Binghamton North High School - Wampum Yearbook (Binghamton, NY)

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Owl Shift . There is a great variety of subjects offered including the fol- lowing: Electrical Installation and Main- tenance, Machine Shop Practice, Strength of Materials, Shop Sketch- ing and Tracing QDraftingJ, Sheet- metal and Sheetmetal Pattern Draft- ing, Acetylene Welding, Electric Welding, Automobile Mechanics, Blueprint Reading, Applied Mathema- tics, Industrial Electricity, Industrial Electronics, Foremanship Training, Power Sewing Machine Operation, Office Practice. This program is expanding very rapidly and many new subjects will be added in the near future to meet specific needs in some of the local de- fense industries. Classes are also held in Central High, East Junior and West Junior. The Defense Training Program for the training of industrial workers got under way in Binghamton on July 8, 1940. Since the beginning of these classes, approximately 3,300 men and a few women have been enrolled in one subject or another in the pro- gram. An increasing number of wo- men are being trained and in the next few months approximately six hun- dred women will be enrolled in all of the defense training classes. Some new classes for women which have recently been opened include a Wo- men-only machine shop class, a blueprint reading class, a course in operating power sewing machines, and a soldering class. There is also a class for women only in radio as- sembly. These women are being trained to read schematic blueprints and assemble radios with an eye toward future work of this type in the Link Corporation. Another new class was one organ- ized for boys and girls between ages of seventeen and eighteen and one- half. These boys and girls must be enrolled High School Students who graduate this June. The object of this program is to fit high school graduates for positions in defense in- dustries so that they may be able to obtain a job immediately upon grad- uation. As these classes meet after regular day school and on Saturdays, students must take them in addition to their regular school work. These classes are of as great a benefit to high school students as the other de- fense classes have been to many hundreds of men and women in Bing- hamton and surrounding territory. Another division of North's Night School is the Cornell Classes. These classes are on a collegiate level. They are tuition free and subjects such as Engineering, Physics, Elementary and Advanced Mathematics and De- sign, Tool Engineering, Safety En- gineering, Fundamentals of Radio and many others. North High is working on a twenty hour shift to do its part in defeating the Axis.

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Uut of The IW lot North High is Working all night for defense. North Highls Night School plays a vital part in the city, state, and even national defense pro- gram. The night school classes have trained, are training and will train many men and women to take key positions in defense industries. North High, open both day and night, forges ahead at full blast doing its part in winning that ultimate victory. The defense classes have trained and graduated many hundreds of men and a few Women. These men and Women, some inexperienced, and others with a little experience, entered these classes and in a comparatively short time left for immediate openings in the field in which they had trained. During the time they were in the classes they acquired sufficient experience and skill to enable them to obtain a defense position. The training is as specific as it can be made. In other words, these trainees are in the classes only four-hundred clock hours at the maximum, and in most cases do not reach this figure before they obtain a defense position. They obtain these positions in industries all over the eastern part of the country. Several concerns making tanks, airplanes, munitions, and ships have in many instances employed scores of these trainees. There are at the present time some sixty teachers employed on the program. About one-third of these teachers are employed in the all day program as vocational teachers which includes practically all of the voca- tional and technical teachers on the staff at North High School. In addition to the regular day school teachers, there are also employed some forty odd men and Women from local industries. They work during the day as machinists, toolmakers, sheet-metal workers, Welders, garment machine operators, etc., from local industries such as the IBM, Link Aviation Devices, Inc., Agfa Ansco, Endicott-Johnson Corporation. These men teach from six to fifty hours per week varying with the teacher and with the ease with which they are able to be released from part of their regular Work in the factories. The first class meets at three forty-five, immediately after North's conference period. This class is dismissed at six forty-fiveg following a fifteen minute interval, the next class convenes at seven o'clock. This class is dismissed at ten o'clock. The next and last class meets at ten-fifteen and is dismissed at four A. M. This ten to four shift is appropriately called the 22

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lVIr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr . Edward Diskin Cafeteria Food for Victory. With this slogan the cafeteria joins its efforts with those of the school and the country. The cafeteria serves pure, whole- some food to over 1,000 pupils each day. Mrs. Ann Allen, manager of the Cafeteria, who has been to conventions and to other cafeterias in New York says we have one of the nicest cafeteria's that she has seen. Our equipment is superior and our prices moderate. During the weeks of March 16-20 and 23-27 canteen workers came here and learned the work of the cafeteria. All of the cafeteria women have taken the can- teen service. The following are on the cafeteria staff: Mrs. Ann Allen, Manager, Mrs. Lilian Cor- nell, Mrs. Bertha Bronson, Mrs. Ann Thom- son, Miss Lucille Winters and Ml'S. Maud Fox. CUSTODIAN'S STAFF . Raymond Beery . Thomas Keating, Jr, . John O'Donovan .William McDavit . Walter Deaner . Claude Jones S. Margaret Moore . Ralph Ives . Hubert Wood Fafetvi-iax Staff: Mrs. Ann Allen Mrs. Anna Thomson Mrs. Maud Fox Miss Lucille Winter Mrs. Flo Smith 1Not in Picture? M1's. Bertha Bronson Custodians Since the beginning of the defense pro- gram and the start of the war, the respon- sibility and work of the custodian staff have been almost double. With school in use twenty-two and a half out of twenty- four hours a day, with the increased num- ber of people using the building daily, the care and upkeep of the building have be- come increasingly diflicult. Many rooms must be cleaned twice daily, corridor. floors and stairways have needed added attention and almost ten tons of coal are used daily. The members of the staff are: Thomas F. Keating, Jr., Chief Custodian, Ralph Ives, Fireman: VValter Deaner, Firemang Hubert VVood, Firemang VVilliam McDavit, Janitor: Edward Diskin, Janitor: John O'Donovan, Janitor, Claude Jones, Janitor, Raymond Berry, Janitorg George Horn- beck, Watchman, Fred Smith, Watchman: Margaret Moore, Matron.