San Gorgonio High School - Summit Yearbook (San Bernardino, CA)

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Ceramics compliments academic program Ceramics was primarily offered as an enrichment experience. It was elected by the students as a compliment to their academic program. Mr. James Fotia, ceramics teacher felt, If all we learned was math, pretty soon we ' d be like a bunch of robots running around rattling off numbers. In ceramics, students learned methods of sculpture, hand-built pottery, wheel-thrown pottery, moldmaking, casting, decorating and glazing methods, kiln firing and maintenance in a studio situation. Students can ' t always relate to math, science or other academic classes, but they may be able to relate to ceramics. Ceramics was a relaxing class and let students express themselves in the projects they created. It let them get away from just an ordinary academic day. It also let them look forward to a class where they could make what they wanted to, and learn so much in the process. The strong demand for ceramics and the other arts at registration is but one indication that enrichment courses indeed do have an important part to play in a totally educated person, declared Mr. Fotia. Above right: During second semester students, like senior Diana Manzano sculpt heads in ceramics. Above left:Mr. Sanchez shows freshman Frank Valenzuela how to make a Hopi Kachina doll in crafts. Above: First year ceramics students learn to mold animals to complete their assignments. Seniors, Mike Gomez and Anna Hernandez work on completing their assignments. 206 academics

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Top: For the first project of the quarter, Juniors Leticia Alvarez and Raymond Gonzales have to make animals of their choice. Above left: Senior Brent Gilmer made this bulldog, Killer, for one of his ceramics projects. Above: During his ceramics class, Frank Rangel makes a bowl on the pottery wheel.