Dallas High School - Dragon Yearbook (Dallas, OR)

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Ceramics student, Cathy Mason paints glaze on her pot in the final stage of its constructions. Cathy is an active art student. Browning meatballs, Italian Style, for her Foods n class offers Sandy Wilske the challenge of foreign food. HOME ECONOMICS Home Economist Added Veteran Home Economics teacher Mrs. Jackie Gwinn headed the foods department and placed emphasis on speciality cooking. Included in her semester course were such unusual activities as baking yeast breads, fixing special breakfasts, cake decorating, foreign cookery, preparing fondue and outdoor cooking. The new addition to the Home Ec. staff, Mrs. Mary Ann Johnson, took charge of clothing. Areas covered included party dresses, tailored coats and lingerie, with cuffed knit pants being a favorite choice of girls in sewing classes. Thirty-five juniors and seniors enrolled for Courtship and Marriage classes first semester. Three class topics were: Knowing Yourself, Marriage Preparation and Adjustments During Marriage. Home Furnishings replaced Courtship and Marriage at the semester. Designing and Furnishing a model home were goals of enrollees and such things as color co-ordination, space utilization and interior decoration were stressed. Through a program of individualized instruction, homemaking students were able to become more confident in areas of special interest. Testing the flammability of polyester fabric, Patty Olbekson and Lisa Dickerson complete an interesting clothing assignment.

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Senior Laurie Bennet, chooses one of the many available embossing designs to use on a leather harness in Mrs. Baker's Crafts class. ARTS AND CRAFTS New Class Added Art for man's sake was certainly evident among the students enrolled in Fine Arts classes. Through arts and crafts, students not only expressed themselves, but made useful projects as well. Taught by Mrs. Jackie Gwinn, Crafts students enjoyed rug-hooking pillows and wall hangings and leathercrafting candle holders, belts and purses. In the fall, ghastly beasts were paper machied for the AFS haunted house. The relatively, new craft of bottle cutting was introduced for the making of glasses, mugs, and goblets. Mrs. Pat Baker taught Art I which was limited to drawing and design with traditional materials. Her Art n students advanced to acrylics, professional water colors, silk screening, sculpture and jewelry. Art HI produced posters for plays, concerts and other school events while trying various printing and commercial art processes. Coil, slab and wheel pots, as well as coffee mugs and casseroles were the results of the Ceramics class. Painting students worked with water colors and acrylics in the creation of self portraits, landscapes, and copies of famous paintings. Truly, a myriad of activities evolved from creative minds, occupying all enrolled. Applying glaze as a finishing touch to his ceramic slab planter, occupies the full attention of Louie Bryant. 18 Displaying her talents in Mrs. Baker's Crafts class, Debbie Smull rug hooks the blue yarn section of her Aztec Sun.

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS Course Titles Revised What, in prior years was known as Industrial Arts, has now undergone extensive change. The traditional course was replaced with Woods, Electricity, Vocational Agriculture, Metals and Power Mechanics; all became a part of Career Education. In Woods, students completed required projects and went on to individual projects which included such things as cabinet making and the building of small pieces of furniture. Along with Woods, Mr. Brooks Wagner also taught Electricity which dealt with the fundamentals of generator operation and the basics of home and industrial wiring. Mr. Gary Thayer completed his seventh year as Metals instructor and included information on the use of the lathe in making useful articles and acquiring a skill that could become an occupation in later life. Metals students also got to smelt ingots of aluminum and worked in casting. Mr. Lowell Buswell, who taught courses in Agriculture oriented shop skills, rounded out a talented group of instructors who efficiently adapted course content to a revised curriculum. Junior, Ron Linschied finds the belt sander the ideal tool for smoothing off the rough edges of his Metals I project. Steve Hillborn practices cutting a pattern from plywood on the band saw in Mr. Brooks Wagner's Woods class.