Springfield Trade High School - Beaver Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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PATTERN MAKING Of all the various fields of work comprising the metal trades, pattern making is one of the most important but is often the least understood by the average person. Patterns are used only as a means toward the making of a metal casting. Metal is melted by heat to a liquid state and poured into molds made of sand, where it is allowed to cool. These sand molds, having been made from the original pattern, cause the metal to assume the shape of that pattern. Pattern making is a clean, interesting occupation that offers a wide variety of problems, thereby exercising the skill and ingenuity of the worker. The wages are among the highest paid to the skilled trades and placement has been very successful. Among the larger jobs completed this year were the complete patterns for the casting of a drill press for the Marlboro Vocational School. Also turned out were all the necessary patterns to make a lathe for the State Department of Vocational Education. Locally, one may see a bronze commemorative plaque for the Alice Corson playground for the West Springfield School Department. The original pattern for the bronze casting was made in this department. Model making i s one of the ramifications of this trade and one may generally find a model of some variety in progress in this department. It may be for the School Department in the form of a model of a proposed school building, the Barney Mausoleum for the Park Department, which was used in the Flower Show, or it may be a layout for a playground. The construction taking place at Memorial Bridge to relieve traffic congestion was first worked out in model form and made by these students in this shop. Under the guidance of Mr. Alfred Magee, the boys selecting this trade are assured of an interesting and profitable means of earning a livelihood. Model making is one of the interesting aspects of this trade.

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This music stand and table are examples of the variety of pieces made here. CABINET MAKING “Everything, including the kitchen sink” could well be the slogan for this department, for everything from piano keyboards to kitchen cabinets is built by these prospective cabinet makers. Mr. John Stockman supervises the first-year students and Mr. Harold Sherwood directs the advanced boys. A project of great value to the school was the construction of twenty piano keyboards used by Mrs. Simes in her classes of piano instruction. Another example of the value of this department to the school was in the building of all the shelves and cabinets used in the recent reorganization of the radio and television departments. A wide variety of very fine articles of furniture, reproductions of antiques, have been turned out. Many of these pieces required the work of a skilled craftsman to reproduce the fine work and carving. Among these were two kneehole desks, a Governor Winthrop desk, a corner cupboard and several end tables. Red Cross also benefits from the work produced here; cribbage boards, floor lamps, hospital bedside tables, tilt-top bed trays, Morse keyboard sets, table lamps and chests have all been distributed to veterans’ hospitals. Jobs in this department are plentiful. All seniors have been placed and as many juniors as desire employment are at work. Boys who elect this trade are following in the footsteps of famous men, for Thomas Chippendale, George Heppelwhite, Thomas Sheraton, and the Adam Brothers, Robert and James, were all cabinet makers whose names are still retained to designate the furniture of their design and inspiration. ae