Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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Sene Gordon Manual Training If one were to go into some of the homes of Our Town today, he could not help but notice certain interesting pieces of furniture. Why? Because they are outstanding and very beautiful. And, where did such rare pieces of furniture come from? Well, here is the whole story. They were made in the manual training department of Casey High School under the very capable direction of Mr. Gordon. We find that boys enter manual training courses thoroughly untrained, some even unable to drive nails straight. While in this course, they are first trained in handling and becoming familiar with the simple tools and are worked up to the more important and complicated tools. After becoming familiar with the simple tools and after learning to care for them, the student then advances to the machinery. There are the different machines necessary for working wood and for producing finished pieces, and the student is taught to operate them. Safety is stressed throughout the course. While in the course, the student first makes very simple articles, and as he advances, he makes the more complicated articles. Before the course is completed, he has had training enough to make many of the pieces of furniture used in the modern homes of today.

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Commercial Training .Our commercial department means much more to our town than it might outwardly appear to mean. It has meant jobs to hundreds of students, not only those who have stayed and worked in our town, but those who have gone out to benefit other towns with their skill and knowledge. It gives the student an ability which he can use to earn a living immediately after leaving school. It also gives him an advantage over those who have not taken any commercial subjects when it comes to getting a start in the business world. Our commercial department is well organized. It has developed many subjects of importance along with the regular courses of typewriting, shorthand, and bookkeeping. Among the other subjects that aid in making our students helpful in our town are, occupational guidance, commercial law, business English, and business arithmetic. In the past twenty years more than three thousand students have been enrolled in our commercial department. Some of these are the leading business men of our town, many are holding positions in business offices in our town, while some have risen to top positions in large business firms. T. C. Tade

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Student Government In our town there is a representative government. This body is the student council. The officers of our respective classes automatically become the members of the council. This year each class has four members in the council and the seventeenth member is an honorary member elected by the previous year's council. The officers of the senior class become the officers of the council. Maurine Johnson The council is a body to which the students may bring their problems or comments of any kind which have anything to do with conditions in our school. Besides filling this capacity, the council participated in the State Convention at Carbondale in April, 1940. Miss Johnson with five delegates, Bill Victor, Bill Fouty, Freda Spencer, Rosemary Weigel, and Jim Wood spent Friday and Saturday getting new ideas and helpful hints for our own council. In the fall of 1940, committees were appointed for the freshman play-day. A new idea was carried out, as the freshmen were divided into groups headed by two seniors. These groups gave stunts before the assembly. An assembly committee was appointed with Rosemary Weigel as chairman. The next convention attended was the district convention at Effingham on December 17, 1940. At this convention Bill Victor was elected the president of the district student council association for next year, and it was decided that next year's convention would be held in our own school. (First Row, loft to right): Lee Markwell, Pauline Philippi, Melva Brandenburg, Juanita Huffman. (2nd row, left to right): Freda Spencer. Bill Victor, Eill Fouty, Ginger Vail. (3rd row, left to right): Miss Johnson (Adviser), Jerry Roan. Mary Alice Daniel. (4th row, left to right): Jim Goble, Ralph Sharp, Rhondal Gordon, Rosemary Weigel, Leo Gard, Virginia Austin. (At Right): Jim Wood (President). Our governing body.