Harold L Richards High School - Golden Year Yearbook (Oak Lawn, IL)

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creative touch I spur' ...f- Mcking o rough draft of a still life were Jo Anne Korner and Denise Ostertag. Mrs. Patricia Huss showed lxathy Nauer lust how her sketch should look. f Putting some animation into their puppets were ll to rl Sandy Randall, Connie Tongren, and Janell Krick. Mrs, Patricia Huss looked over a sketch book ol one ol her art students 1 l Getting the feel ol painting were ll to r lrontl Jonell Krick, Barbara Krizek, Jean Fradrics, ll lo r middlel Herb Bartels, David Escoe, Connie longren, Dorothy Dool, il to r backl Sandy Randall A , I and lam Fritts. iw... ii. -Q. 5. 97 i

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The Art Departments provided a One ot the most interesting academic electives is art. The Art De- partment ot the Harold L. Richards Cluster was responsible tor many ot the decorations throughout the year. At Christmas the departments had displays and murals dedicated to the Spirit ot Christmas. Other departments in the schools called on the art students to provide a creative touch for their special affairs. Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. Harold L. Richards students who had acquired an artistic ability tound it a challenge in the new art departments. Foundations were renewed by the art instructors, and the students' art work moved ahead with brief sketches and then progressed into more complicated designs. As Robert Browning said, One may do whate'er one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure one likes it. Art students Barbara Rudolph and Nick Keane sketched a still lite in Artlll. l.,,. As Larry Kennelly posed in clown costume, Sue Smith tried her hand attigure drawing. ch Mary Blamquist, Connie Langren, Barbara Krizek, .lean Fredricks and Linda Hense ea worked on special assignments tor Mrs. Morrison at Northwest Building. Janet Kumingo hung a modern still lite in Northwest art room. v if 1 ii sf 'W'

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i ti F Pam Busse proofread a letter she typed in Mrs. Webster's advanced steno class, . -..U f i . -J Q, :MGM -. sfrwsw , ' st I+. June Boyle and linda Stone discussed a camptometry problem. linda Hobson multiplied compound problems in Mrs. Kings class. tl It was a big year for the Harold L. Richards Business Ed- ucation Departments. New typewriters, adding machines, dic- taphones, and cornptometers were installed for usage in a bigger and better curriculum. The main goal of business education was to prepare its students for o business career after finishing high school. Besides the general business instruction it also offered a program of general education which would meet the needs and interests at all the students, even though they were not planning vocations specifically in the field of business. The Business Education Departments offered three courses to its students--general business course, a stenographic course, and a clerical course, Courses in notehand and typing were offered to students who were college bound. Sandy Nyberg transcribed frorn her shorthand notes, -Ci