Lutheran High School - Paw Prints Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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over the ocean flying through the wind swiftly jumping a breeze laughs I think one creates a creative atmosphere in his mind Mr. Roland Sylwester replies, when asked wh ere he gets most of his creative ideas. This is possible under many circumstances: alone, in a crowd, in the quiet, or surrounded by noise, sitting or involved in physical effort however if I consciously wish to create a particular ' thing ' I like the feeling of being alone. ] Mr. Sylwester ' s most prominent role at LHS is teaching beginning art classes. This year he ' s also teaching Christian Social Development which, ' he feels, helps students develop a standard of solving social problems ' that affect them. Never to be overlooked are all his puppets, who grad ' ually are achieving widespread fame. ! Total involvement in what you are doing is what Mr. Sylwester wants to (create in you if you take one of his classes. Too often students and others try to do several things at once with the result that very little is being accomplished. I think that fantastic, beautiful things can be accom- plished if people involve themselves totally in what they are doing at the moment. As a teacher, he feels he can help students appreciate creation by cre- mating an atmosphere in which students can work by aiding, when j needed, in pointing out various avenues of exploration by encourage- | ment when a student comes up with a creative approach and solution. ,1 , ™ — . tighten your prayers and scrape the cinnamon from the cobwebs in your head it ' s time to create and admit that green and blue are no longer you but orange and yellow and the reds and ambers of aged wines and leaves and sunsets and you ail topaz and golden in shining browns Debbie Gosswein wire sculpture

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, Jit ■ v. i - : ...-- ' ' ' Doug Gerth mixed media To Libra, With Points Just for what it ' s worth, My Once, my Sometime — Ever — Though I seem to go a way That ponders that time never — A nd try so hard to be someone Who, patently, I cannot be, A nd watch you — distant— fading out Ever climbing some new tree — Just for what it ' s worth I have not forgot. Nor is forgetting what I want. So— When by chance in some dark place With candle play on human face I distant hear above the chatter Bridge or Kathy — times that matter- Then in fleeting, bitter bliss Some ghost I sense of happiness As transformed in smokey hue The face across from me is you. I cannot hate, regret, or change Nor would for gold our time exchange Whatever it was worth. Donna Kahre ceramic sculptu Only a dead thing doesn ' t celebrate creation! If a person is alive, he has to cele- brate it. If he doesn ' t— he is dead. And I think that there are a lot of living dead in the world. I really feel sorry for them. Sorry that they can ' t feel the things I do when I look at God ' s creation . . and what I feel, is celebration . . . maybe that response is creativity. Mr. Gerald Brommer is recognized here as the warm, smiling and whistling man in! charge of Paw Prints. Freshmen and sopho- mores eagerly anticipate being in Print- j making, design class, and all his other ad- vanced art classes. Art History class is| spiced with slides and stories of his Euro-] pean escapades. He and Mr. Sylwester de- sign and construct concert stage sets. In his students Mr. Brommer tries to create an awareness of their surroundings. He feels that not enough creative thinking goes on at Lutheran High. Creativity isn ' t making paintings or writing poetry . . it ' s living lite in a way God wants it livea— fully sensitized to all of His creation. Assessing this school year, Mr. Brommer has good things to say. I think I see more smiling faces this year than last and that ' s a sign of satisfaction of a kind. More people say Hi, and that ' s a sign of togetherness. Happiness is a creative response, too . . like celebration.

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