Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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The CPHS shop department provided boys with good vocational trainings and increased their skills in hobby fields. In its building behind the main school structure, the depart¬ ment offered a variety of subjects. Classes included auto-mechanics, wood shop, machine shop, welding, agriculture, and general shop. After sampling a little of everything in the general shop survey course, the boys went on to more specialized work. For example, they learned how to test soil and what to do for mineral deficiencies. They learned techniques of cutting, brazing, an d oxyacetylene welding. They worked with lathes and sanders, making tables and lamps of wood. They experimented with drill presses, shapers, and milling ma¬ chines, working with metal. As mechanics, they poked wrenches into engines, ground valves, and observed gauge meters while deep in fine-tuning processes. PEER INTO ENGINES, POKE AT SOIL Junior Lorry Groet puts his wrench in action in the process of overhauling a car engine—a project of his auto-mechanics class.

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SHOP BOYS Ag student Richard Martin analyzes a soil sample by comparing acids. Page twenty-six In wood shop junior Richard Banser labors over his hand-made creation. Fireworks rain from welding stalls in the shop building os two CPHS ' ers leorn the art of metal fusing.

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Through speech, reading, and writing, people find expression. Every day at CPHS students learned more and more about the value of this communication through subjects such as speech, journalism, and the languages. Devel¬ opmental and remedial reading brought about higher speed and comprehension in students’ reading. Speaking techniques and voice usage were explored in oratory classes. Styles and writing abilities were developed through pub¬ lications work and lit and comp classes. Essay questions, themes, written reports, and para¬ graphs explaining everything imaginable were integral parts of school life. Term papers and thematic reading units stimulated thought for senior English students, while underclassmen perfected their grammar. Studiers of Spanish, French, and Latin, conjugating their verbs and memorizing vocabularies, investigated com¬ munication on a more international level. FLUENT SPEAKERS, WRITERS PROVE VALUE OF Senior Francis Jaeger delves into books, magazines, and pamphlets for her research material before writing a special report.