Clay City High School - Claytonian Yearbook (Clay City, IL)

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Home Living and Clothing Centers An important part in the training of the future homemaker is actual experience in furniture arrangement and cleaning methods, and an insight into problems of family relations. The Home Living Center in the Homemaking Room is easily adaptable to informal discussions and demonstrations of these problems. It is furnished with green leather and chromium sofa and chairs, and refractory table for special” dinners, and an Axminster carpet in group tones of dark wine color. The Clothing Center is equipped with both electric and treadle sewing machines, sewing tables, cutting table, and built-in ironing board and cleaning cupboards. Here the student may learn proper construction methods and study fabrics as well as other phases of clothing. A built-in triple mirror is valuable in learning how to solve fitting problems. Each student keeps her individual equipment in a tote box which she may store in the drawer cabinet when not being used. The sewing tables have false drawers into which these tote boxes may be housed when they are needed during class. A Roll Away bed furnishes opportunity for learning how to make beds and demonstrating problems concerned with home nursing. The Claytanian Paye eight

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The Industrial Arts Department The industrial arts department is the latest addition to the high school. The activities carried on in this department include work in electricity, forge work, sheet metal, arc welding, bench wood work, wood turning, and auto mechanics. In making their projects the students use many tools and machines, some of which are a jig saw, wood lathe, band saw. drill press, circular saw. emery wheel, sander. arc welder, and forge. Recently the shop acquired a 1932 model Chevrolet engine, which will be used in the auto mechanics area in studying the functions of the different parts of the automobile engine. Many different types of projects are made, some of which are end tables, magazine racks, book ends, table lamps, electric motors, tool boxes, metal funnels. pin trays, clevises, and a hog feeder. This work involves such processes as gluing, planing, finishing, riveting, soldering, sanding, tool dressing, and sketching. Originality of design is stressed in sketching the various projects to be made. Another activity of the department is the maintenance of equipment in other departments. The second year students constructed window screens for the entire building. This job made use of mass production methods which are used in industrial plants. The interest of the industrial arts students is shown in the fact that they spend much of their spare time working in the shop. Paye ueren—The Clnytonian

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Food Preparation Center Because the homemaker prepares whole meals rather than parts of meals, it seems only right that the future homemaker can learn best by following her mother's example. For this reason family groups are formed in each class so that we may more nearly have a home situation in the class room. In the Food Preparation Center there are four family-size kitchens, complete with stove, breakfast table and chairs, sink, linoleum top working surfaces. and cabinets, which house cooking utensils to serve a family. The two gas and two electric stoves are four different makes so that the student may learn to operate more than one make of stove, and so that she may discover the advantages and disadvantages of more than one fuel. Larger cooking utensils and additional chinaware are housed in a storage room behind the kitchens where also there are cabinets for storing canned foods, and illustrative materials. There, also, is a cabinet for keeping the student's uniforms and a cabinet for miscellaneous supplies. The cabinet file in the foreground of the picture is for bulletins and recipes which the students may use as reference material. The electric refrigerator in the center of the laboratory keeps perishable foods fresh: staples are stored in the cupboards in the background of the picture. I'aye nint 7 hr Claytonian