Medina High School - Mirror Yearbook (Medina, NY)

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1 Q 3 B THEMIRROR Q 1 Q Q junior l-ligh Vocational Course HE subjects offered in the Junior High Vocational course are: woodworking, electricity, printing, and a prerequisite course in mechanical drawing. The Junior High Course is a try-out or finding course. Every boy is given all opportunity to take each of the mentioned subjects for one term. He is then allowed to choose one or two subjects to be taken up during l1is High School Course. In this way the boy is given a chance to find tl1e work that he likes best, and to major in that particular line during his High School Course. Vocational Department HE first objective of the Vocational Department is to train boys to do work with their hands and to give them an opportunity to try out several subjects, so that they can select tl1e one which they wish to take up as a trade. The second objective is to help boys choose the work for which they are best suited and to give them more definite training along that line. The subjects offered by tl1e High School Vocational Department are: auto mechanics, elementary and advanced woodworking, elementary and advanced mechanical drawing, elementary and advanced printing. AUTO LTECHANICS The course in auto mechanics, through scientific knowledge gained i11 class and the actual work done in the shop, aims to give the boy a general knowledge of what an auto mechanic needs to know and do. Furthermore, he will have acquired a considerable amount of skill in the use of tools and a good understanding of t.he automobile. The work in auto mechanics is done for anyone who wishes to bring his car in, provided the owner furnishes any parts that he desires to have replaced. XVOODXVORKING The courses in woodworking aim to present in a logical order the fundamentals of woodworking and cabinet making, together with the possibilities and processes of woodfinishing. In addition, the boy is taught the correct use and care of bench and machine woodworking tools, and is instructed in drawing, mathematics, and materials con- nected with the work. MEGH.-sNiC,u, IYTRAWVING The elementary course in mechanical drawing prepares the pupil in the use of drafting instruments and aims to give some knowledge of simple projections. In addition, the pupil is taught the procedure followed in making a Page Thirty

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E E Q Q THEMIRROR Q Q Q Q Printing Courses ,- YVO years of printing are oltered in our High School with the major aim of teaching p1'esent day methods of hand setting for commercial and school forms. Each year's work consists of from twenty to twenty-five projects, and includes the keeping of a speci- men note book of the work done. The course in Printing I is divided into three major divisions. The first unit is the setting of straight matter composition and involves learning the case, the terms and tools used, simple make-ready and press work, and the setting of prose paragraphs for the school paper, poetry, initial printing, cut-in notes, proof-reading, punctuation, and the like. The second unit is the setting of commercial job work and display composition, such as: tickets, lctterheads, bill heads, hand bills, window cards, etc. The third unit is the setting of school record cards and other book- lets and printing. This includes programs, library forms, athletic and health forms for records, banquet and dance programs, census cards, Regents' cards, etc. Printing II is offered to those who have completed Printing I, and is designed to give greater skill in more difficult typography and press work to those already interested in printing. Briefly, it consists of about twenty projects involving more elaborate rule work, and border and ornamental designs for covers, title pages, tabular work, and twof color work for mottoes and holiday cards. Both Printing I and Printing Il. are taken daily either one period a day for forty weeks, or two periods a. day for twenty weeks. Sheet Metal I-IEET Metal work is a new course being offered to High School students this term and will probably be put in tl1e Junior High and prevocational curricula in January. This course aims to give the students the fundamentals which a sheet metal worker should know, including the use and care of soldering coppers, floxes used on various metals, lay out of patterns, correct use of metals, and the use and care of the machines and hand tools. The projects made include cake tins, cookie cutters, flour scoops, dust pans, funnels, liquid and dry measures, open and covered pails, waste paper baskets, garbage pails, and many other useful articles for the farm or city home. Page Twenty-nine

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Q Q Q Q THEMIRROR Q Q Q Q correct working drawing and the connnon drafting conventions. Tl1e work i11 the elenientary course develops the power of visualiza- tion, strengthens the constructive iniagination, and teaches tl1e student how to lead the language of the industries. The advanced lneclianical drawing course covers 1l101'C difficult Work, such as: machine detail. sheet metal developments, and the making of blue pri11ts. -Joseph Vincent The Library fall X OUR endeavor to explain the outstanding features in each l 53 neglect either our school lilirary or the liee-XVl1edon Memorial l ,,s. 1' depaitnient of our high school, it is unthinkable that we should Library. Probably no 0110 division i11 the entire school exercises such a wide influence as do these two rooms. They are a sort of Mecca to the teacher as well as to the pupil. 'ln fact, our excellent library facilities, unusual for a school of this size, have completely revolutionized methods of teaching and con- tribute'l 11lllt'll towards raising ll. H. S. to higher standards of efficiency. For example, if an English teacher Formerly wanted to give her pupils an idea of the theater i11 Sl1akespcarc's day. she was obliged to spend an entire class period explaining' the conditions, today, on tl1e otl1e1' hand. a week before she is ready to begin the study of drama she asks the lilw1'a1ia11s to place on the English Reserve Shelf all available ma- terials dealing' with the age of Queen Elizahetli and the development of drama through the Middle A ges. NVQ are then told to find out all We possibly can about that subject and to come to class prepared to discuss intelligently the various phases of lCllZ3lJQtll9.11 life and drama. Vtlhat l said about the English class applies equally well to other classes. Do you see now why li said the library has revolutionized teaching? Gone is the time when the teacher lectures throughout the class period while tl1e pupils vainly try to take notes on what she is saying. Now our teachers remain in the background, guiding and directing our dis- cussion. The class period has, therefore, ceased to be a mere recita- tion periodq it has become a meeting place in which we students con- tribute tl1e results of our own research, and are stimulated by the re- ports of our classmates, to do more reading ourselves i11 our leisure time. Not only is the work made 111ore interesting to us, but it is es- pecially more far-reaching in its influence. for We are acquiring inde- pendence in using reference books, and greater familiarity with the library facilities. Besides the work we do there, We have hours of pleasure which compensate ns for the work, for labor is its own reward. Page Thirty-one