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Welding Shop
The aim of the welding shop is not to produce welders but to introduce the student to welding as a future job possibility.
In grades 9 and 10, students receive 40% theory and 60% practical work, with the hope that the students will either be motivated to become welders, or at least know why they do not wish to become welders.
Thanks to the 11 and 12 machine shop spe- cials, the welding shop has contributed a blocking 'sleigh' to the Physical Education Department. This should help the football players next fall to !mprove their timing - an improvement badly needed this year.
My hope for the future is that we will have welding specials in the next couple of years and that the welding shop will be left for student use only.
V. Charlebois.
Drafting
In our modern age many jobs are changing. In the immediate future many people will have to be retrained at least once during their life time. Together with the engineer and the designer, he develops the new machinery and gadgets required by our advancing technology. It is a challenging and a seldom boring job since a draftsman's work never exactly repeats itself.
The basic training in drafting acquired in High School is a sound basis for an interesting career. Originality and mathematical inclination will help the beginner to go far in this field. Our School provides the means to enter a profession which has been important in the past and will be more so in the future.
The draftsman was, is, and will always be, one of the pioneers in the technical field.
B. J. w. Vande Weerdhof,
Sponsored by Collingwood Shipyard
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