Minneapolis Vocational High School - Tradewind Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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bring to that occupation Imagination is needed Students in the Commercial Art course work with line, shape, form, color, and texture. The student is taught the fundamental principles of photography, advertising design, industrial design, illustration design, and fashion design and illustration. The course is planned to develop the ability to think inventively; to acquire the major skills and techniques which artists use; and to attain an understanding of art from the past to the present day. Mr. Kenneth L. Thompson. Co-ordinator for Com-mcrcal Art: Metal Art: Architectural Drafting: Printing and Upholstering. Paris Olivera is designing a ring and Pat Regentx is working on a pin while Mr. Reed looks on. Admirinq a display made by one of the Commercial Art students are Miss Irene Roskilly, Marilyn Plaza, and Vicky Pedersen. Skill is needl'd Metal Arts is a specialized fieltl dealing with jewelry and silversm ithing. Some of the techniques learned in this course are soldering, sawing, filing, centrifugal casting, enameling. stone cutting and polishing, chasing, stone setting, and electroplating. The student is also given basic understanding and background in design.

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. . , in job or hobby . . . Mr. Rodney Van Sickle directs Jack Funk ond Melvin Wolter in designing the calibration of a power amplifier. Vocational boasts an 18-month Electronics Course designed to prepare workers for the electronics industry. It is not, however, intended to prepare radio and television servicemen. Some of the areas of electronics covered by this course arc industrial controls, synchros and servo-mechanisms, computors, radar, and telemetering. AMIC DEMONSTRATOR D Rod Basham and Ron Schwerman work on electronic equipment. Mr. Vernon Swenson teaches this course. Expanding Field in Electronics Vocational has an industry-approved Radio-Television course. Instruction covers basic-areas in electricity, shop practices, radio, electronics. advanced radio theory, and servicing, television theory, and servicing of plain and colored televisions. This background provides a firm basis for employment in any field of electronics.

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the true craftsman spirit Mr. Joe Budish (standing) seems pleased about drawing board plans of (from left) Don Eyrich. Ron Butterfield and James Lulcach. Patience is needed Architectural Drafting is the designing and drawing of plans for buildings. Students learn how to use the tools necessary in drawing such plans. Various building materials and methods of construction arc studied and used . . . Printing consists of bookbinding, letterpress work, offset printing and job shop printing . . . Students in Upholstery arc trained in the uses of tools anil equipment while upholstering furniture. A thorough knowledge of fabrics and supplies develops skill and creative ability. Mr. Frederick Rodde (left) superv scs the work of George Lanhart and Clifford Abbott. Mr. Robert Hanson stands by as William Sates takes finished copies out of the machine. The school newspaper. The CRAFTSMAN, is published in Mr. Hansons classes. C 21