Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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10 THE ARSENAL CANNON. Printers' Progress About one month after the regular courses began last September, Mr. Stuart organized a printing class The class at First called themselves Printers Devils, and organized a literary club, accomplishing a great deal at their weekly meetings in B-3 the ith hour. Later monograms were chosen. the colors being red and gray. A basket ball team was organized, known as the Greys and although not very successful at first, it tinishezl as one of the high teams in the minor league. The math class met the third hour with Mr. McKenzie, to whom the class owes a great deal, because of his readiness to try out new things. Miss Atwood directed the club and proved that she knew how to manage twenty strange boys. tBut not strange at present.J Miss Shaw taught them to letter and design. Under Mr. McGrew the real work in the printshop was encountered and with his aid the class soon lea1'ned to set type or compose The next task was to learn to operate a press well and efticiently, but at first only a few were allowed this privilege. tC0nt1'nuc1l on Page Fiftccnl The Machine Shop Aniong the rapidly growing de- paitments here at Tech, none have exrandefl taste or better than the course in Machine Shop work. This school, starting at first with a few boys, has become now a department with over thirty pupils enrolled. The growth in enrollment, however, is secondary to the complete change in syf-tem and handling of the work and the revision of studies to permit We course to develop the boy more broadly than before. 'l'hc course as now in force, gives the boy two and one half hours ot' machine fitting, two hours of fne- chanical drawing and shop mathemat- ics and an optional course in vocation- al English. Several of the boys are also carrying work in high school algebra. It is now contemplated, al- so, to include in the course civics, mathematics physiology ttirst aid worki and American history as reg- ular required studies, next termg the iCv07lfI-7IIll'!l mi Page Fffffrnl Agriculture at Technical The Vocational agricultural school of Technical started with the begin- ning of the term in February. Thus far we have studied truck gardening and soils, taking up the theoretical side in the laboratory and the class room and doing the practical part, Such as making hot-beds, growing plants, pruning trees and grapevines on our campus, largely in form of demonstration work for the class. Since the latter part of March, practi- cally all of our time has been spent in planting and cultivating our gar- dens which range in size from a back yard to three or four city lots and which are scattered throughout the city. Outside of our regular work we have an agricultural society which meets every Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of discussing topics of interest to the members of the society. Our aim is to hold these weekly meet- ings throughout the summer in order that we may all get together at least that often and discuss our experiences as farmers. At the present time we are- devot- ing all of our energies to the cultiva- tion of our projects. Later on we expect to study practical methods of marketing which we will endeavor to put into practice by establishing markets on or near our projects. Altogether we a1'e finding the work of great practical value. R. M. What the Electricity II's are Doing The Electrical Il class is the pio- neer class of the electrical school and it consists of twenty-o e real, live, wide-awake boys. The first two periods of the day have been spent in Mr. Harris' shop or in actual practice on some part of the grounds The hardest jobs com- pleted this term have been wiring the boards for the physics laboratory, and installing an alternating current in the shop. The boys have also made many things, from a simple electromagnet to a transformer and a wirelessset. The topics of Mr. Yenne's theory class have been meters and generators. tContim1e1l on Page Seventeen! Gonna subscribe next year?

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THE ARSENAL CANNON. 9 a Shop Work The wood-working classes of i.-r. Spear and Mr. Johnston have been doing some splendid work this semes- ter. The designs made by the boys are of the highest class. Some of the pupils, in order to finish their pieces of furniture in time, find it necessary to stay after school hours and work on their projects. Nearly every evening the shop is filled with earnest workers each striving to get as much done in the time alloted as possible. The pieces turned out this year show an increase in the quality of furniture. The wood-turning classes under Mr, Craig have done exceptionally well with the exercises. The exercises are given to beginners in order that they may become accustomed to the different cuts and chisels, before starting on their projects. The pro- jects this year run in the same line as those turned out by last year's classes. Mr. Johnston can feel that he has accomplished something worth while with his pattern-making classes. The classes have been doing regular pat- tern-makers' work, and many of them could take up this line of work for a living. The work done by all of the shops has been of a higher grade and is farther advanced than that which was done in former years. E. J. H. Miss Shaw's Costume I Class Miss Shaw's Costume I Class has taken up the problem of hair dress- ing. This is the most interesting problem the girls have had this year. Each girl is given several pictures of people without any hair. The pro- blem for them to solve is to see how each woman can best wear her hair. This problem is to complete the course of this year's work. H. D. Geo- Lawler Sewing Classes The Sewing Classes this term have done good work. The Sewing I Clas- ses have made neat lace trimmed gar- ments. Very pretty, gingham dresses of every color are made by the sew- ing II Classes. Dainty, flower-sprink- led dresses were nicely made by the Sewing III Classes. When having costume drawing II, the girls of Sew- ing IV class designed woolen dresses to be made during the term. The materials used were of red and blue serge, green and blue wool poplin. tan and old rose wood challie, turquoise blue silk poplin. Some were lace and silk trimmed. The sewing IV Class also worked up the costumes for the Senior Play. Then silk waists were made, these also having been designed before in costume drawing. The ma- jority of each class Hnished the term's work successfully. K. K. The Electrical I Class The Electrical I class of twenty boys has found its work just hard enough to be interesting. The Eng- lish class has finished the autobiog- raphy of Benjamin Franklin. This book, which is very interesting as well as instructive, tells of some of Franklin's rules to cultivate virtue and of some of his experiments with electricity. The mathematics class has been solving the problems of parallel circuits. The theory class has stud- ied electromagnetism and the effect upon a compass of the lines of force set up by a wire carrying a current. The construction class has done the bell wiring in the main building. A few of the boys are making induc- tion coils. The first semester has given a good beginning for more real work next year. Anybody know what Paul Koehring did to Harry Tomlinson?

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THE ARSENAL CANNON. 11 Excerpts-from Prophecy of june 1915 Class Perhaps it might be of some inter- est to the people of Tech to look into the future twenty years. The Class Prophet received at that time a Round Robin letter from the members of that old class of June '15- As the staff is not generous enough to allow copies of the entire letters, the prophet will give short sketches only. NEVVELL HALL, the timid, bash- ful, little boy, has, for the last nfteen years, been converting heathens in Africa. In other words he is a mis- sionary. It is remarkable that he has not been eaten by cannibals, for he would be one lovely, juicy bite. MAX BAKER, has become an ar- dent and devoted slave to wolnan suffrage. He is a speaker for the cause. FANNY WADDY, has established a line business called the Waddy .litney Bus System. lShe uses the Ford car.J SHIRLEY WALKER is foreman of the Ford plantg he has been with that company for the last ten years. He is at the present time working on plans for a Ford aeroplane. IDA HERT, after having won high honors in impersonation of lions, has taken up that nerve-racking Work of a lion-trainer. DORA WORLEY is at work for the cause of uplifting humanity. She is chief of police at Muncie and seems to be very proud of her brass buttons and nickle star FAY DOUGLAS, owing to country inclinations, has become a Scientific Agriculturist. She says, I love the cows and chickens. This is the life for me. HAZEL HERMAN, suprised us all and has become a darling wife. She married a college professor and has one son and one daughter in college. LOTS STONE, has become a fa- mous orator, taking for her one pet subject The Betterment in Choice of School Teachers. MARY MCPHEETERS, that lively young girl, has settled down and be- come secretary to the President of the U. S. BERTHA RUBY, has become a ma- tron of an Orphan's Home in Texas. She seems perfectly satisfied among the many little kids. DOROTHY CAREY, has made quite a famous poitrait painter. Her one masterpiece is entitled The June 1915 Class of T. H. S. If any one wishes to see it, the picture is exhib- ited in the American 5 and 10 cent store. FRANK SULLIVAN, is a success- ful business man. Why? He is the owner of several 5 and 10 cent stores. DONALD DURMAN, is a leader of a vaudeville troupe and says that he always did want to go on for vaude- ville. ARTHUR MARQUETTE, is the one leading movie star. He declares that he puts Charley Chaplin en- tirely in the shadows. GLENNE JOHNSON, alias John- nie, lias been editor of a New York paper, Votes for Women for the past ten years. Signel by class Prophet. G. E. J. Program for Commencement The first annual commencement of the Technical High School is to be held at the Murat Theatre on Tues- day, June 8. The invocation by Rev. J. Drover Forward will be followed by the Class Presidents Introductory Talk. Besides Fay Douglas' talk, four other class members, Donald Durman, Lois Stone, Max Baker, and Dorothy Carey, will address the audience. .The address of the evening will be given by Dr. VV, L. Bryan, Pres. of Indiana University. Wm. M. Taylor, Pres. of the Board of School Com- missioners, will present the Diplomas. The Tech chorus and orchestra, both under the direction of Miss Kaltz, will furnish the entire musical pro- gramme. The Tech song, Our Tech, will be sung' in public for the first time. This programme for the Com- mencement exercises of Tech'g first Senior class, is a very notable mile- stone in our school's career. .. Consolation for the authors of the loosing prize stories- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Did you see the jitney HJ show in Room 32 last week?