Binghamton North High School 1947 Yearbook (Binghamton, NY) - Full Access

• • • 'The [lasses OPPOSITE PAGE A ma,or accomplishment of North's first decode was training workers for war industries. Fortunate in its splendid equipment and tro1ned teachers, North was probably the first school in the state to get under way when orders come to start a defense training program. With hundreds of applicants on the wo1ting list, classes were run on a twenty-hour schedule, offering accelerated work at night in all regular technical, vocational and industrial subjects. This program has now been adopted into the Veterans' School. Top left- Elementary auto shop : Installing p1stons is one phose of the elementary auto course which prov1des ex– ploration into and leads to advanced work in auto mechanics. Top right- Electricity : Power test and experimental laboratory work prepares boys for college or entrance into industry as technicians or JUnior engineers. Industriol course prepares boys to become apprentice electricians. Second left- Machine shop teaches students tool making and operation of machines used in industry, and on the technical level prepares for college or for work as technicians. Second right- Fundamentals of aviation : Under– standing engine constructiOn IS requisite to a full knowledge of operation and core of airplanes for private flying. Third left- Drafting : Mechanical Drawing and Applied Drafting teach boys basic procedure and fundamental knowledge in preporot1on for advanced work in drafting. Third right- Print shop : Locking up of type is one project of the course which prepares students for 1ndustriol printing. Lower left- Sheet metal shop is designed to teach the student fundamentals of sheet metal work and to help him develop good industnol habits. Lower right- Photography: Enlorgmg photos is 1ncluded in the photography course set up to give amateur photographers a basic knowledge of the composition, development, and printing of good pictures. BELOW Top left- Nutricious and Delicious: Ever-on-the-job cafeteria staff offers Indians meals with oppet1te appeal. Top right- Books are Bridges: Books tempt students to improve their use of leisure, to broaden their appreciation, to make of themselves integrated personalities and to lead some to creative work. Lower left- Food Famine? No siree-not here with this food crew on the beam: Doris Higgins, Adelaide Wh1toker, Betty Kane, Marion Nosh, Edith lngrohon (Head Dietician), Beatrice Rich, Heldo Becker, Ida Cromer, and Jane Goodrich. Lower right-Noontime Pastime: The men that give North that oxydol sparkle toke time out for a game of quoits: Leonard Phillips, Jess Gross, Wallace Osier, Claude Jones (Head Custod1onl, Stanley Pender, William Hall, Karl Hove. Kneelmg: Benjamin Hunt.