Bradford High School - Barker Yearbook (Bradford, PA)

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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

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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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MISS RUTH STEYVART A.B., M.A. INIISS MARY HAMILTON A.B., B.S. in L.S. MR. ARMAT DUHART MR. RICHARD CIDDINCS Mus. B., A.M. B.S. Unit, Specialiif M Can be Sv litany C1064 So Well.. and the teachers in our Special Department are no exception to the rule. The seven faculty members who teach electives or advise students can be proud of the job they did in guiding our students. Miss Hamilton, school librarian, explained to students how the books in the library will help them. She spent much time with the sophomores when they were Working on library units and with the seniors when term paper time rolled around. A popular course, drivers, training, was taught by Mr. Giddings. He taught students Many times they needed Miss Hamiltonls ''Oom-pah-pah-pahl Oom-pah-pub! Sweet re help in Ending a book, but Tom Dc Coy, Fred frains flowed from the music practice room as the Moore, and Jim Mackie, seemed to know what basses and French horns practiced under the ba they were looking for. ton of Mr. Schoch. Tzuenty-four