Hall High School - Hall Light Yearbook (Spring Valley, IL)

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Vocations Give Training In Practical Arts. ln the vocational department, wood shop, machine shop, agriculture, and mechanical drawing are offered to many students. Wood shop is divided into a beginning group and an advanced group. All freshman boys interested in vocations take exploratory shop. Students in wood shop have made end tables, gun racks, cabinets, and many other proiects. Besides these, the boys in advanced wood shop have made numerous repairs in the building, painted the electricity and projection rooms, put pad holders on the typing desks, enlarged the con- cession stand under the football stadium, and built a new magazine rack for the library. The boys in machine shop learn to operate a lathe and many other useful machines. They also learn the use of many other practical tools. They have made projects of their own and helped in making repairs around the buildings. Welding is also taught Beginning wood shop class. Advanced woodshop. The library magazine rack. A class in electricity,

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Homernaking I girls help can apples Clothung construction homemaknng ll class Homemakmg Classes Tram Future Homemakers Classes un lwomemakung glve gurls trannung an tbe best ways to conduct a model home so that members of tlms generation will be able to make tne Homes of Mealplannung nurs1ng cnuld care tamuly relatnonsbup food preparation textule structure and care clotbnng constructron personaluty development and personal groomnng are some of the lmportant tlelds covered IO tbe bomemaktng courses Page twenty fre A ' in a the future better than ever.

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to these boys There IS a begtnnung and an advanced class In machnne shop for boys who are Interested nn this llne of work The mechanical drawing depart ment has both a beglnnnng and an advanced course In drawlng The students begun wnth simple drawnngs and by the end of the course they have progressed to some complicated work ln draftlng ll they learn arch: tectural draftnng and how to make blue prtnts Thus as a very nnterestung course and the knowledge ganned an tt can be very useful In finding work later on Agriculture ms a very useful course to the farm boys who attend Hall Hugh Movies are shown they study methods of farmung and they have a small plot of land on whlch they have some actual experuence In the work of the farm They make prolects of their own and have plots of grain for demonstratnon They are also taught how to weld Thus course should and the boys In becoming good farmers Adult courses In ag are also oflfered Draftmg Ag boys learn weldung The Farm Board The Adult Weldnng Class 1 - 1 1