West Bend High School - Bend Yearbook (West Bend, WI)

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inding T omorro ' Job Vocational guidance is the process of assisting the individual to choose an occupation, prepare for it, enter upon and progress in it. Talks on various occupations by local men and women, interviews with workers, visits to places of employment, and reading biographies of successful workers preceded the writing of occupational re- ports by the students. The Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs cooperated by furnishing speakers for assem- blies and vocational conferences. These men read and commented on the occupational essays and offered opportunities for observation, conference, visitation, and tryout to those students whose essays showed sincere interest. A cumulative record system, inaugurated this year, with individual folders for each pupil, provides the basis for individual interviews and as a guide for referral to job openings which may lead to satis- factory fields of employment. Miss Forrester, who directed the vocational guidance program, presented a panorama of specific techniques and conducted the program of the com- munity aspects committee at the national conven- tion of the National Vocational Guidance Associa- tion at San Francisco, California, February I8-20. 1. The College Day speakers. 2. Prof. Traecy explains a guidance chart to V. Weyres, and D.Weiss. Helping America Prepare With the completion of the Vocational School two years ago, a new course, metal shop, was added to the curriculum. Under the guidance of Glenn Hprestidigitatorn Johnson, the 38 boys enrolled in the course learned to handle lathes, drills and presses, to make tools, and to do welding. ln addition to the regular daily classes, there is a special class from 4 until 7 p. m. on three nights a week, for those boys wanting to get into defense industries after graduation. The wealth of precision machinery, the forges, the repair tools included in the shop as well as the skillful hands it produces, makes it valuable to the country's war effort. ir 3. From blueprint to Hnished product. Mr. Rice, V. Dengel, and Mr. Johnson. 4. Developing precision on the lathe. P. German, A. Gadow. O Equations and Test Tubes ln West Bend's math and science classes future Euclids, Pasteurs, and Curies begin their studies of such mysteries as hyperbole, the pythagorean the- orem, and the intricacies of the science labs. lnitiated into math through algebra, the sopho- more students delved into the x's and y's bewil- deredly and emerged sufficiently enlightened to tackle geometry as juniors. With tangents and 70-step proofs still fresh in their minds, they went to ad- vanced math class in their senior year to learn more of parabolas, sines, and ellipses. The freshmen received a liberal science course, learning the operation of a pump, the wherefore of a universe, and the complications of an engine. The sophomore biologists this year really felt the draft, having had five different teachers during the year, to help them study about frogs, plants, animals, and humans. The juniors and seniors discovered that chemistry is the study of chemical properties of mat- ter and that a Bunsen burner will not light if at- Page Fourteen tached to a water jet. Chemistry revealed to them its fascination and usefulness in the field of plastics and the manufacture of clothing. Pondering over a hydrostatic paradox and the basic laws of the phys- ical properties of matter gave the senior physics students the ability to cope with many problems, even to calculate the speed, momentum, and force of a baseball dropped from the top of the Wash- ington Monument. 'A' 5. Figures don't lie. H. Reimann and R. Butler solve a problem. 6. Distilling alcohol Cdenaturedb. A. Cechvala, Mr. Grignon, B. Hess. 7. Don't look now but the bunsen burner isn't lit! M. Ram- thun in science class. 8. Freshman James Dolenz making charcoal. 9. Mr. Colby and physics students, J. Schalles and R. Mal- zahn, measure a pendulum. 10. We learn by doing. R. Weiss and G. Gadow experiment while Mr. Batho Watches. 11. C, Claus solves a secant problem for B. Zeckmeister, to the approval of Mr. Colby.

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