Moberly Area Community College - Mojuco Yearbook (Moberly, MO)

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IllllNSl SHHP At the ti1ne when most students desert the sacred precincts of dear ole M. J. C. for the more social at- mosphere of Burton's, Koester's, or the Playmore, class Work is just be- ginning for some workers in the Defense Shop, which operates on a 23-hour-a-day basis. Supervisor of the Denfense Shop is Mr. Paul E. Evans, who made history in Moberly schools by in- augurating the first defense class taught in the city. This class met for the first time March 17, 1941, in the junior High School building, where Mr. Evans was then instructor in industrial arts. VVhen the Moberly Board of Educa- tion provided shop room in the Jun- ior College and when the equipment furnished by the state Vocational Education Department was install- ed, Mr. Evans conducted the first defense class in the Junior College shop june 223, 1941. Since that date, 70 college stud- ents have been instructed in draft- ing and all types of metal and lathe work. In addition, 200 non-college men, mostly from central and north- east Missouri, from Clark County to the Arkansas line. have been trained or are being trained in metal and lathe work, welding, and auto- motive mechanics. Men who have completed this Work have been placed in defense industries from the Lockheed plant in Burbank, Cali- fornia, to plants in Gary, Indiana. Fifty Workers have been employed by one airplane factory alone. In addition to the 315,000 worth of equipment which was the initial investment, new and improved equipment and tools are constantly being added to keep the shop up to date. The latest develop1nent of the program has been the installation of a course to train women for de- fense industries. At the request of the state department and industrial- ists, Mr. Evans is teaching about fifteen girls how to read blueprints and precision gauges, h-ow to check finished work, and how to do filing and burring. VVhen this class met for the first time February 25, 19'-425, it was the second class of its type to be organized in the state. Sponsored by the Board of Edu- cation, equipped and directed by the State Vocational Department, sup- ervised by Mr. Evans, staffed by an instructional force of six men from Moberly trades and industries, the Defense Shop seems to fulfill the prophesy made by Superintend- ent Beach vvhen he said last April that it marked the beginning of permanent trades and industry classes in local schools . FORTY -THREE

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Mr. Giles, instructor, teaching acetylene Welding. Are congratulations in order, Mr. Lewellen? Bench metal workers very busy. Lathe Work seems interesting, doesn't it? Why the funny look, Beezer? Isn't the toolroom going just right? In case you didn't know, it's automobile motor tune-up machines What! More lathe Work? FORTY-TWO i

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