Wentworth Institute of Technology - Tekton Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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enera! llfljooclworging Prerident: Robert-Bathelmes, BC-1A Secretary: john Coucci, BC-1A During the past, a member of the Woodworking Club was allowed to make any project of his choice. This year, as a means to improve the operation of the club, prospective members were informed that everyone would vote on a project that each member wanted to make for himself. Mr. Rose, our Faculty Advisor, spent several club periods demonstrating the proper use of each power tool with particular stress on safety. Then, once the club officers were elected, the members voted to start the year by making book- cases. Nine teams of two or three men were formed, and the club was underway. The next project was a four-legged stool, and by the end of the year several projects of interest had been completed. 202 W No ,Q C? Q!

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.14 f CM There is evidence of a diversity of in the work of members of art club this year. An ornament leaded stain glass, around 16 in is a prominent project. Oil watercolors, charcoal, pen- and pencil renderings are media One member has delved a book on the history of art supplemented it with visits to museum Another made a Christ- car by cutting the design into of battleship linoleum, from impression was made with k on red paper. The wall ought to be completed year with the addition of bits venmg color, and with Robert of MED 1A painstakingly the Leopard emblem. Visits to the Museum of Fine Arts have duly im- never had the the wealth of which are so to the Wentworth campus. l'0M,gAf .9l'0ll One of the most ancient and beauti- ful of all the arts is that of the iron- worker. At Wentworth Institute, some of the old traditions of fine ironwork are carried on by the members of the Wrought Iron Club. In order to achieve the best design, members first prepare drawings of their projects, which may be anything of a useful or ornamental nature, and then choose the stock in which to execute their work. The proj- ects completed by members of the Wrought Iron Club range from hand- forged nails to iron railings, and in- clude such items' as tables, fireplace tools, lamps, signs and sign brackets, bookshelves, book ends, and reproduc- tions of colonial ironwork. Some mem- bers prefer to work almost exclusively with Wentworth's modern oxyacetylene or arc welding equipment. Others, who prefer the more traditional methods, enjoy working at the forge and anvil. All, however, are motivated by a com- mon desire to fashion with their own hands articles of lasting beauty and utility, under the guidance of experi- enced instructors, all fulhll their desire. 201 5 it will

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