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

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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.

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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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Although born in Fort Scott, Kansas, Mr. Charles O. Jordan, teacher of elec- tricity, has spent most of his life in Pittsburg, Kansas. Upon finishing high school there in 1923. he attended the University of Kansas, where he received a B. S. degree in electricity engineering in 1927. In 1929 he received a B. S. degree from Pittsburg Teachers College in edu' cation and his M. S. degree in 1934. Be' fore coming to Wyandotte, Mr. jordan taught one year at Pittsburg Teachers College and five years at Pittsburg High. Mr. I. Wolfe, who has been teach' ing woodworking in Wyandotte for the past twenty years. can definitely be called a Kansas man. He was born and raised on a farm southwest of Wichita. He graduated from Sumner County High School fnow Wellington High School, in 1911. Later he attended Pittsburg Teachers College. receiving a B. S. degree. His first teaching experience was gained at St. john, Kansas. where he was prin- cipal of the high school. Before coming to Wyandotte he taught at Arkansas City. Welle 5 The teacher in metal'shop work is Mr. Oren P. Stamstad, who spent his early days in Wisconsin and graduated from Black River Falls High School in 1926. Later at Stout Institute he received his B. S. degree. He has had considerable ex' perience in blacksmith and sheetfmetal shops. When the new building opened and Wyandotte needed a teacher in metal' shop work, it was necessary to go all the way back to Cumberland, Maryland. to fill the vacancy. Mr. Stamstad is teach' ing his fourth year at VVyandotte. enamel' Mr. Nelson M. Connet. teacher of printing. was born at Cas City. Kansas. He attended Pittsburg High School, grad' uating in 1921. In 19311 he received his B. S. degree from Pittsburg State Teach' ers College. His knowledge of printing is not limited to his courses in college, for he worked in the printing trade for ap' proximately five years before becoming a teacher. He taught for nine years in the Enid. Oklahoma. High School be' fore coming to Vfyandotte. where he is teaching his fifth year. fa P 7-eaclzefzs by Virginia Redman The assistant teacher in the printing department is Mr. Coler Stephens. He was born in Kansas City. Kansas, and is a graduate of Wyandotte High School with the class of 1934. After graduation he taught as an assistant for two years in the printing department and then at- tended Junior College, where he grad' uated in 1938. Upon completion of his course there, he resumed his work here where he is serving his second year. Mr. Stephens is a very good archer. ranking fifth in Kansas. Mr. A. L. Guy, teacher of autome' chanics. was born in Aurora, Illinois. He received his training at Bradley Poly' technie Institute, Stout Institute, and the University of Chicago where he received his M. A. degree. During the World W'ar Mr. Guy was stationed at Pensacola, Florida. in the naval aviation service. Upon coming to Kansas City, Mr. Guy taught three years at Central Junior and three years at Northwest. He then served as supervisor of industrial arts before coming to Vvfyandotte.