Fordson High School - Fleur de Lis Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT The industrial unit has been adjusting students to wartime needs by stressing various courses that will fit these pupils for better positions in the armed forces -r in defense plants. This has been done by placing emphasis on different aspects of the regular subject matter.. For some time the ordinary day program of the in- dustrial classes had been meeting the needs of the industrial students. or boys in trade-training, by furnishing classes stressing such subjects as aeronautics. radio. code, welding, and an improved class in machine-tool operation. as well as the long- ra ge course in machine tool and die. Industrial Arts. one of the regular classes. offers to general and college preparatory students such studies as bench work, hand tool operation, woodworking. welding, blueprint reading. metal trades, and elemen- tary plating. A fairly new subject. offset printing. gives instruction to those wishing to become photographers in any branch of the service. while general main- tenance of different types of vehicles taught in auto-shop enables students to re- ceive experience which will benefit them in the Motor Transport Corps. 4Such cour- ses as motor-mechanics for boys and girls, aero-mechanics for girls. and othersof the same type. will be described in the section on war courses. as they are classes specifically prepared to give pupils pre-induction training. and are part of the newxwar training program E: Ufrdscn ,

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He is Feature Edito O ex pe rlexxce whe Editor of the Wood wo rtli 'TiC-Toc- PROLOGUE: On the seventh of December, nineteen hundred and forty-one, the forces of ag- gression obened war on the United States, thus indirectly affecting every citizen of that country, and therefore, each and every pupil of Fordson High School. Has Fordson answered the call to arms? Has our school co-operated with the government, with the beetle of Ameri- ca, and with our fighting forces? On the following oages, we give you the answer, in the form of a compendium of Fordson's personal contribution to the war effort. LEE O'CONNELL 11A of 1943 Fleur-de-lis and recei.ved his he wa s F ea tu re

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