Eastern Junior High School - Arrow Yearbook (Pontiac, MI)

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' THE ARROW - 19 which are used, and the opportunities for advancement which are offered, that he may choose the particular kind of advanced business training in the senior high school which will best fit him for the department of business in which he has the best chance for success- - TYPEWRITING , This course is open to eighth and ninth grade pupils. It covers two years- of work. ' The primary purpose of this course is to train those students who are not going on to high school, for positions as tynists. However, those students who are taking a purely academic course may take typewriting fortheir own personal accomplishment. , For pupils in the eighth grade, typewriting also serves as a try- out course to ascertain their aptitudes, or likes or dislikes, for the work. -John P. Barden i 1 The Metal Shop , Our metal shop oiers great opportunities in the way of training for boys who are interested in forging, tin-smithing, electricity, and machine-shop work. A few boys after taking metal shop entered directly into metal working in large factories. The metal shop is well equipped for the students' use. There are plenty of electrical fixtures, tools, and appliances for boys interested in electricity. In one corner of the shop is a framework like the framework of an ordinary room in which the student may wire up lights and switches with BX wire, conduit, or ordinary wire. There are also panels on which a student can wire up a bell, two bells, bell and buzzer, buzzer, etc. There are also boards on which may be screwed switches and sockets. There are such 'jobs as wiring up a three-way switch and a light socket, two three-way switches and a light socket, etc. A person may also wire up a bell with a bell' ringing transformer. There are two lathes for boys who are interested in machine- shop work. on which can be done threading, plain cutting, and taper turning. Isay from experience that the taper turning job is awful. There is also a pipe cutter, grinder, and a large electric drill. The grinder is largely used by the classes for making knives, daggers, and other sharp-pointed instruments of torture.

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18 THE ARROW ' JUNIOR TRAINING FOR MODERN BUSINESS This course is open to all ninth grade pupils who desire to be trained along business lines. It gives the student an introduction to the elements of business in the form of a series of descriptions of the work of typical office positions, with full practice material and problems. This course has three main objectives for the pupils: 1. To acquire an understanding of investments, insurance, banking, business forms and records, reference books, filing devices, the use of the telephone and of the telegraph, safe methods of sending money and packages, the use of travel information, the elements of business law, the kinds of business enterprises, the types of business organization, and those other fundamental principles of business practice and procedure that are part of the equipment of every efficient member of society regardless of his vocation. 2. To develop knowledge, skill, and , the proper attitude needed for satisfactory service in those junior occupations which are to be found in practically all business offices and stores and which are open to those Who must leave school and enter business before completing a more advanced course in business training. A 3. To serve as a try-out or exploratory course for purposes of vocational and educational guidance within the field of commerce to the end that the pupil may gain such an intimate knowledge of the functions and duties of junior clerical positions, the personal and educational qualifications which are required, the business forms

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20 THE ARROW A good many of the boys prefer Working with tin and sheet metal. There is a pair of -large squaring shears, soldering iron heaters, lock seam machine, etc. There are also machines for preparing the metal for a Wired edge, corrugating the metal, etc. With these tools there can be made cups, pails, pans, scoops, locked seams, riveted seams, and soldered seams. There can also be made garbage receptacles, quart measures, and mail boxes. There is aforge and two anvils on which there can be made furnace pokers, staples, and rings. Mr. Grai, revered teacher of the Metal Shop, also has a girls' club called Girl Mechanics. -Bruce Klein, 9B ' The Wood Shop The work of teaching the boys how to make things in the Wood shop has been in the hands of Mr. C. H. Stolpe ever since the school was first built. I I This subject is limited to boys only, .though the students may be in any class, from the 7B to the 9A inclusive. - The first thing a boy learns to do is to square up a board. Squaring up a board in most cases is the first process in making any object of any kind.