Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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IND Industrial Arts teacher , left to right: First row. Forrest Sisrel. Robert Henning, W. C. Wood. Paul Beckman. Second row. Klliott Swen- son. Charles A. Gcsscll, C. S. Hol- brook. R. M. Hamme . I.eslie C. Goss. ★ ★ ★ ★ Right: Machine shop scene in I. A. building. TO CONTINUALLY SHINE ON THE PRODUCTION LINE Below: Eleventh grade architectural drawing class working on projects. TO DRAW THE DRAFT FOR FIGHTING CRAFT In training to become the “man behind the man behind the gun” are all the industrial arts laborers speeding up their production to wartime levels! Machine and gen- eral shops, architectural and me- chanical drawing, wood turning, printing, forge and foundry work prepare future leaders for all-out production. The boys above are busy in ma- chine shop, and those below are intently bent over drawing boards, soon perhaps to l e draftsmen in vital defense industries. The I. A. department occupies its own buildings on the campus and is especially proud of its foun- dry, only one of its kind to be found in high schools of eleven 28

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TO STUDY HEALTH THE NATION'S WEALTH ENCE Upper rich!: Eleventh grade physiology stu- dents studying anatomy from the actual size model. I.eft to right: Marjorie Solladay. An- drea Petersen, Lunette Baxter. John Derderian. Right: Eleventh grade physics class studying dia- gram under apparatus in the lab. I eft to right: Eliene Bonnell. Charles Peart, Ervin Schmitt. Marjorie Brownlie. TO EXPERIMENT TODAY THE AMERICAN WAY Science that has served the past and will serve the future is ours to explore. In these classes we prepare ourselves to make the discoveries of tomor- row so that the world of science will continue to advance. Today we are inventing more powerful weapons of war. Tomorrow we will strive to create imple- ments of peace. Science will be bent toward serving humanity and making a safer, happier world. “Physical Fitness for Defense” is being empha- sized now so the classes in physiology are of special importance. “Phys” students are enjoying them- selves in the picture at top right, taking apart “Oscar,” life-size plastic model of the human body. Through the study of biology and zoology we learn the fundamentals of mineral, plant and animal life. A scene from a biology class is shown at the bottom of the opposite page, where students are examining newly sprouting plants in the acquarium and (lower-pots, while others busily scan their books for facts on leaves and buds. Periodically in the zoology room a furor is created by the girls as one of the snakes wriggles loose and goes exploring! During the winter the pet crocodile can be seen hibernating cozily in his comer, arid in spring the room is brightened by the presence of Huffy, yellow ducklings. Boys who hope to become engineers, aviators, doc- tors, chemists or pharmacists must study physics and chemistry. Shown on these pages are students making experiments with test tubes, diagrams and all the complicated scientific apparatus required. Girls who are proficient in these fields are sought after as prospective dietitians and nurses. Through science, not only the mysteries of nature are laid before us, but man-made miracles as well. 27

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USTRIAL ARTS TO WORK A MACHINE FOR OUR COUNTRY'S ESTEEM surrounding states of this area. Cutting metal, setting type and working with wood lathes, as the boys shown on this page are doing, demonstrates the diversified work of this department. The first group enlisted is in the machine, the second in printing and the last in general shop. Through practical experience combined with theory, boys in printing learn to be capable users of “slugs and “thirty-dashes.” For the past five years they have bi-weekly printed the “Black- hawk,” school newspaper. Point- ing the way to the coming trend of women in war industries, this year one girl volunteered and was accepted for work in printing. Right: led to right. Arthur Remley and Clark McCoy in machine chop. TO SET THE TYPE THAT GREAT MEN WRITE Lett: Printing claas acttlng type. TO TURN THE LATHES OR WE'LL BE SLAVES Below-: Tenth grade machine ahop claaa working on lathe . 29