San Antonio College - El Alamo Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Courses Increase T Students choose from i5 sections of Art, History, Commercial Art, Design, Life Drawing, Ceramics, Art Education, and Painting in the Day Division, Arts, Crafts, Lapidary Art and Silver- srnithing in the Evening Division. Transformation is not an unusual skill for the art students. Colored cellophane, wood strips and tape are worked into a double-story Christmas mosaic covering the west window of the Adminis- tration Building. Spring finds the art rooms evacuated and the Annex invaded as students clamor over a structure of wood and wire to con- struct the Fiesta float. With Enrollment Through his six-hour credit course in pottery and clay sculpture Edward Douglas is learning to apply some of the special techniques which must be combined while using the potter's wheel in shaping a ceramic vase. hdfde Studying ,a new graphics press that produces a picture from an etched plate are Sharon Anderson, James Blodgett, and Nancy Hug. This process can print as many pictures as desired, and these are all called originals. Offered only in the Evening Division, Lapidary Arts and Silver smithing attracts many students who find fascination in cutting and polishing gem stones and in mounting semi-precious stones Instructor Owen Davis watches Edward Fox exhibit his skill

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Practicing the fundamentals of drawing and figure construction in charcoal and other media, Raymond Guzner and Gail Jones, have found a way to model for one picture as they sketch another in their life Art Department Displays Aclorn Foyers drawing class. Diana Camp and Brian Keuper study the oil paintings hung in the Fine Arts Building foyer. These paintings were done from the models in casein by sophomore advanced life drawing classes. Displays change as proiects are com- x.. Anything from screen wire and cleansing pads to fabrics and cellophane is ideal material tor the 250 students enrolled in the ART DEPART- MENT. Classes, extending into the second floor foyer of the Fine Arts Building, are divided be- tween three instructors, Mrs. Margaret Peavey, Mr. Melesis Casas, and Mr. James Colley. Creations of art students are displayed in every conceivable area ot that building, as well as in the Student Center. These creations consist of Iapidary art fstone cutting and polishingj, lite drawing, ceramics, pottery, graphics, and wood in abstract designs. pleted. Maria Coronado, Edward Douglas, and Mr. James Colley design the 1962 Christmas window featuring three singing angels with instruments. This picture, a traditional offering of the Art Department, is constructed of large cellophane panels mounted on cardboard. 92

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Life on Ecirth Chief Biological Study Making a set of dentures tit properly is iust one of the assignments on which Evening Division Dental Assistance trainees Stephanie Baldesarelli, Stanley Godoy, and Judy Marrer concentrate. 4 Although man is now engaged in the battle for outer-space supremacy, the understanding of the basic workings of the systems of man's own body and of organisms that surround him must be acquired if man is to continue his life on earth. These are the scientific principles applied by the BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT under the chairmanship of Dr. William Burris. Maiors in the three subdivisions of Bac- teriology, Biology, and Zoology, in addition to those in pre-medical, pre-dental, pre-veterinary, and pre-nursing will find a varied and specialized source of subiects from which to choose, includ- ing three new courses, Mammalian Anatomy, Botany of Seed Bearing Plants, and Plant Tax- onomy. Left, checking blood pressure with stethoscope and pressure count provides students practical knowledge of body circulation. Gloria Jean Shephard is instructed by Miss Rosemary Johnson on the correct pro- cedure for measuring the blood pressure of her partner Josie Pelayo. Below, bacteriology includes innoculating and observing bacterial cul- tures to identify specific types. Leona Parker examines one culture while her partner Sara Dennis checks her accuracy from the text, under the watchful eye of Mrs. Charlene Mims.