Walter Johnson High School - Windup Yearbook (Bethesda, MD)

Page 99 text:

.... ' --T In Its Variegated Texture Through a wide range of subjects, the faculty adds a distinctive texture that broadens the student's view, deepens his outlook, and further en- riches the individual who must exist in order that the whole exist. Effec- tive education is achieved by the spark that flashes often in the classroom: it is an inspired teacher animating his students or animated students inspiring teachers.

Page 98 text:

A School Is a Mosaic MV Q-MMSWJW mwxm ffwifiwj WM' N fww

Page 100 text:

i Art Club: first row: K. Erickson, B. Boese, C. Muel- ler, E. Hirsch, E, Jacoby, second: J. Ward, M. Specht, B. Harper, L. Crary. N. Understeing third: D. Ken- nedy, J. Little, K. Blundell. The members volunteered their artistic services to teachers by designing and beautifying bulletin boards in their classrooms. Other club projects were special decorations for the holiday 5 season and the advent of sprmg. These projects were planned and carried out after school on Wednesday afternoons in Mr. Fowle's V art room on the second a floor. Silk Screeners Print Publicity WJ students, should they be temporarily at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, will find a bit of home on the walls of the auditorium. Eleven four-by-eight-foot panels created by the Art 3 students cheered up patients with the portrayal of local winter scenes. The mural was requested of Principal Gregory by Mr. Arnold Sperling, Chief of the Patient Activities Section, and NIH paid for the necessary materials. Art 1 students discovered that the combination of the three elements of art-tone, color, and bal- ance-was not as easy as it seemed, as they strug- gled to master such media as pastels, etchings, oils, Mr. Emil Hrebenach, Chairman, Art Department: Art 1, 2, 3, Spectator, Commercial Art: Stage Manager, Vagabond King Mr. Morgan Fowle p Ceramics 1, 2, Art 2, f Art Club Mrs. Catherine Levinson Art 1, Art Club sculpture, bas reliefs and washes. Those of them who needed outlets for their crea- tive impulses additional to one period a day joined the Art Club which, among other cultural activities, created the ingenious seasonal bulletin b o a r d s around school. For those whose interests were more prosaic, the Out-of-School Publicity Committee offered a chance both to serve the school and to raise the poster media back to the fine art it once was in the late nineteenth century by turning out silk- screen posters publicizing school events. Some days it seems as if I had two left hands, groans Sue Rudman as she runs off a silk screen during her art class.