Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Workshops, Classes Ever Busy In this picture the boy in the foreground is carefully and nicely turning out a table leg on his lathe in woodworking class. In this popular class, every year boys fashion useful articles from wood — checkerboards and end tables, sewing boxes and bookcases, knicknacks and pieces of real furniture — which line our halls each spring at exhibit time and then are carried away to grace the craftsmen ' s homes. Mr. Joseph Brown, the boys ' teacher, is conspicuous by his absence in this picture, but we see him just below, surrounded by one of his mechanical drawing classes. These future architects and draftsmen, boys whose talents in design and drawing run to mechanical art rather than the reg- ular art course, make plans and drawings which yearly win them red, blue, and white ribbons or certificates at the state contest at Lafayette. These departments are sacred to boys, but the girls have retaliation in their well-equipped home economics — cooking and sewing — laboratories. The sew- ing laboratory is pictured in the upper right hand corner. Miss Edith Weems and her class in home nursing take great pride in the fact that their baby (it ' s rubberized) is well clothed. Here we see them busily engaged in stitching its trousseau — or do you call it a layette ( ?) — (Later the clothing goes to real needful babies. ) Miss Weems also guides the industrious fingers of freshmen girls learn- ing how to sew, when she isn ' t out campaigning against her pet peeve — chew- ing gum. And here, last of all, is a class in Deutsch, watching their friend at the board. She is about to decline a verb — in German, of course — and seems somewhat at a loss as how to begin. Perhaps her teacher, Mr. John M. Koch, will give her a hint if she gets stuck. German and Latin, offering three and four year courses respectively, comprise the foreign language element of our school. Let ' s see if we know any — oh, yes — ave atque vale and auf wiedersehen, of course! ibles and rolling pins in the making. r. Brown watches carefully while his boys ' draw. V. H. S. trains future home makers. Herr Koch explains intricities of declension. 13