| Show TO GIVEN HEHE junior and senior high boys to be given added training work is nearing completion on the shop being built west of the junior high school building for the purpose of giving vocational training to boys of the richfield junior and senior high schools the building is made almost entirely of material from the old star pavilion only the shingles a few new window panes and the doors on the west vest of the shop being new material it is being painted pearl grey inside and out the main work room is a commodious room 40 x 76 feet in dimension at the north end are five small rooms one to be used u sed as an office and to store tools one being equipped as a lavatory one as a coal room as the building will wil I 1 be heated with two largi large a stoves one as a room for all lumber and other supplies and on one as a finishing room in which painting etc will be done seven large maple top benches all made from material taken fram from the old pavilion power grinders lathes and band saws forges and other equipment will be placed in the building preparatory to starting regular class work monday september 25 L E peterson of the junior high faculty is the instructor in charge of all shop work and will conduct six alases a day seventh grade students will receive training in wood work and leather grade students in sheet metal and cold metal including the making of such articles as kitchen stools fern stands tam bouzines bou rines etc ninth grade students will be trained in woodwork and electricity tenth and eleventh grade students in hot metal or forge approximately boys will receive training every day when mr peterson first started to teach shop five years ago there were only fifty students it is planned to add a course in auto mechanics for ninth tenth eleventh and twelfth grade students next year at which time it will be necessary to add another teacher for at least halfday halfaday half day periods while the seventh and eighth grade boys are arc being trained in the shop the girls of these grades will receive instruction in home economics at the high school |
