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

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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

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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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Art 1 student, Sally Voght, brushes in the fleecy clouds of a tempera sky. Janet Burn demonstrates a knowledge of fundamental harmony in Art Art extended beyond the classroom as works in oil, tempera and Water color brightened the display cases. In one, a brown fish net combined with a fold of red and a dash of green to catch the eye of the artistically in- clined passerby. Art 1 students analyzed the in- fluence of ancient artists on those of today, concluding that both Picasso and the ancient Egyptians rejected visual illusions such as perspective. The three teachers in the department also offered Art 2, 3 and Ceramics, which employed the new potter's wheel. In addition to the potter's wheel, Ceramics students made use of coil building, slab construction, and casting technique to create ceramic masterpieces. Music Appreciation, but her piece still lacks a time signature. 32 Departments