Whetstone High School - Legend Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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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

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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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Concentrating on the recipe, Carol Francis stirs a pot of vegetables. .Twhi :,. .- .H -. , I, ' QE' J :iii - ,I ' ' '- ,L She looheth well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of iclleness. Proverbs The sounds of banging pans, whirring heaters and slamming cupboard doors mingle with the hum of sewing machines and the gritting of feet on spilled and scattered dressmaker pins. All of the girls choose the media with which they want to work and, with the guidance of their teacher, they create. In advanced cooking each girl designs and bakes a cake of her own. The girls are cake decorators of professional calibre when they complete the course. A few girls in advanced sewing combine their own ideas with those of a professional Cby way of a com- mercial patternl and develop their own design. America's Future Homemakers, closely associated with the home economics department, is open to all girls who wish to join. The purpose of the club is to acquaint the girls with the special career fields open to them. This year the club was visited by representa- tives of airline stewardesses and beauticians. An armhole is sewn closed and smoke fills an oven, The cries of disgust and alarm are forgotten when, after the final supreme effort, the work is done and the creation is complete. Left, Mr. Carl Wolf, United Airlines, informs AFH members of stewardess training. Right, Beth McCall acts out a skit for initiation. nil Jane Lacey Patsy Leidich Sheila Henry Pat Smith presses seams on her creation.