Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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BOYS’ PHYSICAL TRAINING After the close of the football and basketball season of 1916 and 1917, the state of Indiana began to realize the fact that we are not only the center of a great public school system and steel industry, but we are developing athletics of the highest type possible. As a coach my work with the boys of both high schools has been full of joy and pleasure. The boys have worked hard and I have appreciated it. They have fought to the last minute, of which I am proud. I hope that the few things I have tried to tell them will cause them to play the man at all times; then I feel it is all worth while. Success and good luck to everyone. — L. A. Erickson. J. E. GILROY, A. B. Director of Physical Training U. B. YOUNG GIRLS’ PHYSICAL TRAINING That physical activities and athletics are an essential part of the education of youth is a fact only partially recognized today. Many people feel that such exer¬ cises are not proper for girls. To change this feeling is one of the aims of the physical education department by giving to the students a love for and an appreciation of athletics and gymnastics which will continue thru life, and by giving a moral and physical development which other phases of school life cannot give. Physically, the aim is to strengthen our girls in vitality and nervous power; to give them, thru their dancing and exercise, bodily poise and control; thru their athletics and games, endurance and strength. And parallel with these physical aims is the desire to develop their interest in athletics, ideals of honesty, loyalty and good sportsmanship; to send out girls who know the value of co-operation; who are capable of an unselfish appreciation of good playing in others; and who realize that it is the kind of play—not the victory—which counts. L. A. ERICKSON, A. B. RUTH GLASSOW, B. S. Eighteen

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FORGE SHOP The forge shop gives one unit in vocational work at the Emerson school. It will have been in existence four years at the close of this school year. We are proud of some of the students who have worked in the shop. Our purpose is not to make a blacksmith out of every student who enters the shop, but to give him the best knowledge of the trade that we can, so that when he goes out into the com¬ mercial world he will be prepared to choose the trade best suited for himself. Our shop has all the electrically driven machinery that is found in the best commercial shops, so that a boy has the privilege of getting experience first-hand in modern forge shop work, and some of the boys are making good at the trade. Our problems are all school work, but of a large variety, such as play ground apparatus, orna¬ mental iron fencing, iron stairways, all kinds of hooks and chains, plumbers’ and machinists’ tools and wrenches, the latter our own designing and construction. The largest job we turned out this year was the iron stairway for Glen Park school. Four thousand pounds of structural steel were used, and two months were required to construct it. All this and many more jobs were turned out by the forge class. Every student in vocational work should have some knowledge of steel and iron, and I know of no better place to get it than at the Emerson school. FRANK FLOYD FOUNDRY We do not think the Annual would be complete without giving Mr. Keegan, the foundry instructor, at least one black mark for his good-natured tyranny. Many of us have been students of his in the last four years, and when we went to his room for instruction, you may be sure we got all that was coming to us. We are all well acquainted with the one question Mr. Keegan never got tired of asking us, and that question is, “Boys, did you come here today to work? If you did I have the material for you to use and the time to teach you how to use it, but if you came here to idle your time away, you are in the wrong place, and I would advise that you get your program changed. I will try to have the gymnasium moved up here by the time you get back.” Seventeen

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HOME ECONOMICS The aim of this department is to develop in the minds of our girls a knowledge of one of the most important factors towards making a successful home, namely, that of supplying the family with good, wholesome foods, prepared and served in an attractive and economic manner. In order to do this we believe that an early knowl¬ edge of the world’s greatest industries, sources of foods, their composition, their re¬ lation to the body and the principles underlying their preparation, tends not only to interest the child for future work along this line, but also acts as a guide to those children who must withdraw at an early age. EMERSON MACHINE SHOP Of all our ind ustrial activities, no department contributes more than that of ma¬ chine shop practice. Upon it depends first of all the finished production of all machine parts; second, the assembling and testing of the completed machine or apparatus. It is essential to our railway equipment and maintenance. In factory output and repair it is of vital importance. It was for these and many other reasons that the Emerson Machine Shop was installed as a part of the vocational work of our schools. The purpose is to give the boys an opportunity to learn the rudiments of the machinist’s trade and its function in the industrial field. We do not attempt to teach all branches of the trade, but we do lay stress upon machine tool operation. This includes practice on engine lathes, shaper, drill presses and milling machine, with some experience in bench work. Even with this limited knowledge of the trade which contains many of the essential elements of the industry, the work offered can be made of great value T. E. THIEBAUD to the young man seeking a mechanical career. PHYSICS The aim of the Physics course is to teach the how and why of the physical phenomena with which one comes in contact in daily life. The most important laws and principles of Physics are developed, explained and verified by experiment, along with sufficient mathematics for their direct applica¬ tion to practical problems and devices. Special emphasis is placed upon the work in electricity, so that pupils may understand the fundamental laws applied to modern electrical development. This general knowledge of Physics makes life more worth living, and aids the pupil in selecting a life work. The course is open to pupils of Junior and Senior standing. D. C. ATKINSON, A. B. Nineteen