Frank Cody High School 1968 Yearbook (Detroit, MI) - Full Access

Students Train for Industry For a boy especially choosing a vocation is one of the most important decisions he makes in his entire life. To help him decide, vocational classes are available to boys at Cody High School. This program provides an opportunity for realistic career planning and helps the boys find what abilities they have . Cody has one of the largest vocational departments in any comprehensive high school of the nineteen states in the North Central area. This is something of which our vocational teachers are very proud. In addition to the excellent teaching staff, most of whom have had industrial experience as well as five years 40 Mr. Theodore Hoover Department Head Mr. Horace Barnes Mr. Martin Bolgar Mr. Kenneth Brown Mr. August Coliandro Mr. Gerald Decker Mr. William Foster Mr. Robert Henderson Mr. Paul Payne Mr. Robert Sheldon Mr. Carroll Thurston Mr. Spencer Wright of college, Cody has well-equipped shops in which the boys learn tool and die making, machine repair, wood and metal pattern making, sheet metal work, welding, electronics, and drafting. The drafting division is out– standing, and there are even some girls taking architec– tural classes. Many of the boys and girls, too, plan to go to college or to a vocational school to get advanced training for a trade. But some of them go right to work after gradua– tion from Cody. Mr. Theodore Hoover, the department head, receives call from corporations all over Detroit asking for boys who want jobs.