East Aurora High School - Speculum Yearbook (Aurora, IL)

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F. Cozzoni, R. Strejc, and D. Davis, members of the electricity I class, are shown putting heat- ing elements in electric toasters which they are assembling. Members of the electricity II class have built radio receiver sets as their project. These classes meet in the new worlcroom, which is in the machine shop building. Practical experience is gained in the printing classes where students learn the art of typesetting and publications work. The boys print the Azzromzz and various other projects, including programs for school activities, athletic schedules, and office supplies. At the stapling machine is P. Breyneg at the press, D. Sawitoski and L. Klimpke. 9 Students of the machine shop course are taught evaluation of machinery and care of property. Equipment includes lathes, drill presses, milling machine, shaper, surface grinder, electric welder, and gas welder. Swanson, D. Murphy, D. Buck, and G. Leden, members of the course, are shown operating individual driven lathes. Amid the hum of planets, the buzz of saws, and the pounding of hammers, general shop stu- dents create bookcases, occasional tables, cabinets in Duncan Phyfe, Hepplewhite, and modern styles. Such work won honors in state competia tion many times. A. Moga, Zelazny, R. Speights, and R. Shur are shown with their work.

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wdtdia lie cfcwazaama Members of the home nursing class are taught to care for the sick in the home. In the top picture M. Chapman is shown applying a hot pack to C. Buri, and B. Stiefbold is giving medication to B. Stammett. In the rear, B. Schmitt demonstrates the proper way to make a bed. C. Baum, M. Thompson, E. Pennington, H. Drake, L. Castner, D. Donnan, and D. Stull are shown in bottom picture making first aid equipment for use in the home. 22 Training students to be better drivers is the purpose of the new drivers' education course. C. M. White, instructor, B. Gain, E. Hennen, D. Hauer, and R. Miller are shown preparing to go for a training cruise. Though 56 are enrolled in the course, only four students are taken at one time for practice on the dual control car. 'fr wAmxnGC5' it T Y East High's new machine shop, located north- east of the main building, is offering a broader field of manual training to mechanically in- clined boys. Eventually j5100,000 will be spent for equipment which will further train the stu- dents to operate machines. R. Kunold, instruc- tor, and A. Wilson are working on the Monarch lathe machine.

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We lagged ww Student Section - QYour pictureis herelj Wearing the green bows that gave that frosh- feelingg rambling through the halls as care- free and lighthearted sophomoresg taking those junior testsg and then,-seniors-cocks of the walk! Four arduous years of studies and activities-records of praises, prizes- and punishment. This is the saga of the stu- dent's struggle onward and upward to graduation.