Delano High School - Del Ano Yearbook (Delano, CA)

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hop Classes Grow with School Out in the shop building this year there is a little more room. With the bus maintenance depart- ment moved to the new bus garage, auto mechanics students now are able to use the repair shop for work on live cars. A total of 596 student hours was being spent in the shop this year by Delano High boys as of April 20. Six instructors are employed with Mr. L. E. Abbey chairman of the department. Freshman students are enrolled in a general shop course taught by Mr. Sorensen. For sophomores a choice is offered of Mr. Rumbolz's woodworking classes or Mr. Moreheads metal working shop. Wfood, metal, and auto shop classes are open to juniors. In Mr. I-Iamilton's auto shop the boys enjoy a project of wrecking used cars for the Brownfield Wrec'king Company. Senior shop boys may take wood or auto shop. Mr. Abbey teaches a double period of auto mechan- ics. Mechanical drawing, taught by Mr. Aubrun Powell, is required of junior and senior shop majors. was Shop I boys fire up their furnace in the top photo above. Below that Mr. Abbey explains to seniors why there is a plane motor on a jeep x la - 4 yj wa 'xx ,ff if .TY .jd 's Y S. a 5'l i' l K 1 A ' , ' , K j X A xl! S , M v , gy , .4 e 3 VE .iygjygy 1 4 ' Shop' teachers, left, include Mr. g X , g - i-.. , R fx I.t1lrr1t.r .Sl1I'L'lI.1'L'l1, Shop lg Mr. Anfzv is' ' A Q rmz Pmrell. mechanical drawingg 4 Ill, A f V Mr. L. Ii. Afiffey. Shop lVg Mr. . A 4 f Q Azleflnfrl fllorelmnf. Metal Shopg X A - f A 5 Q ' 5 Mr. Raj' HcIIllflfK21i, Shop Ill and lVg kr 1' Q fri Mr. llUL'.l'!L'-1' Kfwzbnfz. XXfood Shop. 29

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'mfg ,o ..-2 YQ just as Delano High continues to grow by leaps and bounds, so grows the business education depart- ment, headed by Mr. Ralph Brooding. This year a new instructor was added, Mr. Robert Mann, to bring the total number to six full-time teachers. This year a new room of typewriters was estab- lished, adding 33 typing students each period. No longer can all business classes be accommodated in the commercial-homemaking building. Several pieces of valuable equipment were added to the department this year. A new electric mimeograph machine has made it possible to increase the volume of duplication work turned out. Also purchased were a It's not all just typing skill, Miss Bender gives two of her students a lesson in ribbon changing and maintenance. Busine Business education teachers, left, are Mira' Jerri Bender, typing, Everyday Business, Mr. Ralf: Brooding. bookkeeping, Everyday Business, Ma Ed Scloamel, Business English, typing, Mr. EM Stone, Everyday Business, typing, Min Ann 1 Pezzuti, shorthand, Office Practice, and M: l R0bertiM4znn, bookkeeping, typing, math. Monroe adding machine and a Burroughs electric, keg driven calculator. Some 300 students majored in the business an secretarial branches of the department this year. A impressive total of 870 student hours is registered du ing the six-period day. Awards are given students fc proficiency in typing and shorthand. This year for tl? first time a cup will be awarded to the champion typi: in the school. Miss Pezzuti this year was elected secretary of tl central section of the state business teachers. Mi: Bender is serving on a state business education currici lum commission. Mr. Btooding is a director of a couni credit union for school teachers and employees. Mr. Brooding's bookkeeping classes, below, receive instructio on tax returns from giant copies of income tax form 28

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Some Take Ag and Homemakin Homemaking classes this year were crowded into two rooms, foods and clothing laboratories. Mrs. Vera Abbey, department head, handled foods instruction this year, while Miss Lucille Yaussy taught clothing. Approximately 200 girls were enrolled in the homemaking depart-V ment. Mr. C. A. Cazaly, head of the agriculture department, was assisted this year by two in- structors. Freshman boys studied general agri- culture with Mr. Cazaly and Mr. Maxsong soph- omores, agronomy, viticulture, and horticulture with Mr. Daly. Livestock production and marketing, Mr. Maxson instructing, was the chief topic for juniors. With Mr. Cazaly as teacher, seniors specialized in farm management. Farm me- chanics was a Part of all four courses. On the school farm this year the juniors did a great deal of fencing. Sophomores built a feed shed, and seniors constructed a hay shed and wash rack. Cotton and alfalfa were the chief crops raised on the school farm this year. Mrs. Vera Abbey, shown above, gives some of her beginning foods students a demonstration in the classroom. Ag and homemaking teachers above are Mr. jim Daly, Mr. C. f Cazaly, Mr. Ed Maxson, ag instructors. Seated are Mrs. Ve Abbey, Miss Lucille Yaussy, homemaking teachers. ' As a class project this year ag students raised and market: l,50O chickens right from the campus chicken hous l 30