Peru High School - Narcissus Yearbook (Peru, IN)

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Studying and Learning . . . Hilgemon, B. Aspinwall, Briner, Mohler, G. Wecht, Mr. Hale, and Houser at work in machine shop. Mr. Hale's machine shop, busy everyday with boys whose future careers will dwell on industrial art of some type, is a school of learning in itself. The machine shop houses the teaching of the essential facts of the care and manage- ment of lathes, drill presses, and other ma- chines which are of great importance in the modern, stepped-up factories of a nation at war. The machine shop course enables nearly all of its students to acquire positions in factories almost immediately after gradu- ation, because these students have acquires! the fundamentals of machine knowledge. ln the PHS machine shop there is a com- plete variety of machines most used in pres- ent-day war work. The contact which the boys have with the machines allows them to put to work the training they have re- ceived from book study of machinery.

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To O O O The colorful, merry, carefree, happy-go-lucky manner ot the Spanish people-the clicking of castanets, the sultry rhythm of a tango, the beat of rhumba drums, stories ot ancients guests for hid- den treasures, the lust ot greedy conguerors - excitement, adven- ture, and gaiety intrigue every Spanish student. Lucy Leslie and Paul McDougle seem to have caught the gist of it. Wilson, Beck, McCain, Kinney Peconge Mr Rector Grai Enyeart Chitturn Brittain iiEi5? f UE, ,

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. . . Working and Playing Good, Gaunt, Fisher, Stodgell, Kahre, study art. Miss Knudsorfs art cmd crafts students are the source of most ot the decorations, signs, and other art Work that must be done dur- ing the year's activities. Sketching, painting, drawing, modeling, sculpture, and crafts are among the many activities carried on in the art department. At every important occasion demanding advertisement or decorations, Miss Knud- son's art students are ready to Work, equip- ped with paint and brush, or cardboard and pins. An annual tradition of the art depart- ment is the painting oi the nativity scene on the Windows during the Christmas season. Beginning art students are struggling to learn the fundamentals oi art-color design and line symmetry, however, some ot the more ambitious pupils delve into ink com- positions, posters, printing, and minor por- traits. Oil painting has been chosen as the project for this year's advanced art classes.