Central Dauphin High School - Centralian Yearbook (Harrisburg, PA)

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MR. GEORGE E, PHILLIPS Vocational Agricultureg Gen- eral Shop. Pennsylvania State University: B.S. Bucknell Uni- versity. Advisor, Future Farm- ers of America. A knowledge of grass helps our crops to cultivate properly. Credit for Central Dauphin's football field, taking care of Randy, overhauling school and private tractors, the welding jobs, the greenhouse, and analyzing the school lawns, then improving them by proper management through fertilizing lim- ing, and care are just a few of the things the Ag boys take credit for. A typical day under the able instruction of Mr. Phillips shows students learning the operation, maintenance, and care of a self-propelled combine. Vocational drafting is a course which teaches drawing as a graphic language, whereby engineers, designers, and drafts- men can express and record their ideas and information necessary for the building of machines and structures. The course teaches the student how to letter, how to picture any object so it is understandable to others, how to lay out clearances and moving ports, and how to select and use materials and fastenings. This course should prepare an earnest student for a job in the drafting profession by the time he is graduated. 4 Psa., Vocational drafting helps the student to express his ideas in picture form. 98 MR. CLARK R. LINDSAY Vocational Drafting, Relat ed Drawing. Penn State University.

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MR. CLYDE M. TAYLOR, JR. Carpentry, Cabinetmaking. Bloomsburg State Teachers College, Pennsylvania State University. Boys in the carpentry shop work on their part of our vocational house. The Carpentry shop is very well-equipped with tools and machinery to make this year's vocational department project, a nodcrn, new home at 404 Trudy Road, Colonial Park, a big success. They are very well instructed and have been work- ng very hard all year. The training and mastering of skills is very advantageous to the carpentry student. After grad- lation, excellent job positions are readily available to the boys. The Trowel Trades, a vocational course, covers six areas: bricklaying, cement finishing, tiling, plastering, stone setting, md block laying. In their sophomore year, the boys do labor work, which consists' of brickhandlers, mortar mixers, and general observing of the work. Juniors and seniors do the actual laying of brick, block, and masonry work. However, the Joys do not only learn through experience. They also use textbooks during a theory class, which is usually 2012, of the imc. This year, the boys are continuing their work on the vocational house. Some of the installations they have made and vill make are: fireplaces, tile bathrooms, concrete floors, sidewalks, driveways and plastering. l MR. KENNETH B. GREENFIELD Trowel Trades. Millersville ' State Teachers College, Pennsylvania State Uni- versityg B.S. Sportsg Pho- tography. - Our future trowel tradesmen smooth their work to perfection. 97

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MR. PAUL L. ALBRECHT Penn State Extension. Assembling a television set is only one phase in the field of radio and television. The object of the radio and TV department is to prepare technicians to service radios and television sets. This shop is very much in demand and the future is quite stableg the reason being that everyone is anxious to have these two means of information and entertainment in excellent condition. It is generally known that boys leaving this vocational shop are assured of a job. They are also prepared to go on to a technical school. In the Heating and Air Conditioning shop, the students are taught the various tools and techniques required for install- ing and servicing residential, commercial and industrial air conditioning units. Wfell-qualified service mechanics are always in demand. Each student must understand the fundamental operating principles as well as the modern techniques of testing, diagnosing troubles, and serving a vast number of different devices. Some of the subjects required for this vocation are: Eng- lish, Related Math, Related Drawing, Related Physics, and Related Chemistry. The students spend three weeks in these re- lated classes and the remainder of the six weeks in the shops. MR. ALBERT M. SHOWERS Heating and Air Condition- ing. Penn State Universityg Millersville State Teachers College. The installation of heating is as important in any house as the roof. 99 Radio and TV Repair.