Normandy High School - Saga Yearbook (Normandy, MO)

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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

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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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George Klaber is u sheet metal worker at Kuenz Sheet Metal Company. Here William Krcrber checks out customers at Rcxpp's Market in Pine Lawn. Dwight Leach weighs up a purchase lor a prospective buyer at Rapp's. 641045, me ckinidfd N KEEPING with the progressive attitude of the Normandy vocational departments, Mr. John Krablin, head of the lndustrial Arts Department, directs the Diversified Occupations Course. ln this set-up, boys and girls take up curtailed but vital school studies and gain actual experience by employment in a suitable trade. Students taking advantage of this course must spend at least three hours a day in school, taking three subjects, and three hours on their jobs. One of the three subjects they must take is a class in personal problems, dealing with the problems Bob Fink. who works as cr mechanic. lubricates cz car from the oil pit. workers meet on their jobs and their personal prob- lems at home and in school. Mr. Krablin handles this class himself. Diversified Occupations students earn their diploma by receiving one unit of credit for their job besides the three credits for the three hours they spend in school. Thus they earn the required credit for graduation. Some of these boys are doing their bit in our fight for victory by Working in War plants. They hold down positions as spot Welders, sheet metal workers, bench metal workers, and shear hands. Others are employed by grocers Page Thirty