Instructional Equipment: Division of Funerary and Interment Services

Facilities Department · Sub-Level Shop · ext. 2120

Wing E, separate entrance, separate ventilation.

• Preparation laboratory. Four porcelain tables, three of them original to the 1988 program and refinished in 2015. Two hydro-aspirators and two electric injection machines, the older a 1978 unit maintained under contract and used in instruction to demonstrate the principles the newer machine conceals.
• Formaldehyde monitoring is continuous; badges are issued per student per term and read by an outside laboratory.
• Instrument sets, restorative art kits, a full cosmetic bench, and a photographic station for restorative documentation.
• Chapel, 40 seats, with a Hammond organ donated in 1997 and tuned annually.
• Monument and grounds. A gantry and chain hoist rated to 3,000 pounds, a monument dolly, granite dollies, a diamond blade saw, a compressor and sandblast cabinet for lettering instruction, and a full hand-tool set for cleaning and resetting. The College’s D/2 and poultice materials are stocked for historic stone.
• Cemetery Practicum Ground: 1.2 acres, leased, with a mechanical excavator and shoring boxes for grave excavation instruction.

Equipment for all divisions is listed at Instructional Equipment. The capital equipment request is published at Capital Equipment Request.