Evening High School - Owl Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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CLASS OF 1935 o o A WOOD WORKING In the Pattern-making shop students are instructed in the advanced stages of woodworking. Articles of furniture such as cedar chests, end tables, linen closets, cabinets, and lamps of all sizes and purposes are con- structed here. Mr. W. Arthur Stephenson is the instructor and the beauty and strength ofthe articles constructed attests to the skill which the students acquire from his excellent instruction. The materials which a student uses in the construction of his article he buys at cost from the school. The cost of wood is so relatively low to the value of his finished product that it is considered as being given away, while the knowledge and the skill acquired in the construction of the article balances the cost of the wood. THE OWL 75

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O0 ol CLASS OF I935 In , MECHANICAL DRAWING Under the capable direction of Mr. Franklin V. Gill. students are taught the art of Mechanical Drawing. There are three distinct phases of Work offered in this course. The first covers practical instruction in blue-print reading, the second consists of the drawing of the blue-prints themselves, and the third includes archi- tectural drawing. The unique feature of this course is that very little education is needed as all the mathematics and other technicalities are injected with the course of the student's progress. A C. C. C. member completed drawings for an entire group of farm buildings which he plans to construct when he is discharged from the corps. Many individuals Working on inventions take advantage of this course to set down their ideas on paper. 74 THE OWL

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' CLASS OF l935 o o O .. CARPENTERIN G The Woodshop is the shop which the beginner in Wood-craft should at tend. Here he is taught the rudiments of carpentering. Simple articles of- all sizes and description are constructed. Members of both sexes are found here for the class can be found use- ful to women as Well as men. Two women, a mother and daughter, are reg- ular attendants to the class and are studying so that some day they may fulfill their fondest hope, that of building their own bedroom suite. Mr. Kenneth Conley, the instructor, renders assistance and advice to both amateur and professional. ' There is no longer any excuse for the handy man or even the unhandy man with an evening or two a week to spare, not to have those odds and ends of furniture which make a house a home. 76 THE OWL