Fullerton Union High School - Pleiades Yearbook (Fullerton, CA)

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r =? The Pleiades The students and faculty are most proud and glad of the new- swimming pool. It is 100 feet long, 40 feet wide, and eight feet, eight inches to three feet, eight inches deep. It is extremely clean and sani- tary, with a special drainage system. The formal opening of the gym was held in the fall. Representa- tives from some of the large colleges were sent to participate in the athletic demonstrations. On May 8, the students of the high school gave an athletic demonstration to the public. March 6, the school entertained over five hundred girls from all near by schools at the annual high school Play Day. MANUAL TRAINING The Manual Training Department is always a source of unfailing interest and offers many opportunities to the young men of the district. The department coisists of seven shops which might indicate its kinship to the Pleiades. The shops are so well equipped that the boys receive a thorough training that prepares them directly to do skilled work in the trades. The machine shop is equipped with 10 engine lathes, with both vertical and horizontal milling machines for type jobs; with a univer- sal grinder for hardened objects where accuracy of one- thousandth of an inch is required ; with drill press, shaper and many other machines and tools. The foundry boasts a cupola for melting iron and a furnace for melting bronze and aluminum that have been built by the boys in the school shops. Eight hundred pounds of iron can be melted and poured at one heat at the rate of approximately one hundred pounds in every four minutes. This is perhaps the most spectacular sight in the shops. In the forge shop ornamental wrought iron work is done, and also pi-actical work with the welding and cutting torch. The sheet metal shop is equipped to give practical training in the construction of useful projects built up from sheet stock and wrought :ron, with equipment also provided for electroplating with copper, nickle, zinc or silver. Few schools are better prepared to offer a course in practical auto repair than ours. All types of jobs are handled from that of trouble shooting to general overhauling. In the woodworking shops courses are offered in furniture mak- ing, wood turning, and boat construction. The boats being built com- prise a variety of types and include a 16-foot canoe, a 14-foot skiff, a 12-foot by .5-foot beam sail-boat, and a 30-foot cruiser. The draughting shop accommodates classes in mechanical draw- ing, machine and house planning, and Junior College classes in instru- mental drawing and descriptive geometry. Drawings, tracings and blue prints for shop projects are produced in this shop, and the last quarter the students study house-planning. Visits are made to build- ings under construction so that the understanding of the problems may be complete and the work more practical.

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