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

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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

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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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SCRUBBING UP after a hard day in the shops are Alfred Dyer. Norman Vossler. Alex Evango, Charles Hedrick. James Bond. Richard McGuffin, and Jack Slusher. baskets, vegetable bins, tool boxes, funnels, pans, ferneries, book ends, paper weights, plaques, carved trays, ash stands, toasting forks, tables, and aquarium stands. v PRINTING Our printing shop is probably the best equipped of its type in this sec' tion of the country. The most expenf sive piece of equipment there, and probably in the entire building, is the cylinder press on which our school newspaper, the Pantograph, is printed. Of course, the fact that a boy is taking printing doesn't mean that he helps print it. Only the third' year boys do this. However, the sec' ondfyear boys do printing work for the school, such as tickets, programs, posters, and various types of business forms. First year work is really straight composition. Each boy has his own type case and sets up jobs from it. Some of the main objectives of the course are to help boys who have a special ability to get into printing trade and to teach consumer know' ledge, appreciation for art in print' ing, some of its history, and its im' portance as an industry. XVOODXVORKING The fundamental aim of the woodf working course is to train boys to work, to teach them how to get a job in industry, and how to hold it. The only class instruction given is during the first two weeks of the year. After that the work is individf ual. The boys are told to decide upon a project, to design it, and then to make out a stepfbyfstep procedure. The principal things stressed in their projects are design, construction, and finish. The boys taking the elementary course make such things as end tables, foot stools, dressingftable benches, and study tables. The boys in the ad' vanced classes make almost anything, provided, of course, that they have the ability and the money to pay for the materials. Last year one of the stu' dents made a complete set of dining room furniture, which cost him apf proximately 526. When a boy is ready to start upon a new project he pays a deposit in advance for the materials he will use and then pays the balance when it is completed. The classes are organized to take care of the equipment. Each boy has his job and a record is kept to see that he remembers to do his part. XYOOXYORKINU teaches the use of many machines. some of which are shown in the picture. The boys are Henry Nagel. Donald Barrington. Vfalter Younghans. junior Bergerhafer. Bill fvlcfvlahan. Francis XX'eber. XX'arren jones. Bill Davis. Harold Nlallin. and T. Crossland.