Scotch Plains Fanwood High School - Culmen Yearbook (Scotch Plains, NJ)

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'- Much talent rs displayed by our art students Mr Robertson demonstrates some finer pomts ln modelmg clay ART Mr Harry Robertson Have you an lnclmatnon toward any sort of artnstuc expressaon'P If so then the clay room supplned wnth a kuln and pottery wheel In art students can paint draw make lewelry and lmoleum blockprmts or work In metal clay or constructron paper The art room wnth nts blg bulletvn board full of puctures fosters lust the rnght atmos phere for expresslon nn all these medna INDUSTRIAL ARTS Mr Raymond Moore To sunt the needs and deslres of almost every boy In the school we have a great varlety of mdustrual arts courses from auto shop to woodworking In woodshop the boys learn the aspects of carpentry as they bulld tables book shelves and other prolects Metal shop Introduces the boys to both ornamental and practncal metal work Here they make anythung from screwdrnvers wuth hand molded handles to hammered alummum or copper trays The older more ad vanced students are ellgnble for auto shop Most of these boys have thenr own cars and are constantly etther repaur mg the new ones or rehabnlutatmg the old ones The arm of all these courses though as not lust to gnve the boys a place to hammer a pnece of wood or tmker wnth theur cars Shop courses teach the valu of manual labor and przde un good work both of whuch contrubute toward makmg a well Auf Sh b mn ery o lar O cpu ew ' 9 V P Pu rounded man 1- Mr Herbert gives helpful advice Some- prolects are almost as bug as the workman .. 1 :. ,1 1- ' art room is the place for you. Here you will flnd both a general work room and a , . I - I , , , I - 1. . I . . A 1 ' a I . . . '-ff S . . it ! i f l T05

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How to boul water wuthout burnung ut HOME ECCDNOMICS Mrs Tressa Perry Its not lust a rumor that some Foods ll gurls have accudenfally put a half cup of salt unstead of sugar unto theur cookues Sunce such mustakes do occur, ut us the Home Economucs Departments 'ob to correct them The tantaluzung aromas that have escaped unto the halls hunt at uts success Along wuth unstructuon un the culunary arts sewung us offered as cu practucal course for gurls The end product of the gurls needle and thread work us more often than not worn to school and dances In order to make these home economucs courses more attractuve to gurls and to make teachung easuer there us ample space and modern equupment uncludung com plete kutchens and fully furnushed luvung and dunung rooms Wuth convenuences luke these plus a specual class un famuly luvung gurls wull find ut much easuer to prepare for theur future roles un lufe by takung home economucs Lets see youll need two spools of thread a l2 unch zipper 5 buttons The assemblung lune Mr Joseph Checchuo and Mr Robert Dennuston Besudes the more popular actuvutues un the Mustc Department such as band orchestra workshop peruod a work on orchestra and chorus there are the lesser known classes un unstrumental musuc choral and vocal musuc Players un band and orchestra are requured to take one week of unduvudual unstructuon for each unstrument they play Here they umprovung theur skull and are guven tryouts for placement un band or ln the choral department students can get unduvudual vouce traunung or unstructuons on how to sung un a group Also as a part of thus branch of musuc M Dennuston guves courses un musuc apprecuatuon where students study types of unstru mentatuon and lusten to classucs of vocal and unstrumental musuc 4 Mr. Checchio gives individual music lessons, Mr. Denniston and his voice class,

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READING Mr Albert DeSousa One of our schools outstandang educatuonal features as nts speed readnng course taught by Mr DeSouS0 Here we Ufe taught to put our eyes and our mund to good use Besudes lust learmng to umprove our readmg we are guven excellent advnce on studyung and gettnng along un the world These outstandmg charactenstucs make readmg one of the most popular courses In school lm Mr DeSousa uses the tcclnstoscope LIBRARV Individual help IS the keynote of the readmg course MISS A l-Offame AYW5 One of the more relaxnng departments an our school ns the lnbrary, with nts soft aqua walls blonde furmture lounge chairs and wade plcture wmdow But our lnbrary offers more than elther pleasure readnng or research To make It easy to find Mrs Turner keeps a watchful eye The library takes on the Chnstmas spmt l05 and use mformatlon the lnbrary nncludes such faculltles as the card catalogue, mdex table files check out desk, display cases penodlcals and reference shelves If even after all thus, you have a spare moment you can read the lnbrarys own maga znne, The Bublnochat To keep thus large organnzatuon runmng smoothly there are always lnbraruans or Lubrary Council mem bers on hand Our school can certamly be proud of nts extensnve and eftlclent lubrary Emcnent lrbrary Councrl members keep the checkout desk runmng smoothly ,s V, H 4 I , , relaxation, it has a wide selection of excellent books for . , Q I I - . ,, . . ,, . . . . I - 4 x 'l Q.. 6'5 .lf