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

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Interior Views of the Manual Training School. 23

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SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE. The school of Domestic Science was built in 1904. It was the first building in Michigan to be erected exclusively for this purpose. T heschool was open for work about the 1st of March, of the same year. The first superintendent of the Domestic Science work was Miss Jameson, a graduate of Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Jameson and one assistant conducted both the sewing and cooking departments during the first year’s work. In 1 909 the building was enlarged and the size of the school was almost doubled. As the building now stands, it contains on the upper floor two large kitchens, a living room, a bed room, a bathroom, and two butlers pantries, and on the lower floor, three sewing rooms, a fitting room, a supply room and an office. Miss Stetson, a graduate of Pratt Institute, had charge of the work from September, 1904, to June, 1908. Miss Schurtz, a graduate of Stout Institute had charge of the work in 1909 and 1910. Miss Cora Burdick, a graduate of Stout Institute, had charge of the building since 1910, and four other teachers are employed in the various departments. The courses have been so arranged that any girl going through high school, o partly through, will have enjoyed the benefits of both the sewing and cooking departments. During the fifth and sixth grades, girls are taught hand sewing, mending of all kinds, and the making of simple garments. Girls of the seventh and eighth grades are taught elementary cooking, something of the study of foods and food values, and the general care of a house. During the ninth and tenth grades, the girls continue their training in sewing, taking advanced in sewing, and fitting. The cooking course is completed in the eleventh and twelfth grades. The training of these last two years comprises advanced cooking, household management, and serving of meals. The course in serving is very practical, each girl having a chance to be hostess, host, waitress and cook at different times and entertaining different guests. Throughout all the Domestic Science course the work has been designed and laid out with a view to the greatest practicability, so that any girl graduating from the Ironwood High school who has taken this course in Domestic Science will be well versed in the fundamental principles of good housekeeping, and able to enter a home and manage it in the way it should be managed. 22

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MANUAL TRAINING. Manual Training has been a regular course in the public schools of Ironwood since the year 1908 when regular work was begun from the eighth grade up. During the last two years the boys of the sixth and seventh grades have been instructed in the simpler courses. The Manual Training course consists of bench work, cabinet-making, woodturning, patternmaking, foundry work, machine shop work, and blacksmithing. 1 he Manual Training building is a large two-story structure containing numerous rooms for the different kinds of work. The basement is used for foundry work and blacksmithing. The equipment is of the best kind to insure satisfactory work. In the foundry room which is on the right are materials for casting and molding. In one corner is a cupola that is used for the melting of iron when casting. The room across is the forge-room. 1 his room is equipped with forges and anvils for blacksmith work. The forges are provided with a very convenient blast and exhaust system. Besides these rooms there are also several storerooms and a boiler room. On the second floor are the machine shop and the wood-turning rooms. The machine shop contains six large lathes for metal turning, a planer, a milling machine, a shaper, two drills, a saw, and two grinders. All these machines are run by electric power. This room also has a tool-cage where all tools are kept. A check system is used to keep track of all tools given out. Time and job-cars on which each is given the time and cost for doing a certain job have been used this year for the first time. The wood-turning room which is right across from the machine shop is larger than the latter. There are eighteen wood-turning lathes in this room to each of which is attached a work bench with all necessary tools for carpenter work and cabinet-making. The larger pieces of machinery in the room are saws and planers. The upper floor is used for bench work and mechanical drawing. 1 he bench-work room has a set of twenty-two work-benches each with the necessary tools. The drawing room is larger and is equipped with twenty-four desks each containing a drawing set. The courses in Manual Training are divided according to the grades beginning with the sixth grade. The bench or carpenter-work is begun in the sixth grade and continued through the eighth. The ninth grade boys spend a semester at cabinet-making and one at wood-turning and the tenth grade boys have wood-turning one semester and foundry work the next. The machine shop and blacksmith work are also divided in the same way. The drawing classes are from the seventh grade up, each successive grade taking a more advanced course. 21