Hagerstown High School - Epitome Yearbook (Hagerstown, IN)

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FUTURE BUILDERS AND MECHANICS To Construct and lo Repair ls Our Pleasure ll HX you walked past llllx south side ot' tl11- building, did you often wonder what that peculiar noise that sounded like a 'ft'll1IN'1'il- lllvlllill tire whistle was, or what that di11 was that 1'l'S1'llllJll'kl au army l1lill'l'lll1lQ out of step? 'l'l1at was the noise lllillilllg' departuieiit of lllll school, i11 other words, the lllalllltll l1'ill1llllQl' shop. Noise, lioweyer, was not all that was IllZllllll'.tll'lll1'l'Ll. l11-cause tl1e students wl1o worked there constructed many useful and valuable articles. sueli as, towel racks, fuu- uels, eoru poppers, table lamps, inlaid CllPCli0l' lwoardx. porch eliairs. Hllfl 11llllll'1'0llS UTllk'I' articles. This was also the repair ilU1l2ll'll1l0lll. They lielped Santa repair his toys: tl1e eooks fa- vored lllL'll1, because they lixed the electric stovesg and tl1e artists were their friends. lme- eause they made il potter 's wheel and waste paper baskets for tl1e art room. Sixty-tire boys were enrolled i11 tl1e four enterprises, wl1iel1 were lllf'Cll?lllll'2ll drawing. 3d'1el954 slim-t llll'l2Il work, woodwork, and eleetrie work. One wl1o is enrolled i11 the 111eel1a11ieal draw- ing shop must have steady nerves and should be neat. Two 3fllI1011lll01lS, Keep your pencil sharp aud 'tDo not bother the d1'3.flSI11Q1l,H were heard from Mr. Sedgwick. tl1e teacher. Many lingers were burned witl1 l1ot solder i11 the sheet. metal shop. Several boys expe- rienced tl1e ditiieulty of cutting on a li11e and ti11di11g' correct 1llGHSll1'0Il10lllS 011 a ruler. Above tl1e noise of ll21Il1l11Ql'S Hlld saws in the wood shop, la111e11tatio11s a11d exelalnations of the following type were heard. ttOuel1! I hit the wrong' Il2lll.H All the plauer marks are l1Ol sanded out. I did11't get this sawed off square. ' Electrical terms, naturally, were tlyiug' tlirougli tl1e ai1' of the electric shop. Electric' lwlls, two-way switehes. batteries, a11ytl1i11Q' i11 the form of eleetrieity was studied. 'A variety of articles all the way from cookie cutters to table lamps were made in tl1e shops. Mr. Theodore Sedgwick is to be eo11g'rat.ulated upon tl1e progress made a11d wortli-while things 2lCCOI'11pllSll0Cl by this de- 1Jil1'tll191lt of the school. v of al EEA FEL. 7- X Twenty-foilr

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WE HAVE RHYTHM Vive L'A mourn 45 OME, Home on the Range we'll give you three guesses. Yes, that's right. You guessed it the first time. Those are usually the opening words of the Boys' Glee Club. They selected this song as their theme S011g'. It was one song of which almost all the entire group knew the words. Maybe it was because it made a big hit on the radio just recently and was sung by every one. The boys had a good time preparing their parts on a program. For in this club as well as in the Girls' Glee Club and Chorus, special programs were given within the eluh every two weeks. The boys asked only one favor from their leader, Miss Neff, in connection with the special programs to he given, that no audience was to be allowed. Wimiiclei' why they suggested a thing like that? You eer- tainly didn't have to be in tl1e same room with them to hear them sing. The vocal chords were in line shape the year around. Hut, no kidding, these boys did wonderful work with their instructor in cul- tivating their voices and perhaps unconscious- ly achieved the effect sought by her-that of perfecting a freedom of expression. This group kept the aim of the club in their minds, and as they were interested in making the club a success, they had a very successful year. On the Thanksgiving pro- gram they sang a beautiful, old college song, Vive L ,All1Cllll', which received much favor- able comment. They presented excellent per- formances on both the Christmas and spring festival programs. Various types of music to broaden their musical knowledge were studied and songs of old masters and folk songs of various nations, as well as more modern selec- tions, were subjects which they studied. l Twenty-three

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NAME IT AND YOU CAN HAVE IT Green Dogs a Novelty ANG! Another Red Skin hit, the dust. Only this time it wasn't a Red Skin. It might have been a dog, elephant, pig or the such like. Maybe we should explain ourselves. The art class did clay modeling for a while. and in order to get the proper shape for some of the animals' ears, tails, legs. etc.. they were instructed by their teacher. Mrs. McCurdy, to throw them on the tloor a while. You had to watch your step when this was going on, for, unless you were good at dodging, you might have been soaked in the ear witl1 a pig. VVonder what they would have done if some visitor should have stepped through the door and should have been hit in the eye with an elephant '? Wie can 't even imagine, so you just guess. If only some of our well-known artists could have seen the color scheme they used! Can you imagine an orange pig, dotted here and there with blue spots or a green elephant with orange eyes? Even though the colors were exaggerated, one thing was cer- tain. the articles were so good that they didn 't have to be labeled. Some of the dogs had the cutest names. NVonder if Henry Clay would feel disgraced if he knew that one of them was named after him '! The class arranged a display of art. objects from foreign countries in a glass case in the hall. This gave students an opportunity to enjoy arts and crafts from such countries as Japan. China, Mexico, Italy, Egypt. India, Germany, Spain and Palestine. The objects were loaned by members of tl1e faculty and others who were interested in promoting art appreciation. Other interesting subjects the class took up were pencil sketching, water color scenes, oil pictures, l'll1'ISIlll?lS greetings. oriental wall panels, portfolios, perspective, tie-dye and batik work. The junior high did some very successful work also. They studied color theory and its application to craft problems, designing for covered boxes, lettering. posters, cartooning, greeting cards, design books, block printing, soap carving, and crayon wall hang- ings. lVho knows but that some day one of us may walk into the Chicago Art Institute and see a very beautiful painting by-Let's say- You Guess. Then our memories will go back to the little art room in the Hagerstown school where they had tippy chairs and where they decorated pigs, orange with blue spots. Twenty-live