Arts High School - Vignette Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Edward R. Van Houten Business Adviser We wish to thank these members of the faculty for the time, the effort, and patience they put forth in helping to publish our Vignette. Naomi Brooker Literary Adviser Jean Oulton Editor-In-Chief Katherine Lancaster Literary Editor Charlotte Cohen Literary Editor John Eberhardt Art Editor Aldo Mino Art Editor Nicholas Reale Art Editor

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FACULTY Mr. Chasen, French Mr. Morrow, Spanish Mr. Nappi, Spanish Mr. Deardorff, Mathematics Mr. Weiss, Mathematics Mr. Conway, Commercial Mr. Griffith, Commercial Mr. Jannone, Commercial Mr. Smith, Commercial Miss A. Johnston, Clothing Mr. Peterson, Shop Mr. Van Houten, Mechanical Drawing Mrs. Barnett, Pianist Mr. Criswell, Physical Training Mrs. Cross, Physical Training Mrs. Lass, Pianist Mr. Leven, Physical Training Miss Weidenbacher, Physical Training

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MESSAGE RI@=SENI@RS The Newark Arts High School is the ful- fillment of a promise to provide a high school curriculum in which wider opportunity is af- forded for the encouragement and develop- ment of artistic or musical talent. In this school, art, music, and dramatics are considered as major pursuits, comparable in importance with commercial or technical branches in their re- spective curricula. Provision is made for meet- ing the entrance requirements of many col- leges and the state normal schools; and in many instances this can be done consistently with consecutive work in the arts, music, or dramatics. In the world of affairs, there is a constantly increasing demand for the services of persons who, while in no sense professional artists, are nevertheless qualified to pass art- istic judgment upon a composition or a situa- tion. Apart from practical considerations, there is a growing conviction of the value to the in- dividual of the possession of a keen sense of artistic appreciation, combined with some measure ot creative ability. It is difficult at any time to predict future trends in daily living. But it seems most likely that in the not too distant future a constantly increasing number of people will find a more abundant life in surroundings which exemplify high ideals of beauty, as ex- pressed in community planning, in places of occupation, in the home, and in personal character. In any event, with the increasing service which is rendered by mechanical appliances, and with the increase in leisure time, enforced or otherwise, which accrues to the indi- vidual, there is a social need for an educational unit in which the education procedure is centered about the development of those cultural resources which bring their own re- ward. In the present juncture of world affairs, training for proficiency in the perform- ance of assigned tasks is the crying need of the hour. But education in the broader sense of the word must include in its preview not only the art of making a living, but the art of living. Life is something more than self-support and even more than self- defense. HARRISON E. WEBB, Principal.