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

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ED LONG CUT a V-block on the shaper during his Machine II class. Offered Training in Metals Foundry learned the elements of making and using sand molds and the shaping of mailable metals while boys in Sheet Metal shop learned to set up full-scale designs from a blueprint, layout work, and fabricat- ing. Plumbing shop, designed to train students in plumbing and related pipefitting trades, taught the boys how to cut, thread and assemble various kinds of pipe. Exploratory metals, a required freshman shop, introduced students to basic metal working. LARRY McABEE, left, and Bill Williams, right, are shown above with Mr. Ted Flack, welding instructor. The boys are flame cutting steel flanges for an iron cupola which they are building for the Foundry Shop. DEAN ALLEN, MIKE PERZ, and Ray Sobolewski worked on trays for Exploratory Electric during their Sheet Metal shop. BILL EVELAND, left, and Keith Watson, right, worked on calking a soil pipe joint in the Plumbing class.

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DON DAUM and Klemens Kiszenia are filing on crosspeen hammers in Machine Shop. This is part of their benchwork experience in this shop. PAUL FUNK did bench metal layout work in Exploratory Metals. JESSIE BROWN is shown as he cut a gate in a mold in Mr. Ranney’s Foundry Shop. Seven Shops Tech’s seven metal working shops were important not only because of excellent facilities but also be- cause of the tremendous demand by industry for metal workers. Welding shop taught maintenance, repair, and use of ox-cetylene and arc welding equipment. In Tech’s two machine shops, students were instructed in the use of the power metal working machines found in heavy industry and “job shop.” The boys in Forge- 28 iiifliir ml till

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Curriculum Included Carpentry, Patternmaking Students interested in woodworking were trained in selection of lumber, layout and design, and use of hand and power tools and machines. Exploratory Wood was a course given to all freshmen to see if they were suited for further training in this area. Students in wood shops did cabinetmaking and carpentry, after mastering basic skills. Pattern shop taught students fundamentals of woodworking and procedures used in making patterns for the castings in a foundry. JIMMY ANDERSON skillfully worked at producing the circular part of a lamp in his exploratory wood shop. TERRY ALYEA and Karl Nemeth checked the measurements of a scale model of a garage in Wood shop. MR. WALTER SCHAW EXPLAINED the procedure in making a pattern to one of his students in Pattern shop.