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

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Reception Room The Reception Room adjoins the office on the north. All callers are received here. It is the room in which Mr. Cherry's secretary works. The fireproof safe is built into the northwest corner of the Reception Room. In it arc kept class and club money boxes, attendance records, student permanent record, school financial record, activities fund record, educational program files of prior years, educational program file. English Department library reading record, candy and candy sales for the band. The Supply Room is off the southeast corner of the Reception Room. In it are kept all necessary school supplies. Opposite the Supply Room in the northeast corner is a Faculty Men's locker room and rest room. The school paper is typed, duplicated, and assembled in the Reception Room. The duties of the student office assistants, who work in the Reception Room, are: to take all phone calls, check attendance record, introduce callers, type letters, grade papers, and help the school secretary in every way possible. 1 he secretary is Bessie Lois Holman. There are eight assistants, and each one has a certain period to work. The assistants are: Donna Jean Cramer. Thelma Haines. Peggy Acklin. Vera Mae Edmiston. Norman Hesser, Betty Jean Holman. Delphine Ewald. and Ray Hall. The CUtytonian—Pag nix

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Office The office is probably one of the busiest places in the building. Telephone ringing, buzzers ringing, radio giving broadcasts, people callng on Mr. Cherry on business, and pupils asking important questions all form the routine of an ordinary day in this room. The clock is probably one of the most delicate devices and probably the most important we have. It is automatic and rings every forty minutes. It has a buzzer attached to it which can be set to ring at any given time. The office also has a public address system. If one desires to communicate with one of the rooms this system will permit both speaking and listening. The office also has a file which contains records and grades of every student who has attended this school. The public address system also contains a radio which can be used by any room at any time. It is used for broadcasts in History classes, telling about the war problems and the current events of the United States. It is used in the Home Economics room for students who take Cooking. Sewing, and Home Management. The radio also has an automatic record-changer for playing ten to twelve recordings. We feel that our office is one of the most up-to-date in the state. We are proud of the various automatic mechanisms which help to regulate our school life. I au »vif— The Claytonian

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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