Westbrook High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Westbrook, ME)

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Westbrook High School L i l ' llllllllllllllllllllllIlIlIIllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllIIIlllllllllllIIIIIIIIIllllIlllllllllllllllllmll llllllllmilllllll Illl HW IIIIIIIIIHIlIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIllllllllllllllllllllllllllII1llIHIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllQ il DEPARTMENTS Zi - . . .-., .. .. ,. 4, gl A IMIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllIIIllllllllllllllllllllll llllllIIIIIIlIIIlllIIl1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIlIllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII lllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIlllIllllllllllllllllllllllll Music Department The music department of Westbrook High School wishes to express its sympathy for Miss Stevenson, former supervisor, at the death of her mother, at the close of the fall' term. The School Board was fortunate in obtaining Miss Josephine Briggs to fill the vacancy caused by Miss Steven- son's resignation. Miss Briggs is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and has been teaching in York, Maine. This year the orchestra has suffered from a lack of variety of instruments. For this reason many of the classical and semi-classical numbers have been omitted. However, a great deal of work has been done on numbers requiring principally the strings. The orchestra has played at several' Parent-Teacher meetings this year. SECOND V1oL1Ns Elva Allen Sylvia Robinson Olive Smith Adrien Vincent Ethelyn Percival fFacultyJ FIRST VIOLINS Norwood Macdonald Roderick Macdonald Fred Fitzgerald Joseph Tapley Alice Bailey Antoinette Fortin Ernest Dolley Marie Welch Floyd Lagerson CORNET-HaT0ld West , CLARINET-Elliot Smith 'CELLO-Evelyn Randall DRUMS-John Gerry, Charles Gerry PIANO-Miriam Boothby The High School Trio which Was organized three years ago has continued its work, appearing at school activities and various clubs. The trio consists of : VIOLIN-N0fWO0d Macdonald 'Cl-:LLo-Evelyn Randall PIANO-Miriam Boothby The school chorus this year numbers eighty- five. The chorus has not as yet attempted much in the line of classics. Most of the time has been spent on the old favorites and lighter compositions. May we make a plea for better support in the music department. In the orchestra we need wind instruments very much. The school owns a cello, clarinet, and bass violin which will be loaned to any student who will study and give the orchestra his support. This is a wonderful opportunity to study at little expense. In the chorus there is a lack of tenors and basses. Next year let us get behind the music depart- ment and put old Westbrook High on the map in music as she is in athletics. Nonwoon MACDONALD, '28, Industrial Department There is fully as much interest in the Industrial Department of W. H. S. this year as in previous years. The Sen-ior Industrial class has dwindled away to six members, but the other classes are larger than usual. The studies and work taken up in the Industrial course are always useful to a student whether he continues work in this line or not. Shop work, Mechanical Drawing, and Industrial Mathematics are the special studies of the Industrial course.

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26 The Blue e- white Freshmen in this course put in 160 minutes of shop and 160 minutes of Mechanical Drawing per week. Their shop work is half wood-working and half forging and sheet-metal work. The Sophomores put in 160 minutes of Machine Shop and 160 minutes of Mechanical Drawing per week. Juniors have 200 minutes of Mechanical Drawing, 480 minutes of Machine Shop work, and 270 minutes of Pattern Shop work per week. Seniors have 200 minutes of Mechanical Drawing and spend 780 minutes per week in the machine shop. For Mathematics these students take Algebra, Arithmetic, Geometry, Industrial Arith- metic and Industrial Physics. The last two named are taken the last year of school and deal entirely with Industrial Probl'ems. There has been one change in the teaching staff of the Industrial Department this year. Charles Boise, formerly employed by the Knowlton Machine Co., has been hired to take the place of Elmer Lord in the machine shop. Mr. Boise shows a very extensive knowledge of modern machine methods, and has proven a very popular teacher, both with the students and with the other teachers. Machine work has been accomplished rapidly under his supervision and several new pieces of work will be turned out before the end of the year. Several advanced machinery blue-prints are being made in the Mechanical Drawing room. This department has advanced rapidly in the past two years. RALPH F. PRIDE, '2'7. MACHINE SHOP The Sophomores and Juniors have continued in the regular course of Machine Shop work this year. The Sophomores are taught the care of machines and take simple turning jobs, such as screw-blanks, screw-threads, and paper-weights. The Juniors take up more advanced work, such as screw-clamps, screw-jacks, and machinist's vises. The screw-jacks and vises are given to the stu- dents making them for the cost of the material used. The cost of the small vise made by juniors is 32.25 or about one-fourth of the retail price at the stores. The Seniors have spent most of their time this year on new work. Work has been continued on the six wood-turning lathes started last year and it is hoped that they will soon be finished. We are also making seven small hand Emery Grinders. Several new things, such as angle-irons, have been made for the shop and these are very useful. Some of the Seniors have made the large swivel- base machinist vises, which cost them 34.00. RALPH F. PRIDE, '27. PATTERN SHOP As we know, the bodily muscles will not respond without the given stimuli from the brain. In like manner neither would the machine shop function without the pattern departmentg for nearly everything machined in the lower shop had once to be patterned in the upper shop. Here, the usual patterns are constructed, and in addition, various parts of a speed lathe, six of which are nearing completion. The machines used for this purpose are here listed: the circular saw, two planers, a jointer, surfacer, and C about the most importantj a lathe. Each bench is equipped with all the hand tools necessary for making patterns. When the six new speed lathes have been completed, the pattern shop will lack nothing. Mr. Alden has lately added to the equipment an electric hand router and shaper for fillet work and moulding. Recently a blower was installed to provide for the removal of all the shavings, sawdust, etc., thrown off from the machines. This, besides giving more room for the workers, aids greatly in the work of the janitor in his daily cleaning. The patterns as mentioned above, go to the Jordan foundry to be moulded and cast. The boys, to better understand the use of their pat- terns, devote one afternoon of every year in watching the men mould and pour. At the end of the year, the boys are obliged to mould some of their own constructions to test their accuracy. Pattern making is the last of woodworking of any kind that is done in the Industrial course during the four years. HENRY TEAGUE, '28.