Frank W Cox High School - Talon Yearbook (Virginia Beach, VA)

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Teaching ten fingers to touch 51 typewriter keys, representing words with symbols and brief forms, prepar- ing accounts — simulating office con- ditions and a part of the world of the men in gray. Secretarial spe- cialization, speed drills, practice in transcribing, business math, and, of course, shorthand, are all basic re- quirements for a future in the busi- ness world. It ' s a man ' s world where motors roar, drills screams, sparks fly, en- gines spin. Smoke, sawdust, gasoline, dirty coveralls, and sooty face guards predominate. Heading these indust- rial arts — drafting, woodshop, elect- ronics and power mechanics — is Mr. Homer Brockman. Amidst flying chips, boys in the Industrial Arts courses demonstrate their skills in the woodshop while constructing useful objects. Mrs. Judy Liles, department head, instructs college bound seniors in the new semester course, Notehand 27

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Susan Mallory learns typing techniques in preparation for both the present and the future Mrs. Dorothy Frazier ' s home economics class learns sewing skills through creation of hand-fashioned garments. Students Prepare Courses in home economics have a rather distinguishing characteristic — all the students are female. Pri- marily, these courses are concerned with training the students in the domestic skills of beginner cooking and sewing, planning dinners, tailor- ing, caring for young children, man- aging a household budget, and in- terior decorating. Providing training of another sort is D.E. — distributive education or durable experience or desirable em- ployment or diffuse earnings, or just plain work. This program proved ex- tremely worthwhile to those students who participated in its job training and actual work experience in the afternoons and on week-ends. Mr. Brockman explains the lathing technique. Through the efforts of Mr. Stan Futrell, D.E. Department Heod, students become good em- ployees.

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mi Poster painting is a part of the fun in art. Students prepare ceramic projects for the kiln. Art Projects Encourage Creative Ability Miss Robertson mixes paints for her classes. 28 Art, the expression of one ' s self in paints, ceramics, sculpture, copper, wood; wrought by artists who are born and not made, but must be trained. The art courses . . . excellent training as the students learn by doing sketches, pottery, sculpture, lettering, paintings, copper enamel- ing, perspective, advertising or com- mercial projects, collages. Experience comes by working in the artists ' different elements of clay, stone, wood, water colors, oil paints, pastels, construction paper, burlap, and by developing to the fullest the indi- vidual ability to create.