Behrman High School - Bee Hive Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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1 Y Y. Q 1 ' J-U N-E I 952 ART STUDENTS MAKE GREAT STRIDES in By Ada Gros The art students of the Behrman Junior High School have been very busy this year making posters with water colors, tempera and poster paints. Using India irik and chalk, the students drew cats, vases, and many different floral designs. Other projects completed by the students during the past year were St. Patrick's hats, Easter designs, landscape drawings, Christmas ,cards, posters lettering and figured drawings. Some students made three dimensional animals out of paper. The students used stylefoam plastic to make rabbits, baskets, eggs, and other designs representing the Easter season. Many students made papier-mache figures of negro mammies, rabbits, cats, little boys eating watermelons, and snowmen. The best ones were sent to Mc- Donogh High School to be put on exhibit. The art students of the Junior 'High School are taught by Miss Judith Snider. ' MBHS' During the month of April, the school, but especially the Art Department seemed to become Latin American. The pupils made posters depicting Latin American scenes, people and places. Poster paints were not used for these posters except for the letteringg students made them on colored paper using colorful clipings from magazines. ' Behrman is proud of the work of its Art Department which always is ready to serve the school and to help beautify it. Under the guidance of Miss Estelle Barkemeyer, students work happy in the knowledge that theirs is an important and pleasurable task. - H143

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IVE 1 f f 1 THE BEE H 4142 SENIOR HIGH ART STUDENTS DISPLAY TALENT IN MANY DIFFERENT FIELDS OF ENDEAVOR By Ada Gros During the past year, the art department of Behrrnan Senior High has been busy making many posters, puppets, floats, masks, and decorations for many occasions. The sltudents have regular class projects to complete, but in their spare time many busy themselves in making posters, painting landscapes, creating designs, and doodling. Oil paints, India ink, water colors, poster paints and pas- tels help to make their work appear professional. Each student attempts his best. Among the projects in art completed this year was the making of puppets by the more advanced students of art. The puppets were made in October by Bert Andry, Jane Andry, Jo Ann Borne, Muriel Chico, Freddie McDona1, Bar- bara Porter, Beverly Richards, and Janet Saleeby. These puppets were used at the Louisiana Teachers Convention held in Shreveport in November of last year. The six puppets, a narrator, an instructor, and four students of ar-t, we1'e made to illustrate art activities in the Louisiana rural areas. Bert Andry made their wooden bodies and the girls made their heads and sewed their clothes. The other props, desks and tools, needed for the presentation of the show were also made by Bert. There are drawings made for just about every holiday in the year.-,. Christmas, Valentine's Day, Halloween, Mardi Gras, and Easter. At Carnival time, the students made colorful miniature floats and masks. These projects' which were made by many students, helped to keep alive the Mardi Gras spirit. For the Lenten season students made proverb posters on the more serious side of life. Last year murals for our library were painted by the art students. The murals 'Were so well done that some of our advanced students have been asked to paint murals for the Algiers Public Library. These are presently being painted and will be ready for hanging in early stunmer. Continued on next page 1'

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LM DANCING, TUMBLING MADE INTEGRAL PART - OF GIRLS PHYSICAL EDUC.ATION PROGRAM By Emma France and Merrill Treadway Dancing, tumbling, learning 'the principles of safe driving, studying good health habits, and participating in sports were all part of the work carried on by the girls' physical education classes of the Behrman Senior High School dur- ing the past school year. The girls' physical education classes, under the direction of Miss Bernice Pailet, a graduate of Southeastern Louisiana College and past teacher of Arabi High School, were conducted this year with many variations. iThe girls in the gym classes this year learned to dance 'the fox trot, the Waltz, the tango, the rhumba, the samba, and the polkag they learned some square dances and folk dances. Practicing the many different dances was fun, though sometimes hard, and 'the girls soon learned that knowing their way around a dance floor paid dividends. Many of them helped teach some of the boys of the school the dances they had learned, and ,when Behrman presented its Spring Fiesta on April 26, several couples demonstrated how to rhumba, samba and tango. The senior high school girls learned that they could have as much fun dancing as they could hitting a home-run outdoors or by making two points on the basketball court. Another activity enjoyed by the girls was Stumbling. During regular gym classes many were surprised to see their classmates attempting, and sometimes accomplishing, forward rolls, backward rolls, flying angels, srroball-s, endless chains, three people forward roll-3, pyramids, and their favorite the squash pyra- mid. This phase of the program will long be remembered for backaches,- head- aches, assorted pains, and hours of enjoyment. Much of the time of the Freshmen was spent in learning every day health habits which help them keep healthy and look well-groomed a't all times. Some good daily health habits which are stressed are the daily bath, brushing of the teeth regularly, Wearing of clean clothes, and getting proper rest. Members of the sophomore classes are taught the fundamentals of safe driving. They are noit only taught the rules of safe driving but also the rules that all pedestrians should follow. , The junior classes learn how to apply First Aid whenever it is needed. They learn ho'W to handle and care for a person who is seriously injured before a doctor can be reached and also how to treat persons suffering from minor injuries.