Sturgis High School - Sturgensian Yearbook (Sturgis, MI)

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School In Session Mrs. Seitz-Construct your figures properly, boys. Mr. P. Miller-VVhz1t will the interest he? The wise seniors doing their adding by a complicated method. Mrs. Brokaw's-Let's see who can find the right answer first. A2+B2:??? After six years of 2+2:4 and how many apples , We started out on higher mathematics in the seventh grade. Two of the first stops on our tour of the Math. dept. brought us to Mr. P. Miller's and Mr. R. Miller's rooms. Here we found the students reviewing the basic arithmetic principles and being initiated in their first tricky problems. In the eighth grade room we found lllrs. Brokaw carrying on where the 'fMille1's left off. They were laying linoleum, papering walls, figuring the number of barrels of ce- ment for a walk, following the stock market, and trying to keep their checking accounts straight. From here our conducted tour took us to the freshman algebra class and general math class. Here we found the little freshies struggling for hours over an equation only to discover that they had forgotten to change one of those gremlin -l',' or - signs. X's, y's and z's were fairly haunting them. There goes the bell. We'd better move onl Our next stops were at sophomore geometry and advanced algebra and trigonometry class- es. Here we found vocabularies built around such words as planes, angles, parallelograms, sines, co-sines, logarithms, tangents, and seg- ments. lt fairly made our heads swim! We know that all these facts and figures are important, but what those students are gaining most from their math Work is to think for themselves. They may forget the Pytha- gorean Theorem, but the ability to reason, once obtained-will stick.

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MASTERIN G TOOLS AND MACHINES Now, dear reader, if you'll step outdoors with me for a breath of fresh air, we'll Walk down the sidewalk to the building where the Industrial Arts classes are held. lt is here that the boys of Sturgis High School learn not only to be the handy man around the house , but also to become skillful in a lifetime trade. The boys learn to cut, drill, and polish shapeless pieces of wood and metal into useful and beautiful objects. The Industrial Arts programs begins in the eighth grade and it is taught as a required sub- ject, This first year consists of one semester of grade drawing taught by hir. Carpenter, and one semester of fundamentals of shop work taught by hir. Borgerding. The student, if he wishes, may take ad- vanced mechanical drawing under the direct- ion of lvlr. Carpenter. This class consists of drawing machine fastenings and other parts of machinery, The advanced class, open only for seniors, is the machine drawing class. De- tailed pieces of machinery with some design- ing is the aim of this class. The first year of machine shop is planned to teach the boys the fundamentals of machine work. Classes consist of blue print reading as well as text book work. Some of the pro- ducts of the first year's labors are different types of hammers, punches, file handles, and meat pounders. The new Wastepapcr carts now being used by the janitors were designed and built by the advanced machine shop class. VVhen any re- pairs are needed around school, the advanced machine shop class can usually comply with ut- most satisfaction. VVe can't help but feel as we leave this department to continue our tour of the build- ing that right here was being born some of our future welders, plumbers, draftsmen and master craftsmen of all kinds. School In Session 1 Mr. Borgerding--Dircctingg the woodworking department. 2 Bob Brown-XVhat makes this thing tick? 3 Mr. Carpenter-Sunervising details of Mechanical Drawing 17

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.I lf ST BROXVSING XVhether we were looking for a book about cowboys and lndians, or information on the Chemistry of the blast furnace, we were sure to find it in our large library. llrs. Brown always found time to recommend a good book or to show us where to look for what we wanted. Kluch of the routine work in our library is done by student librarians who check out books and see that the p's', were not mixed with the cfs on the hookshelyes. ln proof of the fact that a library is a work center for the entire school. the record of daily attend- ance speaks for itself-for no fewer than 175- lllll pupils are in attendance each day. THIC SCHOOL AND THIQ AIUB At the right you see Hlr, Kenneth Squires. who is the coordinator of diversified occupa- tional training in our school. His program, which was introduced for the first time this year, provides training in three fields of occu- pation-office and clerical workers, workers in trade and industry, and workers in retail or distributiye occupations. lt is a combina- tion of theoretical classroom instruction and practical experience on the job. The advantages of this program are many for employer and student alike, and we have a feeling that it has been one of the chief factors in keeping many a student in school. School In Session QPR? 'gi