Okemos High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Okemos, MI)

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Industrial Arts, Agriculture Departments Teach Senior Jeff Ashley and junior Dave Williams attach truck to a tractor in preparation for planting wheat. Boh Eash, junior, and Bruce Eash. freshman, pot poinsetta plants. Plant-potting is a fall agriculture activity. Freshman Jim Coe uses the heat treat furnace in shop. 20

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lonor Society 2. I. Parents look over material distributed by speaker. 2. Speaker rests between sessions. 3. Students listen attentively to college prospects. 4. I)r. Cameron iMmb discusses the advantages of attending Western Michigan. 5. Dr. Arnold L. Form. Central Michigan University representative, explains CMU application policies. 19

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Basic Manual Skills It is unfortunate that although most Okemos kindergarteners are well-informed about the OHS agriculture department, few high school students are. From their tours of the ag building, the children learn that ag students “do everything that most farmers do and more than some.” The 44 boys raise sheep, rabbits, hogs, chickens and bees. Chicken eggs and honey are sold for a profit, as are wheat and main crop com. All aspects of farming are handled by the boys. Even hay for the sheep is grown in a hayfield, part of the 25 acres of farmland utilized by the department. The school owns three tractors, and ag students include with crop growing buying, repairing and selling tractors. An orchard yields pears, apples and raspberries, while eight to ten gallons of syrup are tapped annually from the three-acre school wood. Many agriculture students belong to FFA, Future Farmers of America, sponsored by ag instructor Mr. Roland Cook. The club continues school agriculture, joins county and regional ag organizations and participates in farming activities. The industrial arts department is also relatively unknown, especially to girls, but offers skills applicable to life or a job. According to industrial arts teacher Mr. Edward Kapella, the general purpose of the department is to “make muscles obey an idea in mind.” Industrial Arts I, a general shop course; Industrial Arts II, emphasizing woodworking; general metals; Drafting I; and Drafting II are offered by the department. Each class consists of about 24 members. The shop is well-equipped, owning heat treat and crucible furnaces, 24-inch capacity and electric hand shears, two large benders, two metal lathes, an electric hand saw and a box and pan brake. Operating a hand saw daring fourth hour shop is freshman Brian Clifford. Freshman John Deitrieh practices drafting for the drafting unit in Industrial Arts I. wm