Calumet High School - Peace Pipe Yearbook (Calumet, MI)

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who had learned the seamstress trade and had practiced it for a livelihood. Without college training, as were the shop teachers, they were certified in the same way. In recent years the home economics rooms have been entirely renovated, making more pleasant and modern surroundings for those taking sewing and cooking. Track Team 1907 Football Team 1896 Lloyd Vivain, Peter Curto, Harold Phillips, Rear: F. W. Cooley, O. Kohlhaas, J. Ellis, E. Manger James Anderson, Bert Holman, W. Lyon, S. McLean, J. Gasser, J. B. Quick. Center Norbert Murphy, Harry Harper, J. Arthur King. Center: E. Reeder, C. Light, F. Goodsole. F t Lewis Mawrence, William Lavers. Front: F- G'-Wk, A- Pehhd-16809. Some type of work in calisthenics apparently was being conducted as far back as 1897. for in that year the board purchased four and a half dozen of dumbbells. By 1899 physical training had a recognized place in the work of the schools 'although it was an after-school activity. In 1912 it was made compulsory a.nd credit was given for it. In the early days gym was offered mostly for the benefit of the girls: the emphasis has now changed and the boys dominate the scene with football, basketball, and track. In the fall of 1917 sixty high school boys petitioned the Board of Education to establish military training. The request was granted and on October 17 of the same year military training was begun with an enrollment of 72. The armory was engaged as a drilling place. Mr. John MacNaughton was engaged as military instructor and Mr. Carlos Hanks as his assistant. Uniforms were purchased and boys taking military training got one credit for four years of it. Application was made to the, War Department for the creation of a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps in Calumet High School. Following an inspection by an Anny officer, in April 1918 such an R.O. T.C. unit was officially proclaimed. The officer in charge is called Professor of Military Scienceiand Tactics CP. M.S. kT., in government regulation and is paid by the government. The government furnishes uniforms and equip- mentg the school supplies the textbooks.

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Old High School Machine Shop, 19045 Instructors--Mr. Stevens QL, and Mr. William Odge rs QRJ. High School Blacksmith Shop, Mr. John Wilson, instructor. Sewing Room around 1915, in present high school building. Manual training received early recognition as a school subject , mention of it going back as far as 1889. Men were employed to teach who had proved their worth as practi- cal tradesmen. It has always been cardinal policy to have the shop work of an intensely practical nature. The Manual Training department it seems was tied up with the Company. Mr. William Heath, C. 8: H, carpenter at the time of his appointment in 1897, was the first teacher. For years some of the manual training teachers we re paid by the Company and were not on the school pay roll at all. In- structors worked the saxne hours as did their fellows at the mine and had holidays only as mine employees had them. The school purchased supplies freely for the shops from the Com- pany and was paid for any work done for the Company. In 1915 manual training teachers saw it to be their interest to become school employees. This change was effected and has continued ever since. Tradesmen were issued a county certificate to teach. renewable from time to time. In 1918 the shops went under-the Smith- Hughes law. With the decline in the industrial importance of the black-' smith's trade, work in the blacksmith shop was discontinued and for some years the shop was closed. Then it reopened as an auto mechanics shop. Home economics too has been a part of this school from its beginning, first menticn of it being as far back as 1897. It is known that classes in sewing antedated those in cooking and cooking was begun in 1902. Of the two, sewing has been the more popular. Because of the practical purpose courses in sewing were designed for, some of the instructors engaged were skilled wanen

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Old library rooms around 1915. Children in lib rary for Saturday afternoon story-hour, about 1915