Pennridge High School - Pennant Yearbook (Perkasie, PA)

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Painting and Drawing Club The main purpose of the Painting and Drawing Club is to give the students a chance to learn about the different forms of art. Nlany students had never worked with oil paints before, so Miss Applebach first taught them how to arrange the colors on the palette, and then showed them how to start to paint a picture. The students who had used oils before were set to work on summer or winter scenes, while those who had no experience worked on still life scenes. Near the end of the year the club started working on still lifes painted in tempera. Stamp Club ln the Pennridge area, as in the rest of the United States, there are people who have the urge to collect things. Thus, the people who are fascinated by stamps become very interested in col- lecting them. Mr. Helman has a club for just such people. He helps the stu- dents work together and enjoy their hobby by explaining the various stamps to them. The magazine and newspaper to which the club sub- scribes stimulate ideas. Each member receives twenty-five stamps a Week for the dues he has paid. He may then trade with other members to get the particular stamps which he needs. Be- sides being an interesting hobby, stamp collecting can become a profit- able one, as the value of stamps in- creases with time. in is was

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xx r our all in ms! mx lf For the first time in the history of the sehool, Pennridge has a Girls' Varsity Club. Miss Kramer, the girls' athletic' eoaeh, sponsors the elub. The officers are Barbara Freed, president: Bev Raudenbush, viee president: Gail Len- art, secretary: and Grace Ruth, treas- urer. The Club is open to all letter winners. The purpose of the elub is to promote girls sports and to teach its members rules and teamwork, as well as the sports themselves. During the year the aetive members participate in basket- ball, archery, volleyball, badminton, bowling, and horseback riding. At, the end of basketball season the Girls' Yar- sity Club Combined with the Boys' Varsity Club to sponsor an all-school jamboree. P

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