Aitkin High School - A Book Yearbook (Aitkin, MN)

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I A 'N-s QZQZ T fgf-ia INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION EI X X5 !-5 lax f We may define Industrial Arts as one of the practical arts, a form of general, or non- vocatlonal education, which provides learners with experiences, understandings, and appreci- ations of materials, tools, processes, producm, and of the vocational conditions and require- ments incident, generally, to the manufacturing and mechanical industries. In general, its purposes are educationally social rather than vocationally economic, although in the senior high lt may increasingly emphasize vocational objectives in a non-legal sense for certain students. SEVENTH GRADE A course in general mechanics covering woodwork, tin and soldering, rope, glass, and electricity units. This course is designed to appeal to boy interest and passing fancies. The class meets twice weekly. EIGHTH GRADE This course is divided into three shops. Mechanical drawing is offered to acquaint the boy with the language of the shop. This is followed by-a unit on woodwork and then elec- tricity. Again we try to stress boy interest in this class that meets three times per week. NINTH GRADE INDUSTRIAL ARTS I In this class the boys spend their time in two shops. One is mechanical drawing where we emphasize more fully the mechanics of drafting. The different types of drawing are studied, orthogrsphic, isometric, and pictorial with some time spent on tracing and blueprinting. In woodwork tool operations are stressed. A study of the uses of different woods and wood finishes is made. Projects are selected with certain operations in view which will acquaint the boys with the different tool uses. TENTH GRADE INDUSTRIAL ARTS II This grade spends the year on metal work. Time is spent on each of the following phases of the work, benchmetal lathe, forging, and sheet metal work. For the first time, we plan next year to offer a unit of metal casting. ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH GRADE INDUSTRIAL ARTS III These grades in 1959-40 will be offered cabinet work for the first time in this school. This class will work on furniture and equipment for the home. Much of the instruction in this work will be individual. Industrial Arts II is a pre-requisite to this course. ELEVENTH AND IWELFTH GRADES BUILDING TRADES This course is of a vocational nature and will be offered to a selected oup from the ST eleventh and twelfth grades who will make applb cation for the class. Work will be offered on the following units of the trade including blue print reading, carpentry, plumbing, decorating, and masonry. Industrial arts I and II are a pre-requisite to this course. 28 I AGRICULTURE Every farm boy who is interested in get- ting the most out of farming, learning the best and most efficient methods, will be vitally in- terested ln the vocational agriculture OOUPBSS offered in our school. The past few years have seen great changes in the methods and machinery used in farming. One of the aims of high school vocational agriculture is to offer information to rural youth which will enable them to keep abreast of the constant changes. Agriculture I is an introductory courseand aims to present the facts and knowledge that are vital to a successful farming business. The various crop and animal enterprises are analinm and subdivided into the different jobs which are essential in the carrying out of any farm- ing practice. An analysis of the enterprises enables the student to compare and use his information in solving the different problems on the home farms Every enterprise has a certain number of approv- ed practices. Approved practices are methods and procedures used by successful farmers. This course motivates a desire for self and home im- provement and easily makes a student ask him- self the question, What can I do to help make the home farm more profitable during my four years in high school? Opportunity is provided for appropriate work in farm practice on the home farm. The following are thefarm practice projects usually selected: dairy records, chick raising, egg and feed records, raising capons, turkey raising, sheep and swine records, bees, variety trials on crops, hybrid corn. Agriculture II gives the student a work- able knowledge of the skills associated with the crop and animal enterprises. Improvement practices can be illustrated by the following problems: balance rations, culling, caponizing, post mortem on diseased animals, rope splices and haulters, livestock judging, dairy records, grafting fruit trees, vermin and parasite con- trol, feeding poultry and sheep. Agriculture III gives the student more in- tensive training in the crop and animal enter- prises along with a more advanced type of in- formation. A few illustrated problems are! growing crops to furnish balanced feedsg judg- ing poultryg animal breeding and- pedigrees, Mendel's lawg engineering problems, such as, farm sanitation, drainage, water supply, barn plansg parliamentary lawg farm accountsg forest and soil conservation: rural leadershipg farm organizations. Agriculture IV offers the student a scien- tific background in the crop and animal enter- PI'2E.99..bI-mHEi.!1.e s..m.9z:a.edvanced Study Of sene- opportunity to secure pe animals: experiment to yays and means of statistics as will en- decisions and adjust- home economics field. we also have an excfered to students who offered to Junior and se'0Tk in Agriculture II previous home economics man and sophomore years! making his living course is offered to theenroll-for the course home economics train1ng.1m to make a valuable Our home economics farm and to his home ject basis. Each girl s has some activity connericulture are urged at the beginning of ea of America. In this is done outside of schooi about farm organiza- the end of the semesterzl knowledge of busi- visits are made by the bs which will help to to the homes of the girllhip S0 necessary in nomics course. 'ming in an efficient

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RADIOLITES AND HI-Y RADIO. Front: B. Wakefield, B. Stellmaker, B. Vandervest, D. Holmbeck, H. Hagman, G. Wharton. 2ndz C. Miles, C. Swanson. L- 316599. 7- SWGG' berg, I. Sternitzke, M. Wagner. Back: Gu Livingston, E. Toppila, L. WAY. J- LGT' son. D. Bovd. Bot on the picture: B. Erling. JUNIOR HIGH DRAMATIC CLUB. Front: V. Lewis, C. Casey, M. Erickson, C. Vanderpool, H. Young, L. Erickson, B. Johnson, B. Parks, M. Linn. 2nd: Miss Kjalstrom, C. Er- ling, M. Hanlon, M. Peterson, F. Erickson, L. Armstead, M. Ellig, M. Tollefson. Srd: D. Ratcliffe, A. Hanson, E. Johnson, I. Welbanks, Y. Anderson, B. Woodrow, L. Henderson, D. Morgan. 4th: B. Peterson, C. Warner, G. Dotzler, B. Sherman, K. Carlstrom, P. Huff, M, Young, E. Cartie. Not on the pic- , ture: J. Bretz, V. Burman,.L. Heineman, H. Riley, C. Sanfont CLIT CLUB. Front: H. Collin, H. Meacham, H. Nelson, F. Crab- tree, B. Scheuneman, H. Estene sin, I. Berggren, M. Ecklund. 2nd: L. Nix, E. Paulson, L. Collin, E. Dahlquist, B. Ekmgn, G. Nordoan, D. Berggren, M. Bodine, E. Haapanen. Srd: V. Johnson, I. Blaw- ek, B. Hamel, J. Hamel, E. Christenson,G. Schsuneman, E. Kingsley, L. Gray, Lucille Collin, Miss 0'Rourke. Not on the picture: E. Beneke, E. Bodle, M. Gobel, L1 John- son, H. Johnson, M. Perry, G. Collins, U. Bowlds, B. Weston. 29