Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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. Ho 1® Pex iUi Y Pkb°V°nq M » ln CaVb®tVn® B Be seeing you! Have to go put a zipper in my dress. This is a typical remark heard around the home economics building. The building resembles a large home. Here girls learn how to make a home more than a frame structure. Among the offer- ings are courses in: home management, dressmaking, household sewing, cooking, and dietetics. Young girls who leave the building at the end of the year are prepared to keep house for themselves or to take further training in the specialized fields. Mombors of Miss Downing's housohold sowing class work on a weaving loom. Members of Miss Haller's dietetics class give a food demonstration. 22

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A mechanical draw- ing class works on their plates in Mr. Waffle's class. Those who expect to become metal workers, carpenters, architects, printers, or engineers will lind the industrial arts building an interesting place. Mechanical drawing, pattern making, wood turning, and printing are some of the classes of- fered by this department. Printing the school newspaper, tickets, pro- grams, and posters for school activities are the duties of the print shop. One of the main projects of the machine shop is the construction of the C-clamp. In making this clamp the student uses every operation encoun- tered by a machinist. The purpose of the internal combustion and welding classes is to teach the care and main- tenance of a car. Arc and acetilene welding is also done in this department. Students who complete the mechanical draw- ing course may go into industry, to engineering college, or use their knowledge for their own sat- isfaction. In machine drawing, students learn how to make a working drawing of a machine through the use of standard tables. Architectural drawing stresses blue print read- ing and eventually the student is able to make a complete plan of a house. 21 Members oi Mr. Sis- sel's print shop carry on their daily tasks.

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Miss Wilna Nash gives an eye examination to Grace Damos. There are always times when a student has his ups and times when he has his downs. If the level of feeling ever becomes too low a student may seek the aid and comfort of the health department. Upon entrance to D. H. S. students are re- quired to take a physical examination. Too, at the beginning of the fall term, a tu- berculin test is offered to new enrollees. There are always such minor incidents as nose bleeds, cut fingers, or skinned knees, for the nurse, Miss Wilna Nash, to treat. Dr. Carl Matthey, school physician, and Dr. William Teegen, school dentist, ably help out in the miniature hospital . 23 Dr. Carl Matthey. school physician.