Wood High School - Log Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Mike Schlake smoothes a new sole. Among the courses offered in our vocational program are commercial foods, shoe repair, clean- ing and pressing, auto body, and service station. Each teaches the student a marketable skill by working each day in completely equipped class- room-shops. In commercial foods a student is tutored to be able to work in a cafeteria or restaurant, while shoe repair teaches a boy to repair shoes by actually doing so. Auto body and service station give a boy a chance to be a competent auto mechanic or re- pairman, and the cleaning and pressing course presents a student with an opportunity to be skilled in the field of diy cleaning by actual Work. aried vocational program gives pupil .rub Commercial foods student james Van Horn readies his equipment. Tim Bumett finishes pressing a pair of slacks. Ns., if N

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Pupils train for careers in grooming I--ul' jf , i . Patty Ogle combs and styles her customer's hair. Greg Northington checks his work as Mr. Davis watches. , A Q, nv., VV .,.. 0, ri 1.1, . f W, I 1 w ? sa ss Concentrating on shaping the neckline properly is Delores Brandlein. Beauty culture and barbering classes at Wood are unique because no other high school in America provides the full training required by the state licensing boards of barbers and beauty operators. Curriculum for both courses includes theory as well as practical work. Theory requires a knowl- edge of human anatomy, especially of the head and skin. Barbering students spend the first few weeks perfecting their cutting technique before they cut their first head of hair. Girls enrolled in beauty culture shampoo and set the human hair of mane- quins for practice. 25

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f,...-- .unfvi fS 'Kr' A fender is repaired in the auto body shop. opportunit to learn life occupation la' ,un f io O Q., Mike Puckett adjusts a carburetor. Kenneth Brown repairs a dent. 27