Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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DEPARTMENT ali 1 wx pared in Al condition by these supervisors The boys in the Auto Mechamcs Shop learn the names and parts ot an automobile how to take one apart and re assemble it and how to use and operate the various tools and machines needed lor this work So when necessrty calls for the boys to repair a leep or a tank they are ready The Welders ol our school are gxven the opportuntty to prepare for an important de tense yob Every ship that the United States IS burlding for our two ocean Navy must be an example of perfected workmanship The Welders play a most rmportant role here be cause they are the men who weld the ships together This IS certainly one way of strength ening our defenses and sate guard1ng our freedom Thus We see two examples ol the vital work that the vocational men are teach- ing our boys. With such instructors at our helm our country will be led to ultimate Victory. CHARLES E MARKS M I MILES CHARLES E THOMAS DON A WEST CHARLES B WONDERS

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VOF-XTIONAL '12 1 .2 mm 4 Industry marches forward HARRY I KLAHR1: Chairman BRUCE E ALTER losspn B Cort.: GEORGE KNEREM WILLIAM GARDNER -I 22 Today when we speak of vmctory we sem dom th1nk of the men behmd the men at the machmes These are the teachers who make up the voca1onal departmen s of hrgh schools all over the country They tram boys to par t1c1pate xn all the essent1a1 act1v1t1es 1n na t1ona1 defense These boys are the ones who make 1ron castmgs tn steel m1l1s tanks and yeeps tn automob1le factor1es bombers pur sutt planes and gl1ders 1n axrcraft plants and shells and bombs 1n mun1t1on works All ot these mdustrtes are Amermcas source of power Thus through these teachers the tu ture engmeers draftsmen machlnlsts and skllled laborers get the1r start These 1mportant men are seldom seen around school and very llttle IS heard about them however wrthout much pubhctty they are domg a great 1ob for our country When the Army calls for the1r boys they are pre l ,l

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is RALPH GILLMAN HJRILII N lANf UA! L AND MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Nsvm SMITH Ross BENCHOFF Ac rss B NEARY IOSEPHINE A Youuc j The Jmmense value ot becommg acquamted wrth a torexgn language IS that we are thereby led mto a new world of trad1t1on and thought and teelmg . l ' I fu 8,15 Asrde from thrs the study of any tore1gn language rs a great help to the student 1n understand1ng our own A-4 language more clearly slnce our language 1S a com pos1t1on ot several tongues It mcreases our vocabu fcun lary enrlches our conversatlon and xmproves our sm' ' grammar In our school we are offered a great vanety of languages Lat1n French Spanlsh German and Ital1an all ot wh1ch wxll open to us a new world ol thought mathemahcs IS necessary 1n practrcally all hnes of defense? It ts compulsory for each mdrvrdual takmg 'WF A D1d nt ever occur to you that a knowledge ot J f L war exammatlons to complete a d1v1s1on devoted excluslvely to mathematxcs Arnerxca IS callmg out to her youth pleadmg for more experts to operate our mdustrnes Here at Iohnstown Hlgh School stu dents answer that call by preparmg themselves ln algebra geometry and tngonometry classes 24 t- 1 l Q . I V I l' l l f z . . 1 ff . . , , 9 I A - 1 ' .As l . 1 , . . 5, . -Ellis -, 'G f v N 'xL.l I . . - 'J LJ Nfl 'z N , ' . I . - '. I:-as . Q I I ' sffwwv , 5 . I . ' . I ' ' 4 . Sf.- x . .