George C Marshall High School - Columbian Yearbook (Falls Church, VA)

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Variety was the key word in Marshall’s Industrial Education de¬ partment; it was subdivided into two major categories: Industrial Arts, which consisted of one hour intro¬ ductory elective courses, and Voca¬ tional Education, two to three hour concentrated job preparatory courses. The introductory courses had three major divisions: Drawing, General Industrial Arts, and Elec¬ tronics. Drawing involved three levels of skill — first year drawing was a general introductory course; the secondary level included Engi¬ neering Drawing and Architectural Drafting. These two were prerequi¬ sites for a more advanced class in Architectural Drafting. All three levels of General Indus¬ trial Arts included: Carpentry, Elec¬ tricity, Foundry, Sheet Metal Work¬ ing, Plastic Arts, and Welding. Elec¬ tronics, also in three levels, included classes in Electricity and beginning and advanced Elec¬ tronics. The department’s main goal was to give students a general idea of possible specialties in Industrial Arts; for this reason no one subject was covered in great depth. ins