McKinley Junior High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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rv1.,,:Lgvtv1fx4?Qg1 v v 'asv Y Printing at McKinley Printing means as much to McKinley as it does to any of the large newspaper companies or corporations. When a teacher wants some- thing printed she takes the job to Mr. Lewis, the printing instructor, and tells him what she wants. Mr. Lewis then says to one of the boys: Jimmie, this job is for Mrs. St. John. I have it all marked up for you. Be careful and line up your rules, or, he might say, Jack, Mr. Brown wants 1000 noon permits printed right away. Lock up the form, cut the stock out of 22Mx28M tan cardboard, then make the job ready and run them oft. Then the boys go ahead and set the jobs up and run them oii on the presses. The constant hum of the presses in the print shop is an indication of the great amount of work turned out by the Printers of McKinley. An example of a good form set up at McKinley was the one that Willie Scruggs, now a graduate, set up some time ago. His job was a two-color one of some blotters with the picture of Benjamin Frank- lin and the calendar with the month of January on it. When Willie Hrst started on this work he had to get a galley fa galley is a metal affair on which the jobs are assembledj and set his job on that. The job being a two-color one, Willie had to set up two formsg that is. the border and cut made one form and the inside made the second form. These two forms had to be run ot? on the press separatelv. once in brown ink and once in black. When the blotters were dry, they were distributed among the teachers and some of the students. The boys try to supply the faculty with new blotters each month, bearing the current month calendar. The teachers appreciate them. Another job quite different from the blotters was one made up for Miss Gamble for the book room. This job consisted of rules frules are brass objects with sharp tops which make the lines you sometimes see on printed jobsq This had to be run through the press twice and fed to a hair-line register because there were two kinds of rules, hori- zontal and vertical. The horizontal rules made one form and the LtLllLaJa..lLill4LLL,.LALL J-

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Wffflffiflfl vertical rules made the other. This is just one example of the hun- dred and one jobs our busy print shop turn out. The Purple and Gold, our an-nual, is another fine example of Mc- Kinley's good printing. All the work on the annual is done by the McKinley print shop, including the printing, embossing, binding and making of the covers. The cuts only are made outside. The print shop is a wonderful asset to the student-body life at Mc- Kinley, co-operating in putting over all the different events and as- sisting in the various activities. Cheerful Service is the slogan of NlcKinley's print shop. The printing classes are also important to our school because print- i-ng is a growing vocation, and many boys learn enough about it to be able to earn their living in a print shop. Many graduates from our school are now holding steady positions in some of Los Angeles' largest printing establishments. lf the teachers and the School Board had their work done by a private printing plant it would cost a large sum. Also if McKinley had The Trail, our school paper, printed by another school or in a pri- vate print shop, it would soon become too great an expense to con- tinue.-Edward Heil, A9, H. R. 43. The Value of Mechanical Drawing One of the ma-ny interesting subjects taught here at McKinley is mechanical drawing. In many cf the junior high schools this subject is not taught, so you see the boys of McKinley Junior High School are very fortunate. All of the engineering courses in senior high schools and colleges require mechanical drawing. lf a person could take an engineering course without mechanical drawing, he would be like an automobile without a steeri-ng gear. The boys who take mechanical drawing learn freehand and me- chanical lettering. After considerable practice, they can letter almost as fast as an ordinary writer can write. Of course some people can letter better tha-n others. They also learn to read blue-prints that are used in the shop. In l.LlLLJ..LcLLLLLLLJLLL L