Torrance High School - Torch Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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ls I THE TORCH, NINETEEN THIRTY-TWO MARY CLAUDIA HERBERT ANDREWS ETHEL R. BURNHAM HOWARD WH-I-SON Marietta College. Ohio University of Wisconsin BURCHETT Central College for Tabor College, Iowa Univ. of Washington State Teachers College WomengState Teachers' Prim in E1 ugh Santa Barbara College, Missouri Y g 'g Mechanical Drawing Clothing Electricity Sheet Metal LEONARD AUSTIN ' CORA MABEE RAYMOND R. SMITH Umversnf' 0fCa11f0fH12 University of Southern University of California 2-Oi Angeles Twhffs California at Los Angeles Ruigeshop Mathematics Coach of Athletics Vocational Science Physical Education and Mathematics MABEL TAYLOR BERNECE DAISY KOEHLER MARJORIE EISCHEN BOYNTON SUMERWELL Torrance High '26 University of California University of California University of Southern Junior Clerk Berkeley Berkeley California . Music Spanish Arr Page Fourteen

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TORRANCE HIGH SCHOOL QL ,Q , FRANCIS EDITH P. KELLY MRS. LOIS ENGEL W. S, WRIGHT WADDINGHAM Stanford University Univ. of Washington University of So. Calif. Occidental College E 1' h J 1' Univ. of Southern - Universitv of Southern ng is ' Duma lsm California SPi'm5h , California . I General Science Science Mathematics Dmmancs Social Science SARA VAUBEL EARL FIELDS JESSIE E. WEAVER Illinois State Normal University of California Los Angeles Teachers' University at Los Angeles College University of Southern Coach of Athletics Woodbury Business Cggiornial 1 Physical Education Cgllfgc . I mercia ommercia KATHRYN KLEIN HELEN COLLINS IRENE MILLS WILLIAM BURK Sargent School for Torrance High '23 University of Southern Bradley Polytechnic Physical Education Secretary California Institute Physical Education English Michigan State Normal School Wood Shop Page Thirteen

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THE TORCH, NINETEEN THIRTY-TWO eietleirie?-E ! E ! ZnInZeZn!rrZeZn!nZrr2sr':-w'-i' '''ninirrinininieinisfIss?EoinEoin?IfZeleiwisei-E ZfIe!eZe!+!-+Z+s!++5 ! 3''IKM''E ! Z' Vocational Auto Shop Years ago when the automobile game was young, it was the general practice for a mechanic to know how to back a nut off of a bolt and take the part being re- paired over to a bench, hammer on it for a while, maybe bend it a time or two, then replace it by putting the same nut back on. The mechanic many times did not know what was wrong with the part he was repairing, and was taking a chance on hammering and bending it, trusting to luck it would work. This type of mechanic in the automobile world is the well known grease monkey . The purpose of the vocational auto shop class is to eliminate the above from the automotive field. Mr. Austin, instructor of the vocational work in the high school, after com- pleting a mechanic arts course at Santa Monica High School, owned a garage for sev- eral years, worked for other concerns, and also attended a trade school. With this experience Mr.Austin knows just what the boys taking this course should be taught in order to be better than the grease monkey type of mechanic. Our high school shop is well equipped to give its students the necessary amount of model work needed. Students must complete their model practice work on the shop models before working on cars which are brought in every day by indi- vidual students. Five boys of the midterm graduated from school with majors in vocational auto shop and are qualified to enter the automobile trade at various stages, These are as follows: Norman Barck six hundred hours,Jacob Gall nine hundred hours, Richard Mason twelve hundred hours, Willie Agapito and Sadao Wadamoto each with fifteen hundred hours of shop work. This term the shop work progresses as any general repair shop during the vocational periods. The class now consists of the following boys: Simon Schipper and Robert Hannan fP.G,'sj, Francis Dean, Carl Eiesel, Elmer Riley, Albert Curler, Andrew Cline, Herman Hamman, George Figueredo, Chikara Kazama, Bruno and Emielio Adamoli, Susumi lshikawa and Massaki Shimatsu. Boys, Physical Education The program set up by the Boys' Physical Education attempts fundamentally to coincide with the basic aims of physical education, namely: a long life, physically lit, morally sound, mentally alert, hygienically clean, and a good citizen. However, overshadovving all of these basic aims the program attempts to give the boy goofl wholesome recreation so as to enable him to relax and to be placed in an environ- ment which relieves him from the more formal routine which he must experience in his academic classes. The program attempts to emphasize recreation and good wholesome fun-equally as much as it emphasizes the basic aims of physical educa- tion. The activities of the physical education procedure are based to a certain extent upon the recommendations as prescribed by the physical education department of the Los Angeles school system. This outlineis divided into five main divisons: self-test- ing, game fundamentals, apparatus, games, and beautiful living. As this procedure Page Fifteen