Lorain High School - Scimitar Yearbook (Lorain, OH)

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS DEPARTMENT 'I'we'ntyfEight Boys and girls used their hands as Well as their heads to make tables, book racks, and other articles of home furnishings. Could you do as Well? REATIVE living shows its best expression in some work of beauty. In the woodshop . . . in the machine shop . . . we learned to make the sketches . . . the drawings . . . the blue-print . . . take on proportion. Meaningless numbers and lines finally became chests and cabinets. We amazed ourselves . . . We saw the miracle of wood and metal refinished by stain and paint and varnish. In our own way . . . better things . . . for better living.

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FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT ' llllll Medals, insignia, and swastikas interested members of the German classes. These souvenirs of War were grim reminders in times of peace. people become interesting in proportion as we can see them through the eyes,' of their own language. Spain, France, Germany . . . were remote from us geographically . . . but through their language we came to know Goethe . . . Cervantes . . . Hugo. These were people, too . . . We talked their language . . . read their lit- erature . . . sang their songs . . . and we understood. They were also in search of . . . the better life. TwentyfSeve11

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CULTURAL ARTS DEPARTMENT In a design for living, home economics students demonstrated what the well- dressed girl will be Wearing this season. And I did it all, myself! N music . . . in art . . . in home making . . . in books . . . boys and girls learned that the beautiful can be achieved by hard work plus inspiration . . . in good singing . . . good books . . . good living. All helped us to live more abundantly . . . more beau- tifully, the ideal that was life for each of us. TwentyfN1'ne