Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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9 6 This year sfudenfs in fkrfs and Craffs are learning fo use fin in fheir work because of pafriofic necessify. Rings, pins, and bracelefs are made from silver and bronze. The designs are offen developed in confrasfing mefals fo achieve a modern effecf. Ofher arficles such as bowls and plafes are hammered from peufer. Wood carving fakes form in frays and flaf pieces. Leafher is used in making bookcovers, bookmarks, belfs, wallefs, and purses which are designed fo carry coins, wear on belfs, or fo use as regular handbags. Plasfer plagues are made from plasfer of Paris squares which are carved when dry. Soap carvings are shaped info figures of people and animals. The arfs and craffs deparfmenf sfrives fo preserve fhe arf of manual skill and originalify. Page 28

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rgaiiyfy L 6 U VF QQ , if Y slimy A all. A l-lughes boTanisTs, chemisTs, physicisTs, and zoologisTs acquire a useTul background oT inTormaTion and Train- ing ThaT will sTand Them in good sTead in many ways in laTer pursuiTs, especially senior boys in considering mili- Tary service To Their counTry. As is The case wiTh almosT everyThing else, The subiecT oT physics is closely con- necTed wiTh The presenT war. Physics gives The sTudenT a broad view inTo The work oT machines, many oT which are Today helping us To vicTory, and a knowledge oT The Things wiTh which 'we come inTo conTacT every day, yeT oT which we undersTand so liTTle. Physics, Then, is The science which supplies a greaT parT oT The answer To The eTernal quesTion Why? America is enTering upon scienTiTic knowledge will be required, and l-lughes is giv- ing To iTs sTudenTs Those very ToundaTions. The scienTiTic mind is The mind oT To-morrow. V -4 ' W l 1 a new age, a scienTiTic era in which basic ToundaTions oT Page 27

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Shown below are sfudenfs of Miss Ervin's Commercial Arf ll class doing faslwion drawing, an imporfanf parf of flweir course. Besides flweir usual work, flwe arf classes of l-luglfies are doing a splendid iob in aiding defense. -l'l'iey are well represenfed flwrougfiouf flwe balls-war posfers for bringing in fl'1e scrap , warnings of fl'1e danger of loose fallc , and reminders of physical fifness . Af Clwrisfmas fliey made and senf fo Camp Piclceff, Virginia, one ffiousand lwand-blocked paper napkins, one llwousand fray favors, and fwo flwousand nuf cups for ffie soldiers' liospifal. Tlwese sfudenf acfiv- ifies are under flwe able guidance of Miss Ervin, Miss Adomeif, and Mr. Porfer. H Page 29