Dorchester High School for Boys - Red and Black Yearbook (Dorchester, MA)

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Q-S1132 . ' qlf'J7'2m fl 4 if za, Qaaza A4 .sam Mr. Arlon O. Bacon has willingly supplied us with the necessary information as to the ac- complishments of the Industrial Course this year. The boys have made ten full size ping- pong tables which were given to the Red Cross, which distributed them throughout the States to hospitals and various camps. Among them were Devens, Framingham, Port Banks and Chelsea Naval Hospital. The boys made three or four hundred canes, also for the Red Cross. These canes were distributed to hospitals to aid the convalescent. During the year Mr. Engborg, fan industrial instructorj , saw a sailor with two such canes, which he recognized as coming from this school. For the City Playground Department the boys made sixty shulfleboard pushers. Porty display stands thirty-six inches square, on which were mounted motors of all sorts, were made for the use of the Electrical Course at Charlestown High School. One of these boards, rigged up with the complete radio apparatus, was shown to Mr. Bacon. All parts of the radio were mounted on the board, To each individual piece of the apparatus a switch was connected. By merely cutting any switch desired, the piece to which it was connected went dead. Thus it was easily perceived just what happened if any piece in the radio went dead. In this way the students are able to study the reactions and note carefully page Hfty each detail. Eight large work tables four feet square, made of solid maple and capable of sus- taining one hundred to one hundred and Hfty pounds, were also made for this course, The Industrial Course worked with Mr, Nathaniel J. Young of the Department of Phy- sical Education in order to turn out some equip- ment for the playgrounds. Ping-pong bats, ring toss games, bean bag games, paddles for paddle tennis and push sticks and disks for shuf- fle board were among the items turned out. Twenty-four shuffle board pushers and disks were constructed for the Y. M. C. A. Among the individual and outside jobs, drawing boards and T squares were made. Paper holders for local merchants were con- structed as the metal ones are impossible to procure during the present crisis. Book-cases, telephone tables, cedar chests, end tables, book- ends and numerous other articles along the same line were made. Cf course, outside jobs were cut down considerably this year because of the lack of material. The lumber is, for the greater part, utilized by the Army and Navy. White- wood, this year, was not available at any price. An order from the Department of Agriculture at Jamaica Plain High School consisting of thirteen hundred one foot garden stakes and eight hundred two foot garden stakes used for fplease turn to page ninety!

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Aeronautics Course by Naihm Z-7. Deuce A group of boys from this school, ranging in age from 16 to I7 years, recently started a Pre-Induction Course at the New England Air- craft School, Inc. The boys attend this course after school hours and receive no pay, but obtain excellent instruction and experience under the direction of very capable teachers, all under the supervision of the School Committee. The boys are separated into four groups and receive seventy-five hours of instruction and experience in each group. Une hour is devoted to class rooms in order to understand the theories for shop work, with a ten minute break for refreshments. The Aeronautics group consist of: Edward Curran 1113 Robert Delaney 1V1 Edward Green 131 David Grifliths 11112 Frank Hurley 1V2 Elliott Levine IV32 James Mahoney 1115 I E. Selwyn Miller IV3 Gerald Norian 11133 Edward Nolan 1113 John C'Rourke 11133 Arthur E. Pearce 1V3 Sidney Pike IV3 Melvin Pollack IV3 Joseph Revis IV3 Morris Rudofsky IV3 S, Carl Sottile 11151 page forty nine

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Science Department za, Qaaza M saga In an interview with Mr. Ralph E. Wellings. acting head of Science department, we were informed as to the accomplishments of this department. At the Hrst of the year, the catae loging of apparatus had to be done. There- fore, the department went ahead in full swing and is now able to boast a good job well done. Room 315, General Science Class, and Room 316, Physics Class, have been well or- ganized and put in order. The department has gone a few steps in ad- vance and has been preparing for the coming school year. It has outlined two new courses --one in code, in order to teach the methods and the reasons for code: - the other in aero- nautics, with an aim to further the boys' know- ledge in the advancing Held of aviation. Both courses are for pre-induction education. Next year a Government Course in Electricity will be fplease tum to page ninetyll page fifty-one