Muskegon Heights High School - Oaks Yearbook (Muskegon Heights, MI)

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106 THE OAKS 6? 1 A qi - Far Left Row Near Wall. Front to Back: E. Szucs, Race, Kocker, Pierce tface hiddenb, Pronick, Ayers. Standing: Miss Nellie M. Johnson, instructor. Second Row from Left. Front to Back: Zimmer. Benedict, A. Jozsa, D. Smith, Marchuk, Hegedus. Third Row from Left. Front to Back: Vanderlaan, Gallant. Gallup, Hatch, Dodds, M. Dare, Kelly. Fourth Row from Left. Front to Back: Bogen. Shephard, Maynard, P. Earle, Parmelee. Valuck tfaee hiddenb, Panzer. First Row on Right, Front to Back: Szyler, Dornbos, Hutchinson, Leaf, L. Williams lface hiddenl. Last Row timmediate ioreground, on rightl: J. Earle, Kzrley. ART CLASS Dolores Zachariason Near the middle of the First semes- ter, the ljeaux Arts Club exhausted its fortune of thirty-live dollars by buying eighteen prints of modern paintings by famous artists. In former years, the Club has purchased large framed prints of the old masters and has hung them in various rooms of the High School. This time, however, the Club decided to obtain smaller prints of modern masters, suitable for classroom use. Un the Wfednesday before Decem- ber 25, a Christmas party was held at seven o'cloclc in the morning. The breakfast was a big success, owing to the hard work of the following mem- bers of the art classes: Cecil Foster, Joe Holtz, Herbert Meyer, Rosalyn Zimmerman, Beverly Hewitt, Flora Mason, Pearl Powers, Lillian Eng- lund, and Dolores Zachariason, each of whom served on a committee. En- Michelangelo didn't have this chance. tertainment was supplied by Harriet jones. During an active year, many extra, outside projects were completed by the art students. The scene used in the -lunior play was planned by Mr. A. M. Courtright. He had the follow- ing students as his assistants: Bonnie Xhfachsmuth, Kenneth LaNore, Paul Earle, and Herbert Meyer. Posters for the library were also made by several students. Not to be ignored, is the fact that our high school was repre- sented in both national and state art contests this year, A senior art stu- dent, Dolores Zachariason, won hon- orable mention in the state contest. A special feature of the Beaux Arts Club meeting this year was An Art Pilgrimage to Famous Museums, given over the air by the University of Michigan, and interpreted to us by Miss Nellie Johnson, our adviser and instructor.

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THE OAKS 105 l .y TPTJT o ' Back Tables and Machines, Left to Right: Sutter, Kesteloot. Jones, Stockli tslandingy, McCaIeb,WiIson.Schr.ebo, Miss Morris, instructor Two Back Tables on Right, 1Left to Righty: Whiflow, Rhodea, Reed tall facing hack wall! Second Row from Back. Left to Right: Hansen tat machinel, Fling Cat tableb, Burandt, Nienhuis. Marchuk istandingb. Mz-nes tfacing Flingj. Vandervelde tfacing Nienhuisp, Parrott tfacing Marchukb Second Machine irom Front: Fowler: 'irst machine: D. Ostling: Front Tahle, facing camera: Dewitt: Prus, Prudick lfacing Dewitth: Far right table: Lawton Simplicity is beauty. That simplicity is beauty is one of the iirst facts taught about style in the introductory work undertaken in the clothing department. But in addi- tion to style notes, the ninth grade classes are taught to identify various Fibers, weaves, and by combining these two, the materials which they com- prise. Nine-two students are required to make four weaves: plain, basket, twill, and satin on a piece of cardboard for handicraft work. Advanced garment design classes cover the principles and elements of design which are very completely de-- tined and studied. The girls are taught the necessity of knowing how to har- monize color, te-xture, line, and light and dark. By doing this, they learn to combine the study of the elements and the principles. This also teaches them how to choose their material and pat- tern wisely. In general, the course is very practical from the standpoint of CLOTHING Betty Sikkenga both design and economics in the mak- ing of their own garments. The girls are allowed to make any clothing they need. according to their ability as judged by the instructor, Miss Mina Morris. Some garments made in the laboratory are blouses, skirts, dresses tboth sport and after- noonj, sport coats, suits, evening gowns, and beach wear. The girls may select their own pattern and mate- rial, but all work must be done in the laboratory. ln the spring of each year the cloth- ing classes present a style show to which guests of models are invited. The girls model the-ir own garment and tea is served to the guests by the foods classes. Miss Mina Morris has been the ve-ry able instructor in clothing for the past several years.

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THE OAKS 107 Half a stick, half a stick . . . onward! Master printers are made, not liU1'11. Here is a scene of the composing room where the students are converted into printers. Classes Fill this room every hour of the day, and with each class comes a group of boys all eager to set type and do other jobs which will en- able them to become first-class print- ers in the future. Some boys are just beginners but under the direction of Mr. C. F. Koehn they soon learn the fundamentals of good printing. Others who have had more experience take over the harder tasks sent to the print shop. The beginners have job sheets on which are planned certain type jobs to be set-up. Each job takes about a week to set-up. In these jobs the students are confronted with many of the primary problems of printing. In this room almost all of the high school printed work is set-up and later it goes to the press room to be run off. This printing consists of pro- PRINTING Elfurd Pedler grams, posters, blanks, tardy slips and many other printed forms. The printing matter is all hand set, letter for letter, and is a long exacting job as one can readily see. Skill is required to make some lines lit. The type is lirst set in a composing stick and from this it is transferred to a galley. The type is then put into a chase and locked. The chase is then mounted on the clam-shell motion press and impressions are taken from the mounted type. The composing room adjoins the press room. Those desk-like cabinets near which the boys are standing are the job case cabinets. The job cases contain the type with a space for every letter. These boys are either setting- up type to be run on the press or are throwing type back into the cases. In this room there is also a stapler for binding forms and pamphlets. The school paper is set-up and printed in this room with the whole round of classes doing their part. Back Cases, Left to Right: A. Anderson, Engle, Mr. Koehn. instructor: Sienkiewicz, Kaiser' tfacing rear wallj, . Reed, Tezeski thiddenh, Leland Pitcher tseated at far righti Middle Cases, Left to Right: D. DeYoung thalf-hidden, facing rearb, A. Snonaas, W. Hansen tfacing rearj, Matuz. Groeneveld, H. Vanderwest, Peter Pavliek, Kellogg thiddeni. Front Cases, Left to Right: Luick, D. Peterson, D. Dare tarm showing, far righti. .xg l ...L