Independence High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Independence, KS)

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'I 8 Sixteentlt Annual Catalogue MANUAL TRAINING All over the country the best schools are devoting con- siderable time and energy to manual training. The new addition to the building enables the Montgomery County High School to offer its students ample facilities for Work along this line. The north half of the first floor has been equipped for this department. Fifteen single benches and the necessary tools have been provided for the bench work. The equipment also includes four lathes for the turning department, a jointer, a saw table, a band saw, a hollow chisel mortiser and a tool grinder. Mr. J. B. Yingling, an experi- enced and efficient instructor, has had charge of the manual training and mechanical drawing for the past three years and has made the work interesting and helpful to the stu- dents. The boys make many useful and valuable pieces of furniture which become theirs on payment of the cost of the material used. Mr. Yingling is taking special work in the Kansas State Manual Training Normal School this summer and will resume his duties here in September, prepared to give his pupils the benefit of any new ideas which that insti- tution may have to offer. DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND ART The two large basement rooms of the old building are arranged and equipped for cooking and sewing. The south room is furnished with four sewing machines, the necessary tables, an electric iron, and other appliances for the sewing department. Eight double tables with chairs and hot plates attached, a large range, cooking utensils, and a refrigerator are placed in the north room for the domestic science work. Excellent work has been done in this department. Classes in both cooking and sewing are always large. Last year so many girls enrolled in this department that it became neces- .?.h, f ' -- - -2-A X ,l X X T i