William Mitchell High School - Apogee Explo Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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Industrial Arts Program WHILE WORKING IN the auto shop, Bob Lay checks a car with an electromc d'agn0St'C engme tester' MARION FRIESS HELPS Rick Warner as he aligns a radio receiver dur ing their electronics class. RUSSELL STOTT LOOKS at a line of type as he sits in front of a lino- type machine.

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BOB YOUNG, JIM Wilson, Errol Kobilan and Jim Weaks apply some of the principles of building a cabinet. DURING HIS METALS class, Jack Addison checks the diameter of a drive shaft of a snowmobile. Electronics Joins WHILE WORKING IN his drafting class, Bob Loomis makes a working drawing of a machine part. Because of the growing need for electrically skilled workers in the region, electronics was offered for the first time by the industrial arts department. This elec- tive was open to all students who were interested in electronics. The course covered basic electrical theor- ies and laws, electronstatistics, electrical measuring in- struments, and AC and DC theory. Also offered to Mitchell students for the first time was vocational electronics. This course was taken by students who planned to go into the electronics field after graduation. Areas covered during the year were industrial electronics, communications, and radio and television repair. Among the other subjects offered by the industrial arts department were general industrial arts for all in- coming sophomores, and wood shop, metal shop, gra- phic arts, and auto shop which were all two-year courses. Electronics and mechanical drawing were both three-year courses.

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Fine Arts Stress Student Talents This year the fine arts department stressed devel- opment of individual talents. Under the direction of lVlr. Norman Smith instru- mental music students participated in pep band and concert or stage band. Pep band had the special honor of participating in Band Day at Boulder on October 7. Concert band entered the State Nlusic Concert held in April. Stage band played for the Colorado School Boards Convention held at the Broadmoor in November. ln vocal music under the direction of lVlr. Archer Hayes, students belonged to one or more of six vocal groups, which performed in the Christmas Concert and Spring Concert. ln the drama department under the direction of lVlr. J. D. Barnes first semester and of lVlr. James Hill second semester, students studied effective acting and staging techniques and the history of drama and aided Talisman Theatre with the production of plays. In art classes lVlr. Jack Frost taught beginning art students the basic principles of art. The advanced stu- dents worked with such apparatus as the poetry wheel and the new bronze-casting system put in oper- ation this year. DURING A SECTlONAL rehearsal, lVlr. Norman Smith practices with Jim Bennett and Dan Dungan. NllXED CHORUS PRACTICES their repertoire for the Christmas concert. ADVANCED ART STUDENT Jim Heinlin works on an oil painting ofa harbor scene.