Whetstone High School - Legend Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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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

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E! Ron Haag grooves metal with milling machine. i i i - .. -4'--W'- '.' ,., -,qc -ff-1... '-5,--v ' , - -HW Av., . 11273 A if - H Chris Grau labors in efforts at lettering precision. Carl Mulberry tools with lathe