Whetstone High School - Legend Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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O wonderful wonderful, und most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful. . . In many ways the most important factor in a high school student's life is his sex: his recently clarified sense of masculinity or femininity, his approaching manhood or wo- manhood and the boyishness or girlishness which he fortunately retains, a proud and excited recog- nition of his own status which leads to that wonderful awkwardness that makes him a teenager. One evidence of this self-aware- ness is the long and frequent ses- sions that both girls and boys spend before mirrors. More vigorous man- ifestations, for the most part pe- culiar to boys, are body-building programs, sports, and fights. A boy undertakes both body development and sports, responding to a sense of his obligation to attain a level of strength and skill requisite to manhood. He enters both athletic compe- tition and fights in an effort to prove his physical attainment. Vic- tory in either kind of competition offers a satisfaction as justifiable as that derived from a good test score. Ultimately, a boyis se1f-aware- ness and the actions it motivates lead directly to a keen awareness of girls. Although all girls are shaped and formed within a pattern, each is an individual creation. A laugh, a shrug, the lilt in the gentle sway of hips and shoulders: each is as special and unique as the girl herself. A rnetamorphosis is taking place, a girl is in the midst of becoming a woman. The change of body and mind is an exciting one to behold. Child-dreams are the today and now of her life. The dreams of yesterday are replaced by her curi- osity about tomorrow. William Shakespeare She questions the restrictions set by people before her, and she wonders if she wants to be respect- able and ladylike. Does anyone care any longer? Can anyone de- fine a lady? Only me, she de- cides, My opinion is the one with which I must live. The struggle of defining morals in a rapidly shift- ing society is a challenge that fas- cinates her. Her thoughts drift and linger on other interests: faith, daily re- sponsibilities, and the boys who will become the men in her world of wornanhood. Their contrasting nature intrigues her and she is drawn. A boat-sized shoe, a jacket with gorilla-length sleeves, a voice so much deeper. She explores his mind and in amazement discovers a new realm of thoughts and reac- tions which she will never exper- ience. She loves the protection which she really does not believe she needs. She is intoxicated with the power she wields, a power which she must learn not to violate. She loves the world of today and anticipates the world of tomorrow. 4' :wg -fkifl ,- fi ' 1 fikiixf-ggi S. 5

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When I am a man, then I shall be a hunter. When I am a man, then I shall be a harpooner. When I am a man, then I shall be a canoe-builder. When I am a man, then I shall be a carpenter. When I am a man, then I shall be an artisan. Oh father! Ya ha ha ha. Auger bits, chisel, lathe, grinder. Each of these is a complicated combination of gears and levers which are set in motion by the hands of individuals with widely varying interests and talents. The shops pound and throb with the blows of mallets upon seemingly unshapeable materials. Sawdust sifts between the floor's black bricks and solder hardens into lumps on the heavy wooden table tops. Ted Hill pounded together this year an apparatus that, if successful, will travel by way. of an air cushion. This, along with a table done by Murray Reed, was exhibited at a state conference. These shops, filled with organized confusion, con- trast sharply with the cathedral-like hush of the mechanical drawing room. Each boy sits at the island of his own elevated table. He gazes at the expanse of white, then with shoulder hunched, he starts to work. Fine pointed pencils run along the straight edge of a ruler to create a line, clean and unsmudged. These fellows become proficient at lettering and figure drawing, some of the work is exhibited at the Ohio State Fair. Three separate rooms with one single purpose: to acquire and perfect a skill that will be used today and tomorrow to shape and create. Kwakiutl Indian ,i A-5 Greg Hoffman industriously sands. Larry Borst Jerry Haney Curtis Howard 4 I