Ribbon Sandwiches
19. Punch made with cool-aid, cold water, sugar, pineapple juice, grapefruit juice, gingerly, and lemon juice.
20. Chili Con Carne

Chili Con Carne

Next, we learned how to set a table and all bout the different types of items that go on the table.
What are the types of eating Utensils?
1. Sterling silver
2. Silver plated
3. Inlaid silver
4. Stainless steel

Silver Wear 

What types of dishes are used?
1. China
2. Porcelain
3. Earthenware
4. Melamine

How the pattern is put in China?
1. Hand Painting
2. Transfers

What determines whether the pattern will be permeant or not?
1. underglaze
2. overgrazed

Crystal fine glassware lead is added to the crystal.
We then learned about the different types of Furniture.
1. Early American Colonial American 17 Century
2. Duncan Phyfe Federal American 19 Century
3. Modern Contemporary 20-century
4. Victorian 19th Century
5. Eighteenth Century English 18 Century
a. Queen Ann
b. Chippendale
c. Sheraton
d. Hipple white
6. French Provincial 19th-Century

Types of Furniture

We learned about Flower arrangement
Finally, we had to draw a room using the furniture styles listed above.
It was a very interesting year and we learned a lot.
I love to cook and sew.

Designing a room 

History of Coffee High School before it was demolished in 2016.

Coffee Gym 

Coffee Front Office 

Back view

Alphabet, Benefit, Idiot

Hunting I must go, shot the turkey with my bow,

What idiot covered him with butter?

Now the alphabet tablecloth is a clutter,

Turkey is baking and it is beginning to snow.

It is not a benefit to being alone,

During this festive time of the year,

Even the best dog is given a big bone,

Sit back, be of good cheer, and treat yourself to a mug of beer.

🎄🎄🎄🎄Christmas Cap

The love of a  Grandmother

Grandmother opening her Christmas Presents with her great, great grand-daughter

My grandmother worked hard for a living.
She cleaned people's homes. 
Her home was clean, small, and filled with lots of love. 

She was handy with a needle and thread and she made most everything she owned or gave away.

My grandparents never owned a car, they walked everywhere. 
My grandmother had more love, and generosity than most people.

Christmas was a special time and my grandmother would work all year long to make presents for her grandchildren. 

She always had one of the prettiest Christmas tree which she decorated with bubbling lights, angel hair, ice cycles, strung popcorn, and tiny ornaments.

 Christmas Tree, great,great,granddaughter,& doll

My grandmother baked cakes that included items such as coconut, bananas, orange zest, apples, pecans, or walnuts. 

When she finished baking the cakes she would put the cakes in a cool place for us to enjoy on Christmas Day.

One Christmas all the granddaughters received a special cap. 
Inside the caps was a headband and dangling from the very tip of the cap was a tassel.

I do not remember the color of the cap.

It could have been red but it could have been blue, brown, or even green.
I knew how hard my grandmother had to work to buy the caps. The love she put into buying the caps that made them special. 

When I was in the first grade my dad would bring me to my grandmother's house so I could attend the city elementary school.
My cousin Judy was also in the first grade and we would walk to school together every day. (Judy lived with my grandmother)

We would eat breakfast, dress, and walk eight blocks to school.
We walked to school rain, sleet or snow. 
That special cap kept my head warm. 

I wore that cap religiously to school, but one fateful day I lost my special cap.

My cousin and I retraced our steps the next day after school to look for that special cap.
Sometime we would take a different route to school. 

On the porch of this white-framed house hung a cap that looked just like the one I had lost. 

 Judy 

We knocked on the door and a woman answered the door. 

I said, " Who does that cap belong to?"
I said that the cap looks like the one I lost.

The woman replied it belongs to my daughter.
I have just washed it and hung it up to dry on the front porch.

I felt sad for the loss of my special cap.
 What would I tell my grandmother when she saw I was not wearing my special cap?

That day when I got home I told my grandmother that I had lost my special cap.

 She said the Lord always provides us with the things we need.

I never got another cap
The love that my grandmother showed me, made me feel warm inside.

First Grade