Wethersfield High School - Elm Yearbook (Wethersfield, CT)

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grams for various activities, and also the many school-forms, among which are the report-cards. A Press Club was organized early in the school year of 1929 and since has produced many interesting issues of the Spot-Lite,', the bi-monthly school paper. The student-printers, trained in the shop, are greatly responsible for the success of this project. Due to the needs of this paper and the rapid growth of the printing class, an up-to-date Chandler and Price platen press was installed to supplement the Universal cylinder press. This addition was purchased jointly by the School Board and Student Fund. It is an electrically pow- ered machine, equipped with a device that provides for the even distribu- tion of ink. Next year the Practical Arts department will offer still greater op- portunities. A Home Mechanics Shop for the Junior High students will be instituted in the new addition. The original shop, for which new machines and benches have been purchased, will be used exclusively by the Senior High School. An instructor will be engaged to share with Mr. Anderson the trials and tribulations of imparting shop-knowledge to aspiring carpenters, architects, and printers. A large share of credit is due to Mr. Anderson for his kind assistance in supplying much of the material contained in this article. -Edmund C. Taylor, '31. SHAKESPEARE TALKS IN HIS SLEEP C1411 Imitation of a 16111 Century Lyricj O fair one, prithee speak but once to me That I may dwell in rapture at thy spell, That I may live my life in reverie, For I, perchance, shall straightway be in Hell. Hi-diddle-diddle-dee-ay! Methinks I was a fool to marry Ann, Although-Gadzooksl-she has no little charm. I would that I had stayed a single man, That I might feel about me thy sweet arm. Hi-diddle-diddle-dee-ayl 'Od's blood! Thy lips, thine eyes, thy supple form: They rouse me 'til I fear that I may burst! What ho, my sweet! Come hither, or I storm And beg thee speak, and utter then thy worst! Hi-diddle-diddle-dee-ayl Alack, a lass! Poor lover that I be! O may the Sprites remove this curse from me! Hi-diddle-diddle-dee-ay! fThe darn foollj -A. Nonymous.

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We now have our education. What we do with it depends entirely upon ourselves. What we are in later life depends upon our ability to apply theory practically, and upon our ambition. - G. Y., '30. THE NEED FOR STUDY ROOMS What Wethersfield High School needs is more study rooms. It has been necessary during the past school year to make pupils study in rooms where classes are being held at the same time. This has proved to be very unsatisfactory, both to the pupil and to the teacher in charge. If a pupil Hnds that he has nothing in particular to do, he immediately starts to divert the attention of someone in the class or one of the study pupils. Thus the teacher is interrupted from her explanation in order to reprimand the persons causing the commotion. It is also very hard for a student to concentrate upon his work if the class is having a gen- eral discussion. Studying in class rooms has proved inefficient to the teacher, to her class, and to the study pupils. Let us hope that when school re-opens in the fall, there will be separate study rooms. -C. H. PRACTICAL ARTS DEPARTMENT At the beginning of the school year of 1928, a department of Practical Arts was created at Wethersfield High School. Mr. Alfred M. Anderson was engaged as instructor. The capacious shop-room was equipped with benches for woodworking, four benches for metal work- ing, and with the necessary hand-tools. During the year 1928-29, students of the Junior High School carried out simple projects in woodworking. A few members of the Senior High School elected two periods a Week for instruction in this course. The keen interest evinced in this department was responsible for the inauguration of a regular ten period program in September of 1929. The shop-equipment Was increased by the addition of a power- saw table and an electrically powered wood-turning lathe. A try-out course, conducted in the seventh and eighth grades, en- ables the pupils to discover whether or not they have aptitudes for in- dustrial vocations. These boys elect printing, woodworking, and the supplementary course in mechanical drawing. Many useful articles for both the home and the school have been completed. Students in the ninth grade and Senior High School have executed projects of material benefit to the student body. They have constructed bleachers, stage scenery, and bulletin boards. They erected the baseball backstop and have made repairs on the school furniture. The printing phase of the department has made very great progress. The students engaged in this work have produced the tickets and pro-

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Lilefar De arlmenl if xi lk ' HW lfn :IEE THE GREAT PICTURE Collette, your dark bird is singing! There-look!', Collette of the mellow eyes raised her head eagerlyg she gave a low little laugh: Oh!,' Jaques Watched the white face tip-tilted to the sung his eyes traced the delicate features. Collette was not beautiful as other women were. She had a soul, that looked out from her dusky eyes and smiled from her laughing lips. And it was a poet-soul that made her a dreamy Collette, who seemed always far off over the hills or deep in the shadows of a starry night, even though she might be sitting right beside you on the grassy slope of a sun-drenched hill. Jaques! How she said his name-that one word Jaques!'j Her lips made a song of it. Jaques, if you could paint a picture as lovely as my bird's song! A picture as lovely as a dark bird's song. That would be Collette, he answered. Collette became serious. Then it shall be Collette!', she said eagerly, and it will be a great picture! Collette, lovely as a rose dripping with morning dew- his mind formed the words over and over, lovely as a fragrant rose drenched with crystal dew. Jaques was in love.