Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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An opportunity for every girl to learn the practical arts of foods and clothing is offered in the Home Economies de- partment, which began in September, 1912, with sixty-one pupils enrolled in three sewing classes. The first Foods class was founded in September, 1914, and was for girls only, but in September, 1930, a class for boys was begun. With this beginning the department progressed rapidly until at the present time there are eleven hundred thirty-five pupils in forty-six classes. Courses offered in this department are: a gen- eral course in Home Economics for junior high school girls, courses in Clothing, I to IV, Foods I and II, Home Economics IS-meals and table service, and Social Practice. Advanced technical courses are offered in Dress- making I an-d II, Millinery I and II, and Foods III and IV fBake Shopj. Boys may take Foods I, II, III, and IV. However, many pupils do not wish to major in Home Economics, but merely desire to take only one yearts work. To these pupils certain courses in foods and clothing are offered. Home Economics Club Class in Sewing One of the most interesting divisions of this de- partment is the Foods classes for boys. They not only learn to cook delicious food, but they also study etiquette, table manners, and other phases of being a courteous, refined young man. A comparatively new class, begun in September, 1932, is Social Itractice, offered to freshman girls. A two-semester course, it is the study of good taste in dress, manners, and conduct. Vocational Sewing and Millinery classes hold spring exhibits, displaying dresses, toys, pillows, scarfs, hats, gloves, lamp shades, fashioned by the pupils, and renovation problems. Last spring marked the eighth exhibit of this kind. A new feature of the Yocationa-ls Sewing exhibit was the display of suits made by the girls for needy youngsters. The Needlework Guild supplied the money with which the material for the suits was pur- chased, and the girls bought materials and made the suits. Thus, the Home Economics department teaches, aids the needy, prepares pupils for business, and makes better men and women of its members. 1 - - .-.- Home Economics Department 19 THE ARSENAL CANNON l.

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The Agriculture Course 18 THE ARSENAL CANNON 1 1 r sells from the market house, located at the gardens, in the spring and on through the summer and fall all the products they raise to neighborhood customers and teachers. At the end of the season the vegetables are sold to the school lunch rooni at cost. The market house with a salesrooni and a prep- aration room was built in the spring olf 1926 as a project of the vocational carpentry shops. All nia- terials were 'furnished by the Agriculture clepartnient. Vocational ceinentry, painting, and architectural drawing helped in their relative positions. The Agriculture Club meets every Friday morn- ing in the classroom. Planning their program, the boys take charge of the business of the club. To give the boys more impressions of general farm conditions is the aim ot the organization. r All farni topics a1'e discussed, and trips are taken to places of interest: creameries, stock yards, packing plants, and model and ordinary farms. Practice in speaking before the other menibers trains the boys to present their ideas before farm meetings which they will later attend. 'i Agriculture Club and Gardens To instruct pupils in the rotation of crops, the value of fertilizers, the activities of bacteria, and the properties of the soil is the purpose of the course in agriculture. Classes meet in ltoom 71 in the basement of the Barn. Studying -dairy Work, horticulture, hog and poultry raising, the pupils learn how to solve general farni problems. Hot beds adjacent to the classroom are sown with the best seeds obtainable. Then the plants are set in cold frames in the school gardens. Asters, zinnias, and inarigolds were planted for the first time this year, while live tulip beds have been set out. Seedling trees are being planted back of the gardensg needy shrubs about the campus are being sprayed. Gardens were the first means of production in the early days of the class in 1913. Each boy taking the course had his own plot to'care for and study. After the World War it was taught as agriculture and the gardens were used by all for practical pur- poses and experiments. As the crops are put out in seasonal succession, they ripen at different times. 'l'herefore, the class Class in Cooking ' v Q,

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The E 1 - 4 V it S buildings. After spending much time and effort, one of the boys in Architectural Drafting developed the finecampus maps offered for sale in the financial office. q Drafting As most mechanical and architectural advance- ment in the world today is made first on paper in the Department I'orn1 of a drawing, and because most products olf any D shop. are made 01' repaired from a drawing or blue- print, the universal language of drafting is essential to a technical education. For this reason, mechanical drawing is required as an allied subject with most shop work. Several boys from Tech who entered the drafting field have attained unusual success and have monu- ments to their efforts in the form of buildings. The supreme reward for labor in drafting is that from only a blank sheet of paper and an idea, led by a little knowledge and technique, grows a real and substantial monument to that idea in the form of a Architectural Drafting beautiful house, office building, or machine. v J-W , ,ir PRQQRIESS r iii. if --- . Aaeiaiaasm - ,,. ll! e Il g ll 2 . if it sgsngiigi F, -.,. f 1,-ana llll lil e lpigi ig ll EEE? ' ll lllli ,H-fp ' E l1lIEll:L,t,aisff' ' -- . - 4 em, . sam. f t't 'r-v-mzhiii? :- .T f The Drafting department has twelve rooms and complete equipment to accommodate two hundred fifty pupils every period. Instruction in this department covers practically every phase of drafting, from simple mechanical drawing and blue-print reading to the designing of homes and machinery. The Machine Drafting and the Architectural Drafting courses were organized ten years ago. The latter was evolved from a two-period course called Building Arts. Both courses were converted into four-period classes to conform to Federal require- ments for reimbursement. Offered during the pupil's senior year, they have proved an advantage to the career of many drafting students. Special courses are adapted to the various shop works chosen by the pupils. The advanced classes in Architectural Drafting and Machine Drafting, besides their study of house and machine design, have de- 20 signed many improvements about the campus and Machine Drafting THE ARSENAL CANNON L