Fullerton Union High School - Pleiades Yearbook (Fullerton, CA)

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T h P I c i a d c s Departments :: ART DEPARTMENT Over 150 students are enrolled in this department which offers courses in elementary drawing, advanced drawing, design, textile crafts, metal (copper and jewelry) crafts, and pottery. The craft courses, textiles, metals and pottery, give the student the opportunity to work out in actual material the theories he has learned previously in the elementary and design classes. The equip- ment for craft work is extensive, and includes a kiln, pottery wheels, and facilities for doing advanced work in copper, silver, and enamel. The art department sent an excellent exhibit of student work to Los Angeles to the conference of the Pacific Arts Association. This exhibit showed work of the classes in drawing, painting, design, and pen and ink, together with craft articles including jewelry, copper lanterns, boxes, and candlesticks. LIBRARY The library is the most beautiful and useful building on the campus. It is of the Spanish type of architecture with a wonderful paneled ceiling, patterned after the one in the University of Sala- manca. Spain. The circulation of the library has increased ten percent since last year, and the library now contains 10,400 volumes. This year the library has cooperated with the English depart- ments in the teaching of the use of books and libraries to the Fresh- men and Sophomores. A special course in Library technique has been offered and six students have Been enrolled. In this course one period is given to the teaching of library methods and rules, and one period is given to the use of the library as a laboratory. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT The commercial classes make up one of the most practical and important departments in the entire school. This department was founded with the purpose of training students for positions in the business world and that it has succeeded is shown in the fact that students have already proven their aptness and ability to hold positions after graduation. All the mimeographing of the school; all the papers and coi-res- pondence of the teachers; and many other things which furnish prac- tical experience, are handled by the two hundred and fifty students who arc being trained this year. PRINTING A new department has been organized this year, and about thirty students have received in.sti-uction in printing. The equipment is quite complete. It consists of both an Intci- type and a Linotype, cylinder press, two job presses, one with auto- m

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The PI e I a e s IN MEMORIAM JOHN BYERRUM Under the wide and stnny sky Dili there a ({rave and let me he, Glad did live and uladly die, And I lay me down with a will. These he the words you grave for me: Here lie lies w iere he longed to be; Home IS the sailor, home from t ie sea, And the hunter home from the full. R. L. Stevenson.

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The Pic i a d c s matic feeder, metal saw, paper cutter, stitching machine, type, galleys and other machines necessary for printing of newspapers, books, job printing and light binding. All of the school ' s publications, such as the Weekly Pleiades, the annual, bulletins, Junior College Weekly Torch, the annual Torch, verse books for both institutions and many pieces of job work such as programs, advertising posters, etc. are used as projects for the printing classes, the journalism classes, English classes, advertising classes, etc. It is to their efforts and the instruction of Mr. Shepard that we owe the printing of our annuals this year. Much printing is thus obtained which could not be obtained by organizations in the school because of their financial inability to take it to outside shops. HOME ECONOMICS This has been a busy and prolitable year in the Home Economics Department. Classes have maintained a splendid attendance, and in- terest in work has been excellent. From freshmen to undergraduates, work has progressed steadily, and with good results. The high school clothing classes, popularly known as sewing classes, have covered a wide field of work, varying from the study of simple and more complex processes of construction, carried out in garment making, to the various perplexing problems of the judging of textile fabrics and wise buying of both materials and ready-made clothing. The construction problems have included the making of dresses, coats, hats and scarfs. This year 1,795 garments have been made in the department. At the end of each quarter, the students up to date with the requirements of the course have been permitted to design and to make one article on the new looms. The common cry has been: When can I weave? The cookery students have been busy this year, learning and pi-acticing the foundation principles underlying the makinig and serv- ing of foods. The study of nutrition, food requirements, and special diets, has been an important part of the work. As far as possible, the course is planned on a social basis. Units of work lead up to the serving of meals, and the carrying off of party events. When the girls serve meals, they pay for the cost and take the meal in each case, in place of their regular noon lunch. Throughout the year a study of etiquette is featured. Trips to the market, and special demonstrations by experts from the city, proved an enjoyable part of the work. The household management class spends the first semester in study of inethods of care of the house, systematic management, the selection of new equipment for the house, the distribution of family income, etc., while the last semester is given over to the study of house-planning, furnishing and decoration. The home-making class is planned partly for girls who have little or no home economics work, and who wish to learn something of its possibilities. The year ' s work is divided into shoil units, comprising