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

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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

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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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THE ARSENAL CANNON 15 he Arsenal Cannon Published by the pupils of Technical High School and print- ed by the U. T. F. C. A. School of Printing, Indianapolis FIVE CENTS A NEWS COPY 25 cents a Magazine Copy Editor in Chief-Dallas Crooke Assistant Editor-Louis Hietkam, julia Shea Managing Editor-Russel Kirshman First Assistant-Grester Miller Business Manager-Edward Hartlauf Secretary-Catherine A. Carr Art-Harold Stedtfeld Exchange-Angeline Bates CUBS jokes-George Smith W i Richard Baker Marion Breadheft Doris Carr Charles Colgrove Evelyn Culbertson Harriett De Golyer William Fiel Harry Hazel Mildred Heller Dorothy M . Hood Kenneth jeffries Howard Bates George Burns M. Eugene Clark Cora Coombs Maurice Daugherty Audrey Eaton lVIary E. Hale Mason Hofer Ruth Hoyt VVilliam ,lungclaus Josephine Lapham Bernadette j. Keller Helen Newman Edna McQuillin Ruth Phythian Frieda Nolting Dorothy Rehor Margaret Porteous Merrill Smith Thelma D. Smith james Welsh Viola Swain Bertha Whitney Katheryne Weidner Margaret Yeager ADVISORS Editorial-Miss Shover Business-Mr. Lett Special Committee for the Anniversary Number. Art ,...,..,. .... .............. .i..,. lX f I iss jasper History ..... . .. .. . ., .... Xliss Binninger Beginnings ,,.....,. .... N Iiss McCullough lfour Years Athletics ,.. ... .,. .... Mr. Anderson Vi'inona Trade School ,.... , ,,,,. ... ....... hir. Spear VOIi1ti0f1ill SCl1O0lS ..........,.... . ,........... lNIr. Yenne Final Drafts for Special Drafts of M. S. ..,...,.... Mr. Hanna lNote: The above committee and the Editorial Advisor comprise the group of eight full-time teachers who lizivu been at Technical since its beginningd june 6,1916 CORRECTION Names omitted in Eighth Term Enrollment from Rooms 20 and il: Russell Daringcr, Gladys Davis. Milford Davis, Sum- uel Davis, Katherine Whitley. Ruth Wolfrcd, l31sthcr Wood, Louis Wvoods, Raymond Viloods. AIMS AND POSSIBILITIES OF TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL Everybody, every institution, is sup- posed to have straying around among its possessions three tenses, a past, a present, and a future. But the Technical High School has been getting along very com- fortably for four years with only one of these. Starting out new we, of course, possessed no Past. Being daily, hourly, reminded that the Supreme Court has not decided the ownership of the ground on which we walk, we naturally can boast no Future. lt is interesting to see just what four years of living in the Present will do for a school. Ir has, of course, made gypsics of us. People possessed of only one tense can have no permanent building, so, we have lodged where soldiers used to camp, or where they stored their guns. Itfs all one to us. Our gymnasium has been for the most part open plots under the sky. Our auditorium has been on nearly all festive occasions under the shadow of giant trees. Our work has included the spraying and pruning of a little orchard, the plotting and making of gardens, and the study of wild flowers growing right at our door. The street cars do not rumble very close, so it comes about that our pupils walk more than is usual among city children. We make no apology for any of this. One cannot feel at all apolo- getic in the presence of great trees, of bits of thicketg of the sky seen free from any net work of wires, of the creek in no way artificializedg of out-door air fresh and abundantg and of birds that just now are holding their session of revelry. It isn't so bad to have no Future as long as the Present lasts. As for having no Past to dictate to us, we have naturally tried to look square in the face of the needs of every day. If boys were out of school anxious for work, we have, in six vocational schools, offered all day in shop and in closely related studies preparing them for special lines of employment. If our girls wished dress- making or salesmanship, they have been permitted to enter strictly trade classes. If either boys or girls wished preparation for college, enthusiastic teachers have been ready to help. There has always been quiet for study: and an aloofness from outside interests. It seems we are acquiring friends will- ing to recognize us even in our gypsy garb. The State Board has given us a Commission, and the North Central Asso- ciation of Colleges and Secondary Schools has accepted us into their select company, this is the real 'cFour Hundredi' in high