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J. Ashton and R a y m o n d L. Evans took care to make the addition "architecturally consistent with the original design." The foundation was made of local black volcanic rock and the walls of sandstone, also locally obtained. John H. Jackson of Loa supervised the construction. The high school's 750-volume library was augmented by 300 new books, which were catalogued for the first time in the 1940s by female student librarians under the supervision of their English teachers. With the books organized into subject categories under the Dewey Decimal System, students more easily could find the materials they wanted and began to use and take pride in their library.67 Wayne High School student officers and Principal Dow P. Brian were so proud of their new school that they hosted a regional "convention of high school student body officers from Sevier, Piute and Wayne school districts" and their adult advisors in April 1937. The first such gathering h a d been held in Richfield the previous November. The student officers reported on their progress toward goals formed at the earlier meeting and also heard from two University of Utah faculty members. After lunch at the high school, the visitors were taken on a t o u r of Capitol Gorge in Wayne Wonderland. 68 Vocational Agriculture. Fred Hellstrom began the vocational agriculture program at Wayne High School in September 1952, and it immediately attracted many youths. In rural areas throughout the state the program involved three constituencies: high school students (Future Farmers of America, or FFA), young farmers aged eighteen to thirty, and adult farmers. The latter two groups attended classes in the evening at high school centers. In Wayne County the program in the 1950s focused mostly on the FFA component, although adult farmers also participated during some years. According to the state school superintendent, the Future Farmers enrolled in the high school program learned how private enterprise operates in agriculture through money-earning projects that required t h e m to keep track of receipts, expenses, and profits. The boys also worked on "projects on the home farm" such as construction, repair, and painting of buildings, fencing, repair of farm machinery, land and irrigation i m p r o v e m e n t s , crop improvements, and utility and beautification projects. They learned "new and improved methods of
