Arthur Hill Technical High School - Technician Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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fzi 'ag Printing was added to the curriculum in 1918 under Mr. Clyde E. Willard. He was with the faculty until 1949 when his son, Belmont G. Willard, became the instructor. Printing--an art, a science, cmd an absolute necessity in today's modern living, offers unlimited opportunities for young rnen with adequate training. Today, printing ranks as one of the nation's maior industries and helps main- tain the records of efficiency and production built up by other industries. Today, as in the past, printing is largely responsible for the advancement of education all over the world. The Arthur Hill Tech printing department is well-equipped to give thor- ough training in most phases of the trade and mastery of shop fundamentals. Knowledge of related subiects, such as design, printer's science, and math, to- gether with an understanding of the theory, places the student in the preferred group of those seeking employment in this field. The shop has four presses: one handfed press, a Kluge automatic press, a Craftsman automatic press, and an offset press, besides numerous type faces, a power papercutter, lntertype machine, saw, folder, stitcher, collator, and per- forator. The addition to the department several years of a process camera for offset photography and a platemaking unit have aided greatly in the produc- tion of this book. The Technician is a student production of the printing department and is an example of the training and instruction received. Units of learning in- volved in the production of this book are essential in the trade and include: Layout and designing, hand composition, linotype operation, make-up, proof- reading, lock-up, platen press work, operation of the process camera, masking, opaquing, offset platemaking, offset press operating, bindery work and figuring stock and material cost. This year's Technician, for the first time, includes three-color process printing, giving students fundamental experience in a field of printing that is highly technical, and requires the ultimate in accuracy, from basic offset color photography through platemaking, and offset presswork.

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Wefding The welding shop was started in 1941 as a part of the war training pro- gram, it was not a regular school subiect until 1944. The first class of twelve students was graduated in 1945. Nlr. George Davidson has been the only in- structor in this shop. No phase of industry has grown so extensively and rapidly as welding. Today, tanks, ships, and planes are being welded, as well as automobiles, ma- chinery, and household equipment. Considering the present rate of expansion, the future will call for a greater number of capable men in this field. The Arthur Hill Tech welding course consists of one semester of acetylene welding and three semesters of arc welding. Arc welding in the last decade, has made such great strides that more than ninety percent of all the welding is done by arc, therefore, three semesters of the four are spent on arc welding. The student spends three hours a day, fifteen hours a week, or three hundred hours per semester in shop. This time is divided so that the student has two hundred hours of actual practice on various types of welds. The re- maining one hundred hours are spent in the study of welding theory, shop dis- cussion, group anol individual instruction, and general repair work. The course has several aims: 1. To acquaint the students with all common metals and the correct means of identifying them. 2. To familiarize the student with the various units of the welding ap- paratus. 3. To teach the welding processes and their possibilities. 4. To explain the principles of physics and metallurgy used in making a weld. 5. To develop skill and confidence. 6. To teach the correct procedure in making repairs and adjustments. 7. To stress the importance of economy of time and materials. The training welders get will qualify them for the work in many indus- tries-ship building, airplane construction, coal and metal mines, oil refineries, pipeline construction, power plants, and automobile plants. Some of the students who have graduated are pipe welders, others are welders in other fields. The school hopes to interest more boys in the welding field because there is a need for pipe, sheet metal, and structural welders.