Kokomo High School - Sargasso Yearbook (Kokomo, IN)

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ocational drafting classes helped save time in planning the layout of our school publica- tions and also helped plan our future gymnasium. The printing classes printed our slips and report blanks, The auto mechanics shop and the radio classes also spent time in doing service for the school in the repairing of radios and automobiles. The equipment of the printing shop, radio shop, Woodshop, related math, and drafting room is located in the high school building, while the remaining vocational equipment such as auto mechanics, Welding, general shop, and ma- chine shop equipment is located in the basement of Haworth gymnasium, After a student has graduated from the vocational course, he is qualified to take a job in the profession for which he was trained. The Kokomo High School student Who graduates from the vocational course Will have a big part to play in the rebuilding of our war-shattered World. For by planning, drafting, and making the articles which are so greatly in de- mand today, he will help lessen the post-war problems which We now face. His high school training will help him a great deal in accomplishing this. Left: In the machine shop boys work on engine lathes. Top: Mr. Everett Mason, Mr. Chester Thompson. Bottom: Mr. George Hartmann, Mr. Lawrence Rumbaugh.

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Vocational Often while sitting peacefully in a class our quiet minutes of study were broken by noise coming from the vicinity of the Hrst floor. We wondered if the World were coming to an end, but upon inquiring later, we found that the noise had been created by the boys who were industriously spending their time learning to run the woodshop machinery. Upon further investigation, We found that the woodshop is not, as We had previously thought, a department in itself, but is a part of the extensive vocational department under the able leadership of Mr. Virgil Pleenor, Here a competent staff of teachers instruct in machine shop, auto mechanics, general shop, Woodworking, radio, printing, related math, and drafting. These various courses teach the student how to operate machines correctly and efliciently, how to weld, how to make radios, how to make plans correctly and to scale, how to read blueprints, how to print with a printing machine, how to set type, and how to repair and paint automobiles. The various vocational classes are not only using their time teaching students trades but also do many services for the school and the public. The Top: Mr. Virgil Fleenor, Mr. Rex Clingenpeel. Bottom: Mr. John Meinzer, Mr. Ray Newlon, Mr. Alfred Himelick. Right: Students in drafting study architectural and machine drawing as Well as airplane designing ,Wg

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Top: left to right: Miss Gertrude Colescott, Mrs. Mildred Kern, Mr. E. W. Phillips, Mr. Fred Mustard Bottom: left to right: Mr. Joseph S. Powell, Mr. J. Warren Muncie, Mr. Earl Utterback. Mr. Earl Wilson and Page 26 Mr. Charles Lester, Social tudies What would the social studies department be without time? The study of history is so related to time that without the latter, there would be no his- tory, Every year that has passed since the beginning of time has been full of historical dates. Though many of these dates have been blotted out by time it- self, the ones that have been recorded make up what we know as history, The termination of the war brought relief to us all, but with it came a new series of dates and historical events that in years to come will perplex many future KI-IS students. However, these students, like the present ones, will take the additional dates and events in their stride. The war's end also brought back two teachers who were in the service and so eased our teacher shortage this year, By the second semester Mr. C, H. Laymon had returned from service in India with the Army Air Eorce and Mr. Charles C. Lester was back from the Navy. Mrs, Mildred Kern also helped in this respect, She substituted for Miss Elizabeth McIntosh the second semester. I-ler work was greatly appreciated both by the members of the social studies department and the students them- selves. The social studies department offered many subjects of interest and im- portance this year. Besides teaching their usual studies of world history, United