Henry Ford Trade School - Craftsman Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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PAGE FOUR THE CRAFTSMAN FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936 mr im ed db mnnr ssf The Trade School boys use an aver- age of 630,000 paper towelB a month, making thirty-five towels to each hoy per month. Meyer John Winsjansen was the subject of last issue's Guess Who column. Maurice Baker, W-D-2, is the only hoy in the Trade School who has won two medals in athletics. Jack LaBadie has failed to ring his time card more than anyone else in the school. Tom Waling, W-D-l, has distinguish- ed himself in local fight circles hy winning four out of five entanglements. AUTOMECHANICS COURSE OFFERED IN HAMTRAMCK An Auto Mechanics course is being conducted every Tuesday and Thursday, from 2 to 4 p. m., hy Lee J. Croteau, at the Tau Beta Community House, Hanley Street, Hamtramck, Michigan. Miss Halverson, in charge of the Community House, was asked hy some hoys of that vicinity if a course in Auto Mechanics could he obtained. She made the request to Mrs. Edsel Ford, who was chairman of the Community House last year. Mr. Croteau was appointed in- structor in February 1935, when the first class started. Since November 36 hoys have been enrolled, there being no fee. The shop is equipped with a Ford V-8 engine, clutch, transmission, rear axle, front axle, steering gear, horn, reference hooks, text hooks, charts, table, and necessary ■cools. Students are taught hy the lecture and individualized methods of instruc- tion. They disassemble and reassemble all parts of the V-8 engine. A member of the class who was asked how he liked the course responded, I am enjoying and deriving a great benefit from it. m rm mumMUiNim '18 Frank Paliwoda, one of the first Trade School graduates, is an instructor in the Lathe Department. '20 David White is a lieutenant in the United States Navy. '21 Elkanah Brill is chief body design- ing engineer at one of Detroit's large automobile plants. He is the author of a body designing book, which is the only one of its kind. STUDENTS ACT AS TRANSLATORS Requests for interpreters of a large variety of languages often come to the Trade School. W. H. Moore, who se- lects the interpreters, has never failed to locate a student needed to interpret. Once he was stumped when asked for a Japanese translator, however, a graduate from the school was found capable. Most interpreting is done for visi- tors at the Administration Building, pa- tients at the hospital, and employees at the employment office. All the nationalities represented in the school are kept in files in the office. Combined they form a cosmopoli- tan group from which one has a large va- riety of languages. B-CLASSES MAKE CHOICE The B-Class presidents have made the selections for their graduation pins and rings. Purchases are to be made from Mr. Wines of Josten's Jewelry Shop. In addition to the change in the engraving on the ring, the boys will have a choice between a stone or black enamel background. The presidents are as follows: M- Section---Cosmus Barone, Leo Catanzaro, Robert Spengler. T-Section--------Francis Zawacki, Wilfred Cortis, Gerald Anderson. W-Section----Joseph Lapinski, Clifford Taylor, and Thomas Grimes.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1956 THE CRAFTSMAN PAGE THREE harmonizers entertain p-ta. The following is an excerpt of a letter received by The Harmonizers from Mrs. Ruth Rothbone. As President of the Norris School P.-T. A., I wish to thank Messrs. Nicholson, Wagener, Dopke, Stoelting, and Rosoweki, pianist, for their excellent program which they ren- dered at our banquet, March 28. PAIR PURCHASE PLANE (DRAFTSMAN UDSE ®UT With but two more victories needed to gain the city crown, the Craftsman basket ball team was knocked out of competition in a dramatic 23-20 defeat by Tel-Hi at Hutchins School last Thurs- day, April 9. Although the Craftsmen were not headed until the fading minutes of the last half, they were missing many shots dead on the hoop. While they had good teamwork without any individual star- ring, the victorious team had a player who piled up 14 points and accounted for most of his team's floorwork. As the score gradually climbed in the second half for Tel-Hi, the Trade School boys' minds seemed to wander more and more to the coming baseball season, partially accounting for their comparatively poor showing. The largest lead the Craftsmen enjoyed was 6 points, the half ending A Driggs Skylark airplane has been purchased recently by Ray Hollander and John Onderko. The plane is powered with a 95 H. P. inverted Cirrus engine. This two place open biplane has a cruising speed of 85 to 90 miles per hour and a top speed of 105 to 110 miles per hour. It has been my ambition to fly an airplane since a young boy, said Mr. Hollander, and I now fly as a hobby. Mr. Hollander started taking lessons at the Municipal Airport at Pontiac last June. He now has about 25 hours of fly- ing to his credit. John Onderko's ambition it to teach other people to fly. He has taken les- sons at the same airport as Hollander and haB about the same number of hours in the air. Their plane is kept at the Pontiac Airport Hangar. BINTERIM(U1RAL LEAGUE (DPENS Weather permitting, twelve of the thirty-six teams competing in the Trade School Intermural Baseball League will swing into action this week, predicts Mr. Richards of the Athletic Department. The officials who will help out by lending their services as unpires are: Messrs. Armstrong, Bartholomew, Heinz, and Roy Yerex. 20-14. VARSOTY MEETS F®RD$®N HOGH With only a few more days left to pick the starting lineup for the Crafts- man's opening game at Fordson, April 25, at 2.00 o'clock, Veraie Richards hopes to have one of the strongest teams in the metropolitan area. Mr. Richards plans on carrying sixteen players; four pitchers, two catchers, six infielders, and four outfielders. The uniforms will be gray, trimmed in blue. A large golden letter C will be sewed to the shirt on the left side. Small numbers are to be sewed on the left sleeve so that players will know their own suits. The A-Clas8 graduation pictures will be taken by the Powell Studios, Fine Arts Building, 58 W. Adams Avenue.

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 $ubli h r$u (0f ? rab Vol. 1 MAY 8, 1936 No. 7 STUDENTS RENOVATE INDICATORS Approximately 300 to 400 dial indi- cators are repaired each month by the boya in the precision tool department. Accuracy is required throughout the Ford Motor Company. That is why such an enormous number of dial Indicators is used in the various departments. The dial indicator department in the school repairs all the indicators used by the Ford Motor Company including branches and assembly plants throughout the United States. Services of fifteen boys are required to keep all of the in- dicators repaired. These boys dismantle each dial, examine all parte for de- fects, and replace them with new ones if they cannot be repaired. Then they are rebuilt and tested for accuracy. Each student is able to repair from 8 to 18 per day. The A-Class graduation party will be held Saturday, June 27, in the Aztec Tower. The tickets are now in the hands of the class presi- dents. The price is $2.50 a couple. Indicators that are personally own- ed by Ford Motor Company employees and instructors and students of the Trade School are also repaired here. FIRST STUDENT RETURNS One of the first six students to enroll in the Henry Ford Trade School, Stanley F. Lasky, recently paid a brief visit to his Alma Mater. In order to commemorate this brief visit, Mr. Lasky appears in the above picture with Mr. F. E. Searle and Mr. E. Y. Peterson standing near a shaper twenty years old, which may have been operated by Stanley when he was a student. Stanley was enrolled in the school October 25, 1916, when the Valley Farm, a home for young boys maintained by Mr. Henry Ford, was closed and the boys, six of them, were transferred to the Trade School, Just opening. At that time the six students were required to attend classes for one-half the day and shop for the other half. During his visit he was noted care- fully scrutinizing the old shaper. When asked what he was seeking, he replied, It was our custom, when the school first started, to take a scriber and carve our initials on each machine we operated. We did our own bookkeeping, he Jokingly added. Above everything else, he stated, my school experience trained me how to work. At the present time Mr. Lasky is a chef in a Detroit hotel.