Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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To ' CLEMENT J. BARNHORN Sculptor whose work, a beautiful expression of his ideals and interests in life, has enriched our school, our city, and our country, we, the Class of 1931, with gratitude for his friendship, dedicate our Annual. 5

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FOREWORD HE appreciation of art and beauty may be traced far vessels needed in his primitive life, pre-historic man was not satisfied to have them merely useful. He strove to have them also beautiful. He molded their shape and decorated their sides until they were pleasing to his dawn- ing sense of beauty. Through the years beauty in this handicraft has been developed, until to-day, pottery is recognized as symbolic of art and grace in life. In Cincinnati in the latter part of the year 1880, an institution T Z back into pre-historic times. In making the earthen I IA was organized by Mrs. Maria Longworth Storer for the purpose of developing the beautiful in pottery. Mrs. Storer named this in- stitution Rookwood after her father's country estate. It was the idea-of the founders to take the clay of the locality and from this crude material to mold their graceful vases. For the past fifty years the Rookwood Pottery has continued to pour fresh water into the stream of beauty and has been an important factor in the formation of taste in America. The process of fashioning pottery has always fascinated the poets. They have applied its symbolic possibilities to such great subjects as life and the soul of man, which take form under the shaping hands of the Divine Creator. The symbol is indeed a fascinating one and its application to school life is most striking. The development of a well- rounded and perfectly balanced mind and body is the dream and hope of the teachers, whose expert hands shape the soft and yielding clay. Both potter and clay have their own responsibility. The potter must skillfully mold the clay beneath his touch, and the clay must receive and hold the impressions made upon it. It is our hope that in years to come the reader of this volume may have vivid recollections of the activities which have taken place at Hughes, the potter's wheel, and may be inspired anew with the spirit of Art, the ever changing, every youthful enchantress of the ages. 4

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IAM CHARLES PHELPS TAFT ANNA SINTON TAF T JOHN SCHICK NICHOLAS LONGWORTH - Wesley -5,