Tilden Technical High School - Craftsman Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Left: Mr. Stolfer inspects a wood tuming job, P' Above: Mr. Campbell, Mr. Macnab, Mr, Vogel, and Mr. Pfister agree, I!'s a good pattern. THE WOOD SHOPS This year the wood shops have deviated slight- ly from their usual course cmd are pursuing one Mr. Schaeffer advises a beginner in wood turning. more immediately vital to the preservation of our nation. Our four wood shops,--the wood, pattern, model, and wood turning-are making airplane models-models which will be sent to our air corp training depots to aid in the task of instruct- ing fledgling pilots. The models are to be of planes of every nation and will help our aspirant pilots to learn to identify enemy aircraft. Tilden's quota of five hundred model airplanes is almost complete and the Wood shops will run once more on their regular schedule. Boys who desire advanced training in wood shop may choose as one of the shops in their shop sequence, model building. Here the boys con- struct boat models. Battle ship, destroyers, yachts and sailing ships are among those built by the students. The energy and labor involved in the construction of these models is well worth the while, for they show amazingly intricate and ex- act detail. The student has every reason to be proud of his work.

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MATH ASSEMBLY Collaborating with the choral clubs, the Service Club again put on the Math Assembly, by which mathematics was demonstrated as fundamental to many of the subjects taught in a technical high school and to the problems of life itself. In this assembly was an application to Ameri- can problems by an explanation by a father, Lefty Carins, to his son, Ioe DeCiro, explaining an income tax report. It was shown that math was needed in airplane designing and operating. Mathematics needed in navigating was explained by the use of a sextant, which is studied in some geometry classes. An astrologer, Walter Smolka, lightened the program by quoting from a text as he explored the theory of the universe according to the number four. The usage of math in science was illustrated by an application to medicine, chemistry, and physics. V

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As basic training in woodworking tech students are offered courses in wood, pattern, and wood- turning. These courses, usually taken by freshmen give the beginner a chance to become accustom- ed to the handling of hand and power tools. If a student is trained from the first to handle tools correctly he will have no trouble when he comes in contact with the tools of the trade he chooses as his life's vocation. In the wood and woodturning courses the student becomes acquainted with the construction of wall shelves, bowls, and small tables. Among the tools he handles are sanders, lathes, planers, sharpers, and power saws. The Theory gives way to practical ex- tperience in wood shop. l pattern shop is slightly in advance of the wood and woodturning shops and offers the student elementary training in the skill of pattern making. The pattern maker's job is an important one for he is the one who makes patterns from which engine and other castings are made. Our twenty week course is designed to give the student a taste of pattern making. If his interest is sufficient and his mark warrants, a student may take advanced pattern making. This basic training is necessary for it is from the shops of our high schools that the craftsmen of the future come. Model building is fascinating and popular hobby among Tildenites.