Hammond Technical Vocational High School - Chart Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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VOCATIONAL SHOPS ALSO AIDED TECHNICAL STUDENTS Auto, like most shops at Tech, was once considered training ground for only the student planning a future on the job. In 1958-59, he worked side by side with friends who wanted advanced training and careers in science and technology. The technical stu- dent could combine theory of class and lab with practical knowledge only shops can afford. Tech ' s first shops for girls were shorthand and typing. That was in 1921 when one typewriter was shared by both the office and the students. In 1958-59, hundreds of girls got thorough preparation for both home and business in fourteen modern, well- equipped shops. Boys’ shop offerings grew from one afternoon a week set aside for instruction in drafting by Mr. Benson to twelve separate shop programs which offer everything from pattern making to plumbing. The freshman boy in 1958-59 spent his year in four exploratory shops and got a sample of work in metals, wood, electricity, and drafting to see what suited him best. Every Tech student in 1958-59 was required to take shop work. A WELL-EQUIPPED, well-instructed shop in auto repair and maintenance offered student thorough training in an important job in our economy — auto mechanics. THIS WAS Mr. Galen A. Merrill ' s auto shop in the old Russell Street building in the late twenties.

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26 A SCIENTIFIC PROJECT OF METAL OR TOOL - TECH STUDENTS MADE THEM Tech students in metal shops trained by making useful objects: scien- tific projects made of steel, a waste basket, or a bicycle rack. Much needed by area industry and construction, Tech’s offerings for training in crafts involving metal were the biggest share of the shop curriculum for boys. The three machine shops alone, with sixty sepa- rate machines, handled over 125 students in 1958-59. A student became familiar, too, with the whole process: from drawing to pattern to mold to lathe or to whatever was needed to complete the route in manufacturing a metal product. INSTRUCTION IN THE basic oper- ations of the lathe was the job Mr. Stecyk had when this picture was taken. In three shops boys became familiar with operations ranging from simple grinding to complicated lathe or mill- ing machine work. MATT NOLBERTOWICZ and DON MINARD worked on the drill press in Mr. Adaska ' s Machine I shop. DESIGNED TO HELP TRAIN stu- dents for plumbing or related pipe fit- ting trades, the plumbing shop course of study included cutting, threading, and assembling the various kinds of pipe used in allied pipefitting trades. A house frame in the shop was used for practice exercises in installation.