Bok Vocational Technical School - Craftsman Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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. . . Home Economics . . . The home economics curriculum is offered for two general purposes: First, it prepares girls for homemaking in recognition of the need for eflicient home management and the social importance of education for family life. Second, it prepares girls for paying positions, enabling them to earn a cash income until such a time as they wish to become homemakers. For this second objective, opportunities are available for the home economics pupils to specialize in foods or clothing. This course also enables girls not interested in specific trade to develop traits most valuable to an employer seeking someone to be trained on the job. Emphasis is first placed on the girl herself, her personal problems of grooming, health and behavior. Problems of living in the home follow, including child study, care of the house, furnishing, entertaining, managing, and family relationships. The wise use of leisure, consumer buying and home nursing are also included. In clothing classes the selection, consctruction and care of personal and family clothing are all considered. In foods classes the planning, preparation and serving of meals is stressed. Oppor- tunity is also given to practice quantity cookery, by preparing foods for sale and by paid cooperative work in the student cafeteria. Cooperative employment also may be arranged in other related fields, if the student so desires, in her last year. Demonstration techniques are a part of the course. Each student is required to demonstrate the preparation of food, the operation of a piece of household equipment, and some phase of clothing construction. In the last year vocational guidance aims to help the girls solve future occupational and personal problems. How now, mine lady the hostess, What sayest thou to me? KING Hman' IV, PAIT I . . . this comes of well and ex' cellent . . . Tnaox or A-mens Our hands are full of business. KING Hun! IV, Put I 'Tis a very excellent piece of work, madame lady . . . TAMING or 'nil Sruzw

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I saw a smith stand with his ham' mer thus . . . Heat me those irons hot . . . Give me the iron, I say . . . Kms Ions Give me that mattoclq and the wrenching iron. Romeo AND JULIE1- What! Know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk Upon a laboring day without the sign Of your profession? JULIUS CA msn. I shall the eject of this good lesson keep . . . HAMLH . . . achine Construction . . . There are few of our modern conveniences that do not reflect the skillful workmanship of machinists. Machinists help to make and assemble refrigerators, automobiles, airplanes, typewriters, and other machines and their parts. They are the men who take the rough castings made in the foundry and do the necessary fine work and machining to prepare them for the final assembly in the completed machine. To do this important work, these craftsmen must be skillful in the operation of various machine tools, such as lathes, shapers, grinders, and milling machines. Their work calls for a high degree of hand skill in' finishing and assembling parts. The program of the machine shop practice course enables the student to acquire the basic skills and knowledge essential to a wellftrained, allfaround machinist. The school shops are equipped with the kinds of machines used in industry. From the beginning, the student operates these machines in the making of practical and useful metal objects. His training involves work on the bench, lathes, shapers, milling machines, grinders, and drills. lt also includes precision work on hne machine tools, practice in exacting hand work, and the study of metals, their composition, strength, methods of machining and heat treatment. Since the machinist must carry out the idea of the designer exactly, blue print reading, layout of machine parts, and the making of mathematical calculations becomes a necessary part of the student's training. The making of tools and dies features the advanced work in the course.