Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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MACHINE SHOP Greg Prior, Jim Tillinghast. The best way to describe the three year course in machine shop is by citing our motto, “we learn to do by doing.” The course consists of general machine shop practice in bench work, lathe work, grinder work, drill press work, shaper work, and milling machine work. Our course includes a study of metallurgy and a learning of welding. During all phases of our work, safe work habits are stressed constantly. When a person begins machine shop in the tenth grade, he is given projects to make that will teach him specific skills. In the eleventh grade, a student is expected to complete projects that involved complicated set-up of machines and that involved a higher degree of skill. In his final year, a student must maintain and repair the machines and equipment. A student who develops an interest in a particular area of the trade is given the opportunity to further his knowledge and skill in that area by Mr. D. The aim of the machine shop is to provide the student with a saleable skill and to be competitive in securing a job in the machine trade. The success of our graduates of the machine shop in doing that shows that we have been well taught in this field.

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PRINT SHOP Paul Rivera, Larry Cunningham, Shawn Swords. As every person associated with Girard College knows, the print shop is very active throughout every school year. The print shop produces The Girard News (the school newspaper), The Corinthian (the senior class record book), monthly calendars of events, the sports schedules during the year, the annual report of the President of Girard College, and the many forms used throughout the school. In addition, seven hundred hymnals were recently printed and bound for use in the Girard College Chapel. The variety of work produced guarantees that all of the print shop students are well trained. Many of Girard’s recent alumni have secured jobs as printers following their Girard print shop training. Apart from those who entered the work force in the printing line many have furthered their studies in the field at the the college level. The first two years of print shop are spent in learning the techniques that are necessary for a person to be employed as a printer. In the last two years, these skills are then applied toward putting out the publications and forms that are vital to our school. Our print shop is fortunate in having a computer typesetter. Setting-the type through this computer is the first step of the printing process. A photograph is then taken of the material to be printed, then a negative of this original is made. A plate is then made andis ready for “press-work”, or, the final step of printing. Each print shop student is given many opportunities to apply the skills he has been taught in order to master the printing art. 14 ne =

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W00D SHOP Karl Stanislawczyk, Gary Crawley, Victor Klimowsky, Robert Buck.