Westbrook High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Westbrook, ME)

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ART CLUB Sitting left to right: LOUIS DOBSON, JR., FREDERICK WHITWORTH, DAVID STONE, and BARBARA WANING. Standing left to right: EDXWARD MCDADE, NORMAN SWETT, ROXIE KENNEY, JACK SPILLER, DOROTHY DAVIS, DOROTHY FISH, SHIRLEY LIBBY, and GABRIELLE THIBAULT. as A IQ III Art Editor interviewing some members of the Art class-DOROTHY FISH, LOUIS DOBSON, DAVID STONE. Editor: I'm glad to find you three here. I wonder if you would give me some data of work you have covered this year. Lou: Color was the first project. Scales were made showing the primary and secondary colors and their myriad values. Next came lettering of various types, such as the commercial type, which was used in the Kiwanis Poster Contest. Dot: Dick Chapman won first prize of 35.00 and Donald Warming second of 33.00. I remember the next thing was nature studies, in which we applied water colors, crayons, or pencil shades in three values. From this came a very interesting development-the Tree of Life done in crayonettes on cloth. Many of the members liked this best of all the varied projects. Then we did object drawings in water colors and pencil techniques in line, shade, and value. What are you making such a fuss about, David? Dav: Oh, I just wanted to say that Shirley Libby is doing well on those manikin designs for the Home Economics class. Lou: Don't forget to add that she is planning to be a dress designer. Editor: I won't forget. Dot, what did you like most this year? Dot: That's hard to say. But I think it was the casting of a hand. Barbara Waning's hand was the model. I remember how worried she got for fear the plaster of Paris would harden under her finger nails. Louis, what was the next step after the hand was removed from the cast? Lou: It was treated with antique bronze. This process is the same as used by sculptors in the recasting of a statue. Dav: Don't forget to tell about our pins. You know this is the first year the class has had them. They are designed especially for art students. Editor: Yes, I have seen several members wearing them. Now, as you are the oldest mem- ber, Louis, have you anything special you would like to add? Lou: The freshmen of today cannot appreciate their great privilege of working with Mr. Sterling any more than we seniors do.

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ORCHESTRA First row: MERLE GOFE, CLAYTON ADAMS, ALEXANDER SMITH, LOUIS DOBSON, JR., JANE SMITH, HELEN BYRNE, JUNE THOMAS, MARGARET ASKER, CECILE MERCIER, and CONSTANCE MacPHERSON. Second row: ALFRED CHRISTIANSEN, WILLARD SAWYER, LEE SWASEY, VIRGINIA ROBINSON, ASHLEY CARTER, JOHN WELCH, WARREN STAPLES, LOUIS HILLS, DAVID STONE, and NORWOOD JOY. Third row: HERBERT DOBSON, LEON LEAVITT, ROBERT BEGIN, GIRARD OAUDET, HOWARD PETERSON, JOSEPH DAVIS, SHIRLEY PRATT, DONABETH CLOUDMAN, JANET LAVERTY, RUTH ASKER, ARLINE COUSINS, ROGER WELCH, CHARLES BOULANOER, STEPHEN TORREY, MARTIN KUHR, JACK SPILLER, HOMER LARSEN, NORMAN SXVETT, and FAITH WOODBURY llnstructorl. Nl IIU S Ill IL? Music is a common interest among the young people ot today Nearly nine out ot ten have a victrola and many ot the outstanding recordings ot the day Ot course most ot these records have swing arrangements: but it you will pause to consider you will perceive that many ot the classics by the tamous masters, such as Isle ot May talcen from TschaiIcowsIcy's Ninth Symphony, and I8th Century Drawing Room talcen trom Mozart, are being modernized and are becoming very popular with the younger set. An appreciation tor the classics has not been lost, however, as can be seen by the large attendance ot boys and girls at the Cilee Club and the Orchestra in the school This year, because ot an illness ot our tormer teacher, Miss Lorraine Lombard the music groups have enjoyed several new teatures under the leadership ot our present teacher M iss Faith Wfoodbury. Several special choral groups have been selected trom the Glee Club the most important being a trio ot pertectly blended voices consisting ot Ruth Aslcer soprano June Caron, second soprano: and Janet Daley, alto. This group has on numerous occa sions, sung betore the school assembly and various clubs in Westbrook At Christmas the whole Glee Club, trom which special solos and numbers were chosen, combined with the Speech Class and presented a very enjoyable assembly During the last tew years, the schools in Maine have broadcast on the program Maine Schools On the Air. Both the Glee Club and the Orchestra talfe active parts in this program. The orchestra has also entertained several clubs this year and will play at the One-Act Play Contest as well as at several other important events An annual event which is enjoyed by all is the Field Day with Gorham This year instead ot Gorham music clubs coming to Westbrook, our clubs will go to Gorham where a whole day will be spent in practicing, dancing, playing games having refresh ments, and enjoying a general good time.

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sciiimicn ln addition to the prescribed courses, the science classes have lately undertaken extra activities which are allied to the required courses, and which are designed to widen the knowledge and the experience of the pupils. Some of these activities are projects covering and putting into practice what the student has learned, and excur- sions providing him with a broader view of his subject. In pursuance of this idea the senior, junior, and the sophomore girls, who have been taking astronomical geography, visited the Portland Weather Bureau. There they were shown how different instruments are read: and the fundamentals of their classroom studies were put into practice. They were privileged to see weather records dating back to I876 and the records to I938. This is especially interesting because it concerns reports and facts about weather affecting us. Indeed, what is more interesting and important to us than the weather? The senior physics class, on their annual Boston trip, visited, first of all, the Ford Plant. The boys were all interested in seeing how scientific appliances were used on the assembly line, where every part was fitted to one ten-thousandth of an inch. A Ford is literally slapped together in forty-seven minutes. lt might be interesting to note that the entire plant, covering an acre, is run by electricity generated in the Ford Power Plant. The intense heat in the blast furnace is kept at five thousand degrees, just enough heat to fry your breakfast egg. Next they visited the Harvard and Peabody Museums, where such relics as mum- mies, petrified and mounted animals were seen. They also saw glass flowers and replicas of many different kinds of vegetation and fossils in glass. Not only outside activities are planned, for twice a week the physics and chemistry classes spend their entire class period in their respective laboratories. In the physics laboratory they actually work with gravity and its causes. They learn to read many instruments such as the barometer and the vernier and micrometer calipers. The chem- istry laboratory classes work mostly with chemicals. They also do some distilling of alcohol and other compounds. As extra work, they have been studying photography, and each pupil has a chance to develop and print films and pictures. One can safely say that science is not only the nucleus of learning, but a study of everyday problems and a chance for practical, as well as enjoyable excursions and activities.