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

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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

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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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BAKERY One needs great strength of character to resist the temptation to stop by in this place of wonderful aromas. Every day finds something of interest to sight and taste spread out on the long benches. Beautiful brown loaves of bread, long rows of coffee rings waiting for their icing, racks of golden cream puffs, muffins and pies for cafeteria consumption, and occasionally a cake for someone’s anniversary, or the towering white festiveness of a wedding cake. Lucky are the veterans who will eat the cookies prepared for the Red Cross. The boys and girls in Bakery learn the processes and methods of commercial baking by providing some of the food used in the cafeteria, and by producing the bread and coffee rings sold on tea room days. Various organizations, whose functions are charitable, often request quantities of food, thus providing experiences of a variety for these prospective bakers. The artistic side of baking is not neglected, students may be seen manipulating canvas pastry bags, out of which spring, almost magically, those luscious-looking flowers, festoons and garlands which make birthday and wedding cakes so beautiful to look at. Some fortunate person was the recipient of this beautifully decorated cake. These Easter eggs will have a professional look when hey are finished. at 4 Yen A 2 E