The McKinley Trade School
1927 Yearbook.
Submitted by Ron Heise.
The following information is from the McKinley
Craftsman, 1927.
The Board of Education of the Wheeling Independent School
District established the McKinley Trade School at Forty- fourth and Eoff
streets. The school formally opened on
October 4, 1927, under the supervision of Dr. C. E. Githens, Superintendent of
Schools in Wheeling. The staff included
the following six teachers, including the principal:
J. H.
Lambert - Principal
H. C.
Mitchell - English and Mathematics
Charles
W. Mitchell - Automobile Mechanics
William
B. Connolly - Electrical Construction
F. C.
Copp - Mechanical Drawing
Hupp E. Otto – Printing
The curriculum at the School provided a two year course in each of the trades taught. Three hours a day was spent in Shop Work, one hour a day in Mechanical Drawing, and other supplementary work. Each applicant had to be at least fourteen years old and be able to read and write.
The
following lists, by Trade, the names of the students studying thereunder:
Automobile Mechanics
Section I
Arthur
Beiswenger Paul Leach
Harold
Craft August Martin
Henry
Dupke Morris Miller
William
Dixon Walter Schnelle
Robert
Duckworth Edwin
Schellenberg
Ronald
Heise Gerald Yoho
Herman
Helfer Kenneth Wells
George
Heusel Edward Wilbert
Edgar
Keller
Section II
Charles Bodie Coleman Hickman
Woodrow
Booth Paul Flanagan
James
Cerro John Kabala
Henry Frazier Tony Kalaski
Albert
Glaser Frank
Matyja
James
Gettys Steve
Korsniak
Clarence
Hunt George Murrin
Steve
Harrish Harry
Hoffman
Electrical Construction
Section I
Clyde Rine Joseph Carroll
George
Shook Louis
Gerlacher
Clyde
Thiele William
Groskopf
Walter
Williams Carl Humes
John
Yost Howard
Moser
Lashley
Mann Harry Morrow
Section II
Robert
Dixon Alfred Hoyt
Harry
Mullen Eugene
Leonard
Allan
Nolte Eugene Magers
Roy
Packer Carl Means
Eugene
Reilly Edmund Sands
James
Weidman Edward Timmins
Printing
Eugene
Auten John
Shackelford
John Dietrich Floyd Sturm
Ronald
Drumm Charles Seifert
James
Heinlein Ruben Quillen
Robert
Krismer Frank Wysocki
Daniel
Plunkett Robert Baker
The McKinley Band
The McKinley Band was under the direction of Mr. H.
C. Mitchell. The Band included the
following students:
Cornet Trombone
Carl
Humes
Harold Craft
Ronald
Drumm
Lashley Mann
Paul
Flanagan
Louis Gerlacher
Eugene
Leonard
Ronald
Heise Baritone
Morris
Miller
George Heusel
Clarinet Bass
Clyde
Thiele
Gerald Yoho
Joe
Carroll Bass Drum
John
Kabala
Roy Packer
Alto Snare Drum
Howard
Moser
Daniel Plunkett
Carl
Means