Hamilton High School West - Retrospect Yearbook (Hamilton, NJ)

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MARTIN GRAF IR. who may one day become the highly-skilled technicians needed to maintain America's strength in the industrial empire. A few of novice draftsmen who studied in Room 220 may be at the drawing boards of a large' private company handling government contracts. The wood, metal, auto, and printing trainees will find several paths open to them: some will go into jobs as apprentices, some will go on to schools to learn more about their trade, some may use their skills as a profitable hobby or part-time job. All should be able to find their shills useful when they take on one of their biggest jobs--the home handyman. Mechanical Drawing Advanced Drafting Club 1 Mr. Robins instructs auto shop boys in the use of a compression qauqe. tFrom leitl Alan Cardinal, Ronald Sirak, Mr. Robins, Ioe McGeachy, Frank Rogalinski - and Frank Faltum. 53: CARL W. HOLCOMBE Metal Shop I, H FLOYD T. MILLER Graphic Arts Advanced Graphic Arts Graphic Arts Club Page Twenty-nm

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Wooclshop Staqecrait CHARLES N. BERSCH Chairman, Industrial Arts ALFRED ROBINS Auto Mechanics Electronics I. V. Basketball Coach S Watch that prop! . . . students pool their efforts to design scenery for school productions . . . Mr. Bersch is talented and patient director . . . boys are truly creative . . . gained recog- nition for work in STAGE DOOR. Charles Parks and Charles Othold are two of Mr. Miller's dependable printing students who turn out volumes of printed matter for the school. While some boys Work on stage properties, Mr. Bersch offers others shortcuts to a special wood design for the stage. Pace Twenty-eight

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'7fxefinea2iZLaela4c, ,anal Iffneliuei of men and women in a time when bad news seemes to be the daily topic of conversation. An hour before the painting stand, at the library, or at the piano eases the tensions of the day. The more we get the habit of taking time to spend with the arts the more we realize that art and music and reading are the best tranquilizers in an age bent on creating bigger businesses and reaping better profits. For we at Hamilton, fine arts time is a happy time away from required subject matter. 4 :Q .eg M MRS. MIRABAH I.. COMBS I Art I , Crafts II Stage Design iv. , X A M Vkt.. I . is it -. 1 V u'r.,,-A.. ,- Al V Ln' . l '-:i7.:.,,4,x 'SJ 4 fQ,,3i t ' Cheryl Britton paints a ceramic figure while Richard Nicholson, Ioan Reuter, Linda Thompson, Tom Staub, and Bonnie Bower work on tile tables. Ronald Nuel lstanclingl finishes his masterpiece , WILLIAM THOMAS Mr. Gilroy Kunz, who took over for LibTUfiUf1 several months because of Mr. Bure Audio-Viswl Coofdlflfllof kett's illness, dicl a marvelous job oi I-ibfCIfY PYCICUCG pulling together the musical teams of Visual Aids Club Hamilton- RADEF Group Page Thirty