McKee Career and Technical High School - Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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DRAMATIC CLUB THE AVERAGE high school student stands reverently in awe of Shake- speare ' s dramatic gifts and the extreme variety of his talent. On May 9, 1940, Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh presented the lyric drama of the star cross ' d Romeo and Juliet. It cost more than $83,000 to raise the curtain of this revival. Obviously there is more to Shakespeare than is seen by the senior student preparing for his English finals. HOW MANY will admit that the ancient Greeks had a word for some- thing just as important as food, shelter or clothing? It was called music . To our old friends, the term music meant the arts. They felt that man, in order to be completely happy, should develop his brain as well as his body, and to accomplish this, ordered all their youths trained in various arts, especially music. Singing men and women are happy people, and happiness goes in partner- ship with success, in all walks of life. McKEE ' S ORCHESTRA 59

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ELECTRIC WIRING AND INSTALLATION MAN first learned to use spoken language; then he discovered how to make graphic symbols of his oral sounds; thus developed written language. How we learned to use spoken language is unknown, but through the dim mists of antiquity may be observed a few traces to indicate how written lan uaoe was evolved. The most primitive form of written language was picture writing, and the earliest attempts to make lasting records were by scratching or painting crude pictures on natural smooth surfaces, such as stone, shells, bark from trees, or flat pieces of wood. All of this occurred in prehistoric times. Printing is the principal means devised by man for making exact copies of works of written language. Like all other arts it has grown from simple beginnings. It ranks fourth now in economic importance among the world ' s industries. Great Britain and the United States to-day do the bulk of the world ' s printing. They lay no claim to having had a part in the invention, at least in its early stages, and have contented themselves with such later develop- ments as the power press and linotype. PRINTING 1 •■» Tlte-r ■ ' « v £k A j fc 9? WJl - 5 » HH ■ a ' 58

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DRESSMAKING TO SUCCEED as an independent dressmaker a girl must have ability beyond that of an ordinary seamstress. She may solicit work from her neighbors and friends and thus establish a business. She must know how to do various kinds of sewing as needed, making garments to order. It is from such small shops that many couturiers of Paris have had their beginning. As the head of a successful custom shop, a woman may demand and get top prices. She has the additional advantage of pleasant social contact, of travel, usually a yearly trip to Paris and inciden tal excursions to places where fashionable women gather together with the satisfaction that always comes to the creative artist in any line of work. POPULARITY of ready-made clothes is constantly growing, and there is little likelihood that people will turn from the convenience of buying the ready-to-wear clothing of today to the home-made or custom-made ones of a century ago. Therefore, those young men and women who are consider- ing entering a trade can rest assured that this industry will continue to offer opportunities of earning a substantial living. In the vocational high schools girls and boys are being prepared to fill the need for workers in this thriving industry. In the metropolitan area over one hundred thousand persons, of whom seventy per cent are women, produce two-thirds of the nation ' s clothes. POWER MACHINE 60