North Side High School - Legend Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Johnny ' s Becomes Art Annex; Artists, McClead Move In Altnougn this clay resembles mud pies, it is a future piece of pottery. Artistic fingers will have nothing but the best in clay, potters ' wheels, and water. Johnny ' s will never be the same. Gone is our neighboring confectionery, gone is our gum supply, and our hamburger joint. Now our supplier, our old Casba, is the new Art Annex. New art desks and other basic materials have been added to provide an exclusive art room for Mr. Donald McClead. With this second art room. Mr. McClead and Miss Marjorie Bell offered eight art courses, including drawing, crafts, and ceramics as well. In the basic courses, Arts I and II, the studies of textiles, sketching, and designing were briefly attempted, while the other courses dealt with the more limited topics. Craft students, experimenring in such material as leather and enamel, created many original and unique articles. The huge new kiln permirted ceramics and pottery to be studied much more exrensively and thoroughly, while the foot-treadle sewing machine, which arrived piece by piece, provided equipment for persons en- gaging in textile handiwork. Upon completion of Ar t IV, lettering and poster painting, students took life drawing, a course involving the sketching of detailed portraits, and from there found it possible to go on to a more extensive study in the form of advanced crafts. In the crafr classes, Arr VI, pupils learned to make, among other things, rings from strips of silver. After sketching a design which was approved by Miss Bell, the artist filed, cut, shaped, and filed again the silver intended for a ring. When all of this was done, the jewelry was burled to a high gloss, and an intricate ring resulted. The more advanced courses, Arts VII and VIII, included graphics, an advanced form of etching, and an advanced arr apprecia- tion course

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Moved Forward in Preparation for Eventual Emplovment

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Population Explosion Beneficial to Music Departments elude Varsity Rand practii band ' s clarinet section. This year nearly one-fourth of the Dome ' s entire enrollment parricipated in one or more of the school ' s ren musical organiza- tions. Miss Jeanerte Rich, the instructor of vocal music, and Mr. C. William Hatt, the instrumental music insrructor, made the department ' s facilities bulge to accommodate the increased number of musicians. For rhe first time, the Concert and Varsiry Bands combined to form Indiana ' s largest high school band and to take the Northeastern Indiana Marching Contest, by winning Sweepstakes for rhe fifth consecutive year. After the band ' s retreat to the in- doors, borh the Concert Band and the Orchestra caprured the coveted Firsr Chair of America Award for excellence in the field of music. Vocalizers, numbering 321, joined seven- vocal organizations originating from the Girls ' and Boys ' Choirs and advancing to the Varsity Choir and the Chicas Cantantes. After passing a rigid vocal and theory examination, vocalists qualified for the A Cappella, and irs inner groups, the Chansonettes and the Triple Trio. These musical combinations required their srudents to spend long hours learning the many types of theory, technique, articu- lation and enunciation, poise, and showmanship but they got results, as shown by repeated requests for their musical abilities and ser- vices, not only at school and during assemblies, but at civic affairs and ar churches, where their extended background of religious music was exemplified. vay through a difficult passage