Mishawaka High School - Miskodeed Yearbook (Mishawaka, IN)

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T-l l -A PRESSES ROLL as print shop students work industriously to set order to have Alltolds ready for subscribers on Friday. Boys up the type received on Tuesday morning from South Bend in also run off various school card forms. students manipulate typewriters, presses Boys and girls labored industriously to train for future jobs in industry and business. ln the shops machinists turned down steel on lathes to make punches, c-clamps, and scribers. Whirling saws and sanders put finishing touches on wood shop projects: lamps, desks, picture frames. Sick radios, irons, and coffeemakers were doctored in the electric shop. Young printers ran off Mi-Hi Guides and teachers' directories. Novice drafts- men drew views of 3-D objects: blocks, gears, and micrometer stop gauges. Future architects built model houses out of balsa wood. Preparing students for jobs was the aim of the business education department. Girls pounded typewriters at rates up to 80 words a minute, flip- ping their pages over quickly on ten-minute writ- ings. Trying to make their hastily scribbled short- hand notes legible, future secretaries took dictation at 80 to l2O words per minuteg exasperated book- keepers hunted hours for lO-cent errors and found fourth grade addition Caused more trouble than The SHAPING METAL on vertical mill for various projects gives bogkkeepingu vocational students an idea of future work they may do.

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l Clviv POT HOOKS are written on board in kitchen by shorthand students. Crowded conditions forced class to meet in foods lab. That Nlishciwcikci Look Using their hands and minds, industrious rf 'L ' l 1' E ' ' 3 rl,-Hr' .HJ V if F ,- g.,L.':,,, 1-lk ' 'P' fur' . ' l ',-Jfuaggaizzg - L QUENCHING a hot V-block, Jerry Kelly douses iron in cold water to harden block in heat treating process. I2 gw, DICTAPHONE, mimeograph, and various business machines help girls obtain skills and experience for future office worlc

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l s .s--T...,.,.s..,.........1 FIRST AID students in Mr. Wukovits' health class practice respiration. lvlemorizing bones and blood types and learning what he preaches: everyone should be able to give artificial how to treat snake bites add variety to class. That Nlishciwcikci Look Special services make school happier, HUNGRY CAVEKIDS give hurried lunch orders to eight cafe- teria cooks. In an average day 825 students eat here. The Asian flu created havoc with the usual healthy look at MHS. At the peak of the epidemic, 700 students with high temperatures and aching backs stayed home, When the flu was not rampant, Nurse Gladys Conant gave tests for hearing, vision, and tuberculosis and treated minor ailments. ln health classes students practiced applying tourni- quets and administering first aid to each other. It was safety first at MHS. Fire drills inter- rupted classes to prevent panic in case of the real thing, and students discovered that the up and down stairways were the fastest and safest way to regulate traffic. Counselors recommended courses and solved problems for perplexed teenagers. To help fresh- men and sophomores decide on future occupations, the guidance department tested their mental ability, reading skills, and aptitudes. New this year were the state tests for freshmen to determine whether or not they had special skills in math and science.