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

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58 The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book Draughting Room must either make original drawings or work from them. To become versatile in this lang¬ uage requires a good preparation and long experience in the use of drawings. In this field of endeav¬ our as in all worthwhile activities there is no royal road to success, but only by long persistent effort can a student reach the desired goal. At Tech all the fundamental op¬ erations form the groundwork for the advanced drawings later, and those who have been through our course well know how the myster¬ ies of this work have been reveal¬ ed by the first and second year Just how well the third and fourth year courses have prepared students to follow this particular phase of technical work is shown by the success made by a number of our graduates who are now de¬ signers. detailers, or tracers in var¬ ious offices. A fact to be remembered is that drafting is a composite work—one must not only be able to make the drawing, but the more he knows about the process side of the job, the more perfectly can he make the drawing tell the story. This year at the Easter meeting in Toronto of the Ontario Educat¬ ional Association, the Technical section will give prominence to drafting displays. Our school will show work of students, and as well a display of drawings made by gra¬ duates in their present daily occu¬ pations. One set will be of a Jig des’ign for drilling a new Ford car part; another an Electric Welding Mach¬ ine; a ' so an oil burner regulator; and another, the shop details for a Cut. Stone job, and still another the architectural design of the class room building for Assumption Coll¬ ege. This will make an interesting and uninue exhibit—all the product of Tech’s present and former stud¬ ents!

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 57 OUR DICTAPHONE The Dictaphone was purchased by the school in September, 1927. vt present only the Fourth Year Commercial students are able to make use of this new and in¬ teresting modern device, and it is indeed a pleasure to be given the opportunity of becoming acquaint¬ ed with this machine before enter¬ ing the business world which is be¬ coming more and more aware of the efficiency of the Dictaphone. 10 gain successful results, we must Jiave the three machines, one to dictate to, one to reproduce, and one to shave the cylinder after it has been used. The first one, the Dictaphone proper, is used by the teacher. She or he dictates to the machine, and the letters are record¬ ed on a cylinder. Learning how to operate and dictate to this mach¬ ine is very interesting, and it is worth one’s while to know how to do it. The second machine, or the reproducer, is the one mostly used by the pupils. The cylinder is plac¬ ed on the machine, the hearing tubes placed in the ears, and with the foot-control, the letters are typed. One advantage of this ma¬ chine is that you can make it op¬ erate quickly or slowly, loudly or softly. After examining the indica¬ tor (a paper having the same scale marked on it as the machine), you can tell the length of the letter, the number of corrections and what the corrections are. You can, with this information, place the letter ac¬ curately on the page. If by any chance you miss a word, you can move your foot over to the right where there is a reverse pedal and press it until it goes back to re¬ peat the missing word. The letters on these cylinder may be used a number of times, but with constant use they wear off. This is where the shaving machine play s its part. Shaving requires care, but is such a simple process that any boy or girl can undertake it after a few instructions. The ma¬ chine is equipped with a knife of sapphire which shaves the cylinder so that it may be used again and again. By the use of the Dictaphone, the secretary is freed from the nerve- racking strain under which she is put when taking correspondence or data, by the interruption of the tel¬ ephone, and business calls of every description. Shorthand, though still an important factor in commercial life, is being rapidly superseded by its accurate and more efficient ri¬ val—none other than that recent acquisition to our up-to-date school —the Dictaphone. DRAFTING—THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE There are many peoples, as many tongues, and a greater number of dialects. This condition makes in¬ tercourse with individuals of a for¬ eign land difficult. One language, however, is univ¬ ersal and readily understood by all, and this is the graphic language in which we convey our ideas by drawings. The making of drawings is call¬ ed Drafting. Naturally there are many kinds of Drafting since there are many industries and operations involved in the production of the articles which are commonplace to¬ day. Most people who are engaged in these processes sooner or later

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The Windsor-WalkerviUe Technical School Year Book 50 f Form News ! - i FORM NEWS — STAFF Jth Form Editor — Sarah Hughes 04 3rd Form Editor — Joe Morrison C3B 2nd Form Editor — Agnes Waide C2B 1st Form Editor — Morris Duffy T1A Form Reporters 0 Spec. Cera Center, Wyatt Morillo C4 Helen Garfat, Sarah Hughes C3A Hazel Dawson, Elsie Roach C3B Cecile Tschirhart, Joe Morrison C3C Nellie Vesey, Doris Leggatt C2A Pamela Todd, Doris Payne C2B Agnes Waide, Reta Gomer C2D Grace Rorison, Loraine Stanton C2E Jennie Maleyko, Cyril Edwards CIA Verda Smith, Dorothy Browning C1B Irene Bell, Annie Rollo C1C Fred Hames, Lyle Jones ClD Veronica Eagen, Phyllis Gignac C1E Evelyn Whitesell, Emma Monk C1F Helen Semak, Muriel Brand JTl George Hastie, Alex Todd JT2 Beulah Lesperance, Edward Giles T4 Angus Latimer T3A Norma Gledhill, Louis Beren T3B Ira Wilkins, Frank Hall T2A William Gibb, George Burton T2B Vaughan Courier, Robert Padgett T1A Morris Duffy, Noah Reaume TIB Andrew Fraser. John Owen TIC George Geddes, Kenneth Thorn T1D Fred Burkhart, John McNeill TIE Lucille Ashley, Fred Lazurek - 0 - THE FOURTH FORM We, ot the fourth form, have come back to snatch another year of school life in “Dear Old Tech”. Last year, at this time, all the pupils in the fourth form were look¬ ing forward to graduation from the three year course. Now some of us are looking forward to fourth year graduation while others are looking forward to working in an office. Of course, all of third form last year are not in fourth this year, but I am sure some of them would like nothing better than to come back to “Tech” again. In our course this year, a dict¬ aphone and switchboard have been added to our already numerous business appliances. Every pupil learns how to use them ,so that he will be efficient and expert in the use of them when “work in the of¬ fice” begins. This year, as in other years, fourth form has proved successful, as the pupils have been given an opportunity to do many things they cou’d not do in their busier third year. SARAH HUGHES, Commercial 4. -o- COMMERCIAL SPECIAL “Praise Our Tech.” Praise your school, praise your friend; Praise the Tech that you attend. Praise the home in which you’re dwellin ' Praise the game for which you’re yell¬ ing. Praise the students all about you; They can’t get along without you. But success will sooner find them. If they have the Tech behind them. Praise for every forward movement; Praise for every slight improvement. Praise our shorthand, praise our typing, Praise the man that teaches writing. Please don’t be a ruthless Knocker; Please don’t be a progress blocker. If you’d make our Tech much better. Praise it to the highest letter. AUDREY DAVIS.