Earlville High School 1950 Yearbook (Earlville, NY) - Full Access

InDUSTRIAL RATS g HE two pictures at the top of the page are of the eighth grade. Darwin Welch and Walter Westendorf are using the arc welding unit, in the lower left picture. Arc welding and aceteylene welding a r e among the many different fields of work that we can cover in shop. In the lower right picture, Fred Jenne is hammering a piece of heavy aluminum into the form of an ash tray. This work is called art metal work. We have covered a variety of operations and processes that have exposed us to the fact that Industrial Arts is an essential part of our general education. Children and adults are now living in a civilization that has surrounded itself with mechanical devices which must be understood and used. Hence, it becomes a function of the schools to give each of us an appreciation and understanding of our industrial and agrarian civilization. 44