Lancaster High School - Mirage Yearbook (Lancaster, OH)

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TRADES AND INDUSTRIES Mr. Moore. Mr. Tobin, Mr. Sherrick, and Mr. Ritter instruct the boys of this department. The trades and industries courses operate under the Smith-Hughes plan of federal aid. Thirty-five junior and senior boys work on the machines under the Smith-Hughes trades and industries program of fifteen hours per week in the shop and the other fifteen on the related subjects taught by Mr. Moore machine science, mathematics, drawing, and blueprint reading besides one subject such as English or history. Some ten or a dozen boys spend alternate weeks on jobs in local machine shops and in their school classes. The agriculture courses also operate under the Smith-Hughes plan. Boys study animal hus- bandry, farm crops, and farm engineering dur- ing their first three years. The fourth year, in shop, they learn to make farm equipment. Ev- ery summer, the boys complete their individual iarm projects under the supervision of Mr. Jen- kins. Many of the boys of this department exhibit stock or produce at the fair.

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VOCATIONAL DEPARTMENT In the shops, students are training to be sol- liers of production. Metal and wood shop boys give real service in repair work for the school. They also coop- erate in repair of farm equipment. Some eighty-five boys are receiving wood shop train- ing which may help them to obtain the rating of carpenter’s mate in the Navy, or to get work in an airplane factory. Mechanical drawing classes, also, are of war- time importance. Over a hundred students are enrolled in the three double periods of mechan- ical drawing. Even an occasional girl joins up. These students of Mr. Peer and Mr. Shower, as well as the 120 boys in metal shop under Mr. Martin’s instruction, constitute the industrial arts department. As a wartime project, stu- dents have made ash trays and ash stands for the Junior Red Cross for use in veteran's hos- pitals. SHOP TEACHERS Mr. Forest Tobin, Mr. A. R. Peer, Mr. Albert Sherrick, Mr. E. R. Jenkins, Mr. Clyde Moore, Mr. Anthony Martin, Mr. C. G. Shower, Mr. Wal- ter Ritter. FARM SHOP Mr. Jenkins oversees the construction of a hog-feeder. MECHANICAL DRAWING Mr. Shower and his wielders of the T-square.

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ART AND MUSIC Designing war stamps and posters is emphasized in art classes as well as other patriotic projects, such as making writing portfolios, nut cups, and table favors to be used by the Junior Red Cross in hospit- als and children’s homes at Thanksgiving and Christmas. The services of the L. II. S. Choir arc in constant demand for school and civic af- fairs. The choir furnished music for the Christmas pageant and also presented a Thanksgiving program. Orchestra mem- bers, also, are busy. They play at school functions, such as plays. YOUNG AMERICA SINGS Row One (left to right) Marilyn Dencer, Jean Graf, Jean Theobold, Marianne Bitler, Carolyn Westenbarger, Lucille Delp, Betty Host, Mary L. Evans. Row Two Virginia Hart, Hazel Bontrager, Margaret Bevis, Jacquelyn Loving, Rosann Cox, Mrs. McAfee (director), Patsy Jeffries, Mary McBroom, Bertha Ellis, Ruth Mace, Mary Schneider. Row Three Richard Guth, Patty Smith, Patricia Carpenter, Dick Huffines, Barbara Wallace, Mary Goode (accompanist), Esther Plinke, Ruth Barnes, Marjorie Clark, Lenore Ball, Eugene Evans. Row Four Edward Graf, Thelma Dalring, Miriam Andrews, Jack Andrews. Barbara Holcombe, Dorothy Plinke, Betty Nichols, Barbara McLaughlin, John Windesheim, Bill Holcombe. Choir members not in picture Linda Fuller, Gloria McLain, Pauline Weimer, Jean Karshner, Marie Ann Keller, Mary Lou Mondhank, Emily Carr, Patricia Host, George Bond. Charles Reed. Hugh Clements, Harry Smith, Joe Armstrong, Dick Hansley, Reuben Mondhank, Vernon George. Elsie Gerken.