Leamington District Secondary School - Phoebus Yearbook (Leamington, Ontario Canada)

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Miss Sheilagh Ryan, B.A.. head of the Home Economics Department, teaches the sewing courses. She is originally from Riverside. Miss Ryan is a graduate of Patterson Collegiate, the University oi Toronto, and the Ontario College of Education. In the past few years at this school, she has participated as an instructor of the cheerleaders and in extra Home Economics classes. This year Miss Ryan directs a drama group, The High School Hams . and is also a Red Cross supervisor. Outside of school. Miss Ryan enjoys sewing, boating and photography. The Sewing Room: This room is done in mush¬ room trimmed with a deeper contrast. The floor is a coral rose. There are ten sewing machines, three more than in the old school. The sewing tables which have been used previously, are refinished to match the new machines. This room also has abun¬ dant cupboard space for supplies, and storage space for students’ sewing. On the front of the cupboards there are three full length mirrors which will turn to enable the student to see how the garment, which she is making, fits at the back and sides, as well as the front. To enable the students to press their garments, there are two ironing boards and two irons in this room. Each Home Economics class spends one term of work in the sewing room and another in the cooking room. mW

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» Mr. Reiber is the new instructor for Metal shop work. He was educated at Waterloo and the Stratford Normal School. During the last war he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force. After teaching five years in Barrio he moved to Leamington this year. Mr. Reiber‘s hobby is photo¬ graphy and he is one of the teacher supervisors of the school ' s Photo Club. Under his supervision, the students are now learning to work with steel, the country ' s biggest factor in industrial expansion. MR. RICHARD REIBER AND MR. E. L. TIVY Mr. Tivy is tho head of the Shop Department and the capable instructor in Wood work. He was educated in Eastern Ontario and in Shop work at the Department of Education. During the second World War he worked ior two summers in an aeroplane factory making ply wood wings for Mosquito bombers. Eight years ago he came to Leamington after teaching for ten years in Northern Ontario. Since Mr. Tivy came to Leamington he has had to work in cramped quarters teaching both Metal and Wood work. Mr. Tivy is doing a wonderful job in organizing the new Shop program and this is appre¬ ciated by the 6tudent body. n i 1 ' ji -ilil fs. M There are two shops in the new school, the metal and the wood. The o.d school ' s shop was crowded having both metal and wood-working in the same room with a little paint shop off it. The metal shop is fairly new to all the boys although most of the hand tools and a few of the machines are familiar. The larger machines are four steel-cutting lathes, a shaper, an arc-welder, a band saw, a drill, a forge, a shears, a bending machine and a grinder. There are many hand tools, from the snips and the ham¬ mers to the tiny micrometer that measures to one, one-thousand of an inch. The wood shop is familiar with the exception of one new combination machine called a Shopsmith tool. It is five machines put into one, a lathe, a circular saw, a vertical and a horizontal drill press, and a sanding machine. There is one new lathe besides the four old ones and a new dust catcher for the sander. Besides these, there are the planer, the drill, the band saw and the jig saw. We know the boys appreciate these shops and will produce beautiful work this year and in the future. —BOB DRUMMOND

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Miss Marjorl Edge. B.A., attended North Toionto Collegiate, the Univoraity of Toronto and the Ontario College oi Education. She la now teaching claaaea in foods and home making and she directs a drama group “The Stage Frights ' ' consisting of grade nine and ten students. She is also on the Red Cross Com¬ mittee. During the past summer, she spent her holidays in Muskoka and In the Alleghany Mountains. Miss Edge enioys as her hobbies, sewing, tennis, and bowling. The Foods and Homemaking Room: This room has three separate kitchens, a .aundry, two dining rooms, and one living room. In the kitchens, there is a gas stove, and two electric stoves. The laundry has a washing machine, an electric dryer, and an electric ironer. The furniture is in limed oak. The walls are cream; the counters yellow, the cupboards green; and the floor is a mottled brown and yellow. In the living room there are four occasional pieces done in rose. They are made to form a sofa and two matching chairs. In front of the sofa is a coffee table and at the right of it is an end table. In addition to these there is a buffet and a china cabinet. The china cabinet holds a new set of dishes in the Napoleon Ivy design. All classes such as knitting and embroidery are now taken in the Home Economics rooms. These subjects formerly had to be taught in ordinary class¬ rooms because of the crowded conditions. —MARLENE SETTERINGTON