George Wythe High School - Chancellor Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Pela L. Bobbitt, M.S. Ed. Mrs. Evelyn H. Ellington, B.A. Archie B. Fowlkes, M.A. Mosetta P. Sykes, B.S. Miss Fowlkes and Miss Sykes’ business classes listen to a talk by a career secretary. Students Train for Business Careers The Business Department of George Wythe is supplied with up-to-date equipment, making possible a modern and progressive department. Courses offered consist of two years of bookkeeping, typing, shorthand, and one year of clerical practice, VOT, business training, and business arithmetic. The department aims to provide the students with a business education for personal use and to supply the local business organizations with highly-trained and professional-minded employees. This is being accomplished because each instructor has a personal interest in the’student’s learning and employment. Judy Marmion arranges busi- ness showcases as Mr. Arnold and Sonny Live- say offer sugges- tions. cay and employers eat and converse during Distributive Education anquet. 2!

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20 Mr. Timok works at the drill press in shop. Maurice L. Lang, B.S. John T. McReynolds, B.S.Ed. Louis N. Timok, B.S. Machinery Aids Amateurs agi Modern machinery adds to the development of skills among industrial arts students. The handsome new machinery, spacious area, and modern design of the George Wythe shop enables students in industrial arts to develop skill in handling instruments, tools, and machines as well as to strength- en habits of orderly procedure, safety, and inquisitive- ness. Industrial arts students work in these fields: draft- ing, wood working, plastics, metal working, graphic arts, power mechanics, leatherworking, electricity and electronics, ceramics, and textiles. The total program allows the students to gain newer and broader concepts in the use of techniques, mate- rials and processes.

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an Students Learn Saleable Skills at V.M.I. is used for class- Automobile motor room instruction. Ernest C. Baxendell Milton D. James, B.S. A. Edgar Harshaw, B.S. Shops for the Trade Preparatory Program are lo- cated in the Virginia Mechanics Institute Building and are an extension of shops situated at George Wythe. This program is designed for young people who see graduation from high school as the terminal point of formal education. These courses allow students to acquire saleable skills with which they enter and suc- cessfully pursue occupations in drafting, automobile mechanics, machine shop practice, electricity and elec- tronics. Students enrolled in this program report to the V.M.I. Building in the morning and return to school later in the afternoon for their other classes. Jack Pulley repairs television set at V.MLI. Buffer and kiln are used daily in industrial arts shop.