Dekalb High School - Kalibre Yearbook (Dekalb, IL)

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Durlng the entlre day there are classes ln agrlculture ln sesslon M P M Furr has three double perlod study groups the crops and solls, anlmal husbandry and poultry dalry dlvlslons of the department Labora tory work lncludes tests of SOIIS, seeds, and mllk On the trlps to farms through the country, the boys are ln structed ln comparatlve judglng of seed samples, poultry horses, sheep lsr Row ollm Poole, Lloyd s mon swlne and both beef and dalry cattle Charles Beydler Paul Nolan zND ROW Warren Da l Chauncey Watson 3RD ROW After the boys have had a satlsfactory Wllfef Lambert Fm-If Dum tralnlng, judglng teams are selected These are entered ln sectlonal and often state wlde contests wlth other schools These three courses offered ln our hlgh school are a part of a natlonal program for vocatlonal educatlon, re sultlng from the Smlth Hughes Act of 9 7 Ml' P M urr Shall we go downstalrs to the prlnt shop? Thls year the shop was moved and we flnd lt across Prlntlng 15 one of the oldest and finest of the arts As taught ln our hlgh school, by Mr P Wlnters, prlntlng acqualnts the puplls wlth the prlnclples of typography At the beglnnlng of the year, of course, the student of prlntlng must first learn the dlfferent cases of type after whlch, durlng the year, the class sets up forms for school use-dance programs, llbrary sllps, posters, play programs, tlclcets, and calendars for every room The boys also do prlntlng for the ofhce '1-1115 year the prlntlng classes deslgned and prlnted the leaflet, The Amerlcan High School, for the Natlonal School Prlntlng Project After a boy has been taught typography ln the school prlnt shop, he IS, at the completlon of the course, capable of worklng ln a downtown prlnt shop-and not as a prlnters lmp, elther Japuntlrh George Masllunls Blll Athls Norman Carlson Floyd Boyes XX alter Matekaltls o Hom: Vhnters Hollvard WIISOD Dale Martha Mr P J Wlnters Page Twenty three 9 , . - vs, , J 1 1 . - A -F f from the Ag. room. 7 . . . . , . . JM. . , .lf , , Mr., I ll

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Z T ROXX A err Bell Samuel Rlclulph John Smith Wllllam ROW john OBrien harm Carl Sundqulst Nllchael Lamp: Russ Robert Hlland Robe Ronald udd Mr R L Wxlson Wxsted ZND ROW Robert Donald Hazard BRD ROW Bedlck George Oldham 4TH erome Berk s Rlchard Feyer oseph Shames STH ROW ll Broughton Ronald Nieman L Wllson Wxlber Harold t Vonderhelde Clarence Scott At mtervals, not qulte regular, the mechamcal drawmg and man ual traxnmg classes meet There are groups studylng the funda mentals of thelr art, and there are groups learnmg to put thelr ac quxred abxlxtxes into pracuce These studles are helpful practlcally and often vocatlonally Mr R L Wllson and Mr -I H Trees are in charge of thls department and carry on the mstructxon work 'The beglnners 1n mechamcal drawlng learn to use the varlous pxeces of equxpment, known to a draftsman They spend the other part of the t1me constructlng the many geometrlcal figures on paper The more advanced group draws parts of machmery and also makes archl tectural drawmgs In manual tralnmg, after the boys have learned to handle all the tools and machmes, they work on projects All of them make several thxngs, whether they be necktle racks or grand planos, they may declde for themselves Near the end of the year when the projects are bemg completed and the mechanlcal drawmg students are maklng more comphcated drafts an exhxblt IS made to dlsplay thls work Auto mechanlcs classes meet for two perlods everyday Mr J H Trees, the 1nstructor for the classes, teaches the varlous types and des1gns of motor constructlon, the relat1ve values of dlfferent fuels, and the operatlon of the numerous and lntrlcate mechanisms of the modern auto mobxles There are no prerequxsltes ln th1s department, but because of the use of machlnery and asslgnment of drawmgs, manual tralnlng and does a lxttle ro ect work such as mountln P J g jects are used for class lnstructxon and also Robert Danielson Louis Rukavxna Kenneth Llrtlcjohn Orville Elmer Nlatekaxtls Rxchard Martlknons Arnold Danielson Henry Allen Tyler Nlosher Vnrgxl Larson Hayes LaVerle Barne mechanlcal drawmg are almost essentxal Every boy the parts of a speedometer on a board These pro make up a part of the exhlblt 1n the sprlng Page Twenty two Mr J H Trees 2 M' l 1 ' A IS '--lb ' . 4 . . -T l Q .4 ' J v 2' I - 1 ' ' . v , .1 - , - . ,.e , , . Phillip Ka-essar, Mr. R. . ' ,I , ' , - . 1 r u v J I . O

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