Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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ART WORK ROM the darksome archways and mysterious corridors of old medieval castles, come the ghosts of brave knights-errant seek¬ ing after fair ladies in distress. These we have captured and tried to embody, along with their picturesque background, in the art work for this Annual. For this purpose we have substituted for the usual tools (paint, paper, and brush) variously shaped knives and the smooth brown linoleum block. The linoleum block is an outgrowth of the wood-block with which many a craftsman of the Middle Ages tested his skill. It is easier to carve than the wood-block in that it is softer and has no grain. There are several steps before the actual cutting of linoleum blocks. The design for the block must be simplified, reversed, and then traced on the linoleum block which has been given a coat of white paint. In carving, those parts are cut out where the paper is to show through. The raised section, which is left, takes the ink and makes the impression on the paper. The finished linoleum block is used by the printer the same as any piece of relief type in printing. The Watch Tower is deeply indebted to Miss McElhinney, art instructor, whose untiring efforts to make the art work a crown¬ ing feature of this Annual have not been in vain. It was under her direction that the art editor, Margaret Hynes, and her staff worked. This staff included Maxine Knowles ’27, Howard Custer ' 27, Harold Garrison ’28, Margaret Leppanen ' 29, Leander Thomas ' 29.

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DEDICATION PNpO MISS GEORGIA FIRST, J| who, during her fourteen years as a teacher of Latin in the Rock Island high school, has held a place of high respect among her associates, both student and faculty, and who has ever been a sincere friend and helper to all with whom she came in contact, we, the Staff, affectionately dedicate this Annual of 1927