West Lafayette High School - Scarlet and Gray Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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GENERAL OFFICE FROM LIBRARY TO OFFICE LIBRARY lnstead of having a huge study hall as most schools do, we are justly proud of our large, well lighted library with its capacity for 77 students and its more than ZOOO volumes. The library has become increasingly important as a place for study and reference work, and Miss Brown with her student helpers can tell us exactly where to find material for anything from volcanoes to sail boats or can recommend to us the most interesting fiction for our book reports. Subscriptions for twenty-five monthly and weekly magazines provide ample reading on up-to-the-minute information. To be sure Madamoiselle and Life seemed to be the most widely thumbed, but Consumer's Guide and Popular Mechanics come in for their share of attention. If you would like to use the telephone, buy typing or theme paper, find out where johnny is the third hour, or just ask questions, go to the office. Miss Adams, secretary to Mr. Burtsfield, and Miss Smith, secretary to Mr. Floyd, have numerous duties per- taining to the administration of the school, but are al- ways ready to answer all questions whether they be Was my pen returned here? or l-low many credits do l have? Several students who work under the N. Y. A. act as assistants in the office, doing some typing, filing, and collecting of attendance records.

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SHOP There comes a time in every boy's life when he feels the urge to pound nails. This energy has been directed into valuable channels by Mr. Leslie Tucker and his shop. There are five divisions in which the boys can work: sheet metal, wood work, bench metal, machine shop, and foundry. Amid deaf- ening blows and poundings - and the smell of new wood and turpine- radio cabinets, bookcases, tools, fruit bowls, scissors, and many other sim- ilar articles are turned out. LEARN BY EXPERIENCE SEWING The sewing laboratory with its six shining sewing machines, six long cut- ting tables, stacks of fashion maga- zines ,office and reference room, would not be complete without the little lemon tree in the corner. Those of us who do not have occasion to be in the laboratory much, often make special trips down to see the bulletin boards, magazines, new dresses, admire our- selves in the triple mirror in the fit- ting room, or just to ask Mrs. Ham- lin. COOKING lt is a great satisfaction to know that the girls of W, L. H. S. are learning how to whip up a breakfast or dash off a dinner. ln fact, we have noticed many delicious odors in the air, and follow- ing our noses, arrived at the kitchen. Attractively furnished living-dining room containing an oil painting by Mrs. june Burkholder, and the large kitchen with its six complete cooking units has even enticed a class of seventeen boys besides other classes taught by Mrs. Ruth Hamlin or by one of the practice teachers from Purdue under her di- rection.

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COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT The click, click of the seventeen typewriters in the commercial classes lend a business atmosphere to the sec- ond floor. In '42, fifty-two typing, six- teen shorthand, and fifteen bookkeep- ing students studied under Mr. Rep- logle. Everyone who has secretarial am- bitions or who possesses cherished dreams of typing those college themes finds in the commercial department op- portunity to strive for flawless results. Typing classes were organized for after school hours to accommodate seniors and others who desired to prepare for defense work. MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT The national demand for engineers places a new importance on the study of logarithms, square roots, sines and cosines, l-lowever, in order to meet graduation requirements or those for college entrance, most of us take only two years of math. Having mastered freshman algebra at junior High come into the classes of Mr. l-lammer or Miss Fites, and would-be engineers find that four years of learning the x s and y's to the p's and q's of tangents and secants result in satisfactory prep aration.