Camden County Vocational School - Vocationalist Yearbook (Pennsauken, NJ)

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SAFETY COUNCIL HE safety council meets once each week and the interest shown by the members this year exceeded all expectations. There has been better subject matter offered this year than ever before. In fact if the interest continues it will be necessary to ask for more time. The attendance for the current year has been 98.08fZ. The safety council is composed of a representative from each of the twenty-five different classes in the school. The purpose of the couizcil is to discuss the safety hazards of the different crafts in the school and in industry. Discussions of unhealthy places, unsafe places, unsafe practices, home hazards, accidents on the highway, and the safeguarding of children everywhere were matters of major interest. These items of safety are discussed in the council chamber and relayed to the different classes by the council members. Safety posters are circulated tlnotgliout the school and every member is con- sidered a scout for safety. Davin J. Ronorzks, Safeiy Council Afdcifer l I 1 1 ' X l

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THE STUDENT COUNCIL H15 Student Council consists of one representative from each class. This rep- resentative, or Chief as l1e is called, is elected by the members of his class and holds office for a period of ten Weeks. The Council has weekly meetings when various policies and problems ol the school are discussed by the members, suggestions from the Chiefs are considered and many privileges and improvements are obtained in this way. The Student Council develops a spirit of cooperation between students, leaders, and instructors. Boys learn how to give orders. The qualities necessary both as a leader and follower are fostered by the council. Being a member of the Student Council is very good experience to those who intend to go out and make something worthwhile out of themselves. There is no doubt but that the Student Council has functioned very well in this school. lliecause the Chief assumes as part of his duties many of the minor routine responsibilities, the instructor is free to devote his time to better teaching.j

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DRAFTSMEN WIN HONORS OR THE past fourteen years, Scholastic, the American High School Weekly, has been conducting a series of contests for the students of secondary schools in creative student work in writing, art, and music. Among the classifications in which entries from students are encouraged is that of the engineering and archi- tectural drawing division. Two years ago the students in the architectural drawing section submitted entries in this contest. Of the twelve prizes awarded to the 970 entries submitted throughout the United States, we received four, one of them being a first prize. As there was no classification last year in which our boys could compete, we submitted no entries. However, this year there were two classifications in the engineering and architectural drawing division which attracted our students. One was the Joseph Dixon Soap Box Derby Racing Car and the other was the Joseph Dixon Summer Shack to accommodate from four to eight persons. Albert Mezalis of Machine Drafting class designed a Derby Racing Car according to specifications outlined in the contest rules and his was the only entry submitted for this project from this school. Entries for the other project were sent in by VValter Croft, Harry DeLaReintrie, Harry Duncan, John Fearn, William Fox, Joseph VVaters, Harry White, and one by Robert Chews in collaboration with George Russo. The school was greatly elated when we learned that Albert Mezalis was awarded first prize, a check for ,S25.oo, and that the school itself had been award- ed the plaque for the school submitting the best group of drawings in the classi- fications we entered. Great credit is due to these students for the general excellence of their draw- ings and for the painstaking care which they took in preparing them. One of the requirements of the contest was that all the drawings had to be in pencil, which made it extremely difficult to keep them free of smudge, finger marks and dirt. The drawings and the plaque were on exhibit in the library at Open House, All who saw them commented upon the excellent work the Machine and Archi- tectural Drafting classes were doing. X U ll .X 'I' I O X .X l S KL ll O O l.