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Senior Brian Zickefoose concentrates while he work~
with the torch in Welding.
Industrial Arts Teacher Dean Craney shows example~
of metal structures

Creativity Thrives

he Industrial Arts Dept. was very ramps, trailers, go-carts, decorative cast-
T A new program will start next year for
involved in showing excellence . There ings, and believe it or not, wood stoves.
was much more to the Dept. than the
strange, funny masks students wore, and industrial arts students. Those who have
the foreign odors filtrating into the halls completed an entire vocational area
during various projects. <woods, metals, or drafting) and attend
Students in the Drafting Class par- Metro Tech after graduation, will be
ticipated in a contest held in Goodland, allowed to skip the basic courses in their
KS., while the 11-12 Architecture students
went to the Metropolitan Omaha Builders In addition to Industrial Arts, the Art
Association Architectural Awards Program . Dept. also proved to show excellence. Art
All Industrial Ed . students had the students competed in various competi-
opportunity to participate in the Kearney tions. They could enter scholastic state and
State College Industrial Arts Fair in May, national competitions, the Nebraska Habi-
followed by the Peru State College tat Stamp Contest, The World Herald
Industrial Arts Fair . Layout, the Hal Daub Regional Competition,
The Department helped out the school and various U.S . Fish and Wildlife contests.
in several ways. The mechanical drawing Besides entering contests, students
students worked on pictorials and pictorial also displayed projects at UNO., Lincoln,
renderings . General repairs were done in Wesleyan, and St. Mary's College. There
the areas of electrical items, plastic items, wasn 't any major changes in the curriculum,
welding and metal fabrication and wood- but the talent remained high . Joanne
working projects. Stevens, art instructor, said, "I feel we had Alumnus Phil Bossant gives a well-received presenta -
Students worked on various types of an above average number of talented and tion to art students.
individual projects. All types of drawing creative students, capable of developing a "Anything boys can do, girls can do better!", Christie
were done and different kinds of furniture career in the field of art. " Trussell shows this as she works on a project.
and cabinets were made. Then in the Alumnus Page Buss comes back to help art students
Metals area there were engine stands, car learn special techniques that she learned from an art
school.