West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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This Machine Age The fellows who work wilh skilled hands arc the men of the moment today. As never before, we recognize how dependent we arc upon the men who keep our cars running smoothly, the fellow who shapes the tools to make that car. the man who rolls out the steel and plans the construction of our modern living devices. High school shop education must stimulate not only the desire for this type of work, hut must also lay the foundation and develop the knowledge and skills necessary. We well remember our first frantic endeavors to produce from machines and tools reproductions of expert articles. We need only re-examine the results of those efforts to note improvements—improvements which will mean perfection in our particular line of work in future days. Machines of this Machine Age depend upon skilled hands for manipulation. Training in the schools produces that skill. Standing: RAY SOUTHWORTH . . . Mechanical Drawing . . . Drafting . . . Architecture; JESSE E. MOORE . . . Machine Shop; Seated: WII.I. B. TITS WORTH . . . Woodtuming . . . Cabinet Work Production Depends Upon Them . . . Skilled Workers Trained for Efficiency

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DOROTHY STYF.R . . . Chxhing; MRS. MARY POTTER . . . Food Preparing for Homos Cooking, sewing, and the economics of a home— these are the heritage of womankind. They arc not menial, dull, or burdensome tasks; for these arc the small duties that help to form and build the most important part of American life—the family. Marriage will always remain the most worthy career of the majority of women. The preparation for this great institution must be thorough. During this preparation everything was not as simple for students as it was for Mother. The food was not always edible; the clothes we made, not perfectly styled. What girls have gained from the courses is a familiarity with their future duties and the beginnings of that certain knack around the kitchen and the sewing room—that knack which men wonder at and admire. Now they may look forward, satisfied that they arc capable of becoming the home founders of their generation. Every Woman’s Duty... These Girls Arc Learning the Arts of Home Life

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Physical Education Prepares Them for a Strenuous Life of the Future Training for lloallli Is this wak-mad world nothing is so important to a belligerent nation as health. A physically weak population, which undermines the vitality of an entire nation and saps its strength, is a detriment as deadly as a nest of fifth columnists. A principal requisite to good health is exercise. Plenty of exercise is necessary to build up our bodies in order to better our ability to resist disease. Included in our high school training has been a physical education program. This—along with football, basketball, track, boxing, hockey, and wrestling—has helped us to toughen our muscles and improve our endurance. America’s youth has been called soft. Hut in the years to come America’s twentieth century youth won’t be remembered for its softness, but rather for its toughness in repelling the forces of wrong. LOUIS ZAVODSKY . . . Physical Education . . . Track . . . Tumbling