Muskegon Heights High School - Oaks Yearbook (Muskegon Heights, MI)

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108 THE WOODWORK Mitchell Kobierski He who fears not slivers, sharp knives, and whirring saws will always have an opportunity to earn a living long as there is a stick of wood left 3.5 in this world of ours. However, there is just one requisite: that whoever is to earn his living this way should first be able to call himself a true wood- worker. NVoodwork is taught in our school with the idea that no work is too dif- ficult for the students to do. In the first year, the student is taught how to use fundamental hand tools. He is required to make simple articles, at first, in which the use of hand tools prescribed are needed. The first step is to present a plan of the work within given specifications, then make an esti- mate of the cost of the material. The teacher, Mr. Wfilliam Dingler, who succeeded Nr. S. E. Strand, helps the students with their plans and esti- mates, provides them with wood. and deducts the cost of material from their shop tickets. The estimate is then put on a project card and kept in File to Left to Right: Meyers, Spence, Seymour, Nagle, W OAKS Watch out for your thumb, boys! be graded when the work is completed. In second year of woodwork, lathe work is begun. The student is shown how to operate a lathe, and studies its various uses. During the following year, the student is taught the intri- cacies of cabinet-making. Some of the articles require from a few weeks to several months for completion. Stu- dents help one another cheerfully. Mr. Dingler gladly helps them all. In the fourth or Senior year, a more extensive study of woodworking ma- chines is ushered in. The study is combined with more individual in- struction by the teacher. Many sen- iors are able to produce very finished products, many of which have a pro- fessional appearance. The woodwork room itself is well lighted and has many windows on the east side. Near the windows are Eve four-foot lathes with a six-foot lathe in the rear. A 36-inch band saw, joiner, and trimmer are on the left side. The work is done. on 25 sturdy tables. alters tat hand sawb, Hradsky tin cornerb, Mr. S. E. Strand, Qnstructor whenjhe pi-cture was takenl. Muckey, Walker tin foregroundj, Race, Hanis iwiih electric drillb, Buck, Farwig tbehind Buck and under Iightb, Coburn, Cooper tat Iathei.

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THE OAKS 107 Half a stick, half a stick . . . onward! Master printers are made, not liU1'11. Here is a scene of the composing room where the students are converted into printers. Classes Fill this room every hour of the day, and with each class comes a group of boys all eager to set type and do other jobs which will en- able them to become first-class print- ers in the future. Some boys are just beginners but under the direction of Mr. C. F. Koehn they soon learn the fundamentals of good printing. Others who have had more experience take over the harder tasks sent to the print shop. The beginners have job sheets on which are planned certain type jobs to be set-up. Each job takes about a week to set-up. In these jobs the students are confronted with many of the primary problems of printing. In this room almost all of the high school printed work is set-up and later it goes to the press room to be run off. This printing consists of pro- PRINTING Elfurd Pedler grams, posters, blanks, tardy slips and many other printed forms. The printing matter is all hand set, letter for letter, and is a long exacting job as one can readily see. Skill is required to make some lines lit. The type is lirst set in a composing stick and from this it is transferred to a galley. The type is then put into a chase and locked. The chase is then mounted on the clam-shell motion press and impressions are taken from the mounted type. The composing room adjoins the press room. Those desk-like cabinets near which the boys are standing are the job case cabinets. The job cases contain the type with a space for every letter. These boys are either setting- up type to be run on the press or are throwing type back into the cases. In this room there is also a stapler for binding forms and pamphlets. The school paper is set-up and printed in this room with the whole round of classes doing their part. Back Cases, Left to Right: A. Anderson, Engle, Mr. Koehn. instructor: Sienkiewicz, Kaiser' tfacing rear wallj, . Reed, Tezeski thiddenh, Leland Pitcher tseated at far righti Middle Cases, Left to Right: D. DeYoung thalf-hidden, facing rearb, A. Snonaas, W. Hansen tfacing rearj, Matuz. Groeneveld, H. Vanderwest, Peter Pavliek, Kellogg thiddeni. Front Cases, Left to Right: Luick, D. Peterson, D. Dare tarm showing, far righti. .xg l ...L

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THE OAKS 109 I I Ii' If ll'l 'll If x i 1 X 4 '-59' Front Tables, Left tn Right: Lemke, Tieiema, Hemphill, Snaniolo, Pedler, Raulin, Poulin, Sircher, Leech. Standing: Mr. Courtright. instructor: Erickson, Nelson. Nill. Back Row, Seated. Left to Right: D. Dare. LeNore, Pastucha. MECHANICAL DRAWING A triangle and T-square are not unfamiliar. Qne of the most important branches of the manual arts work in Muskegon Heights High School is mechanical drawing. This subject is divided into three principal parts, namely: mechan- ical design, sheet metal drafting, and architectural drawing. The drawing department is under the supervision of Mr. A. M. Courtright, who is well qualified for the position, holding a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University and a bachelor of science Qin engineeringj degree from the Uni- versity of Michigan. Mr. Courtright has been here many years and also had previous practical experience in engi- neering with the General Electric Company. Students in drawing learn to read blueprints, do objective drawings, and make tracings and blueprints. VVhen a freshman enters the drawing depart- ment, he studies elementary drafting, comprising a study of various automo- tive parts and details of bench and drill-press vises. Bill Strudwick-Albert Lemke During the third semester, he stud- ies furniture design. In the fourth semester, he learns to portray develop- ments and intersections of sheet metal projects. During the fifth and sixth semesters, he is required to draw var- ious forms of gears and other machine parts. A student has a choice, in the hfth semester, of machine or architec- tural drawing. In architectural draw- ing, he learns the nomenclature of frame buldings, copying tails, and other elements. of small de- courses in- Advance architecture clude the drawing of plans for a Eve- room bungalow, consisting of eleven plates showing construction of cornice and sill, with four plates showing out- side elevations, details of front en- trance, cellar stairs, kitchen and cup- board, and specifications. The study of common architectural styles and free-hand sketching is next, concluded by study of a bank building design.