Fairmont West High School - Dragon Yearbook (Kettering, OH)

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Industrial arts courses at Fairmont help produce future engineers, architects, and mechanics. Courses include mechanical and architectural drawing, woodworking, metal working, graphic arts, and trans- portation. Mechanical drawing teaches the student to read and write the language of indus- try. The Woodworking course teaches skills for the maintenance and operation of Woodworking machinery, especially methods of cabinet making. Metal work- ing involves various laboratory techniques, materials, and processes. ln transporta- tion the working and parts of the internal combustion engine are studied. WHAT MAKES IT TICK? Mr. Hans Holtzrager ex- plains the fundamentals to Dick Flynn, Richard Ar- nold, Richard Wiegand, John Weiland, Richard Weaver, and Roger Penick. Aspirin Tradesmen Increase Manual kills FINISHING A MACHINE SHOP PROJECT is Philip Berner a shop classrooms are fully equipped wi1h the newest machines Mr Charles Power supervises and Paul Krug watches The including acetylene torches, lathes, and printing presses. if! 'L RA. 6ii.wQE

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A strong arm and plenty of paper and pencils are necessary to a Fairmont mathematics student. Courses offered are General Mathematics, Al- gebra I, Algebra ll, Plane Geometry, Solid Geom- etry, and Trigonometry. Objectives of these courses are to develop habits and attitudes of careful, accurate, and independent thinking. The slide rule, protractor, and compass are tools for solving technical problems. Mathematics courses are valuable in giving a background for further study of engineering, aviation, surveying, chemistry, and electricity in college. HOW DOES Adeline Watkins feel being the only girl in Mrs. Mariory Juniper's trigonometry class? maxim., i..r V. M.. 1 A Q . , for Educational Challenge of Today and Tomorrow SETTING UP A PHYSICS EXPERlMENT,Ahoping it does not explode, are Doug Didier, Jim Gochoel, and Hollie Ryder. N... JV' ARE THEIR ANSWERS RlGHT? A typical math scene shows Sam Jarger, Curtis Bailey, and Judy Denney proving they can solve complex fractions.

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Wifi.. el A E., J WM. Turn Ri ht. . . There,s the Kitchen Home Economics II, with a semester each of cooking and sewing, is the first course offered. Advanced methods of food preparation and cloth- ing construction, with the completion of a jacket or coat, is offered to all girls. In Home Economics III girls may complete household projects such as drapery making, can- ning, or preserving. Semester courses of child de- velopment and home management and decoration furnish a practical view of managing a home and rearing children. Driver training may be taken for a semester or the entire year. Besides actual practice in driving a car, pupils have a textbook and classroom dis- cussions. Every term a member of the State Patrol department instructs the class in safety precautions by showing films. BRAKE DRUM is shown to Judy Phillips by Mr. Graham. lOl WAYS TO BEAT AN EGG Here Nancy Rosenquist, Sherry Kaufman, and Pat Hirsch prepare a cake. WHIR-R-R-R-R Making those sew- ing machines s t i T c h are Diana Geiger, Ellen Blair, and Bonita Wright. :gn