Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Extremo loft: Ernost Hill and Glon Lamp set up a job in Mr. Holbrook's ad- vanced printing class. Bill Munson works on a sand mold in Mr. Gesell's foun- dry class. WHO KEEP ’EM FLYIN6” INDUSTRIAL ARTS Patience and a watchful eye are absolute require- ments when working on precision instruments, be- cause a slip-up in testing these instruments may take the life of some fighting man if he receives defective material. Most of the boys have to start from the beginning with the slow process of learn- ing the fundamentals step by step, but off on the horizon they can see a vision of that war job await- ing them. No matter when you walk by the industrial arts building, the presses will be rolling and the drone of the machines can be heard. Boys seeking prac- tical education in blue print reading, welding, me- chanical drawing, patternmaking, or molding spend many hours in the building trying for a perfected product. In the printing department the advanced classes may be found printing the school paper, THE BLACKHAWK, running off play programs, P. T. A. announcements, or postors for a vocal department program, while the beginning classes are learning to hand-set type. A new class of girls has been added to this year's war training program. Senior girls are being trained to check precision instruments. By June graduation they will have completed the entire course and will be eligible for a job as an inspector of precision instruments in the various war plants and factories covering the Tri-cities. The lights in the industrial arts building continue to burn, day and night, day after day, week after week, month after month, enabling both fellows and girls to receive their training and bring the day of victory just a little closer! Studonts at work in Mr. Waffle's I OB mechanical drawing class. Industrial arts instruct- ors. left to right: C. G. Holbrook, Charles A. Gosoll, L. F. Wass, di- rector; and Forrest Sissol. 27

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Bill Youngborg, Herbert Ehlers, and Robert Albrecht watch as Mr. Wehlago operates the machine lathe. THE MEN Never before has a trainee at D.H.S. had so many opportunities offered to him in industrial arts as he now has. Only a few years ago cadets' minds were planning some motor for their new gas model airplane or making other ar- ticles for their work bench or for some room at home. Sept. 2, 1939, England declared war on Germany; Dec. 7, 1941, Japan at- tacked Pearl Harbor, and America plunged all-out into a war against tyr- anny. Thoughts of a gas model plane are now turned to the actual bomber or fighter plane and how the student can help build them. First the boys must have thorough training before they apply for jobs in war plants. The industrial arts classes shifted from a peacetime schedule to a wartime program. The boys are taught how to turn out war weapons quickly, accurately, and safely. Industrial arts instructors, left to right: Francis N. Scapple, Robert Wehlage. Robert Hen- ning, A. F. Wiegmann, and Harvey M. Waffle. 26

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GIRLS' GYM FLIGHT The combining of physical fitness along with the regular gym activities is the basis of the girls' new gym course. Modeled after the govern- ment organized National Victory Corps, the girls' classes have added several new features. At the begin- ning of every class period about five or six minutes are set aside for various sets of calisthenics. Then, regardless of stiff muscles or aching backs, the girls are timed in running the ob- stacle course. Exercise time in e girls' gym dess. Stending on the ledder is girls' gym instructor Mrs. Bonnie Glick while Miss De- one Gibson weits for the box. Each girls' class is divided into teams throughout the semester with contests in basketball, volleyball, baseball, badminton, deck tennis, and ping pong being held. After the intra-mural class competition is over, the winners play in inter-class games to choose the final victor. Dancing is another subject pre- sented to the girls. Folk dances of the various countries, new ballroom steps, and intricate tap steps are taught to those choosing dancing. To bring back the frontier days when America was moving westward, dances such as the Virginia Reel and the square dance, are performed. The Irish Fling and Schottische are also popular with the girls. 28