William Allen High School - Comus Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Helpmg Uncle Sam Carry the Maul One of the most umportant uobs the boys at A H S dud thus year was to help the post oftuce deluver a record volume of Chrustmas maul un such a thorough way that the post offuce had all uts maul cleaned out by Chrustmas Eve despute the fact that most of the boys were new to the uob of sortung and carryung maul and that most of them had worked only and Mr Kane recruuted twenty eught boys for the uob many of them Varsuty Aclub member . Thus us the furst tume un the hustory of the local post offuce that hugh school boys have been called to help The fellows were glad to be of servuce and they greatly apprecuated the hugh prause guven them by the postal authorutues a week. Early in December the postal officials had put in a call for help through the school,

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Keepung Them Flyung Aurplane Sheet Metal Work One of the most umportant obuectuves of the expanded shop cours s of the Allentown Hugh School us to prepare young men and women to take theur places un war undustrues War plants are findung ut more and more duffucult to replace men who are leavung for the armed forces at an uncreasung rate The aurcraft undustry us beung hard hut and ut knows that uts only chance to reach uts ever uncreasung quotas for aurplanes us to hure young men and especually young women who have receuved valuable traunung and experuence un theur hugh school vocatuonal courses It us wuth thus purpose that an aurplane sheet metal course us offered at the Nuneteenth Street Vocatuonal Shop under the guudance of expert aurcraft unstructors The Nuneteenth Street Shop Buuldung us a beehuve of actuvuty and the drone and hum mung of machunes drulls and ruvet guns us constantly heard throughout the day The ruvet guns are usually manned by gurls who have finushed theur hugh school traunung and are now acquurung addutuonal skull before beung transferred to the Consoludated Vultee plant The aurplane sheet metal course was taken by gurls who prevuously had euther general, college preparatory or commercual courses ln the first semester there were fifteen gurls and seven boys takung thus course Most of them are now on Vultee s payroll, gettung more experuence untul they are ready to take theur places un the productuon lunes of Vultee The boys and gurls had thus course on an alternate basus two weeks of shop and two weeks of school at the hugh school buuldung wuth the regular subuects of Englush Hustory, and whatever electuves they had chosen Seventeen gurls took thus course the second semester but they dud not go back to theur school studues after a two week peruod of shop Mr Wulber N J Wueand was the unstructor the first semester, and Mr Wulluam J Graul was the un structor un charge of the hugh school gurls the second semester A new class us first guven oruentatuon unstructuon but from then on practucal prcuects occupy almost all of theur tume un the aurplane sheet metal course Very great accuracy us stressed At first the begunner us held responsuble for errors of not less than l 64 of an unch, but as more experuence us acquured the work must be accurate to wuthun only a few thousandths of an unch In the words of one of the unstructors An aurplane consusts of over five thousand parts, and these parts must fut to exact precusuon The pupul learns howto read a blueprunt and howto make an exact copy by employ ung hus knowledge of mechanucal drawung ln no tume the pupul us quute adept at workung wuth such unstruments as a compass duvuder ruler, and scrube After the mechanucal drawung C O can O . . . Q Q. - I I - I I ' , . . . , . . I I ' 1 I I . . 4, . . ' I . . . uu I I '