Wamego High School - Wa Kaw Yearbook (Wamego, KS)

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The art classes at WHS arc really much more than meets the eye. Besides teaching good design, color use. and craftsmanship, they teach responsibility and character. Classes offered arc: 3-D Design, Intro to Art, Drawing. Painting and Graphics I. II. III. Visual Design (photography). Sculpture and Ceramics, and Independent Study in Art. 1. Todd Eisenbeis and Linda Oliver concentrate on their sketching in Introduction to Art. 2. A seven-foor Raider that was painted downtown for Homecoming by Ryan Hendricks, Independent Study student. 3. Mr. Simpson ponders over his class. 4. Angie Colbert, Paul Farrell, and Cynthia Clark work in 3-D Design.

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Home Ec The comprehensive vocational home economics program Of Wamego High School includes several areas of study. The offerings include: Family l iving. C hild Care. Home Management. Housing and Interior Design. C areers. Foods and Nutrition, and Clothing and Textiles Some of the highlights of the year were: panels, guest speakers, field trips, and actual hands-on xpcricnccs like cooking meals and bathing babies in the classroom laboratory The Home Economics program is directed towards giving students experience with day to dav living tasks that they will confront later in life I. Morgan Wilson and Priscilla Roth. V HS freshmen, study the nutritional value of a pizza during a Home I c. 1 field trip. 7 Angelia t lark makes meatballs during a unit on meat and protein. 3. Cjini l arrar and David Prock'h listen attentively to Mrs. Edith Umcr and Mrs. Rachel I nglund on how women dressed many cars ago 4. Bernard Straub. HS junior, shows a knack for washing HUhi's m-.inv hnhvsit»;« J 1

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Physical Education In Physical Education students participate every day of the school year. Each class starts with a 15-minute warm-up. Curriculum studied includes units on team sports and individual or lifetime sports. Study guides are given to each student concerning history and rules of the games. These arc discussed in class. The freshmen girls’ classes participate in the following team sports: speed ball, flag football, volleyball, basketball, and softball. Bowling, badminton, and table tennis are intorduced as individual activities that can be carried over to later years. Numerous indoor team games are played along with a unit on folk, square, and aerobic dancing. This year a unit on physical fitness concepts was introduced. It stressed the how and why of physical fitness. This was an individual program with each student working out of a workbook. 1. In Girls’ P.E. various types of dances arc learned. This group of girls is learning how to square dance. 2. During the fall, the P.E. classes go swimming at the city pool. Mr. Harshbarger gives Curtis Mumaw a little help into the pool, while Willie Reavis and Paul White look on. 3. Building muscles is an important part of physical education. Jimmy Stewart. Don Corbin, and Rudy Voldrich are learning to utilize the equipment, while developing certain muscles. 4. Team sports develop sportsmanship and teamwork. Ronnie Doll and Jon Mcrtz, WHS freshman, practice skills in basketball as Mr. Holmes, freshmen P.E. instructor, supervises.