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

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DRAFTING DEPARTMENT The objective of Drafting is the training of boys so that they may be placed as junior draftsmen in local manufacturing plants. | This course normally covers three years at the high school level and follows a steady progression from the first fundamentals to the making of detail drawings and assembly drawings from a layout prepared by the instructor. The jobs include small tools, jigs and fixtures, gears and cams, as well as various mechanical motions and also small machines which embody combinations of these units. opportunity to go beyond the work listed and to undertake layouts of their own, under supervision. Such jobs as these originate from repair jobs in the school shops and School Department. Mathematics and science directly related to the job at hand are required and must be kept in notebooks to which are added generally related data useful to | the draftsman. | For those who work more rapidly and to better advantage, there is the | } The success of the student and his qualifications for placement are, to a large extent, his own responsibility. That is, if he uses his time to the best advantage and applies himself steadily throughout the course, his chances for a good start in his | chosen work are good. Many former students have succeeded in industry. Among these are a designer of packaging machines as well as a number of layout men in the same field. There is a works manager in one of the larger plants making machine tools who is a graduate of Trade High School. Another of the graduates is assistant manager of one part of a large sporting goods manufacturing company, another is an assistant superintendent in the field of airplane engines. There are many more who have had real success. All students are required to spend a half year in the pattern and machine shop where they acquire necessary background experience. Success in any course is a matter of application of the student to the work he is doing. That work must come first of all through the course, even though other interests have to be put aside. However, there is time for one activity, as well as sports, within the required time of the course. Figuring out a math problem is all in a day’s work Se for a future draftsman.

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Mr. Elvin holds a round table discussion to explain a problem to these boys. In this well-equipped blueprint room, young draftsmen learn all aspects of blue- print making. John Dalzovo

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i : i j es i i Here are those beautiful loaves of bread and other the oven. delicious edibles, fresh from Barbara Bacon Armand Lanzillo Shirley Robitaille Donald ‘Tippett ea oe all Miss Eleanor Carlisle