Manual High School - Thunderbolt Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS THE scent of freshly cut oak penetrates the atmosphere of a large, sunny room. Complicated plans, which will eventually be- come ornamental book-ends, cover the front assignment board. A score of different pieces nf furniture in various stages of eompletion cross the vision. Fin- ishing touches are being put on shapely table legs. Wooden skele- :ons are rapidly becoming radio :abinets to the screeching whine Jf a band saw ripping through a piece of pine. Wiping sawdust from our eye- ashes, we peek into a room across the hall filled with slant- lng desks and high stools. Blue prints, rulers, and intent faces speak mutely of house plans. The room takes on the air of a chapel is the boys fand girls tool Work but assignments of geometric igures and architectural plans iided by T-squares and com- gasses. The roll of a printing press ind the smell of printer's ink :omes from a secluded room on :he second floor. Here a group of Joys industriously set hand type. Dther boys feed paper to the la- Joring press, Watch the ink rol- ers, or carry away newly printed Jlacards. Passing a closed door the clear 'ing of metal on metal is heard. fn this room boys carefully shape strips of copper and aluminum nto utensils of beauty. At one ,able a youth diligently hammers in aluminum loving cup. An- mther boy busily copper plates a set of book ends. We leave the Jedlam of the busy shop and seek ,hi comparative quiet of the ia s. i

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Embryonic artists require models too ADRAWING class bends enthusiastically to the mastery of freehand. There is a shuffle of feet, sounds of drawers being opened and slammed, or draw- ing boards hastily covered with paper. A momentary controversy flares over the model and the class begins. A wiry, white-garbed man moves easily about the room, stops momentarily to point out mistakes and then moves on. Blackboards are covered with partially completed posters to illustrate the steps in painting a portrait. At the back of the room discarded drawings are forgotten and plaster of paris statues stand in grotesque attitudes. In a small side room a student works on the end sheet for next year's annual, skillfully molding the clay into striking symbols of the American Way. Nearby, other students model in clay, madonnas, buffaloes, or elephants, take shape under their fingers. A boy seated on a high stool gazes dreamily out of a window, the drawing board in front of him a complete blank. Suddenly, an inspiration comes to him, mingled trees and house tops, broken here and there by a tall building, provide him with a subject. He eagerly sets to work and before the end of the period the background is in and he is ready for color. The harsh dis- cord of a bell breaks upon their work and paper and clay are quickly laid away to be finished another period. Twenty Clay finds new and beautiful forms

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'-'OZ'- JU U fig? ' iii! 1 ct , 352:91 A LS 77 ' i, esewf fifth V iliv . f-sf:,.::g F W A K ' N- I2 lPl U etyt THE AMERICAN WAY THE THUNDERBOLT has for its theme The American Way. Just what does this theme mean? First it means that we in America have great faith in the individual person, and that our Whole social organization is such as to make it possible for the individual to grow into the highest type of personality. Second the American Way means that we shall solve our problems by the use of the combined in- telligence of all the people and not by the will of a dictator. Third the American Way means that We shall Work cooperatively after We have mutually agreed on a course of action. Fourth it means that We must be as carefully prepared as possible in order to participate effectively in this great American Way of life. CHARLES D. HALL. id