Park Falls High School - Torch Yearbook (Park Falls, WI)

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expression in media With the aid of new media and a new kiln, Lincoln’s art students, under the direction of Mr. Donald Johnson, strove to achieve new artistic heights. The advanced artists' experimented in sandblox and foamglass sculpture, discovering you can’t always judge beauty by the smell, while the first year students perfected the basic skills A trip to Duluth highlighted the search for the unique. Mr Johnson's desk was unique too Pete Eyvindsson pursues an age-old Mexican craft on the pottery wheel 28

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academics faculty the busy hum of student conversation dulls and finally disappears altogether as teachers enter their rooms . . . heads are bent in rapt concentration broken only by quizzical frowns and studious stares into space. It is report-card time.” Overburdened arms are seen carrying more than the usual amount of books into tense studyhalls. Fierce determination, futility, hope and struggle are pervading facial expressions . . . Through all this—faculty members seem to mysteriously rise in stature—as well befits the leaders of a noble cause. Term papers, book reports, report-reports; all seem to mass and overwhelm the unsuspecting student. For some, the outcome of this popularly dreaded time holds more than a parental threat —for they are seniors, and this is 6ne of their last chances to prove their inherent abilities. At last the mail brings the little white slips, and perhaps-for the time being-disaster has been averted. A general sigh of relief reverberates down these hallowed halls, and teachers, administrators, and students are free again to resume their search for knowledge and experience.

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. . . the big world of business . . . This year the business department, which in- cludes typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping, kept interest in the student body by interesting bulletin boards. Senior students intending to go on in such types of work as secretaries or business teachers, worked in various offices in the town for on the job training. Extra courses were given to qualifying students who traveled to Madison. It seemed like Mrs Graf never raised her voice Larry Draxler tried to convince Mr Ludwig typing wasn't much different than playing football . Pat Ludke found the machines room a lifesaver when it came to assignments 29