Binghamton North High School - Wampum Yearbook (Binghamton, NY)

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l4lLI1lt I'RIf'lTY S'I'l'lDl1lN'l'S test a single Wound induction motor as a part of their extensive training to fit them for work in the services of any electrical war en1ploy1nent.f-0'l'HER ELEV- TRICAL students are working on a double wound induction motor. Electric students will be well trained to take their place in the electric world of ton1orrow.fPRlN'!' SHOP teaches its students to set type and other essentials of printing hooks und papers.fl'Rli-l LlGH'1' BOYS work on an engine in order to become well acqtiaiiitf-tl with their planes. They are being trained to enter thc air corps imniediately upon graduation. SEWING ULASSES keep vocational auto shop service flag up to date. Girls are learning to remodel pre-war clothes and to buy wisely.e-f'l'HlflSl+l SENIORS are illustrating correct table eti- quette. Girls are taught to use ration points Wisely in planning well-balanced meals.fFL'TURE PRINTERS are pictured below. Now open to girls, pre-flight, tool-handling, and lrlucprint-read- ing classes give them experience and prepare them for essential war work. 12 fl E v n 2 E

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ART STUDENTS sent one hundred posters to convalescent soldiers at Christmas and Easter. Students also painted posters advertising everything from nutrition classes to war bonds.-BOARD XVORK in mathematics helps the pupils to become accurate in any field whether it is reading blue prints or drawing niaps.wSOCI.-XL STUDIES pupils follow events of the war on a globe, and study problems and solutions of other wars. This method enables them to solve better the problems of this war.-COMMERCIAL STUDENTS are being trained for wartime jobs. Typing and shorthand pupils are receiving special training in military terms and different tahulations. SCIENCE CLASSES stress experimental techniques. With an X-ray bulb as background, science classes are shown experimenting. Physics students are engaged in experiments on electro- magnetic induction and on force in the pulley system. In chemistry a student pours out a stock solution during a laboratory period. A demonstration of winds resulting from thermal and pres- sure gradients is given before an earth science class. 11

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4 .HDYANCEII PHOTOGRAPHY students are demonstrating the elements of portrait photog- raphy. Photography is playing a very important role in this war through pictures of enemy ter- ritory.-VOCATIONAL Al I'0 students are taught the elements of servicing automobiles. This training will be of much use to them in the motor corps of the a1'my or in post war life,-Ml+ FHANIFAL DRAXVING pupils make related drawings for industrial arts and vocational training. A LATHE is being operated in senior technical n1achi11e shop.-A NORTH ALUMNA is running a milling machine in a night class. Night classes are now being utilized for trade extension Work. 111 four years approximately 10,000 students have graduated.-IMPORTANVE Oli' PRECISION is explained as M1'. Burnett gives instructions for producing measuring irons 011 the planer. These measuring irons are for American arsenals and navy yards.-THESE METAL SHOP BOYS are forming up rectangular pipe in a bending brake. Pupils are taught the elements of machine oper- ation that they may advance quickly in industry and the armed forces. 13