Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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MANUAL TRAINING SHOP MANUAL TRAINING DISPLAY Twenty-eight

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COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT The Commercial Department was organized about eight years ago. At this time only a few students were enrolled. Since its organization the department has grown until it now numbers about one hundred twenty students. About three years after the department was organized it outgrew its original quarters and another room was added. It has now outgrown these quarters and further expansion is impossible until an addition to the building is completed, at which time it is proposed to provide room enough to house the department for all time to come unless something unexpected should build up the enrollment. It is the aim of the department to give to those students who expect to go to college a knowledge of shorthand and typewriting sufficient for their needs while in college. It is also the aim of the department to give the students who do not expect to go to college as thorough a knowledge of business as the equipment and teaching force will permit. With another teacher in the department and some additional equipment we could offer a strong business course for both high school students and post-graduates. STENOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT The shorthand and typewriting department has grown in size and efficiency since its organization eight years ago. This course offers two years of shorthand and two years of typewriting for those students who do not expect to go to college. In this length of time the average student should become proficient enough to hold any ordinary stenographic position. In 1924 the typewriting class won first place in the State Mass Typewriting Contest and was presented with a beautiful silver cup by the State Contest Manager. In 1925 the class won two first places, two second places and one third place in the District Contest. In the State Contest, Maxine Sturdevant, won second place for which she received a gold medal from the State Contest Manager. The typewriting class, also, won second place in the State Mass Typing Contest for which we received a silver shield. This year we intend to take several students to the State Contest and we have an excellent opportunity to win first place in the first year individual contest and the second year individual contest. We will also have strong typing teams and should make a good showing. FIRST YEAR TYPING CHAMPIONS SINCE 1920 The records given below are the highest made by any student during that year. Some of the records were not complete but the number of words written per minute as given below is probably correct. 1920— Russell Miller.......60 1923—Ruth Orr..............72 1921— Mildred McGinness....70 1924—Maurine Johnson.......72 1922— Rachel Richardson...70 Doris Brasel 72 1925—Maxine Sturdevant ...76 1926—Hilda Dehl (to Feb. 16) ....69 Twenty-seven

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MANUAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT The Manual Arts department, as pictured, has one large room in which are twenty-four E. H. Sheldon work benches, each equipped with the following tools: a jack plane, smooth plane, back saw, firmer chisel, slayd knife, screw driver, marking gauge, twenty-four inch ruler, bench brush and tee-square. Extra hand tools are conveniently arranged on one wall and may be had at the will of the students. The power equipment of the shop consists of one 30 American band saw, one American Single Arbor Bench saw with Dado head and mortising attachment using any size auger bit or mortizing bit, one grinder, a Wallace bench jointer and two American saw mill wood lathes. Two years of Manual Training are offered with the result that usually there are two first year classes and one second year class. The first year is spent in learning the names, parts and uses of the various tools, beginning with the simple ones and gradually taking up the more complex ones. The wood work is planned in the same way so that as the students’ knowledge of tools increases so does his ability to use them, until at the end of the first year he is competent to plan and construct a complex project. When the student starts his first project in wood work he is given a drawing of the piece he is to make and is shown the tools needed in making it. Before actual work starts his tools are studied so that he is familiar with the parts, knows how to sharpen or care for them and also knows something of the materials of which they are made and the approximate cost. Each piece is worked out in the same manner with the exception that as the student progresses in wood work he also keeps pace in Mechanical Drawing with the result that in a little while he is first making a working drawing of the piece he intends to make. Two two-hour periods a week are spent in drawing. This, as in wood work, is begun with the study of instruments, lines, etc., necessary in drawing and leads to the actual use of these facts. Drawing is offered during the two years of Manual Training. During the second year the student does architectural drawing. All students are furnished in drawing, good instrument sets, drawing boards, angles, French curves, and architectural scales. The second year of wood work is devoted to cabinet making and lathe work. All lumber used in the construction of projects is bought before the school begins in the fall and is given out to the students as they need it. Paints, stain, sand paper, hardware, etc., also, are furnished. Throughout the entire course we strive for three things, interest, neatness and accuracy in the hope that sufficient interest in the work will be aroused to cause many of the students to equip a work shop of their own at home or perhaps go to some place where a more complete course in Manual Arts is offered. In May of every year the Manual Arts department has a display of the work done in the shop that year. The picture shown is one half of the display of last year. Something like three hundred and fifty articles were displayed, consisting of buffets, tables, book cases, console-type radio and phonograph cabinets, beds, etc., in fact practically every piece of furniture found in the ordinary home. Twenty-nine