Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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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

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MANUAL TRAINING SHOP MANUAL TRAINING DISPLAY Twenty-eight

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GIRLS’ PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT GIRLS’ PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT The aim of the Girls’ Physical Education Department is to promote health—not just a negative condition represented by absence of physical defects, but glad, radiant, positive, abundant health; develop strong muscles, strong, well poised bodies, organically sound, good nerves, muscular control, set standards of living, establish ideals, and to teach a wise use of leisure time. The year’s work began with a physical examination of every high school girl, which was followed by registration of name, date of birth, age, classification, clinical history, physical examination and posture. The physical examination resulted in giving each a different colored card which showed their physical efficiency; defects according to normal, overweight and underweight. This is the first year this department has had organized athletics— the year’s work being divided into fall, winter and spring activities. The fall activities includes outdoor sports—tennis, volley ball; the winter activities includes gymnastic marching, military marching, full hand exercises, folk, character and aesthetic dancing and upper class girls organized basketball. In addition to these regular activities, the volley ball tournament took place at this time. The spring outdoor activities included volley ball, tennis and plans for hockey and soccer. The indoor spring activities included Indian club, dumb bell and wand drills. The special activities that this department has sponsored are the volley ball game played by the Freshman girls for their mother’s tea. At the Mother-Daughter banquet on Feb. 25, the Senior Girls in Colonial costumes entertained their mothers with the Virginia Reel and Minuet. Thirt if