Pen Argyl Area High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Pen Argyl, PA)

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,H J L. TOP - Debbie Lobb, Mary Jo Policelli and Sharon Weidman apply the finishing touches to a Home Ec. project. ABOVE - The art room is always a busy place. Scott Caesar is oblivious to our camerman as he works intently. As various points ofculture develop S eb' Expression Needed In countless ways these intellectual artists and musi- cians transmit their talents to everyone at P.A.H.S. A student may wish to cut, hammer, and glue together an uoriginaln, or he may combine his talents and draw a French horn or bassoon. Another desire may be to di- rectly force air into a musical instrument until a pleas- ant sound is produced. Whatever the skill of a particu- lar student is, one may be sure that he expresses his feelings and emotions to the fullest, thereby receiving the greatest possible pleasure from them. ABOVE: Neil Holland, Mary Ann Washburn, and Chris Nolf, find there is more to music than listen- ing. LEFT: Kevin Duvall is one of 37 students receiv- ing instrumental music les- sons during the day.

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Denny Vough, a freshman industrial arts student, applies the finish- ing touches to his current project, a hand made chess board. We have approximately one-hundred boys enrolled in the shop programs. As students learn what things are made of Creativity Is the Role Working steadily and diligently on his masterpiece, the student creates with his own two hands the work of a master craftsman. Be it a coffee table, a bench, a house, or a new coat in Home Ee., the completed pro- ject is always a work of art, different from everyone else's. Perhaps this singularity is good, for sometimes no one but the creator can tell what his masterpiece is supposed to be. Cn the other hand, the beginnings of almost every great inventor were small and insignifi- cant. Who knows where these students of PAHS may end up? One of fifty mechanical drawing students Ralph Behler concentrates on his isometric drawing project. Many designs and blue prints are entered in various art shows throughout the area.

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Mr. Toth gives Janice Eichlan a few last-minute pointers before her first driving lesson. In the gym or onthe highway Students Learn Dexterity No doubt many people wonder how a person can gather up enough courage to sit beside a student who is behind the wheel of a car for the first time. That's ex- actly what a few of our outstanding teachers do, day after day. Driver training begins in the school parking lot, driving around cones and trying to leave a few standing. After the trainee has mastered the parking lot, he is turned loose to drive on the same roads on which the public drives. Finally, after parallel parking without running down any posts or curbs, the student takes a driving test to exhibit his newly acquired skills. Required of every student in the school is Phys. Ed. twice every week. During those inspiring periods they may shoot baskets, spike volleyballs, bat baseballs, or sometimes swing like Tarzan from a swinging rope. No wonder Pen Argyl students are in such excellent physi- cal condition.