Roosevelt High School - Round Up Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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ROUND-UP -3- 1927 V DIVISION OF DRAWING Mechanical Drawing is required in all Smith-Hughes Vocational courses, including auto mechanics, auto electrics, industrial electricity, carpentry, and cabinet making, and is listed in the various courses as applied drawing. All students who intend to enter any of the building trades of Architectural Engineering should spend at least two semesters in architectural drawing. It is taught by Mr. Johnston and Mr. Fellows. Last semester a new course was inaugurated in Map Drafting and Surveying. The prerequisites of this course are: two semesters of algebra, one semester of geometry, and two years of drawing. One semester is devoted to theory, one to field surveying and two to map drafting and making the incidental calculations. This course is taught by Mr. STAGE CRAFT Boys of the Stage Crew play an important part in our school life. All of the entertainments given by various organizations and depart- ments of Roosevelt, and by professionals, were successfully staged with the aid of the scenery built by the boys under the supervision of Mr. Coeur, instructor. The manager of the first seniester's Stage Crew was Leonard Rheinhart, VV,27. Last semester's members were: Manager, Domin- ick Beardog Assistant Manager, Denman Troutg Electricians, Percy Kenmir, Orris Hedges, Ed Beste, George Bullingg Chief Grip, Vin- cent Pivianig Assistant Grips, Phil McMillan, Herman Solomen: Chief Flyman, Vincent Sinatra, Assistant Flyman, Herby Beaveng Master Property Man, Ed. Aigner, Assistant Property Man, Irving Hendeles. FURNITURE BUILDING Under the instruction of Mr. Ogden R. Johnston, the vocational Furniture Designing and Building classes turned out sixteen hundred dollars' worth of furniture for the school during the last year. Besides this, the students made many articles for their own use. In the vocational course, four periods of work is taken in the tenth, the eleventh, and the twelfth years. The study of cabinet making may be pursued as a practical art two periods during one semester in the tenth grade and up. This course is planned for those who wish Furniture Making to be their vocation after graduation from high school. It is not merely a course of experimental work in that line, but one which will equip the students with actual experience and practical skill in the designing, building, and finishing of furniture. Slocum. Page Twenty-four

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ROUND-UP -.'- 1927 PRINTING The print shop at Roosevelt High School is regarded as one of the best equipped shops in the city. It is furnished with the latest type of linotypes and printing presses. Students taking this subject are di- vided into two groups: those taking the vocational course, who receive a Smith-Hughes Certificate on completion of the course, and those tak- ing printing as a practical art. The work of the vocational students is putting out the Rough Rider each week 5 work on the cylinder press, platen press, and linotype. They also obtain experience in setting up jobs for the different departments of the school. The work that the print shop turns out, reckoned in dollars and cents, would amount to approximately 310,000 to 315,000 each year. The instructors in this department are: Mr. Wm. T. Hearst and Mr. Wni. L. Chambers. HOUSE WIRING The House VViring classes, under the instruction of Mr. W. D. Mac Lean, have wired the student constructed buildingg thirty circuits feed lights and fixtures have been installed. A subfeed has been run to the Plant Propagation building. All work will be examined by a city inspector. The course includes a year of house wiring work, and a year in the electrical laboratory with the Industrial Electrical students. In this manner, the pupils are taught both practical electrical wiring as well as electrical theory. Motor repair work in moderation is also studied. Last year, both two and four period work was taught. Only those who complete the tenth and eleventh grade four period work are awarded Smith-Hughes Certificates. Next year, the course will prob- ably be entirely on a Smith-Hughes basis. INTERIOR DECORATING During the two years that Interior Decorating and Painting have been offered at Roosevelt, the classes have painted two one-story houses and a two-story house off the campus, two bungalows on the grounds, the mechanical drawing building, part of the plant propagation lath- house, room 204, and the diningroom of the Home Economics depart- ment in 602. In the latter room, they have completely decorated the walls with a two-tone tiffany blend and stenciled borders. A dining- room, set in pale blue with stenciled margins, and all the standard trim and built-in features in French gray, were also painted. Another job was the decoration of the Teachers' Conference room. Mr. Waltei' Scott is the instructor. Interior Decorating may be taken in all grades for either two or three periods. If desired, it may be taken as a practical arts course. Page Twenty-three

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ROUND-UP -:- 1927 AUTOMOTIVE MECHANICS The vocational Automotive Mechanics course for high school stu- dents, as outlined by the State Vocational Board, earns for the grad- uate a Smith-Hughes certificate. Messrs. Walter' M. Smith and George R. Andrews instruct the classes. - Automotive Mechanics may be taken in the tenth grade as a prac- tical art by other than vocational students. In the tenth year, general theory on all parts of the modern auto- mobile, including the electrical system, is studied. Two to four periods of this subject may be taken. During the eleventh year, four periods each day are devoted to ac- tual repair shop work, with extensive jobs on all makes of cars. PRE-VOCATIONAL CARPENTRY AND , MILL CABINET WORK The Pre-vocational Carpentry and Mill Cabinet work has been or- ganized for four years. The work is similar to that done in the Smith-Hughes Vocational classes though it is not organized under the Smith-Hughes law. During the past year, the classes have constructed an ISXZO garage, an addition to a residence, and have partly completed a 30x60 shop building for the Hollenbeck Heights Special School. Besides this out- side work a number of cabinet projects have been completed. Among them are: display cabinets for both auto electrics and auto mechanicsg storage cabinet for the science departmentg office room for the R. O. T. C., and a small frame house for the house wiring classes. In addi- tion to these, a number of smaller projects have been turned out. The work was all done under the direction of Mr. D. L. Robey. CARPENTRY AND BUILDING Smith-Hughes vocational Carpentry and Building course has proved a valuable study. The classes have already built a lathhouse, a teachers' garage, and a school bungalow. The two units under con- struction are the Domestic Science building and a classroom for the Plant Propagation department. In this course the students are taught carpentry, mathematics, prac- tical drawing and reading of blueprints, types of construction, names and uses of all tools, the steel square and its use as applied to roof framing and stair building. The classes are ably instructed by Mr. Tom Holm, who succeeded Mr. Douglas VVilson last semester. According to the requirements as set forth in the Smith-Hughes Carpentry course, the students enroll for four periods of this subject in the tenth and eleventh grades, and take it for two periods in the Senior year. Page Twenty-five