Hamburg High School - Echoes Yearbook (Hamburg, NY)

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A well-equipped art room, coupled with the best in art courses, helped students with art ability towards careers in many fields. In Basic Art a foundation was provided for all other art courses. Drawing and Painting, a study in techniques could be token following this. Other courses made available were Ad- vertising Design, Fashion lllustration, and Modeling and Sculpture. Not only did these courses provide positive preparation for the student who plans to follow a career in art, but they also gave many students the great personal satisfaction of the creative exper- ience. ART are not overlooked in our daily training. Groth, Demmerley, MCNCIII, Seated: Hagelberger, Hadzick, Panczykowski, Loring, Fournier. Standing: Rooney, Porpilia, Van Dusen. VISUAL AIDS Though often unheralded, this de- partment had a large and functional part in our education. Directed by Mr. Robert Ulrich, it performed many necessary duties including the prep- aration of lunch menus and bulletins. The department secretary, Mrs. Linda Smerka, this year inventoried all films and film strips and distributed copies ofa catalogue of them to all depart- ments so that teachers were able to utilize the materials to better ad- vantage. The work of these people deserves much credit, both for the large part they played in furthering the objectives of our educational sys- tem, and for their perseverance in broadening and improving their op- erations.

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Small, Draudt, White. HEALTH Sound health is essential if a student is to benefit fully from the extensive educational opportunities oftered at Hamburg High. Local physicians and the Physical Education Department together aided our Health Department in providing our students with the best possible health protection. The result was an efticient health care program which included immunization clinics, dental care, and hearing and vision tests as an integral part of its procedure. Each student was given a physical check- up, and athletes were thoroughly examined before participating in in- terscholastic contests. Swift and com- petent emergency services were ren- dered in cases of iniury or accident. A better understanding of the responsibili- ties and rewards of home and family life is an important objective of the Homemaking Department. ln Family Living classes, students studied democratic ways and prepared for problems and decisions of personal and social life. Clothing and food groups developed managerial abilities and achieved satisfaction from the creation of attractive garments or appetizing, nutritious meals. Learning through experience is the best preparation for meeting the responsibilities, problems, and demands of society. Varied and valuable remuneration opportunities are avail- able to today's homemaking students. To live rather than to exist is a challenge they are prepared to meet. HOMEMAKING Individual skills and abilities I ll Vt Grigsby, Thomas.

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Preparing today's youth for the indus- trial world of tomorrow requires special training in the use of certain materials under careful supervision and instruction. This instruction, beyond the ,realms of normal academic classes, was expertly provided by our Industrial Arts Depart- ment, in which interested students ac- quired a basic education in the skills of three fields important in our modern economy. These areas are metalworking, woodcraft, and printing. Throughout the year, the print shop produced bulletins and tickets for use at the school's dances and class activities. Students in wood and metal shop created various obiects botlu for decorative and practical purposes. INDUSTRIAL ARTS Woodin, Stuhlmiller, Arnold, N? Scharf, Wheeler, Baur, Rosenhohn. Hamburg offers many fine courses MECHANICAL DRAWING Our country's progress, both industrial and economic, relies greatly on our engineers. Realiz- ing this, Hamburg High School has seen the necessity to offer students who wish to enter an engineering career several mech- anical drawing courses to prepare them for college. The courses offered this year, each a semester in length, ranged from the sim- plest, elementary blueprint read- ing, up to the highly advanced mechanical drawing and architec- tural design. All of these were set in a three-year sequence which thoroughly covered all the preliminary background material and skills essential for entering college level engineering work.