Edgewood School - Bridge Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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Work Shop If you can push your way through machines, shavings, tools and chunks of wood, you will find yourself in a large, well lighted workshop. Many of Edgewood's big projects are constructed in this room. May Day would not exist without the necessary equipment and wood with which to build the booths. No stage company in New York makes better stage sets than the boys in our shop. Besides these, articles, such as trays, tables, lamps and platters, are made by the younger boys and girls to take home. The latest equipment is used, also a small forge has been installed, at which hammered copper pieces are made. You might stop to talk to Mr. Notaro, the instructor. He will describe the huge globe the fifth graders made in the shop, he will tell you the history of the miniature fort in the upper hall, you will find out what inspired the eighth graders to make the beautiful plaque now hanging in their room, in fact if you talk long enough you will undoubtedly discover that the bench you are sitting on was made by one of our students. l 5:1111 4,

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The Print Shop cc HI' THAT UP in twelve point Della Robbia, caps and lower case. How many picas long is this line? Throw it in the Hell Box. These and other cryptic expressions might confuse an outsider, but it is the rare Edgewoodian who goes through school without picking up a speaking knowl- edge of print shop lingo. The print shop was started in the fall of 1929 by the late Louis A. Bacon. Its small press and ten cases of type occupied a different corner of the industrial arts room. In 1951 it moved to its present situation, and Mr. Bacon, with student help, began the construction of shelves, racks and storage cupboards. In 1952 the first power press was installed, followed a year later by another. We now have two power presses, a pedal press, 80 cases of type, and the guillotine, the steel-bladed paper cutter. When a job is set up, a proof is O.K.'d by Mr. Suther- land, Mr. Bacon's first apprentice, our printing instructor. The youngest printers put out an annual magazine, written and illustrated by Mrs. 1de's group, Popular projects among the students are stationery, memo pads. book marks, Christmas cards and short pamphlets, The students from the sixth grade through high school who take printing do more than make useful articles, and have the fun of making them. They acquire a knowledge of printing which will be of use every time they meet with the printed page, and they learn how to work out a problem, step by step, with accuracy in each phase culminating in ultimate perfection.

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The Art Room Delby . . . please come and help me!'l just a minute there, you young Scaramouche! I'm busy over here! Anyone entering the art room, a famous place at Edgewood, is bound to hear this. Several steps further he will undoubtedly crumple to the floor in a heap, due to the pitfall every person unfamiliar with the art-room encounters, that low slanting eave which has dealt out so many headaches! Upon recovering, and looking around, he will see Deacon Chute thoughtfully chew- ing a pencil, and bent over a sketching. Roger Lane and Peter Carr will be discussing the Dodgers' last victory while drawing little baseball figures. Dot Flink and Lynn Staley will probably be dabbing at an oil painting, with helpful comments from joan Connally. jim Van Dyk will be drawing grisly and distored faces, with cheers from jack Sargeant, a fellow artist. Upon investigation, a minor roar will prove to be Gerry Frankel, Marcia Hubert and Sandy Pray, discussing the merits and faults of each others pen and ink drawings. Evelyn Richardson will be quietly and artistically at work. Janie Hamilton will most likely be drawing horses galloping across a page, with janet Rosenblum admiring them. And wandering in and out among these, and many more, will be Mr. Delbos, either beaming at a new discovery or lending a helping hand to a needy one. This is the art room, a busy, cheerful place. We all love it and hope that the visitor leaves with this impression. x