Phoenixville High School - Phoenix Yearbook (Phoenixville, PA)

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Fifty-eight Industrial Course I The industrial course is made up of the following subjects: English, history, mechanical drawing, shop, mathematics. English was studied for a half year for three years. Writing letters and advertisements and applying for jobs are stressed. History is then studied for three half-year periods. Democracy, gov- ernment, conditions of the world to the present time, strikes, and unions are some of the important phases. Mechanical drawing is made up of making blueprints, house plans, plans for objects and other things of great importance. Shop work was had by the group for four years during which time were made bookcase for library, scenery for plays of all sorts, exercises, House, building is in progress. Work is being done on the finishing parts: sashes, doors. Cleaning chairs for school, making bleachers for games, and ping-pong table for tournaments for the borough and school, preparing and other objects of importance are a part of the work. Mathematics was studied for two half-years. This study included the following items of importance: algebra, trigonometry, mathematics, square roots, cube roots, areas, volumes, perimeter, squares, fractions addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, factoring, formulas, triangles, rec- tangles, octogans, trapoziods. Health classes were possible only for one year in ninth grade. Shop When a boy enters metal shop, he is given a chisel, hammer, and block. He must chip all six sides of the block, and then he is given a file with which to smooth and square all sides of the block perfectly. This job will take the average boy about six weeks. After the boy has his block finished he makes his inside and outside calipers. Then he makes his round and square hammers, parallel clamps, and small tap and die wrench. This work will be finished the first year. The following years he can make any outside things which he wishes to make. After he is familiar with the machinery in the shop, he can do more diliicult jobs, such as making taps, dies, and different wrenches. Some boys made miniature airplane motors, other boys overhauled tractors and car motors. The work helped a few boys to secure outside jobs after school. The student finds metal shop very interesting and educational. The Print Shop In the print shop much work is done every day. Tickets for dances, concerts, and plays are printed. Programs for concerts, plays, junior high operettas, and dance cards are also printed. Class day and commencement tickets and programs are made in the print shop. At the present there are six printers in the print shop: four seniors and two juniors. The four sen- iors are Robert Mayo, Robert Sech, Robert Wilson, and Lawrence Detwil- er. The two juniors are Nicholas Krill and Michael Bilinski. During the year Elmer G. Clayton, instructor of printing, had the seniors make linoleum cuts of some object.

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The Curtis Publishing Con test The annual Curtis Publishing contest, which was sponsored by the senior class, was held October 13 to October 27. Louise Pollock, a junior, sold seven dollars worth of subscriptions, thereby, leading the magazine contest. The senior class offered to the highest seller of subscriptions of each day a ticket to the Villanova-Temple football game. Those who received tickets for the game were Frank Deger, Louise Pollock, Marian Fegley, Dorothy Shoemaker, Mary Ella Trunk, Mary Elizabeth Voorhees, and Robert Woodruff. Individual prizes were awarded to those who sold subscriptions for the company. The Crowell Magazine Contest The Crowell magazine contest, sponsored by the seniors for the finan- cing of their class affairs, was started on October 13. Representative Adams, of the Crowell Publishing Company, spoke to the school, offering forty-two different prizes for high sellers. AS a special prize he offered a seven jewel watch to the boy or girl in P. H. S. who sold the most American Magazines at the end of the con- test. The contest ended on October 27 with Mary Ella Trunk, a junior leading the contest. Charles Souch, a senior, received the wrist Watch. 1 Lyceum Programs During the 1938-'39 semesters, the senior high school students were entertained by thirteen outstanding lyceum numbers. Edwin M. Dill, known as The Potter, headed the list with a program of clay modeling, on Monday, October 10. The Little Theatre Workshop was featured Monday, October 31. Monday, November 14, brought the Still's Circus Marionettesf' Frederic White, Wednesday, November 23, presented A Pictorial Journal Around the World. Educational Motion Pictures, were shown, free of charge, on Thurs- day, December 1, at senior high assembly. The new semester was started off by the Pollard Players, January 3. The Croatian Tamburitza Ensemble, a musical group, entertained the students Monday morning, January 16. E. C. Jones presented an interesting electrical program Thursday, January 2. Andrew Brennan, a magician, gave a performance Friday morning, March 10. Characterizations by Miss Jessie Raye Taylor were presented Tues- day, April 11. A talk by Colonel Washington Holidays, Thursday, May 4, brought to a close the lyceums for this year. Fifty

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Mechanical Drawing Mechanical drawing is the written language of engineers and men in- volved in construction work. It includes all drawings made with the aid of drawing instruments. The appeal of mechanical drawing to many boys in high school is seen by the fact that about 57 percent of the boys elect that subject. Several boys are re-drawing the plans of the Athol bridge in Massa- chusetts. This bridge spans a railroad. They secured the plans from the Bethlehem Steel Company. Any boy who is above the average and desires to make something fur- ther, may construct the plans in school. More items have been placed on the drawing list, such as parallel per- spective and angular perspective. Much more inking is being done than in previous years. Howard Moore is a new instructor this year, taking the place of Henry Kulp. Airplane Club The Phoenixville Skyriders sponsored by Anthony Yuknavich, a teach- er in Junior high school, has twenty-five members and is a member of the P. M. A. A., better known as Philadelphia Model Airplane Association. The club has a meeting every Monday night at the Company B Arm- ory. Meets are held among the members to see who is the best model builder. Charles Souch usually wins these meets. The club specializes in building ultra-modern model airplanes covered with a very light, thin, and transparent covering called microfilm. This microfilm is ten times light- er than tissue paper. Six contestants from Phoenixville entered the final champion meet held at Convention Hall of Philadelphia on Saturday, April 29. Vincent Freeman '39 took a second place in the meet and Charles Souch '39 took a fourth in the same meet. Only three of the boys go to high school, and all three are seniors: Charles Souch, Vincent Freeman, and Joseph Kassel. The club rates third among all other clubs that belong to the P. M. A. A. The Refreshment Stand This year the refreshment stand at Washington field had a fairly suc- cessful season. A few much needed improvements were added, one being a new stand in addition to those already there. This greatly relieved the congestion between playing periods, each stand being given to one type of refreshment only. Near the end of the season a new plan, that of taking the refreshments through the grandstands, was tried and found to be very successful. A large committee that worked together very well consisted of the following: Anna Campbell, Pauline Kabatt, Anna Mansur, Elva Newhauser, Geraldine Yocum, Anna Mae March, Betty Jane Smith, Amy Wilson, Earla Mae Morris, Marian Fegley, Janet Hecht, Richard Bormann, Gordon Phillips, Charles Souch, Robert Jacobs, Donald Geiger, Paul Fry, Richard Soulen, and Harold McDaniel. Richard Bormann and Harold McDaniel were co-chairmen. Fifty