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

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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

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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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1 i The state law requiring two credits in physical education went into effect at Tech, Septem- ber, 1932. Several courses are offered in which health is taught. In the hygiene and home nursing classes, pupils are taught the proper treatment for the sick. The pupils in the home econom- ics and dressmakiug classes are instructed as to the cor- rect selection ol' l'oods and clothing. Physiology e mb o d i e s the science of correct living, which implies a knowledge of the hygienic care as well ' ' sg Q0 7 i -L ?gfL'.- j' X ww-M, f . V f is pp 232 gl S f 1 F5 M!00l0lIllI0 X sk a' , if . as the physiological functions of the body. Emphasis is placed upon the correct selection of foods, the proper amount to eat, and the ways of exercising and of creating a feeling of health consciousness which is so vital to man's well-being. The girls' physical training classes offer an all- round athletic program to those enrolled. Games of volley ball, indoor baseball, basketball, and other sports are regularly conducted. In the spring and fall hundreds of girls compete in the tennis tour- nament. A physical efliciency test which includes run- ning, jumping, tumbling, dancing, an-d all kinds of acrobatics is given to the girls. Corrective exercises, which are performed weekly in one class, are of spe- cial healthful benefit. For distinguished work in girls, athletics, monograms and A. T. S. buttons are awarded. Annually the classes have a Play Day when Girls in Physical Education the girls compete in basketball throws, hop-step-jump, soccer kick, relays, high jumping, broad jumping, and fifty-yard dashes. Ribbons are given as awards to the three highest in each event. Every day for forty minutes eight hundred one boys meet in the boys, physical education classes to develop their speed, agility, accuracy, strength, and endurance. They practice the broad jump, the high jump, and the fifty-yard dash. Indoor sports consist of volley ball, soccer, bas- ketball, chinning-the-bar, high jumping, and baskets- per-minute. Outdoor sports consist of baseball, track, tennis, and field events, performed on the practice recreation field. Special recognition should be given to the First Aid department which is supervised by a trained nurse who is registered by the Indiana State Board, and who has had Public Health experience. Four rooms make up this division: the dental clinic, a rest room with cots for girls, a rest room with cots for boys, and the oflice. The work of the First Aid department includes treatment for cuts, burns, bruises, sprains, observa- tion of skin eruptions and sore throats. The student assistants are selected from the Nursing I classes on the basis of scholarship, person- ality, attendance, and interest shown in the nursing profession. A medical inspector is sent to the school on Tues- days and Fridays by the City Board of Health. He advises, but does not prescribe. He refers the pupil to the family doctor or clinic for necessary treatment. Football returned to the city schools after a thirteen-year absence, the fall of 1920. Tech was just as enthusiastic then as it is novv, and it showed T i Physical Education Department 21 THE ARSENAL CANNON l