South Division High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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CARDINAL ANNUAL HI MINI ART DEPARTMENT ART is beauty expressed through a „ personality. A knowledge of beauty and art is a great asset to men and women, no matter what tlieir busi- ness may be. In our art department, color, design, art appreciation, and commercial design are the problems into which the year is divided. These essentials are applied bv the pupils in making pen and ink, and pencil drawings, water color and oil paintings, and poster designs. Clay modeling, block print- ing, batik, and other crafts are also covered in the course. South Division has a wide reputation for its splendid collection of pictures in corri- dors and classrooms. The art pupils come to know and understand these and other paintings through the study of art appreciation. In connection with this study, Mr. Thomas and Miss Davis give illustrated lectures. The study of art in its application to every day life is the aim of the art de- partment. Everyone en- rolls who feels he would like to increase his knowledge of the subject. Emphasis is placed on original creative work. In the more advanced classes, our school post- ers and Cardinal An- nual drawings are made. . [:■. ],.

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CARDINAL A N M ' AL A DIVISION OF LABOR MANUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT CLANG! Bang! That roar? Only the noises in the iron shop, Mr. Sears ' s domain. Over there boys are busy shaping their trowels, eager to finish, that they may begin on their screw driv- ers and chisels. In another corner of the room the forge is roaring and belch- ing out its devastating heat waves. In the wood shop we are greeted bv a squeal and a hum. Ahead of us is a planer to which a boy is feed- ing boards. To our right is the jointer, a machine feared by the boys, but probably more used than any other machine in the shop. Whee! Whoo! That ' s the shaper which Rui l (. I ' l puts the edges on the tops of tables and other articles of furniture. Elsewhere about the shop are lathes and saws, the circular saw. the band saw. the jig saw, and a mortising machine. Next to the iron shop is a room where the freshman boys work. Here they learn to make joints, saw straight, and finish a piece of work. This shop is in charge of Mr. Sherman. Up on the first floor Mr. Holden and his boys at their high- topped desks are busy d r a w i n g plans of houses and machinery. No noise or racket here, only the low hush of pencils busily pushing across the paper.

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CARDINAL ANNUAL LITERATI RE AND LIFE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IN comes Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast, sub- stantial smile. In comes Tom Saw- yer, whitewash brush in hand. In comes Rosalind, reading a lyric from Orlando. In comes the melancholy Dane, mut- tering, To be or not to be. One bv one they march through the corridor of memory, these friends whom we have learned to love at South Division. We owe the happi- ness of h a v i n g me: them to o u r English teachers, whose aim is to relate literature to life. A few of the methods employed il- lustrate this principle. In one class pupils make clippings from magazines which deal Themi s ' Tm mi s with the literature being studied. Mem- bers of the newswritincr classes fre- quently have their contributions printed in the Cardinal. Through dramatiza- tion the freshman classes find that Jean Valjean becomes a more vivid character. Shakespeare, Goldsmith, and modern authors are favorites with the upper classmen in their work. Miss Foelske is now chairman of the de- partment, v h i c h con- sists of Miss Barry, Miss Black, Miss Churchill, Miss Davis, Miss Geil, Miss Knutson, Miss Lockhart, Miss Nagle, M i s s O ' Brien, Mrs. Reed, Miss Root, and Miss Terry. •4 30 h-