The Apprentice School - Binnacle Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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G. Guy Via Supervisor of Training HE STAFF of the inaugural edition of THE BINNACLE takes pleasure in dedicating this page to our Supervisor of Training, G. Guy Via, By this dedication we express our gratitude to a great educator and master workman whom we know as a student, comrade, and leader, ever willing to cooperate in all problems, no matter how minute. • 13 •

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Frank . . Dobson, being greeted by G. Guy Via and S. A. Hickey on his arrival, in 1940, to take charge oj the Apprentice athletic program Another division of the apprentice educa- tional system is the Drawing School. This is composed of boys who have excelled in their work, sch olastically and in the shops. If a student accepts a call to the Drawing School, he must serve a minimum of five years, in- stead of the usual four. After twelve months in the Drawing School, he is transferred to the regular drawing rooms, either Piping, Machinery, Electrical or Hull. Beginning each September, a nine-month school year is offered, which the student must attend for a period of three years. In this time he is given courses in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English, Industrial Economics, Mechanical Drawing, and Shipbuilding. If a student is to be accepted into the Apprentice School, he must be between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one and possess a high school education with full credit in Algebra and Geometry. He must have main- tained a “C” average or better during his high school career, and his physique should be suitable for his chosen vocation. He must not have attended an institution of higher learn- ing, and must bear a good reputation in his community. As all others employed in the Company, he must pass a complete physical examination. This school has risen to be one of the great- est assets to the City of Newport News and the State of Virginia. Graduates are looked on with high respect, and their working quali- fications have been recognized throughout the nation. Air. Via, the Supervisor of Training, has rounded out an institution that has benefited and will continue to benefit mankind by his teaching of a simple lesson about the “head, hand, and heart” — the head to think, the hand to do, and the heart to keep one upright in his dealings with fellow-workmen. Apprentice Athletic Building; built in 1955, Jormally opened December 29, 1955 Football Team, 1925 — F. J. Robeson, Coach; R. I. Patterson, Assistant Coach • 12 •

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IN MEMORIAM RAYMOND E. SNOW, II November 14, 1917 November 25, 1941 r P HE Binnacle Stall and Graduating Class of 1941 pause in memory of its late fellow- classman, Raymond E. Snow, II, whose friendly smile and willing hand will be greatly missed from the ranks of all ol those who knew him. • 14 •