Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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IATIONAL EDUCATION Three courses in drawing are offered: me- chanical, machine, and architcctual. When the student has completed the course in mechanical drawing, he may go directly into industry or use his knowledge as a basis for future study in an engineering college. Machine drawing con- sists of learning how to use standard tables in making a working drawing of a machine. The future homes of America may be designed by some of those who have taken architectual drawing at Davenport High. In the architectual drawing class the students gain a thorough knowledge of blueprint reading and finally make a complete plan of a house. Timeliness, exactness, carefulness, and pa- tience are a few fundamentals that must be per- fected before a student may achieve efficiency for work in later life as well as safety at the present time. Making a mold in Air. Ge sell's foundry are left to right: Paul holey. Jack Lejfler, Iran Hansen, and Roger Gabriel. Mr. Wlegmen’s machine shop class. Industrial arts instructors left to right are Charles V. McCoy, supervisor of industrial arts and evening school. At Wlegman, Charles Ciesili, Clifton II. Matz, Joseph II. Carr, Roland G. Krieb, and Chester G. Anderson. 25

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INDUSTRIAL AND VC 24 .. :. Wns, director of in- dustrial and adult educa- tion. When one passes the Industrial Arts build- ing and hears the drone of machines and the continuous roaring of the presses, he knows that the future industrial workers are at work. This three story building is set off from the main high school building and is particularly proud of its foundry, the only one of its kind to be found in the high schools of eleven of the surrounding states. In the printing department one would find the advanced classes demonstrating their skill in putting out the school paper, running off play programs, P.T.A. programs and announce- ments, or posters for various activities, while the beginners are learning to set type. Boys who are seeking practical education in welding, blueprint reading, mechanical draw- ing, patternmaking, and molding use a great deal of their time in the Industrial Arts build- ing. Vocational instructors, left to right, are Miss Aiildred Blair, l.yle Kenyon, Forrest Sissel, Sam Doris, Robert Weblage, and iMiss Pauline Cotter. In the machine shop the main project is the construction of the C-clamp. By so doing the students use every operation that a machinist meets. The internal combustion and welding instructors educate the pupils in the care and maintenance of the car. Making linoleum block cuts are left to right: fames Bebr, Howard Stoll- enberg, Russell Hermann, fames Fee- ney, and jack Kyle.

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PHYSICAL The motto of the boys’ classes is phys- ical improvement”. In the gym classes, Instructor O. E. Johnson teaches his pupils how to build a strong body in preparation for their years of adulthood. Besides the many rugged calisthenics, the boys develop co-ordination and coop- eration by team sports in basketball, vol- leyball, and baseball. On the individual competition side of the gym course are the Commando tests. In order to attain the title of Commando, one must pass every point of a ten-point program. The list of the test includes a pull-over on the bar; hand stands; twenty- foot rope climb; running the one-quarter mile in, at the most, seventy seconds; scaling a ten-foot wall; five dips on the parallel bar; head and hand springs, and the old faithful kip on the high bar. Members of a gym class practice for a part of the Com- mando test.