Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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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

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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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EN Knflbli lorhrtu, left Io right: ■rated. Mi» Horten»e Finch. MI»» Flo»»ic Bate», MUi Jo»cphinr Mir- field. Mlu Margaret Wnl, Ml»» Jean MacDonald. MU» Mabel John»tonr. Mi»» Helen Kahl. Standing: Merle Makreter, Frank I,. Madden, Mi»» KUic Wallace. Clarence W. Hack. Mi » Minnie K»kel»on, Mi»» Florence Ander»on, Mi»» Mae Klma Wick». Kleventh year KnglUh da » member» «landing «tudying magazine», left to right: Pat May bach. Karl Schmidt, liar ry Car»ten«, Bob Hart. Seat- ed. left to right: Arlene Lantau, Betty St. Clair. Twelfth grade KnglDh literature »tu- dent lutening to recording of Mac- beth.” left to right: Joe Winckler. Caryl Makeerer, Jeanne Hoaier. TO STUDY OUR LIT AND DO OUR BIT