Thomas Jefferson High School - Monticello Yearbook (Jefferson Hills, PA)

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L Future Homemakers Learn Their Fundamentals Unlike ordinary classrooms, the home economics room is a homey place, made up of sewing machines, kitchen sinks, and pretty-curtained windows. Such decor is appropriate, for a home economics study is designed to solve the problems and develop the skills to make the home a happy and comfortable place in which to live. The equipment provided and the atmosphere prevalent enable in- terested girls to become more adept in preparing food, stitching clothes, caring for the house and the family's health, and Cthat all important itemj making a household budget work. With careful planning and preparation, the products or end results of this feminine study are best revealed in the expression of a delighted girl first viewing her wares - a good meal just cooked, a striking jumper just finished, or an attrac- tive table setting just arranged. Definitely a practical course, home economics is also fun and work, success and failure. Basically, it is all those things that make a home, that are a home. - N A Sondra Herring Home Economics F.H.A. Seton Hill College B.S What's for lunch, Smiley? Junior misses practicing sewing skills. 'x Carol A. Braidic Home Economics F.H.A. Penn State B. S. ' 'Wg ..,. 29 L. 'wt fa M al.. 4- ' ' :Q'. 31 '

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Industrial Arts Develops anual Skills Are they making counterfeit plates? The Industrial Arts department occupies most of the first floor area. The simple and complex machinery, the basic and intricate working materials found here supply the wants and needs of all shop boys, grades seven through twelve. In junior high young males use these tools and material first in beginning projects, like door stops and letter holders. As working with lathes, table saws, and drawing boards become easier, projects become, in turn, larger and more involved. By late senior high the I. A. boys have become the near-polished builders of lamps, tables, and chests. Through various courses these same students have also begun work on mechanical draw- ing, blueprint reading, and designing Qa long advancement from the first wobbly door stop.j The finished product of the shop boy, be it letter holder or table lamp, is a work only part-wood. It's also, and even more important, part-maker. Examining the look of either the thinker or seventeen year old as he dabs on the final varnish or drives in the last nail, is testimony enough of this fact - his pride in achievement and workmanship. joseph Matteo Blueprint Reading, Mechanical Drawing Pre-Tech. California State College B. S. 40. 1' 1-' D eff , ff Q- - , A' i f ' Q ff is pq l 1- 5 1'-N f fri A If . A I S '29 Q X H Mewin L. Fouids Q Industrial Arts I 1, f' California State College B. S. A J it P' 'fff S .1 v - is Lewis R. Monath l Industrial Arts In J A 2 George L. Gieske Industrial Arts Stage Crew California State College B. S. California State College B. S. A V Fun and frolic in wood shop. 1 QE? FL! w if 39m ' wif? ':-It J ---r i. lilhf1'-I

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Arts and Rudy M. Kuchta Crafts, Senior High Monticello Advisor Edinboro State College B. S. Pennsylvania State University M. Ed. rafts Demand Creativit Elizabeth T. Cole Jr. and Sr. Fine Arts Indiana State College B. S. in Arts When one walks into familiar 101, he immediately encoun- ters groups of students diligently hammering at square of wood, carefully spreading powdered glass onto pieces of copper, or molding, then shaping, pinch pots out of clay. These artisans are T. J. students, this course is crafts, an elective study in which high school craftsmen pursue interests in jewelry, wood- work, leather, graphics, and ceramics. Further penetration into the busy room finds directly below dabbling oils onto a landscape or rubbing charcoal into a still l life. This is the art course, these are its participants. I Guiding the bearers of paint brush and power tool are chief l craftsmen, Cole and Kuchta. Their looks of appraisals, their sug- gestions for improvement or their vacant expressions of enig- matic wonder sum up well the efforts and contributions in cer- tainly the most imaginative and creative of classrooms. We like the one on the b tt .H O Om The Flintstones would be proud of you! the crafts class area a living, moving assemblage of gray smocks, l