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

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THE ARSENAL CANNON 13 work has been the overhauling of the lights and motors in the Print Shop, the wiring of the Automobile and Carpentry Shops for lights and the installation of a complicated system of class bells. SCHOOL OF AUTOMOBILE CONSTRUCTION The course in Automobile Constructio was started in September, 1915, with little equipment and a very few boys. The equipment of tools and supplies, consisting mostly of small hand tools, was easily obtainedg but the machines were at first very difficult to obtain owing to the fact that practically no one knew of the work and the purpose of the school. The first machine brought to the shop was a one cylinder Brush roadster. After its case was diagnosed and treated, it was able to run away on its own power and, so far as is known, is still running. From that small beginning the shop gradually gained the necessary publicity and ma- chines began coming in more frequently until at the present time the shop is always crowded with from six to twelve machines on the waiting list. These machines are brought into the shop with all sorts of troubles. The boys are given the task of putting the autos back into good running condition. Thus the work is made thoroughly practical. It is the aim of this work to give the students a general insight into the mod- ern automobile, so they can detect and repair ordinary troubles, and so that they may understand the principles of the care and the maintenance of any type of machine. THE VOCATIONAL MACHINE SHOP The Vocational Machine Shop, during the first four years of its existence, by its rapid growth in size and standards has proven of great value to the city. The excellent shop equipment was provided largely through the generosity of the Metal Trades Association. This has been extended until the capacity of the shop has been reached. A practical drafting room, which occupies all of the available space, has been added, with adequate equipment. The course of study now includes, beside machine shop practice and practi- cal drafting, academic work in English and Civics, daily lectures on shop prac- tice and mathematics. The training re- ceived by the boy is much broader than that he would get as an apprentice in a shop. The growth of the shop has been steady and permanent under the present arrangement, until now more room is demanded to care for those desiring the course. The quality of the work is as high as it can at present be maintained. The course is now open to boys gradu- ating from the grades. It affords them an opportunity, not only for advance- ment in machine shop practice but also in allied academic subjects. THE SCHOOL OF PRINTING Technical High School is fortunate in having on its grounds the United Typoth- etae and Franklin Clubs of America School of Printing. For years this school has enjoyed an international reputation as being one of the foremost schools of printing in the country. Today in its equipment and instruction it is second to none. In October, l915 arrangements be- ween the Indianapolis School Board and the U. T. and F. C. of A. were completed whereby a limited number of boys in our high school were offered, without cost, a thorough and practical course in print- ing. The value of such an opportunity may be realized when it is known that students come here from all parts of the country and pay as high as three hundred dollars for an eighty weeks course. In very close correlation with the shop work, Technical High School offers to the boys, work in Applied Art, English, and lXfIathematics. The courses of Applied English and Applied hfathematics bear a very close relation to the work of the student in the print shop. He is taught the prac- tical features, as employed by the printer, of punctuation, paragraphing, proofread- ing, the point system of measuring type, and calculation of the composition of the type and paper stock. He is later taught Continued on pape I6

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12 THE ARSEN VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS In addition to the work of the regular high school and its departments of indus- trial training, there are at present, six distinct schools of vocational training in connection with Technical High School. Klost of these departments are aided financially by the state as vocational schools that have qualified and fulfilled the requirements of the state law. It is not the purpose of these schools to make journeymen of their students but rather, to permit them, if possible, togfind that line of trade work in which they are most interested and to teach them the funda- mentals of that trade. 'With these aims in view, six vocational school are now offering work to boys. SCHOOL Ol' AGRICULTURE The splendid natural advantages for work in agriculture, offered by our school grounds, has led to the organization of a school of Vocational Agriculture. The aim of the course is first, to give boys interested in agriculture a general survey of agricultural pursuits, and second, to give them a chance during the last two or three years of the course, to specialize along their chosen line. The first class was organized in February, 1915. The boys of this class started a school market which proved to be very successful and was an effective means of disposing of their products. The largest amount made by any one boy was 319600. Experience shows that as soon as a boy becomes interested in this line of work he oftens provides himself with a small farm and goes to work on it. Four boys of last year's class are now working on farms. SCHOOL OF BUILDING TRADES The School of Building Trades was organized in order to offer to those boys who contemplate choosing one of the building trades as a vocation, some defi- nite, practical, and scientific training along the line they wish to follow. It is the plan of the course to give two years of general training dealing with as many of the trades as possible, and to give two years of specific training along the trade chosen. In the first two years the boys will receive a large amount of practical exper- ience in carpentry, cement, and concrete A L CANNON work, painting decorating, and sheet- metal work. Small projects will be given in electric wiring, plumbing, heating, masonry and stone cutting. In correla- tion to the Work of the shop, English, History, Civics, lNIathematics, Architec- tural Drawing, and Interior Decorating will be given. A boy having completed this course will be able to choose more wisely a trade he wishes to follow. The School of Building Trades was organized last October and since that time almost all of the shop work has been devoted to carpentry. Twenty-nine pro- jects have been completed, some of which areg a large partition across the shop building, a storm entrance to the auto- construction shop and a number of benches, boxes, stools, and other school equipment. SCHOOL FOR ELECTRICAL XVORKERS Vocational Electricity had its begin- ning in a course called Shop Science, started primarily at the beginning of this school to utilize the Electrical Building as left by the Winona Trade Schools. The demand for Shop Science necessi- tated the beginning of a broader and more comprehensive course in electricity, re- sulting two years ago in our present School for Electrical VVorkers. The School for Electrical VVorkers is at this time one of the state-aided voca- tional schools, having enrolled seventy boys who are graded into four groups. The course of study is separated into four distinct lines of work all of which bear rather directly toward training along electrical lines. The course is built some- what upon Electrical Theory as a basis, due to its fundamental importance, and the Work of the shop, drawing room, mathematics and English, bears its proper relation to training in the Electrical Trades. Two years are required to com- plete the course. Eleven boys will com- plete the course this term. To the growth of Tech, the work of the boys of the Electrical Shop has been of much importance. Wlhenever more light has been needed in a dark room, or a newibell was to be installed, it has been the business of these boys to look after it. The most notable examples of this

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I4 THE ARSENAL CANNON THF STA Fl SHOP NOTES Some of the projects in the Wood- working classes have been finished while others are rapidly nearing completion. Robert Becherer was the first to finish his project. It is a handsome electric lamp. Darrest Carr is finishing his hand- some hall-tree which is made of mahogony inlaid with maple. This project is espe- cially interesting because it is the first inlay work attempted in our shops. john Reinhardt has his fumed oak table fin- ished. It was fumed here in the shops which parks another new departure. Xflr. Johnston made a statement to the effect that all boys in Pattern-Nlaking 11 class caught whistling would have their grades lowered one markg consequently they are almost afraid to breathe. 1XfIr. Wlills seems to be running a race on his own work against that of the NVoodworking I boys. He has built a beautiful buffet in about 6 weeks and has worked only during his spare time. It is 59 inches long and S6 inches high and is made of quartered oak. Its handsome beveled mirror adds much to its beauty. The work in Pattern-hflaking I has been above average this term. Boys who are leading in this are George Yoght, Harry Swanson, 1NIartin Dickie, Albert lV1cIlvaine, John Daugherty, Herbert Limpus. NOBLE C, BUTLER. A REVIEW OF OUR SCHOOL PAPER Viihen Technical students came here in September 1912, they had no school pa- per, but a few of them subscribed for the Booster, X1anual's school paper. On October 29, the f'Booster printed more than a column of Tech news. On Decem- ber 9, Iidward Owen, dressed as an old Town Crier, read in room 20 to the entire school our first school paper, the Hear Yef, The staff was composed of four manuscript editors, and twenty re- porters. This first volume comprised the issues of the weekly, read during the first school term, November 1912 to Feb- ruary 1913. Volume II, containing four- teen numbers, collected during the school term, was also read and edited each week by the different English classes. There was but one copy of each volume. Car- toons for each number were pinned on the front board for inspection, after each number was read. The June class of 1915 bound these two volumes. The following term, Tech was too large to put all its pupils in one room to hear the reading of one paper. As a result we had no publication the third term. On February 20, 1914, Tech had her first printed paper. There was no name for the publication so when it appeared it had a big row of question marks for