Western Hills High School - Annual Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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The Senior Pottery Club HE object of the Senior Pottery Club is to guide and instruct its mem- bers, not only in the construction of pottery, but in the appreciation of ceramic arts. This engaging group utilized part of the club time in giving reports about clay, its nature, properties and its preparation. Reports were also given about pottery of foreign countries. joan Coles, whose home was in England, gave an interesting report about England's ceramic art. Then the eager members produced their hrst creations. These were cleverly designed ornaments of realistic and imaginative animals fwe're think- ing of the excellent one made by Charles Meyerj. Adelaide Schweninger made a quaint Colonial Miss and others produced clever ash trays. Later, vases and tiles were made by this skillful group. This is where Fred Reuter excelled. One master craftsman made a majestic piece fnow we're referring to jack Decker'sj. Don't have the impression that all work was done successfully, at first. If our work was a failure, we patiently tried and tried again, and in the end, we pleased both ourselves and our kind and helpful leader, Miss Blasch. The officers of the organization are as follows: President, Walter Fischer, Vice President, Elmer Bunselmeier, Secretary, Albert Neufarthg Treasurer, Merrill Auel. Top row, left to right: Howe, Dohrman, Auel, Maichle, Peterson. Middle row: Betz, Braun, Bunselmeier, Fischer, Craig, R. Braun. Bottom row: Deeker, Pfaff, Brockhotf, Neuer, Coles, Georgin, Schweninger, Baier, Not on picture: Meyer, Rice, Feldkamp, Rehn, Rueter, Dulaney, Nueforth. I:119:l

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Senior Poster Club HE Senior Poster Club is composed almost entirely of commercial art students. This club is sponsored by Mr. Dauterich and is well organized, having a president and a secretary. The members worked out commercial problems in contemporary modern art. The first problem was a commercial display card for the Santa Fe Rail- road. Later they made a catalogue layout including cover page, calendar page. descriptive page, and a monogram page. General criticism by the students brought out good points and reasons explaining why some work was more outstanding. The original ideas for the Santa Fe Railroad problem included modern- istic interpretations of Rocky Mountains, Indian chiefs, and locomotives. Some of the members of the club made silhouettes which they painted on glass with black enamel. Wlien this step was completed, a passe partout binding held a silver paper which showed through the glass as a glowing background. Several of the boys worked out batik wall-hangings. These were first drawn and then traced to silk. The colors then were planned and the process of painting and dyeing completed very acceptable additions to any home. First row, left to right: Dennler, W'ulfekam , Mclwfahan, Pfaif. Smith. Second row: Alfieri. Toukcr. Tphullen. Clark. Third rowg XVrede. Stephenson, Fisher. 1.121 ' 11 51183 Q

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4 i ti A IA I '3 ff! ' fi eg . PW ' P. .PSHE lil ,tr..,... .1-H' J img. L l W The junior Pen and Ink Club HE junior Pen and Ink Club is made up of the talented members of the seventh, eighth. and ninth grades. It is sponsored by Mrs. Taylor and the president is Mary Rump, a ninth grade pupil. There are eighteen members, and all show a fine exhibition of art work. Our first problem was making silhouettes of a summer activity, which we inked on colored paper. We then cut the same designs out in black and mounted them on silver paper. Our next step was framing this. Wlien these were completed they looked very beautiful, and one of them received a ribbon in the Girls' Hobby Fair. It was designed and made by Virginia Bogenschutz, of the seventh grade. Our next big problem was making pictures, cartoons, and designs for the Annual. First we drew sketches in pencil and after correcting our mistakes we transferred them on white paper. Then we inked them in three tones, black, white, and grey. Some of the art work used in the Annual has been done by members of the junior Pen and Ink Club. It is very interesting to be a member of an art club such as this one. Front row, lett to right: Bogenschutz. Lopez. Zwick, Van Cleve. Second row: Zimmerman, Rump. Striebig. Third row: Wfestenhotl, Michener, Keys. Hafner. Those not in picture: Chausmer, Jung. Parry, Keating. Q i i7 - 1 ' '. .. 1 , 1 ,' 1 ,,.,. . , ' x u, h 4 I ' I 9 . 1. I I I 1 Y at I i J.. I 5' ' 'f ,V 9 1 1 I , - .sw'..f, ' . V . I 1, , K I : - . 3 'J .a u ' 4 L . - . N201