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

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IN VOCATIO AL CLASSES BOYS Our general shop classes prepare us lor luture vocations. ln these courses we learn the more intricate details ol the dillerent types ol equipment that we use. We boys can learn how to tal4e apart and reassemble an airplane or an automobile, we can follow in the lootsteps ol Ben Franlclin by learning all about electricity,--how to wire a house, to put into good worlfing order anything from a toaster to a deep freeze, and to repair and install a television set, we can learn about the newest linotype machines and the newest methods ol printing lor our Rrint Shop is one ol the best-equipped high school shops in the countryewe print anything from ollice blanl4s on the old l-leidelberg press to lndiunapolis at Work on the ollset TUNlNG UP an aircraft engine, malcing the final check to see il it is ready to run, are Ed Freeland, Clancy Arnold, Thomas Featheringill, with Mr. Robert Ottutt. WORKING AT a distributor tester in Auto Shop are three young mechanics, Michael Ellington, Warren l-laas, Robert Reed, adept at overhauling automobiles. BOBBY l-l. SCOTT and Richard l-larlin make a waste can for the cafeteria while Ernest l-larris and Marvin Swinney malce a utility cabinet from an old steel deslc with the help of Mr. Brinker, in Metal Trades. 24

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.. K Y i-If IN A SCULPTURE class Marcia Means Cleftb chisels a Fish in stone, Robert Morris CrightD carves an owl of wood, and Edgar Garrison and Nora Wildriclc worlc on sell-portrait heads in clay. SHUTTERBUGS learning triclcs of photography by trying portrait worlc as their instructor, Mr. Richard Reeler, directs, are Karen Bailey, Richard Moore, Edgar Garrison, and Marilyn Weddle. FOR CURIOUS A RT COURSES ARE SURELY FU Qur Art department is in itsell an art school lor it ollers a variety ol courses. We can fashion and make our own iewelry, talce ond print our own pictures, mold and tire our own ceramics, and sketch and paint our own murals. A lavorite proiect ol some ol us art students is to paint our own portraits on canvas or mold replicas ol our heads in clay. We not only develop our talents, but we also enioy ourselves while doing so. ACTI E MI DS WOODRUFF PLACE, the town-within-O-City, with its lovely old homes, broad espla- nodes, cast iron stotues, and bubbling fountains, provides many popular sketching spots for Mr. Edmund Schildlcnechfs advanced art classes. 23

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MA TER KILL FOR I DUSTRY lTlOCl'1lne,OnCl In BUllClIV1QlfOClG3VV9t,Ult learn howto Fix that leaky laucet or install a new bathtubi we can even build a two story house paper and paint it, besides installing the plumbing and electricity. We are always being called upon to do some seryice lor our school: making waste paper containers lor the campus and the lunchroom, repairing our teachers' desks or the electric bell system. We really learn how to become expert handy men around our homes, lor we are always in demand lor overhauling the lamily car, painting the garage, or building a picket lence. Alter we have been kept busy at all ol these iobs at school and at home, we are well-prepared to use our knowledge to secure iobs in the industrial world. IN ELECTl2lC SHOP Mr. Jules Zinter paints out to Thomas Edwards and Robert Kirk the place to make a connection between the controller and the three-phase resistor, a necessary lesson lor young electricians. IN A PLUMBING class as Thomas Kenzer cuts a piece of pipe and John Lane is threading a piece of pipe, Mr. Paul Vogt shows LeRoy l-liles how to measure pipe. RUNNING OFF on the ohfset machine in the Print Shop some of the many thousands of pieces ol copy for both our school and for the administrative ol-lice, are Ronald Brooks, Mr. Harold E. Deem, and l2alph Jellers. 25