Luther L Wright High School - Hematite Yearbook (Ironwood, MI)

 - Class of 1912

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Manual Training School, wilh Interior Views, Showing Courses Pursued. 21

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School of Domcftfio Sc ic iicm‘. HE school for tha Domestic Science was Iniilt in 1!M)1, it. ,e'n£ the first exclusive building for such purposes built in Michigan. It cost $12,000, not including the site, and was opened for work in home economics about March 1, 1004. .Miss Jameson, a graduate of Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y. was engaged as the first supervisor. She and one assistant conducted both the sewing and cooking departments for that year. In 1000 the building was found to be too small for the purpose intended, so it was more than doubled in capacity and rc-ecpiippcd under the supervision of Miss Helen Sclnirtz, then supervisor in this department. Since the school was first opened the teaching force has been increased so that four teachers arc now employed. Miss Cora Jiurdick is the present supervisor. The daily average attendance is about 200 girls. Each pupil receives instruction for three hours per week. The course is compulsory and counts as two points towards graduation. The building contains two sewing rooms, fitting room, two kitchens, butler’s pantry, store room, dining room, living room, bed room and bath room. The rooms are simple and attractive, and the girls are taught the care and furnishing of a home. The sewing course includes work for the fifth and sixth grades and the ninth and tenth grades. The cooking course seventh and eighth grades and eleventh and twelfth grades. The fifth and sixth grade work includes hand sewing, darning, mending and simple garment making; seventh and eighth grades, elementary cooking, house keeping and serving; ninth and tenth grades, machine sewing, drafting and designing of patterns, the cutting and making of under-garments, waists and dresses, eleventh and twelfth grades, advanced cooking, household management, home nursing and serving of meals, in which each girl acts as hostess, host, waitress and cook 20



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Manual Training. The manual training work of the iron wood public schools was organized and classes started in January 1908, in special line of work. The manual training school is a three story building and including equipment cost approximately $40,000.00. It is a solid massive structure suggesting in its appearance the substantial character of the work to which it is dedicated. The woodwork of the interior is grained to imitate quartered oak and the maple floors are smooth and solid, in fact every detail of the building and equipment is the best that could be procured. It is heated and ventilated by the most improved modern methods, using both direct and indirect radiation, and the Johnson system of regulating. The first floor is given to foundry work and forging, the heating and ventilating plant, dry kiln, lavatory and supply rooms. The foundry is equipped with a 24 inch Whiting cupola, brace furnace, gas core oven, benches and the necessary flasks, molder, tools, etc., that go to make up a first class foundry equipment. The forge shop is equipped with twelve Buffalo down draft forges, post drill, grinders and the necessary anvils and similar tools used in ordinary forging. The blast is supplied by a 30 inch pressure blower and the smoke and gas drawn out of the room by a 60 inch exhaust fan. Power for the fans is supplied by a ten horse power motor. The second floor is devoted to the machine shop work, turning and mill room, office and locker room. The machine shop is equipped with a great variety of hand and machine tools. There are six motor driven engine lathes, each of a different make, a 22 inch by 6 foot Whitcomb motor driven planer, a 24 inch upright sliding head, motor driven drill, a No. 1 Brown and Sharpe universal motor driven milling machine with all attachments, a Gould and Ebeihard 16 inch crank shaper motor driven, a Cincinnati universal cutter and tool grinder, and numerous small tools and machines. The tool room connected with this is fully equipped with all necessary measuring, marking and testing tools and the check system is employed to facilitate the care of them. The turning and mill room is supplied with twelve Oliver motor head lathes, and Oliver universal motor driven saw bench, an Oliver 36 inch motor driven band saw, and a 24 inch Oliver motor driven planer. The bench work and drawing rooms, wash room, finishing room and tool room are located on the third floor. The bench room is supplied with twenty Toles single benches equipped with two vises and bench tools, and an electrically driven tool grinder. Adjoining the bench room is the tool room, where all general tools, supplies, etc., are stored. The finishing room also adjoins the bench room, and is used for gluing, staining, finishing, and storing work. The drawing room is a well lighted, commodious room equipped with twenty-four Bemis drawing stands, and each stand is supplied with a set of Alteneader drawing instruments and tools necessary for this line of work. The work is compulsory, and all boys from the seventh grade through the high school attend. All the material and supplies are provided by the school and become the property of the pupils at the expiration of the school year. The manual training work is of a very practical nature and each exercise constructed by the pupils has some use. Mr. Elmer E. Miller, a most efficient director, has been in charge of the work ever since the building was opened. 22

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