East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-09-23
PendetOn Holds Young People in School By Making School
Work Worth While; Much Vocational Instruction Is Given

good linen, silver and china and the
girls with this equipment are taught
the proper value and care Of the din
ing room.
The sewing room is equipped with
eight cutting tables and ten sewing
and when any girl has
completed two years Of sewing she is
prepared to care for any machine.
Miss Wilson, the Instructor in domes-
tic art gives the sixth, seventh ami
eighth grade girls lessons In sewing
while the boys are receiving instruc-
tion in manual arts, The department
has enrolled in the high school alone
81 girls,
The cafeteria is under the manage
ment Of the head OF the domestic |
science department and a woman is
employed to prepare the noon meal
for rs students and teachers, thus
serving in practical way a very vi |
tai need.
II is the aim OF this department to
make the work so beneficial that the
community will feel the need OF a
house. which should be furnished BY
the boys In NJ. It. In this house the
girls could live in groups with the
Instructor and actually care for the
home, and can thus be shown how
the drudgery Of the housework may
be taken away and its whole manage
ment and care be put on a plane with
other sciences.
Commercial Course.
The Commercial Department under
the direction OF Mrs. Marian Webb.
is equipped with typewriters and the
students are given practice under ex-
pert direction The work in book
keeping is so arranged that the stu
dent Is given actual practice in the
work, II will be the business OF the
department to use actual data gath
cred from the business life OF the
community as far as possible, thus
making the work function directly
into the life conditions Of the stu
dents environment
In addition TO the more mechani-
cal features OF the work, courses are
given in Commercial Geography
Commercial Law, Business. English,
etc.
The Industrial work under the d.
rection Of Mr.. Chloupek, given In the
Pendleton schools embraces a definite
course beginning with the first grade
and going through all Of the grades
ana the four years OF the high
school.
Manual Training.
The handwork Of the first five
grades is a course in paper and card
board construction. basketry and
weaving This work is given two
hours week. In the sixth, seventh
and eighth grades the work is divid-
ed, the boys coming TO the high
school grade shop for manual train
ing. while the girls are given the sew
ing work. The work for the boys
consists OF models such as coat-hang-
ers, sleeve boards, pen trays. stools,
tabarets, small tables, plano benches.
This year the boys in the eighth
grade will be given a course In con-
crete work and elementary carpen-
try,
The high school work is being ex-
tended this year by the addition Of
forge shop. The class in carpentry
work erect the shop, 3Sx24 feet, lay
the concrete floor and install l2i
forges. exhauster and every grinder
Besides this work the class will have
a block OF cement sidewalk and a re-
tanning wall to lay.
The course in the high school COM
prises joinery, wood turning, cabinet
making, carpentry, forging. concrete
work, and a complete course in me-
Chanical and architectural drawing,
The shops are equipped as follows;
One grade shop with 10 double
benches and small tool equipment for
- pupils one mechanical leaving
room with drawing boards, squares,
AlldHkltHs anu iilSAi uilltiilS AbA -
pupils. The high school wood shop
with u double benches and small
tools for "a pupils, 10 wood turning
lathes. one motor oil-grindstone, one
universal saw bench; one forge shop
with 10 Buffalo forges, and all the
necessary equipment In all the
manual training department has sew
en- rooms with a valuation on the
equipment of S6O7S.O9, making one
of the most complete and finest equip
red departments in the state.
Agricultural.
The agricultural department of
the high school under the direction Of
Mr.. Gambee offers four years Of
work in practical agriculture. II is.
the purpose of this department to
train definitely for the farm and to
place special emphasis upon the
study of soils, crops, live stock, their
care and breeding, and In fact all !