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

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7, Y Y Qhampe Thornton supervises as Tom Miller runs a three-quarter inch board through the surfacing machine in the woodshop. Beth Schneider knows if she pulls too hard, the thread will break and all her gathers will disappearg hence, her caution. Home Arts A length of material, a sewing ma- chine, pins and needles, tape measure and scissors-these were the elements of a dress, suit or stuffed animal. Under the guidance of the two Home Arts teachers, girls created clothes for every occasion. Girls taking Home Arts also plan- ned dream houses, their major project of the year. Having learned the basic essentials of color combination and harmonious design, they placed fur- niture and selected fabrics in taste- ful arrangements. To this they added units on Home Nursing and Child Care. In cooking, the girls found there was more than thawing a frozen pack- age. They learned planning, market- ing, cooking, and serving, as Well as the inevitable KP follow-up. One facet of the Home Arts curri- culum included Civil Defense. 30 Departments

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Mentally juggling theorems are Barbar Schwartz, McCann, Sally Lipse-fi' Trenton Ruebush assiduously concentrates on polishing and perfecting his shorthand. Commercial Typing to music was one means of speeding along recalcitrant fingers on blind typewriter keys which de- spite their fixed position seemed to change places overnight. Commercial typing and shorthand students continued letter writing theory. Memorizing the brief form for most common words and memoriz- ing the sounds as well as letters for writing words in general plagued shorthand students as usual. Shorthand was opened freely to academic students who, able to take personal typing for some years, found shorthand widening the scope of potential jobs and heightening their future notetaking ability. Students averaged between 60-90 words per minute. In business math and bookkeeping, students experienced actual account- ing and interest problems: what is Mr. Smith's net profit if he grosses 15 per cent and has expenses of 6.4 per cent. Departments 29

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Surrounded by everything she could need, Karen Decatur begins her next outfit. John White, Steve Feldman, and Toby Mason run-off Fantasia tickets on the printing press. Industrial Arts To give interested students an op- portunity to receive a diploma and actual job experience, a Distributive Education program began this year. In this vocational training program, students devoted their mornings to courses in job problems, distributive education, and English. They then went on in the afternoon to paid jobs such as sales and stock clerk in a local department store branch, to small parts assembly line and sheet metal work in a nearby hardware factory, to credit office work, or to office and repair work in an electronics firm. The regular work of the Industrial Arts Department continued with courses in woodworking, mechanical drawing, and graphic arts. Offered to the interested student, each of these courses could be part of a three-year sequence. Departments 31