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

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■ MR. STANLEY FROST AO: Department Head: Cabinet Making and Furniture Design; Audio Visual Equipment: Stage Crew. Cabinet and Pattern Making, Upholstery, Shoe Repair Although it is not a requisite, thoro aro no girls registered in Cabinet Making, Pattorn Making, Upholstering or Shoo Repair! In all tour shops students aro taught tho uso and care of equipment, and the various techniques used in their trades. Visitors to Pattern Making will see students designing in wood, metal and plastic. Throe years of concentrated and practical experience oquip a student for employment in shops that specialize in tho manufacture of patterns. Cabinet Making? . . . Blue prints, planers, jointors, routors, senders . . . You name it, they have it! Those boys keep things buzzing on first floor. The Upholstering Department follows a technical throe years whero mechanical and art abilities are stressod. Preparation for becoming good shoe repair mon and managing or working in a shop is the design of tho Shoe Repair Department. Tho boys serve tho public by repairing and rebuilding shoes in a shop equipped with the most modorn machinery. When wo observe our 100th anniversary, will these be all-girl shops? MR. EARL WEISNER: Department Head. Shoo Repair. MR. FREDERICK RODDE: Upholstering. MR. JOHN PEYLA: Cabinet MR. ORVAL FASTE: Pattern Making. Making. MR. ERICH P. KOESTER: Cabinet Making Right: MARCH OF DIMES toenagert thine the shoot of Roger Kortx and Jerry King, while looking on are instructor John Peyla and Union-Sponsor H. F. Korti. Shiners are Cassie Kurx and Joe Vogel, and the shoo shine box it one of a 100 foot rests used in a city-wide drive. 22

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MRS. ELSIE KWAKKERNAAT Choir; Music. Music The often-heard lines of Vocational's school song go back more than forty yoars. Mr. Fernald Painter, tho author, was a member of the faculty as an English teacher between 1921 and 1929. The melody was arranged by Mrs. Evelyn Dixon, Neodlo Arts teachor, and Miss Ellen Perkins of tho Music Department. MR. HENRY ARENT Bond; Pa Hern mo king; Coots and Suits. ENTERTAINMENT of Mrs. Kwakkornaafs choir is provided by Miss Soonjo Shinn, daughter of the deon of the University of Korea. Vocational has music from top to bottom. Anyone who happens to be strolling past Room 405 around 7:30 A.M. may hear the choir tuning up. If band music is the preference, the next stop would bo down in the basement. Choir class is a sophomore subject, and tho all-school choir is Mrs. Kwakkernaat’s homeroom. Tho band is also an all-school organization, meeting third hour. Both groups get together during the spring to present an auditorium program for which they propare during the school year. REALLY SWINGING” at ono of tho auditorium programs is Mr. Aront and his band of music makers. 21

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MR. FRANZ SJOWAll: Department Heed Aviation Mechanic ; Staff Council; Award Committee. Auto Mechanics and Aviation MR. FERAZ MEYER: Department Head Auto Mechanic ; Staff Council. MR. FERAZ MEYER give David Baker a hard time in The Cate of the Mitting Valve Spring. In Auto Mechanic students become qualified to enter employment in service qarages or dealerships. The course includes repair and rebuilding of engines and training in customer relation and shop-rocords systems. This year Aviation Mechanics is open to post-grad studonts only. The courso covers all aspects of aircraft repair from engine to fusilage and instrument repair. MR. SIDNEY FLADEIAND: Aviation. MR. GEORGE ENGDAHl: Auto Mechanics: Opan Houto Committo . MR. JAMES HINSHAW: Auto Mechanics: Civil Defanto Committee.