Kimball County High School - Longhorn Yearbook (Kimball, NE)

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Vocational Facilities Allow For MACHINE SHOP is a popular class in the vocational area of the curriculum. Mr. Dunkin is demonstrating the milling machine to Dwight Walker. Students learn to use various machines. MUCH EXPERIENCE is gained working on actual car motors in auto mechanics class. Tom Bartels. Dennis Drake, and Mitch Kolar are engaged in the discussion of the repairs needed on this motor. VOCATIONAL AG II classes find their assignments include considerable reading and paper work. Mr. Acheson is checking some of the work of Mike Moehr, Jon Sandridge, and Dave Lukassen. 22 LEARNING TO repair farm implement motors is done in the auto mechanics class. Mike Brown learns what constitutes the basic repairs of a tractor motor under the helping hand of Mr. McCombs.

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Art—Physical Education Demand Skill RANDY CROPPER is receiving help on his macrame project from Mrs. Dietz. This is just one of many art projects students do. Basic art is taught to first-year students, but before the year is completed each student has learned to do many things in this interest area. Students desiring a second year of art become involved in many complicated projects. These art lovers are motivated to express their own ideas and feelings in many of the projects with which they work. Mrs. Dietz instructs both sections of art, teaching in the high school in the afternoon and at junior high in the morning. Building better attitudes toward themselves as well as their fellow man and developing new physical skills are included in the basic training in all physical education classes. Miss Terri Caswell, teaching her first year at KCHS, gives the girls many opportunites to achieve in a variety of sports. She also coaches the girl's volleyball team and the girl's track team, and during second semester initiated an advanced girl's physical education class. Mr. Keith Staehr and Mr. Dale Hendrickson teach boy's physical education. They are interested in teaching the boys a variety of sports in which skills can be achieved. These men also teach social studies, and each has coaching assignments as well. MISS CASWELL displays jumping techniques on the trampoline to one of her classes. WARM DAYS find the boys in physical education classes outdoors. Here they are involved in a game of flag football. WRESTLING REQUIRES a lot of strength. Mr. Staehr and Rodney Koester are proving this. STUDENTS WATCH Mr. Henrickson demonstrate correct position before releasing the ball.

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Practical Experiences In Many Areas STUDENTS NOT only plan meals, purchase their groceries, cook; they also dine on their finished product. Joanne Smith and Wanda Heidemann enjoy eating the food they have prepared. Students with vocational interests have a variety of courses from which to plan their curriculum while in high school. These courses all offer an opportunity to discover areas of interest and ability. Drafting I II classes are taught by Mr. Dunkin. Here students are instructed in the correct use of drawing instruments as well as interpretation of various types of drawings. The class is designed to meet the individual needs of each student. Girls as well as boys can take auto mechanics in KCHS. Mr. McCombs instructs a semester course for girls, and they learn the basic use of hand tools, tire service and repair, and the proper servicing of automobiles. The boys follow a more complicated procedure; they study the parts of a car in great detail, and they repair cars for people who furnish the repairs. Vocational agriculture is taught by Mr. Acheson. Here students learn the techniques necessary for efficient farm management, and they plan and construct equipment that is used in farming and ranching. Girls are admitted to vocational ag classes and several girls are involved in the course this year. Mrs. Seems teaches all of the vocational homemaking classes. Girls become involved in planning their weddings, learning to manage home budgets, the care of youngsters, cooking, and sewing. A semester of homemaking for boys prepares them for general routine homemaking that they might encounter through their bachelor days and possibly this training may result in their being helpful husbands. MRS. SEEMS assists Arlene Volkmer with a project she is doing in sewing. 23