GIRARD COLLEGE

TRAINING BOYS

FOR

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

PHILADELPHIA

1939

GENERAL TRAINING

SPECIALIZED TRAINING

CLERICAL-BOOKKEEPING-STENOGRAPHIC

CHEMISTRY-DRAFTING

FOUNDRY-MACHINE-PIPE FITTING

AUTO MECHANICS--ELECTRICAL-CARPENTRY

PAINTING -PATTERNMAKING-PRINTING

L ADMISSION-PLACEMENT

General Training

A Girard College boy who completes the full course of study laid down by the College has re-ceived two distinct types of training. First, he has pursued the usual academic studies,—English, math-ematics, history and modern languages, sufficient to enter college. Many of these subjects are elective, so that the boy is enabled to follow the line of his interests. Second, he has received instruction and try-out practice for from four to six periods per week as follows: One full year of general business train-ing, including business writing, related business arithmetic, and business principles; one full year of mechanical drawing; one half year in each of the following: woodwork, foundry practice, forge and sheet metal work, machine shop, printing, and élec-trical work. With this as a foundation, he has received two years' intensive training in one of the commercial or mechanical vocational courses listed on the following pages.

A few boys, early in their course, are transferred from the regular high school course to the two year Intermediate High School course. For such boys the academic work consists of business English, civ-ics, hygiene, science and mathematics related to shop work. In addition they have a half year of bookkeeping. Their mechanical vocational work during these two years is identical to that received by boys in the regular high school course, except in the higher brackets of mathematics and scientific theory.

GENERAL TRAINING

SPECIALIZED TRAINING

CLERICAL BOOKKEEPING—STENOGRAPHIC

CHEMISTRY—DRAFTING

FOUNDRY—MACHINE—PIPE FITTING

AUTO MECHANICS ELECTRICAL --CARPENTRY

PAINTING— PATTERNMAKING—PRINTING

ADMISSION PLACEMENT

Specialized Training—Business Commercial School instructors are all experi-

enced men with a practical business education, sup-plemented by business experience. They are keenly conscious of the exacting requirements of employers of office help, and conscientiously strive to instill in the minds of the boys ideals of accuracy, honesty, promptness, loyalty and other character traits essen-tial to success in business pursuits.

Boys trained as bookkeepers, clerical workers, and stenographers receive preliminary and supple-mentary training in practical business writing; ele-mentary business training, including practice in the use of the telephone; instruction in banking practice; preparing and mailing letters and packages; modern indexing and filing; the use of directories of infor-mation ; the work of the messenger, statement clerk, cashier, shipping clerk, order clerk, billing clerk, stock clerk, receiving clerk, timekeeper and payroll clerk. Instructon is given in commercial law, cover-ing the law of contracts, sales, bailment, agency and negotiable instruments; practice in handling the fun-damentals of business arithmetic; motion studies, office techniques, writing business letters, fire and life insurance, and a foundation course of one year in the principles of double entry bookkeeping.

Accuracy is stressed throughout the course. Boys are trained to check their work, and to find and correct their errors without aid from the teacher. Emphasis is placed on the necessity for turning out work promptly, and on the adoption of a business-like attitude toward their assignments and conduct, to the end that these habits will carry over when on the job.

I Specialized Training—Industrial

Mechanical School instructors are skilled crafts-men in their several lines, and have had some years of experience on production work before becoming instructors. The trade shops are equipped with standard industrial type machines and tool equip-ment sufficient to carry on the products cf a medium size industrial shop. Marketable precision and quality are required in the production of the dif -ferent shops.

All boys are taught to maintain, set, operate or control the hand tools and power driven machines commonly used in the trade; to be able to follow oral or written directions and to use the blue prints, working drawings and conventions commonly used in the trade; to receive, check and bill material; to maintain proper record on a job card, and do simple estimating; to select material and lay out work with good judgment and economy; to be diligent, re-liable, careful, observant of safety rules, and to work in harmony with others.

SPECIALIZED TRAINING

CLERICAL—BOOKKEEPING—STENOGRAPHIC

CHEMISTRY—DRAFTING

FOUNDRY—MACHINE—PIPE FITTING

AUTO MECHANICS ELECTRICAL CARPENTRY

PAINTING—PATThRNMAKING—PRINTING

ADMISSION PLACEMENT

Clerical and Bookkeeping Boys who take this course have been carefully

selected on the basis of ability in mathematics, per-sonal qualifications, and interest in bookkeeping and clerical pursuits. They are trained in the keeping of books by the double entry system, including the use of the purchases, sales, cash, and general journals posting; preparation of trial balances; analysis and preparation of income statements and balance sheets; closing the ledger; and preparation of reports and recommendations. Elementary cost accounting, simple auditing practice, preparation of indiviflual income tax reports, and the preparation and use of business papers are included in the study. Theory is always followed by ample practice by the most modern methods.

In addition to skill in operating the typewriter, boys are trained to use the following machines: Burroughs adding and calculating machines; Bur-roughs bookkeeping; Dalton, Sundstrand, Monroe, comptometer; dictaphone, ediphone; mimeograph, rotary and flatbed ditto, and Elliott-Fisher.

Special practice is given in solving business arith-metic problems, including billing, interest, cash and trade discounts, bank discounts, and percentage applications.

Boys also study business organization and man-agement, covering capital requirements, plant loca-tion, sales, purchasing, and credit and collection methods. Babson's reports, Business Week, and American Business are used for reference. Boys make trips to offices and factories to observe actual situa-tions.

Stenographic

Boys who elect the stenographic course have been carefully selected. Only those who are above the average in spelling, punctuation, and general ability in practical English are encouraged to study shorthand. The first year is devoted to the study of the principles of Isaac Pitman shorthand, the second year to the taking of dictation and transcription on the typewriter. Boys are required to meet a mini-mum speed of eighty words a minute, and a tran-scribing speed of twenty words a minute. Most boys exceed this minimum requirement, however.

In transcription practice, the object is to produce a mailable letter on the first attempt. Boys are train-ed to edit their letters before removing them from the machine. Accuracy and careful work are stressed, rather than speed.

In typewriting, boys are taught the proper care of the machine, and are required to reach a mini-mum speed of thirty-five words a minute on plain copy. In addition to the use of the typewriter, boys are trained to use the mimeograph, rotary and flat bed ditto, and are given a thorough course in mod-ern filing.

CLERICAL BOOKKEEPING—STENOGRAPHIC

CHEMISTRY—DRAFTING

FOUNDRY—MACHINE--PIPE FITTING

AUTO MECHANICS---ELECTRICAL CARPENTRY

PAINTING—PATTERNMAKING—PRINTING

ADMISSION- - -PLACEMENT

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Foundry All boys are taught to use the ordinary hand

tools of the trade; to prepare sand and make molds; to form cores; to tumble, chip and grind castings; to operate core oven, pit furnaces for No. 40 cruci-bles, 16" grinder; to charge, to tend ladles and to pour from a two ton per hour capacity cupola.

Working with cast iron, brass, bronze, or alumi-num they make castings which must meet market-able specifications and which involve cored work, flat castings, split patterns, rolled work, sand pockets, drawback patterns, bedded work, with proper facings, gates and risers.

Boys who complete this course are recommended as:--Helpers, molders.

Machine Shop Operation and care of lathes, 5 foot to 7 foot

bed, with cone pulley, single pulley or direct motor head drive, American, Lodge and Shipley, Fitchburg, Pratt and Whitney tool, Bradford, Monarch, Hendey types; Milwaukee and Brown and Sharpe Universal milling machines; Gould and Eberhart shapers; grinders and buffers; 5 foot and 8 foot bed planers; drill presses; vertical boring mill; radial drill.

Lathe Work:—Straight and taper training, be-tween centers and in chucks, cutting various threads, external and internal, using tool lathe. Precision work to micrometer limit or ring and plug gauges.

Shat'er Work :—Plane surfaces, horizontal and vertical, angular work, profiling or cutting to an ir-regular line, using formed tools, finishing with broad nose tools, use of special jigs and fixtures to hold work.

Planer Work :—Plane surfaces, horizontal and vertical angular work, cutting T slots, use of both top and side tools at same time, methods of clamp-ing numbers of small pieces on bed at one time with and without the aid of special fixtures.

Drill Press Work :—Laying out to blue-print, drill grinding, drilling, reaming, tapping, countersinking, counterboring, and spot facing, jig and fixture work. Special stress is laid on the proper clamping of work to table.

Milling Machine Work :—Milling plane surfaces using the table, cross and vertical feeds, simple and differential indexing, cutting spur, bevel and worm gears, use of end mill and fly cutter, jig and fixture work.

Qrinding :—External and internal grinding, sharp-ening milling cutters, reamers, taps, etc., taper grind-ing.

Bench and Vise Work :—Chipping, filing, hand polishing, tapping, threading, reaming, use of hack-saw, babbiting hearings, chipping oil ways and key-ways, scraping, fitting small machine parts, fitting keys, laying out and soldering.

Boys who complete this course are recommend-ed as: Toolroom, drill press, shaper, lathe and mill-ing machine hands ; advanced machinist appren-tices.

Pipe-fitting or Plumbing A limited number of boys are assigned to work

as helpers with the maintenance pipe fitters and plumbers of the College staff. Two years' experience on the wide variety of work encountered in the maintenance of a power plant and some twenty-five dormitories, kitchens, schools, shops, and other buildings gives these boys a good knowledge and skill on the fundamentals of pipe-fitting or plumb-ing.

Boys who complete this course are recommended as:—Pipe-fitter helper or plumber helper.

FOUNDRY-MACHINE-PIPE FITTING

AUTO MECHANICS--ELECTRICAL-CARPENTRY

PAINTING-PArrERNMAKING-PRINTING

ADMISSION-PLACEMENT

Auto Mechanics

After finishing one year of the regular machine shop trade course selected boys are admitted to the one year intensive auto-mechanics course. Most of the work is applied to maintenance and repair on passenger cars and light trucks which are in actual service.

Boys are taught to use precision instruments for tune-up work or adjustments.

Chasis work covers springs, axles, stearing gear, bearings, brakes, transmission system, shock absorb-ers, tires.

Motor Unit work covers valves, bearings, pistons, cooling system, lubrication, tanks, carburetors.

Electrical Unit work covers basic theory, ignition, starting motors, generators, cut-outs, magnetos, fuses, breakers, horns, circuit diagrams, re-wiring.

Boys who complete this course are recommened as : —Helpers, auto-mechanic beginners.

Electrical

Boys are taught problem work and theory cov -ering circuit resistance, line drop, power units, effi-ciency of transmission, meter reading, principles of telephone, generators and motors with fundamentals of alternating current.

Shop work covers the installation and testing of bell, buzzer and annunciator systems; apartment house systems; household appliances; burglar; tel-ephone systems, simple, duplex, code ringing; light and power circuits, open work, concealed knob and tube, B. X. installations, wood molding, rigid conduit, switch systems.

During the final period of training these boys install and maintain light and power systems in buildings and shops, all of which must pass the un-derwriter's inspection.

Boys who complete this course are recommend-ed as :—Factory operatives, first and second class helpers.

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Carpentry and Cabinet Making

Operation and care of band saw, circular saw, hollow chisel and chain mortisers, single end tenon-er, three drum bed sander, jointer, surfacer, disk sander, grinder, four-sided molder, portable rout-ers and dove-tailers.

Reading blue prints, lay out, constructing of:—

(a) Many types of cabinet work, including:—Fern stands, work benches, taborets, music cabinets, large and small bookcases, flattop desks, rectangular and circular tables, school furniture.

(b) Carpentry work involving:—Building closets and partitions, screen windows, hanging doors, put-ting on hardware, simple framing, outside and inside finishing.

Boys who complete this course are recommended as: Mill workers, carpenters' helpers, cabinet makers' helpers or advanced apprentices.

AUTO MECHANICS—ELECTRICAL CARPENTRY

PAINTING--PATTERNMAKING—PRINTING

ADMISSION PLACEMENT

Painting

All boys are taught the fundamentals of interior and exterior house painting and of cabinet finishing. Those who have special ability in lettering are taught the elements of sign writing.

Theory covers the terms, methods and qualities involved in the manufacture and use of standard paints and varnishes. Practical work is given in mix-ing paints, enamels, varnishes and colors as applied to prepare a surface of metal, plaster or wood. Cabinet finishing deals with desks, bookcases, radio cabinets, etc., and must reach a marketable standard.

Boys who complete this course are recommended as:—Second year apprentices, first class helpers.

Pattern Making

Operation and care of lathe, planer, jointer, band saw, disk sander, circular saw, grinder.

Reading of blue prints, lay out and constructing of wood patterns for:—Ribbed patterns; dry sand, green sand and cake cores; framed core box work; flanges; gear teeth; pipe fittings; follow board work; carded work; valves, cylinders, small engine beds.

Boys who complete this course are recommended as advanced pattern makers' apprentices or beginner pattern makers.

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Printing

Practically all the printing for the College i's done

in the Print Shop. The work ranges from tickets

or letter heads, through a wide variety of ruled rec-

ord forms, official communications, leaflets, booklets

and pamphlets, school magazine and newspaper.

All boys learn make ready, care, operation, and

feeding on 14/2 inch by 22 inch Chandler and

Price power presses; 34 inch power cutter; Boston

No. 4 wire stitcher; perforator and puncher; Liberty

folder. All boys must qualify on hand composition

involving various sizes and styles of foundry type,

rules and borders; proof reading; correcting proof;

distribution. Stone work includes both linotype and

hand composition material. Selected boys learn

operation of No. 8 linotypes, 4-R Miehie cylinder

press, or Peerless automatic feeder.

Boys who complete this course are recommended

as: Compositors, job press or automatic press oper-

ators, beginner linotype operators, proof readers.

PAINTING-PATTERNMAKING-PRINTING

L ADMISSION--PLACEMENT

Admission

To become a candidate for admission to Girard College a boy must be a "male white orphan, be-tween the ages of six and ten," of limited means, as stipulated in Stephen Girard's Will. An"Orphan" is defined as one whose father is not living. Prefer-ence is given to boys born in (1) the original city of Philadelphia (a small downtown section), (2) the state of Pennsylvania, (3) New York city and (4) New Orleans. At present, only those born in Pennsyl-vania have a reasonable chance of consideration.

Successful candidates enter between the ages of six and ten, and remain until graduation, withdraw-al, or their eighteenth birthday. During this time, all expenses for maintenence and education are borne by the College. There are frequent consultations between mother or guardian and staff members experienced in guidance, and when the time comes for the boy to leave the school, they work out with him the wisest course for his future. Aiming to serve at all times in place of the father, the Col-lege keeps in frequent touch with its former stu-dents, and is ready to help them in any way possible.

Over thirteen thousand boys have benefited by Stephen Girard's bequest.

Inquiries regarding the application and admission of boys should be addressed to THE DEPART-MENT OF ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE, GIRARD COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Placement

Approximately one hundred and twenty (120) to one hundred and sixty (160) boys complete their courses annually—their next step is to seek immed-iate employment. GIRARD COLLEGE PLACE-MENT SERVICE co-operates in this endeavor. Contacts are established with employers, complete facts are recorded covering the specific skills and personality traits of each boy, and considerable attention is given to vocational adjustment.

Alumni seek the advice of the Service from time to time and cumulative records are maintained which show the progress of each boy; when un-employment occurs, his qualifications are registered. As a consequence, the Service has available at all times, former students whose training and experi-ence have value in the eyes of prospective employers.

Many well informed executives regard Girard's Placement Service as an excellent source from which to recruit well trained plant and office personnel.

There is no fee to applicant or employer.

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TELEPHONE POPLAR 7500

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