Bradford High School - Barker Yearbook (Bradford, PA)

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It Q6 faq To Wo:-le miracle with an electric wire, a car motor, or a kitchen stove if one of the eight capable vocational teachers had showed you just how it's done. Boys taking vocational courses alternate weekly between the classroom and actual work in the Vocational Building. They were given excellent training in some special trade. Girls received two MR- PHILLIP L- CRIFFITHS hours of instruction daily in the Homemaking rooms in addition to A.B. general classroom work. MR. VANCE C. KENNEDY MR' HARLEY A- GUILFORD MR. CHARLES W. CALLAHAN B.S., M.Ed. It looked mighty hopeless at first, but those Watch those fingersf, Irwin Mesler learn future mechanics caught on fast. Now they hope cd that safety in the Industrial Arts Shop was that someday theyill have garages of their own. important as learning how o use the hand at Wfffxfw llljfllffl-f1U0 4 ar . , , 4444 - -pl.

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Classes in typing, popular with College Prep students as Well as Ceneral and Commercial students, are taught by Mrs. johnson, Mr. Metzler, Mr. Reilly, and Miss Raver. Courses in shorthand are taught by Mr. Reilly and Mrs. Johnson. Mr. Smith instructs Com- mercial students in record keeping, business mathematics, and gen- eral sales. Everyday law, or fundamentals in buying and selling, is taught by Mr. Metzler, who also instructs consumer education, another course in buying. The business machines course is taught by Miss O,Meara. In it, students learn to operate modern office machines. Miss O,Meara and Mr. Reilly teach several classes in clerical practice. Bookkeep- ing I and II courses are instructed by Miss Raver. MISS MARIAN RAVER MR. WILLIAM J. REILLY B. S. B. S., M. Ed. Q54 SOM Eyes on the copy, feet flat on the floor, hands On the board, Nancy Catesman wrote the in perfect positionf, and they were off. Every- closing -entry of the purchase journal as Miss Raver one tried hard to tvpe a perfect copy for Mr. and the Bookkeeping class gave assistance. They Hvilly- checked it, too. Twenty-one

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Mr. Griffiths. Vocational Department Head, instructs the in- dustrial health and safety course. The auto shop is supervised by Mr. Kennedy, and many of his pupils have gone on to good jobs in garages. The boys in the electric shop, with Mr. Kuropkat as instructor, completed many electrical jobs around the school, in addition to their shop work. Mr. Callahan taught many boys me- chanical drawing or related drawing. NVoodcraft, a course in In- dustrial Arts. is taught by Mr. Guilford. In the machine shop, boys are taught to run and repair machines under the watchful eye of Mr. Merritt- Also in the Vocational Building is the Oil Lab, in which several college prep boys received fundamental facts about the oil industry from Mr. Cummings. Miss Gustafson taught Homemaking I, and Miss WVeaver taught its continuation, Homemalcing ll, to senior girls. MISS SARA WEAVER B.S. L. MR- ARTHUR KUROPKAT MR. CHARLES MERRITT MISS SYLVIA CUSTAFSON B.S. VKiatch it boys, or your hair will be standing Lucky are the boys who get these girls for end! Don VVhite and Georg-e Newman take Wives. Arlene Edgar and Twila Fitzgerald learn- 'l directions from Mr, Kuropkat when they ed early how to can with a pressure cooker and the generator in electric shop. run a home in homemaking. Twenty-threc u