Alliance High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Alliance, NE)

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Mr. Bruce Rockey, Vocational Education Department head, prepares equipment for use in his carpentry class, Voc. Ed. Students Plan for Future Mr. Lonnie Sherlock takes time out from his lesson-planning to joke with students. Preparing for the future is the main goal of the Vocational Department. Students who are planning to enter the business world develop their skills in diverse fields such as typing, shorthand, bookkeeping and business office practice. Students enrolled in Distributive Education get on the job training and experience in a variety of fields. Future farm and ranch operators gain experience through courses in Vocational Agriculture and farm mechanics. Courses in Mechanics, Electricity, and Graphic Arts provide the knowledge required for job skills which will be in great demand in the future. Students enrolled in Vocational Department courses find these skills invaluable whether they pursue them as careers or make use of them in their everyday lives. 26

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Industrial Arts Provides Variety Industrial Arts, instructed by Mr. Byron Nelson, includes a variety of useful skills in its program. Students in Mr. Nelson's classes, whether they are enrolled in arts and crafts or the more advanced drafting courses, learn how to use various tools skillfully. These tools range from those used to work leather to the advanced precision instrument used in drafting and engineering. Skills learned in these classes become useful in the everyday lives of all students, especially those who will need this knowledge if they pursue a drafting or engineering career. Mr. Nelson has the opportunity, as few instructors do, to teach students in nearly all the Junior High grades, as well as high school students. The separate shop he has access to enables him to handle a large number of students and provides the equipment materials necessary to encourage creativity. Junior high shop students apply their energy to assigned work. Jim Peltz spies on busy Byron Nelson, instructor of Industrial Arts. 25

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Mrs. Juanita Glarum and Mrs. Annette Pool give their approval to a completed Shorthand assignment . Rich Haslow and Monte Garner are fascinated by their carpentry project. Mr. Kenneth Ware instructs Metals and Electricity, and sponsors FFA. Mr. Jack Kennedy examines the car that his Mechanics class is about to dissect. 27