Lowe High School - Towers Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book On the day on which I visited the school, one of the girls was pos¬ ing. The Art Teacher told me they were taking figure drawing. It is an absorbing study, and the girls use it for their work in one of the other departments of this very busy place. All the pupils were in¬ tensely interested because art les¬ sons are so fascinating. There are some good drawings produced on the third floor of the “Tech”, and the Department is ap¬ preciated by the whole school. . NORMA GLEDHILL. Sewing Room

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54 The Windsor-WalkervUle Technical School Year Book Art Room well-dressed to take her place in the busy industrial world of today, feel at ease, and so succeed. When a girl launches out in the world as a worker, it is often nec¬ essary that she make her own clothes. This she is unable to do if she has not the knowledge of how to set about to do it. By taking a Clothing Course at the Technical School, she acquires this know¬ ledge. Not only must she have the knowledge of how to create, but she must have learned how to choose appropriate clothing for dif¬ ferent occasions, and how to suit her colouring and figure. A girl who is taught to shop in¬ telligently and economically and with an understanding of values, becomes a person of common sense and thrifty habits. The Clothing Course does not stop here; it goes a little further. A girl is taught how to care for the clothes she makes or buys, and other articles of her wardrobe, such as shoes, stockings, coats, etc. Personal cleanliness and grooming are also given due consideration. Thus the Clothing Course is a very complete one of its kind, and girls taking this course have an ex¬ cellent opportunity to become thrif¬ ty Canadian citizens in the true sense of the word. MAUDE HOLDING. -o- — ART — I recently paid a visit to the Art Room of the Windsor-Walkerville Technical School. What a busy place it is! All one hears is the scratching of pencils on paper and the occasional rubbing of an eraser. The room provides a cheerful view and makes an ideal studio. Cunning little cuts adorn the many bulletin boards and some of the pu- oils’ drawings grace the back wall. This display includes samples o f work from First, Second and Third .Year classes.

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56 The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book Switchboard and Dictaphone j Commercial the switchboard We have, recently, installed one of the latest and most modern Switchboards in our school, and to the knowledge of the Bell Telephone Company, this is the first school in America that has ever given lessons on the switchboard. This, we feel, is something to be proud of. The Switchboard has two trunk lines connecting with Central, and eight local stations or telephones throughout the school. It is operated by our day stud¬ ents for several days at a time, from nine o’clock to three, and then for several nights. Help is given, during the day, by the secretaries who have been pre¬ viously instructed by the supervisor of the Bell Telephone Company. In the ev¬ ening, however, the pupils are not help¬ ed, as they are by this time accustomed to the work.. The evening class consists of twenty pupils who are instructed by Mrs. Jess- op, loaned to us by the Bell Telephone Company for these classes. ™ ™ ' ! ,nr - - Y Department ! — Practice Makes Perfect — This practice is obtained by the co-op¬ eration of the day classes with the night classes. Five of the local stations in the school are occupied by day pupils from seven-thirty until nine-thirty o n the evening of the classes, and while the pupils are working on comptometers, typewriters, and the dictaphone, they have the privilege of calling their friends or some other student in the school. These calls, which the pupils put through the Switchboard, give practice to the ev¬ ening class, as well as additional pract¬ ice on the telephone for themselves. It is surprising to note that there are over one hundred switchboards in the Border Cities operated by office assist¬ ants along with their stenography and other duties. Will not, therefore, the graduates of our day and evening classes who have had this switchbord practice, be better prepared to meet the require¬ ments of the business world they will , soon enter ?