Joliet West High School - Alpha Omega Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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Door to Future Careers Business education provided an open door to many careers in the business world. Future secretaries, clerks, and stenographers re- ceived training in their chosen fields by taking typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping. Students interested in office mechanics learned on West's office machinery. Both main typing rooms were busy every period of the day, pointing out the importance of this department, headed by Mr. Jamnik. Students planning on careers in unrelated fields also found business courses such as typ- ing and shorthand helpful in taking classroom notes or working on term papers. West's IBM typewriters offered students training for the automated world they will face after graduation. W1llCtl'HHSfCl'S ShOl'lh2iIld t0IhCPrlIlI6d page TOP ROW Charles Baker, Carolyn M. Embody, Zollie W. Hall, Elmer J. Jammk SECOND ROW: Mary Sellers, Barbara Smith, Roger L. Swank.

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Margo Dolhoff constructs a stained-glass window using colored I cellophane and construction paper. ' Michelle Cooper uses oil paints for her still-life work in advanced art. Miriam Edie Hancock, Marcie Long tartj, Nancy Newman, Leona Ziesmer. Q is l,. ara,l, 1 ig J Art and Home Economics Expanded Jeanne Williamson painstakingly discovers the patience required for sewing, Frontiers of Creativity Art and home economics expanded the frontiers of creativity. Art students used media ranging from crayola to oils to express them- selves in abstract or realistic terms. Sewing explored worlds of corduroy and silk as pupils fashioned and made projects. Students in cooking culminated their study with a faculty luncheon. John Konc assembles a project based onjust paper.

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Industrial Arts Students Acquired Technical Training 142 .lim Ward moves wood into position before using the drill. Steve Schwartz develops negatives for yearbook pictures in his photography class. Industrial arts offered students technical skills so demanded in the complicated world of today. Under the leadership of Mr. Kichefski, the department emphasized precision and man- ual dexterity as the guidelines for future, vo- cations.'New innovations, such as drafting ma- chines,replacing T-squares and drawing boards, gave students a greater awareness of the grow- ing importance of automation. Boys in auto shop worked on car repairs, thus gaining practice in solving actual mechan- ical problems. Graphic arts students put their knowledge to work by printing the school news- paper. Agriculture department taught the the- ories and techniques of using natural resources as a preparation for the production class of fu- ture generations. Steve. Taylor shapes metal in preparation for a shop project.