New Prairie High School - Prairie Life Yearbook (New Carlisle, IN)

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Industrial arts prepares today's youth for tomorrow’s working world. Charlie Evans and Allen Blad are laying out their new homes Mr. Bill Friend, Graphic Arts instructor, is a grad- uate of Indiana State Uni- versity. After his three years of teaching, Mr. Friend concludes, New Prairie has a fine bunch of students. The funniest personal exper- ience in Mr. Don Kane's 20 year teaching career was when he was giving a pep talk to his team and he kicked an empty box for emphasis. The box stuck to his foot, and required assis- tance in removal. Hey Bruce, where are your goggles? Bill Kelm is seeing what makes the world go round 22

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Highly competent educators staff the math department, assuring each student an ex- cellent headstart toward a mathmatical fu- ture. Courses offered range from fundamental math to pre calculus for the interest of the student. As in previous years, the math students participated in regional and state contests and received numerous awards. Mr. Dave Washburn is in his first year of teaching math in our school system. He is our swimming coach and also likes sailing and amateur radio. Miss Ruth Lempke has been teaching in our school sys- tem for five years. In her opinion, our students are great as people, but lazy as students. Her hobbies are ceramics and reading best sellers. Mr. Michael Powers is in his sixth year of teaching. When asked his opinion of our stu- dents his reply a fine group of students. Mr. Powers' interests are: photography, and playing the guitar. 21

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Mr. Jerry McClanahan, is the Industrial Arts 9 and Wood's 11 teacher. This is Mr. McClanahan's first year of teaching, and the stu- dents say, He Is better than the average teacher. Mr. Harry Tolmen sponsors the Lettermen's Club and coaches the varsity base- ball team. He enjoys fish- ing, wood working, bowl- ing, and canoeing. He has been nicknamed The Bear by his students. The Industrial Arts Department teaches skills which can be used in later life. Courses in- clude Wood and Metal working, Graphics and Mechanical Drawing. The students learn by doing wood working designs, and build sets for the musical and drama productions. The Graphics class prints the Cougar Reporter as well as programs for school functions. The Metals class does welding, and Lathe work. And the Drawing class learns how to become draftsmen which will enable them to read spec- ifications and to design and draw cars and machinery. 23