Centralia High School - Skookum Wa Wa Yearbook (Centralia, WA)

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MANUAL TRAINING Although manual training is one of our newly adopted courses, it is one of the most popular ones. The boys enter into the work with a will that ensures success, and is a restg a change from the regular routine of school life. During the term we have accomplished a great deal. We have furnished our shop with benches, tool racks, lumber racks, and like articlesg Our drafting room with such articles of furniture that were necessary, besides the little odd jobs and pieces of furniture supplied to the other departments of the high school. In the accompanying cuts are shown our drafting room and shop. Although drafting is new to most of us, it is interesting, and most of the boys are apt pupils. At the beginning of the term, we produced working drawings of the different parts of a work bench, such as those shown in the cut of the shop. Then we were given the whole bench, assembled, and also drawings of bench-hooks, tie racks, umbrel- la stands, in pencil. Later on, when we had shown ourselves capable of produc- ing a drawing with good lines and correct measurements, we were allowed to ink and trace. From these tracings were made the blue prints of the different articles. After we had worked out and drawn the plans of an article we were allowed to make it in the shop. Here we were more at home and able to show ourselves capable mechanics. We have furnished not only the high school building with such articles as were needed, but have made pieces of furniture and bric-a-brac such as tables, chairs, foot-stools, taborets, drawing-boards, tie-racks, magazine DRAWING ROOM

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DOMESTIC SCIENCE, SEWING made or assisted in making for themselves. While cooking, the girls work in pairs, each having two gas plates, an individ- ual oven, cupboards which contain their cooking utensils and supplies. The scien- tlllc principles applied to all the things that were made, have been studied. Among the things cooked are cakes, doughnuts, biscuits, puddings, omelets, vegetables, meats, etc. On St. Valentine's day heart-shaped cookies were baked. For the Seniors' Reception ice cream was made. Candles in the class colors of all the four classes were made by the girls and sold from booths at the Girls' Basketball Tournament. At various other High School functions candles were sold and the proceeds used to buy table linens for the department. Three luncheons were served by the girls in a very creditable manner. The first was on Wednesday, April 30, when one class entertained the Girls' Basketball Team and their coach, Miss McCurdy. On May lst, a second class luncheon served to Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Broad, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Zimmer, Mr. R. B. Kellogg and Miss Davis. The third was given in honor of the Basketball boys on May 2nd. Others will be served before the end of the year.

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l - WORKSHOP stands, cedar chests, tool racks, and numberless other things. Some of these the boys have paid for and took home, where they will be of use as well as orna- mental. As this is our flrst year of manual training, our equipment is by no means com- plete, However, we hope, within the next few years, to include in the course such branches as lathe work, sheet metal work, casting, machine work, etc. Al- though this will necessitate a larger equipment, we will be able to make most of the smaller tools. thereby gaining a knowledge of the forge, and methods of tem- perlng. In the drafting department we will enlarge to the problems of forms and sheet metal work. and also take up the working out of plans for tools, machines, build- ings, etc. The department of manual training, however, is not so much for the training of expert mechanics, as for the growth and development of the constructive fac- ulties of the students. And even though we never attain to the highest grade of workmanship, I am sure that what knowledge of tools we do acquire, will not be amlss in our years of after life and will increase our appreciation of the simpler and better things of life. L. H. R., '14,