Diman Vocational High School - Artisan Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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INTERIOR DECORATING The painting and decorating trade is one of the basic trades in the construction industry and is one of the few trades which has not been affected by the introduction of machinery or by the need of a large amount of capital for establishing an independent business. It is a trade in which individual ability and talent may be recognized and rewarded. Painting does not mean merely the covering of surfacesg anyone can do thatg it does mean, however, the knowledge of how to protect and beautify surfaces which only a trained person can do properly. This knowledge is now more essential than ever before. Revolutionary progress in the last twenty five years has been made in the fields of color and paint production. This progress embraces the development of new pigments and pigment combinationsg the perfection of synthetic resins and oils to replace natural productsg color styling and color psychology which have completely revised previously accepted concepts of the trade. Painting and Decorating have now developed from an ancient art to a modern science.

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JUNIOR CHEF Not the least of the many useful Courses of Study in the Arts and Sciences that Diman offers to her worthy sons is the practical Shop and Academic In- struction in the Preparation and Serving of nutritious and wholesome food in our modern and well-equipped kitchen and cafeteria. Under the guidance of skilled Cooks, the MEN IN APRONSU soon assimilate the whys and where- fores of cooking, in preparation for their future careers as outstanding CHEFS in the Culinary Art. They realize at once that fundamental rules and axioms are as necessary in Cookery as in Mathg that definitions and cooking terms must be applied at all timesg that measurements, stoves and kitchen tools, are devices that fully prepare one to feel At HOME ON THE RANGE. We are modest in our assertions when we recall the many thrills enjoyed from the surprise production of a luscious, spicy apple pie eaten to its last flaky crumbsg an old-fashioned strawberry shortcake tum- bled with crushed berries and smothered under snowy whipped cream: either, delectably served by our Junior Chefs. It is our firm belief that some day soon, in the World of Work, the aspersion if you could only cook will be properly rectified to how Father could cook! by the future Oscars in our Junior Chef Dept.

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ELECTRICAL SCIENCE Perhaps it was the vision, or otherwise, of the prophetic genius of Americas greatest Scientist, Thomas Alva Edison, as he strolled down Hartwell Street in 1884 to establish the Fall River Electric Light Company that inspired our 1953 Electrical Wizards to accomplish such near-perfection in the knowledge of their chosen mother- science, Electricity: Nevertheless, they have advanced with gigantic strides, under the guidance of superior Instructors, through the alluring charms of Electrical Science with its broad regions of exhilarating discovery, to the portals of success, fully prepared to distinguish themselves in the World's progress in this field. We feel that their efforts will be crowned with masterful accomplishments in life, for they go forth as potential electrical craftsmen ready to contribute in no little degree to the welfare of our Nation and Community. .Jing