Wyandotte High School - Quiverian Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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, MODERN I' I' R R I I' I' I, I' M CALLS FOR WOODWORKING METALWORKING. PRINTING. ELECTRICITY AND AUTO- NIECHANIFS. ni 31, 's One of Vsfyandottes least talked about and yet most important units is the five industrial shops located in the east wing of the huilding. Although their aim is not vocational, in their general courses they offer an introf duction to the fields of auto mechanf ics, electricity, metalwork, printing, and woodworking. There are many reasons for general courses of this sort. First, the teach' ers are not satisfied to teach only one or two phases of an industrial course, hut feel that a general course helps a lwoy to hecome familiar with all types of work referring to each industry, and aids him in discovering any specif fic skill he may possess. Another rea' son is this: to understand a part of anything you must understand the whole in general, No young man should enter any field as a specialist without a knowledge of the field as a whole. Only one hour a day is offered in each course. hut, according to the shop teachers, this will prohahly he changed, They are hoping soon to have it so that each hoy may have two hours a day for half a year inf stead of one hour a day for the whole year as is the present plan. AL'To MI3r1HANIi1s The one hundred and eightyffive hoys enrolled in auto mechanics do work on the teachers' cars and their own, and there is always plenty to keep them husy, according to Mr. A. I.. Guy, auto'meehanics teacher. This method means that a hoy may miss a part of what would he taught hy means of set lohsf' which would cover all phases ot autofmechanic work. hut which would lack the inf terest of a live john Mr. Guy tries to arrange their uyolis so that the hoys ,'Xl'TOlNlEffll.'XNlIfS gives the laoy- in the class a chance to keep their ears in first' class shape. ln the top picture four lallys Norhie jones. Rohert Eaton. Chris lxainaze. and Oren lsenhour are work' Mig UNC UN Cf. ELECTRICIITY offers laoys a wide va' riety of projects. Radios. motors. irons. toasters, telephones. telegraph. electric lzelztiizg. and many more common home electrical appliances are studied-laoth in tlieorx' and practice

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th1s year the School of the A1r ex by IEAN NEU STROM 4-f .2 -ed 'df TEN CLASSY MLXJORETTES added eolor to Wyandotte hand durlng football season T e flxc pxetured here are Gu lldlne Holler Maryel Lee I lc Soma Pankewleh Edrth Mlller an Marge De Rousse mental Ind physreal lrhor IS elrmmateel hy these commerelal rohots md he vtho heeomes competent at operrtlng them 15 much 1n demand Happy also 1s the Glrl who can assemble and stxteh up her froek on an eleetrlc Sewlllg machlne IH hrlf the tlme 1 would take her to treadle her vyay through lnnumerahle se rms on a mr deny the neeesslty of the halr dry ers whleh enable the aquatlc Mlss who has enjoyed her SW1m to the la t drop to appear mlnus drenehed ha1r 1n her next elass Other exrmple could he offered hut we must he speedlnq along Next ID l1ne and most rmportant of the three components of stream l1n1ng 15 eff1c1ency Charaeterlstlcallv Wyandotte has more examples 111 th1 seet1on than IH any other In th1s con neetron we felt a Great forxurd stea vyas taken when Wy mdotte s aehley ements vyere hrouvht to the people radxo o er t e loea st 1t1o1 KCKN hut eyer lOOlilI1Q forxurd panded untll If found It elf hroad eastlng over CBS from eoat to eoa t ID a natlonal hookup One of the greatest helps 1n effl eleney It Wy andotte IS the reeordlnv machlne yxhlch IS ut1l1 ed hy the speeeh drama and IIIUSIL department Already th1s year all the XOICCS of the students taklnff drama were reeorded One Slde of the reeord was used tm reveal lmperfeetrons 1n the VOILC xyhlle the other s1de xx as used to reeord the yolee after defeets had been cor reeted lvlovmv novy to a sectron of the serenee department vye fmd real eff1 ereney 111 the green house that llttle puhllexzed home of experlmental plant lrfe Another seet1on houses the f1ne mreroseopes so rnterestmv and helpful We novy come to one of the most versatlle eogs 1D our eff1c1ency ma ehrne namely movlnv plctures We see frlms showmg aCt1v1ty 1n most every wrlk of llfe and on sub1ects rrngmq from pI'LVt.IIf10II of colds to the lssemhltge of Ford motor ears The student may s1t rn a darkened room rnd VILW the yery tasks he 1n tends to perform vyhen he takes h1s pl lee 111 the husmess and soc1al world Then there la Wyandottes modern syummrng pool yy hreh provldes a place to put 1IIt0 prret1ee the most modern of lrfesxvmv teehmque and yyhere students do enjoy th If he rlthful hap py plunve xxh1eh 1s so 1fIV1gOI'Elt1I'l5 Mrny 1 SVSIITIIHIDQ team has th1s pool seen to v1etory A speed efheleney ha rmples whleh spree 1 hearlnff Beluty 1s as neee 11111111 rs sunshlne IS 1n the case of many more ex does not p61'H11I sary to stream to the UFOWIIUI plant and Wyandotte s flrst elalm to th1s requlsrte 15 her blllldlllg The aud1tor1um soeral hall and lxbrary are among the fmest Add to th1s the fCo11t1'nued on Page 571 RADIO MAJORETTES DRAMA SPORTS SPEECH GLEE CLUBS LIBRARIES ARE NO LONGER FRILLS 1 ilu- 1 Q 1 e ,pg A . . ,HQ 3 7 ,- ,QI U-3. 1 . ' ,,-A I ', . 1 :Q v' , ,u -1 -'Q ' I .g' , U -.A x , . A - ' -em - ,I -' , - , - 4 ' ' Z 5 fi -,- Z, .A .. , 1 ' , ' 'I' - X . 1 ' .-! . . A X IKQRAID ., ,, ,K X1 I . ' 3 1 ,X e ' . I N g , JI I Q , V Y , J q 6 . 'bfi I ... ,, 5, , w A . . ll 1,1 5l- 'eff , K. - W- I A ., . 1 1 1 1 ' s 1 ' 1 1 1. . ' d ' 1' e 1 2 -K 2 K , , , . , ,- , , . .C N, Z e , , My , e .1 1 ., , v - x 3 DE . 3' 5 , ' ' , . V . . e 6 1 N 3 A V V '.H fx 1 I 1 Y . 'r - H . 5 x . I e , X . . . I X . .y ' U l 1 . - s sv s , 2 , ,K , ,' , A i MA - ' , e. ., . . . 1 1 1 - - -- s I h ehrne of the old type. And who ean to our novlm Sucmlsts. 5 I . Y, 5 Y QY5 3 V ' . t I 1 . V I 3 is X . x S V . . x . . 1 ' 1 o ' a 1 - 1 Q 1 ss ' ' L ' ' Y ' .' '. H a 1 's , , , 4 , - ' 1 3 1 1 . f Q , , , 1 ,- s I s . e kv 1 1x . , 1 j . . I . X Q Y 2 . . ' s s , 2 's y - - ' , , , L 5 p Q A K , . , .a c b 1 , 3 . - A ' ' ' , s s s '- v l N. I V A , . .Q . N . A ' H f 1 D 1 1. ag ' ' v f s 1 ye s' - 'sn ' - s '-s - s ,s s s s s ' ,Q ' ss A s l 1 5 ' 5 hy . V- ha -1 1 ., I 1 1 a 1 1 -1 f . v1 ' v' y - If -1 -1 A D D 1' 1 . K 1 , 5 e . l y1K 3 D A'f L yi v' I x 5 U ' ' ' s ' ff , fa ' s ' ' 1 ' . g -- 1'a 1 . ' '5 I st - s - s , ' 4 5- -' -fi fl ,' . ,. ' 5- 11 ' 1 's:1 ' ' , 1 I ' A':a- r H V 3, 2 I ' I ra S H' , 1 1 1 a ' 1 ' s. 1 sf ' L I '- s- K N- 1 ' s l 5 5 - . ' ' -' I A H S r 5 r 5' . I 1 L 7 s ' s A V- s , ' A N. 1 7

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may receive approximately the same course during the school term. There are three years of auto me chanics offered, and the organization of the class depends upon which course a hoy is taking. In hoth first and second year classes there are six to eight third year hoys who each have charge of a group of workmen. In a first year class, there is also a general chairman. The shop itself is as well equipped as any modern garage, although not elahorate or expensive, declared Mr. Guy. Some of the things the hoys do are grinding valves, adjusting hrakes, inf stalling clutches, adjusting steering gears, and checking radiators, cooling systems and water systems for alcohol. ELECTRICITY The electricity course is divided inf to many units, Some of the more im' portant are electric heating and cooking devices, electric refrigeration, washing machines, storage hatteries, generators, transformers, telephone, telegraph, radio, television, magnetism, and electrical circuits. Most of the work in this shop is individual although ahout eighteen weeks is spent doing routine projects, such as radios, vacuum cleaners, toasters, irons, transformers, door hells, tahle lamps, electrical circuits, elecf tric hells, and electric motors. The first year of electricity is real' ly general shop work, while the second deals especially with housewiring, mo' tors, and radio. Selected students only are allowed to take the third year course, which gives the student much opportunity to do original work. NIETALXVORK The course in the metalwork classes is also divided into units. They are machinefshop practice, foundry work, forging fthe work the hlacksmith didj, heat treatment of steel, oxyfacetylene welding, electric are welding, ornaf mental iron work foldffashioned wrought iron workj, art metalwork, and sheet metalwork. Some of the more important equip' ment are forges and a melting furnace. N PRINTING the Pantograph is the main use of this large press: however the new literary magazine will be printed on it. In the picture Eugene Tallant is looking over one of the first Pantographs off the press Halloween week. Feeding the press is Dale Davis. IVIETAI, VCORK requires many machines. Here in the picture we see a real forge. where the boys heat and pound out the metal like the village smithyf' The hoys are Ted Denk and Mark Barsick. Mr. Stamstad assigns each boy's first project and after that his work deals with what he calls required elecf tives. He has a series of lists of prof jects and each hoy is required to choose at least one from each of by VIRGINIA REDIVIIQXN these lists. Some of these projects are tools-hammers, screw drivers, chi' sels, punches --floor lamps, desk lamps, flowerfpot holders. tie racks, magazine baskets, wood baskets, waste 5