Normandy High School - Saga Yearbook (Normandy, MO)

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Feature ol the pre-flight class was the construction of a full-scale glider. 6: HlfRE7S the micrometer? How do you center this arc? Finished with the hand saw? These and other tech- nical phrases are heard about the shops in the junior high and vocational building shops, classes, and drawing room. But terminology is not the only thing that industrial students learn. Normandy is Gene Carney changes the saw in woodworking while fellow students work with their projects. Dick Lindner strikes an arc with his compass in his inking of cx plate in mechanical drawing. noted for a superior lndustrial Arts Department, under lVlr. John Krahlin. 111 junior high, shop classes are home mechanics, junior shop, general shop, and beginning wood- working. Here fundamental principles in hench metal are studied and practiced. lfse of the cor- rect tool in the right way is learned from Mr. R. E. Hoefler and Mr. Mc-Kee. Wlith this primary training lwehind him, the prospective handicraft worker continues on into more advanced courses. These courses are more specialized. more dillicult, more exacting. ll he has a yen lor working with wood, he takes advanced woodworking. Here he lxuilds cabinets, hook stands, and other things of permanent use. He may also take model airplane lmuilding and thus help the armed service as well as have a chance to work with wood. Miss Elizabeth Foulds and Mr. Felix Serafini teach these classes. Enibryo electricians can take electricity or Morse code. Electricity, under Mr. Thomas Rapp, deals with fundamentals ol that field. lVlorse code is a course of telegraphy in which, under lVliss Joanna Barnes, direction, students learn how to send and take international lVlorse code. Both are special war courses. Any prospective airplane pilots have ample Page Twenty-Eight

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Wow fa, Affinia, iuea Ano l Girls in the sewing classes learn an ancient art and a still practical one. Working hand in hand with the war effort, Nor- inandyis CUllllllCl'l'l3l Department has offered a one-ye-ur business course to typing and shorthand students. Thirty girls took the Civil Service tests, and four have entered thc lnternational Business Compunyis svhool. They haxe been kept liusy with avlnul ollim-e work this year and haue utilized the ther old. but still essential, art is cooking. The pie is apple. and we know it will be good. uf wm- Iunior art students develop skills and have fun as they draw chalk murals. 1-oinptonie-ter. minieograph, and adding machines, the operations of which are taught at N0l'IIl3IlCly in the ollive machines course. Addressing envelopes on lVlissouri's Amendment No. I, Wtailoringll gasoline and oil rationing hooks, preparing notices for the svhool und tests for lear'llel's are part of their svliool work. All the conditions of an actual household are found in the apartment. The girls are doing a bit ot cleaning. Price Twenty-Seven

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HAD, rahamen, ecAanic:S, ar en fem opportunity at Normandy for preliminary training through the pre-flight course. This also is an emer- gency war course, which is now a semester old. Under the guidance of Mr. Hoefier, the hots lmuilt a full size glider. If a hoy is mechanically adept, he would do hest hy taking auto mechanics. Here he learns the automobile backwards and forwards, inside and out. He knows, at the conclusion of Mr. Rapp's teaching, how to take it apart and put it together. This is a course that a boy not necessarily inter- ested in hecoming a mechanic may take for his own personal use. Any boy or girl interested in commercial draw- ing may take mechanical drawing or architectural drawing. Here are courses requiring accuracy and neatness. A successful draltsman has tremendous earning power in hoth peace and War times. These courses are taught hy Miss Foulds and Mr. Serafini. Normandyis reputation as a progressive school is given a forward push by its excellent Industrial Arts Department. Students in auto shop get measurements General shop pupils work on their assiqnments on a piece ol shaitinq. with press, vise, and electricity. In Morse code, a new course. Kenny Messerschmiclt In junior shop, iuvenile mechanics and carpenters sends while fellow amateur telegraphers take. ply themselves at their several tasks. Page Twenty-Nine