East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Industrial and l-lome conomics MASTER CRAFTSMEN In East High it has been made possible for the school to include four different divisions of industry to the advantage of the boys in this school. Stan Grad was offered the opportunity to study these four divisions of industry, which were: Auto Mechanics, Woodwork, Mechan- ical Drawing, and Printing. ln auto mechanics, he was able to find out just what part every little bolt and screw played in making a car run. Although the work he put on a car would sometimes turn out to be a failure, he was then able to find out what was wrong and do it over again correct. In woodwork, Stan was able to make some lovely pieces of furniture for his mother. He learned how to make fancy cuttings on the legs of the table and to put finishing stains on them when he was through. This was a very interesting subject to him. The printing class was also interesting to Stan. He studied on how to set up the printing press, how to compose the printers' type, and how to set up advertising heads. The drawing of blueprints was the subject studied in mechanical drawing. Stan found this a useful class as it would come in handy when he studied and worked out his own blueprints. All in all, Stan had quite a nice selection of subjects to choose from as a life occupation. Of course, it would be necessary to have more experience than this, but this knowledge he gained in high school on these subjects would serve as fine basis for a life occupation. -'21, 'Y M... --,i . I ,5-mx, 1. W M z:?f HOMEMAKERS The two important courses of Home Eco- nomics are cooking and sewing. In the cooking class Sally Grad found out about the do's and don'ts of cooking. She tried her hand at baked foods, fried foods, and boiled foods. In the sewing department Sally got experience in making her own clothes, in making children's clothes, and in making things for the home. This subject together with cooking gave her new ideas on how to save money and still come out with the most pleasant appearing clothes and cooking. As these two subjects are a great necessity in making a future home, Sally advises every 10-B girl to include these subjects in her high school course. no' nf Sgf --'ef

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Cll EI'TlClllCS C1l'l C1I'l UCI SS Estudramos el espanol proque queremos ser los vecrnos beunos Labor omnra vrncrt Absent le chat les sourrs dansent If that does not make sense rt rs probably because you never studred French Spanrsh or Latrn the three forergn language taught at East Hrgh Many take French or Spanrsh to satrsfy the des1re to be able to read or to speak another language The student takrng any forergn language usually frnds hrmselt wrth a better Englrsh grade Sally took Latrn because rt would prepare her for nursrng Latrn rs taken by many rn preparatron for nursrng or doctorrng or as a foundatron for further study and trarnrna Many great works were wrrtten rn French and other languages and wrth a knowledge of the languages the e can become avarlable to us At the present there are no German classes as of former years The sud den rncrease of Spanrsh enrollment may be attrrbuted partly to the good nerghbor polrcy W1th the condrtron of the world as rt rs today we should be able to understand each other and not allow more than boundary l1nes to separate us Let us all be good nerghbors through language FACTS AND FIGURES Of course rn hrs college preparatory course Stan could not have possrbly done wrthout mathematrcs He had a foundatron of one year of algebra on enterrng East Hrgh so he began hrs hrgh school mathematrcs wrth a year s study of plane geometry After masterrng the varrous geometrrc theorems postulates etc Stan took a half year of algebra rn a course called advanced algebra Next he studred solrd geometry followed by another half year s study of algebra As a conclusron to hrs hrgh school mathemat1cs Stan studred trrgonometry for one half year After completrng th1s mathematrcs course Stan knew he would never regret rt for he knew even rf he never actually used any of the problems solved the work he drd rn the solutrons had broadened hrs mrnd and qurck ened hrs wrt two factors whrch would play an rmportant part rn hrs lrfe rn the years to come In the prcture we see some students studymg the law of chance by flrpprng a corn By math ematrcal calculatron the number of trmes that a corn wrll come up heads or tarls can be determrned Q as ? rrrrsr ' nf G LINGUISTIC LILTERS . I I - I A

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-l-lie C3OI'TlI'TlGl'ClCl G Cll'lITlSI'll SPEEDSTERS Sally Grad took full advan- tage of East High's Sl7,000 Worth of stenographic equip- ment by taking five semesters of typing and four semesters of shorthand. In her advanced semester she learned to operate the dictaphone and mimeo- graph machines. Filing, carbon copying, and stencil cutting have become quite common to her. Because Stan was inter- ested in typing for his personal use, he took only two semes- ters, the maximum typing course without shorthand. Nearly all the lune graduates of East High who completed the five semester typing course are now regularly employed in some business concern. East High has 597 typists and 291 shorthand students. BIG BUSINESS The commercial department in- cludes several subjects which pre- pare the student for a business career. English and history are not the only esential requirements in obtaining a position. In a World that is tending to specialize in everything Stan and Sally plan to be prepared for at least one line of work upon graduation. Salesmanship teaches the fundamen' tals of selling and approaching peo- ple. Merchandising takes care ot the retail end of selling. Although many take bookkeeping merely as a foun- dation for college, Stan was able to prepare himself for a position in this field. The adding, calculator, and electric adding machines in the more advanced bookkeeping are steps toward a position in themselves. A Working knowledge of the commercial World is given through commercial geography, the study of our nation, of other nations, and of the Ways man has put nature's forces to his use: com- mercial law, which instructs one on business contracts: and commercial arithmetic, polishing upon previously learned principles. is ,C C ,J I J 1 J l J l ,I l ,I Q .2 C 1 'i 1 'G .1 C C 'i 1 1 w L Q 4 'I 1 1 1 4. u 1 L Q w J. 1 ,- J- - - 1 .2 Q .Q w Q -Q .4 4 .4 -1 .Q 'E .- - ..- - v-Q 1- v -:- -Q xg