These are some additional pictures for Prof Berard's biography that did not fit on the previous web page.  After reviewing these pictures, click on "next" and you'll be taken to the third page of his biography. 

A completed boat, minus paint job.  I believe the builder pictured is named Guillot but I don't remember his first name.  Because a boat takes so much space, the rule was that only one boat could be built at a time, the painting had to be done at home, and further, the student had to agree to come to the shop on weekends to speed up the process.  Classmates would invariably come to either help the boat-building student or to work on their own project.  In one case the father of the student came to help out.  I thought that was really nice.  One particular case on which I look back with amusement was that of a student boat builder who evidently called his girlfriend by the endearing name of Poot.  His classmates had christened his boat the U. S. S. Pooputsie, and when Friday would come around they would remind me, “Prof, we need to come work on the U. S. S. Pooputsie tomorrow.”

Photo of old shop, band hall and Mr. Duhe’s house in background, taken probably the first year I taught at DHS.  My students were real hot rodders then.  The boy on the motorcycle was a Vicknair, I believe, and the boy in the lower right is Elmore Martin, but I do not remember the names of the others.

The U. S. S. Pooputsie crew. Not telling no names! Back end of Prof Berard's 1950 Cheverolet--no continental kit.

General woodwork in the new shop.  Can't identify any of the students.

General woodwork in the new shop, shows a coffee table and a pair of water skis in progress, the coffee table top of alternating Philippine Mahogany and poplar strips. It is interesting to note the objects pinned against the wall in the background. The drawing students were in a unit of drawing referred to as "sheet metal drafting," applied in such things as air condition ducts, for example. The pattern is first drawn on a flat sheet, then cut, then folded to form the product called for, whether that be an air conditioning duct, a funnel, or whatnot. The drawing students, of course, do their layouts on paper, and to a size which can be accommodated by the size of the drawing sheet. However, to provide them a feel for the finished product, each student was required to cut out the drawing he had made, fold it on the lines, glue it together and then tape it to the wall in front of his/her drawing position.

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