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

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Students receive training in serving a nutritious lunch correctly in Advanced Foods Class. 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. Now, hundreds of girls get through preparation for both home and business in Tech’s modem, well-equipped shops. During any year girls in Foods Classes learn many facts about nutrition and kitchen management. They ac- quire skills in preparing breakfasts, school lunches, dinners and festive parties. 27

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Students work on comptometers in Office Machines Class. Shops provide girls with home and business training Miss Desmore’s Office Machines was one class in the early days of Tech. Although the equipment has improved considerably this class is still offered to business students at Tech. Girl ’s prepare themselves to lead their own lives in a better way after taking courses such as Home Manage- ment.

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Vocational shops aided boy’s in future training When auto shop first began, it was divided into two separate departments: Auto I for the beginners, and Auto II for the advanced students. Auto I dealt mainly with the chassis of the car, body repairs and how the car is built. The students also learned to make repairs and adjust- ments which might be needed “on the road.” In Auto II the student continued his work in a fully equipped garage where he would learn the best methods of repairing on a production basis. In 1922 a new dimension in shops was brought to Tech. Many things such as nuts and bolts, in special sizes and shapes, could be made in Machine Shop. Gears, tool parts, and bolts were made to replace broken and worn out parts on the lathes and other machines. Instead of a certain exercise, every boy in this shop was given some- thing to do which could later be used on machines around the shop. In early wood shop the first thing that a student learned was how to use his tools properly. He also learned how to run machines such as the lathe, shaper, and grinder. Wood shop also involved blue printing and pattern making. After learning these basics, he might procede to doing his work as an apprentice carpenter. Tech was the only Indiana High School approved by the Federal Aviation Agency in aviation training. Tech had two aviation shops which prepared future mechanics in both aviation power plant and aviation airframe. Auto shop was one of the many shops introduced to help train students for future jobs.