St Marys High School - Lance Yearbook (Independence, MO)

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Both the drafting and sewing departments have been relatively obscure until recent years. With Miss Muiner and Mrs. Simonitsh heading their respective departments, they are slowly coming into the limelight at St. Marys. The sewing class undertook some interesting projects. Besides just sewing for themselves, some of the students made clothes for the dolls the student council delivered to families along with food and other toys. They also made curtains for the girls lockerroom. Senior Susan Boutross won second place in the 'Meet Marie' con- test sponsored by Butterick Patterns. Miss Muiner brought with her a third dimension to drafting. This was the construction of kites that her Drafting 1 students attempted to fly on the football field. The weather co-operated but some of the kites didn't. The room doubled as a kitchen when wax was melted for candles that were made. Drafting II spent most of the year designing houses. Miss Muiner might have been new, but her voice and step were familiar to any student who frequented the pop and candy machines.

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 With A Bad Case Of “Vision everything else went smoothly. It was a year of ups and downs. One of the ' 'downs' 1 was a missed deadline. No page sent to the printers left the room without sev- eral revisions due to miss Shan- non's and Miss Guastello's critical eyes. You are now looking through the pages of the result of a year of hard, sometimes frustrating, work. Now, with ' 'Double Vi- sion resting alongside The Grand Illusion'', the thoughts of the returning staff members are drifting to the new book, and its problems and triumphs. 1 55 With a year of experience be- hind them and ' 'The Grand lllu- sion'1 safely on the shelf, the yearbook staff swung into the new year with some new people and a new set of potential problems. Potential problems quickly turned into actual disasters. September came and went and still there was no theme. ' 'Double Vision'' be- came the goal worked for in copy and pictures. Added to the prob- lem of incorporating a book to a theme, underclassman pages re - fused to cooperate with under- classman staff. The staff finally won out. The pages were eventu- ally sent to the printer. Not that

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Practical Arts Prove Their Practicality 57