Cody High School - Comet Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Miss Seaman instills an appreciation of classical music as she instructs budding young musicians in the techniques of professional musicianship. Versatile performers in a music medium, the clarinet section accompanied the rest of the band in its offerings of a wide variety of entertainment to Cody audiences. Y' i With ink, charcoal, or water colors, individual artistic techniques were developed in classes of advanced commercial design. Members of the Cody Madrigal singing group rehearse many hours after school in intimate sessions like this.

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Interplanetary sputniks 'were launched by Codys art students who worked diligently at their own designs to achieve out-of-this world effects for our Winter Festival ine arfri curricu um eue 0,05 fa enfa l In the creative world of fine arts, stu- dents learned to use their own ingenuity and imagination to interpret artistic en- deavors. Impressionistic techniques i n t r o- duced to amateur artists the idea of paint- ing their impressions of a subject, using intcrpretative rendering on canvas rather than an exact likeness. With infinite care the art of blending water colors or oils and sketching the characterizing lines of portraits was mastered. Student craftsmen learned to develop their creative ideas through designing original patterns and unique designs for jewelry, weaving, and sculpture products. Musical varieties selected from the compositions of the music-masters of the age offered young vocalists and instru- mentalists an oportunity to develop their musical talents and background. Through class instruction they mastered the in- tricacy of playing musical instruments in concert with others and of harmonizing popular melodies in parts. One hundred

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One hundred two An office machines student re- ceives a helping hand from Mrs. Dudley as she helps her to master the keyboard of an adding machine. Giving full concentration on the present assignment this typing student learns the processes necessary for commercial employment.