London Normal School - Spectrum Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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18 MANUAL TRAINING I ' ll be down in the Manual Training shop has been a frequently employed answer to, What are you doing after four? Mr. Hagerman is our most competent Manual Training instructor. The shop is quite well equipped despite the fact that some of the machines are old and very noisy. If dubious about that noise try to enjoy a music period with Mrs. Part low above the shop on Monday. Perhaps we should agitate for new machines. Mr. Hagerman has worked in the shop every Saturday morning as well as several nights after four. Some of the work done by students under his direction is really splendid. The first plague disrupting the peaceful shop was the desire of every student to make a primary Rending folder for Mr. Roberts. Why? you may ask. Well, we got credit for both Primary work and Manual Training. The folders have proved useful for many of our lessons, not only in primary work, but also in other subjects. The next calamity befalling the shop was the desire to make wind-vanes. Yesi We received marks for both Manual Training and Agriculture. For many weeks there were dangerous looking arrows standing up in all parts of the Manual Training Room. The baskets and book-ends made by some of the students are very creditable. Trays, pins, bracelets are other attractive achievements. The Manual Training has been an invaluable part of our Normal School year. Besides many pieces of work we will carry with us a practical knowledge of tools and methods that should help us in our teaching and more important still a greater appreciation for manual labour. Margaret Gould, • RED CROSS WORK The students of London Normal School have been active in all the work of the Red Cross. During the first term, two courses were sponsored by the Red Cross, one in St. John T s First Aid and one in Home Nursing. The First Aid course was directed by Mrs. Jessup and Mrs. McDermot while Miss Penhale directed the home nursing. In both courses there were demonstrations of practical work, and lectures. All of the meetings both practical and theoretical of St. John s First Aid were held in the Normal School. The lectures for the Home Nursing class were held in the Normal School while the practical lessons were held in the Blood Donor s Clinic at §18 Queens Avenue. A large group of the students found their way back there to donate blood at a later date.

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19 From the wool supplied by the Red Cross, the girls knitted the following, children ' s and babies ' outfits; 12 suits, 9 sweaters, 10 panties, 8 baby sets, 2 sweaters, 2 • booties, and 1 bonnet. These will go through the Local Red Cross Branch to some needy children. The two courses taught us how to help others while, by our Red Cross knitting, we helped others. We feel these are concrete examples of how the students of 1944 are backing the war effort. Ruth Hall Elaine Hunter OUR VISIT TO SILVERWOOD ' S DAIRY On Thursday Dr. Hofferd made the announcement of a proposed visit to Silverwood ' s Dairy for Saturday morning. He reaffirmed the statement on Friday at Literary Society. We were to go in two groups - with the first two groups being the unlucky ones, having to be on deck at nine o ' clock. The other group were allowed the extra forty winks till half-past ten. We woke up in tho cold, gray dawn of Saturday and trudged up to the Dairy. As we stepped inside we saw the bottles being filled, capped and stored with amazing accuracy. Our guide took us further to see the washing process, the pasteurizing machines at work and how butter milk is made. The cleanliness of all these processes impressed us greatly. Each night all the machines with which the milk comes in contact are taken apart, washed, scalded and reassembled. In the building across the stroet we saw many more interesting things. We saw how milk was condensed and canned. From the condensing room we went out on the roof and viewed London. Then we descended the stairs and saw the results of Babcock test and the irradiating machine. The next part of our trip took us to the storage room where we shivered and shook at a temperature of 24 degrees below zero. We were each given an ice-cream bar with the compliments of Silverwood s Dairy. The making of ice-cream was also described. Our trip to Silverwood ' s Dairy proved to be not only delightful, but informative. I am sure we all have a much clearer conception of all the work which is entailed in the dairy industry. I am sure that the sight of the lowly milk bottle on the door step will now bring back many memories - pleasant, ah yes. NfyTtle Fader .