Maple Avenue Evening High School - Progress Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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expressed the utmost satisfaction with their Work and have requested that they be given first chance Whenever others graduate. I Appended is a sample of many letters received by this department at- testing to the genuine quality of the instruction given: Acetylene Welding Class , HUNTER NICHOLSON Welding Contractor 209 Terminal Sales Bldg. Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 28, 1923. Mr. D. G. Davies, Welding Instructor, Maple Avenue Evening High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Q Dear Sir:- I take great pleasure in recommending the acetylene welding class of the Maple Avenue School to anyone who desires to learn acetylene Welding. The men who have learned to weld at your school and who have come under my observation, have made good. I think anyone who wishes to learn welding of all metals and who will attend your classes with a determination to learn, will obtain an education that will fit him to hold a position in any branch of the welding industry. Hoping for your continued success, I remain, Yours truly, HUNTER NICHOLSON. Page Fifty-two H7777

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Gxy-Acetylene Weding and Cutting i One of the courses offered in the Maple Avenue School that has been in popular demand is that of Welding and Cutting by oxygen-acetylene process. Classes in this branch of the mietal industry are conducted every night in the week and -are always filled to capacity. During recent years this type of welding has supplanted the more la- borious form of hammer welding formerly used. Not only does it perform the function of the former method but it is used to advantage in joining plates and pipe sections where rivets were formerly employed. Like all advanced systems of operation, this method of cutting and welding makes a much better job than the old and is immeasurably faster. Another important feature is that almost all kinds of metal can be treated and difficult, partially hidden places can be repaired that would be abso- lutely impossible of treatment in the old way. The units most in demand in the school are those in steel, cast iron and aluminum. Many of the students have taken the course in order to qualify as pipe-line cutters and Welders largely employedby the oil and pipeline transportation companies. The average man who has some knowledge of metals can qualify in the unit of pipe and steel welding in twenty weeks-two hours per evening- five evenings per week. The instruction is given in both theory and prac- tice. ' Wages for pipe-line welders range from 56.60 to 310.00 per day. A About 2571 of the men who have been served in this department have attended for instruction in torch operation alone while another 25W have wanted the work pertaining to their particular lines of commercial Weld- ing. The remaining 50Z, are men who want to learn steel and pipe-line welding owing to extraordinary expansion in the development of public utilities throughout the state and the ever-increasing operations in oil. Best evidence of the thoroughness and practicability of the instruction given may be found in the fact that many of the large contractors and shop owners who have employed graduates from this department have X Page Fifty-one 3 .

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g Vocational Mechanicalf Drawing By AUGUSLI' FLAM ' A ' Head of Mechanical Drawing Dept. A HE students in Mechanical Drawing in Maple Avenue Evening High School are drawn from a number of industries. An average class of fifteen students one term represented no less than twelve different occupations. Store clerks, carpenters, machinists, toolmakers, steam fit- ters, electricians, and salesmen are just a few to indicate the wide variety of experience brought to the work. I As a rule students seldom expect to enter the profession of drafting, although some have done so. When questioned as to what they expected the course in Mechanical Drawing to give them, the answers have' been found as varied as interesting. One man is desirous of being able to put his inventions on paper 5 another, so that he may be able to read blue prints, a third, so that he may attain a position of greater responsibility in his own line of work, a fourth brings in a specific problem from his own job. One prospective student asked if he could be prepared within three or four weeks for an opening in a drafting room which he knew existed. Men who spend daily from eight to ten hours and often longer at their work and then are willing to go to school for several hours more in the evening, must surely have something in their makeup worthy of recogni- tion. The aim of the Mechanical Drawing Course is to give the student as nearly as possible what he most requires, and that which will be of great- est assistance to him in his efforts to round himself out into an expert in the particular line of work he is engaged in. The equipment of the school has been very limited, but the work has been mapped out so that a student enteringican begin without any more tools and equipment than the school can give him. After the first three or four evenings he can generally decide whether he likes the work and the instructor well enough to continue, and is then expected to provide his own . Page ,Fifty-three