Garden City Community College - Broncbuster Yearbook (Garden City, KS)

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Day and evening VARIETY GF PRGJ ECTS We have students making everything from nightstands to entertainment centers, Building Construction Coor- dinator Curt Tarrant said. You name it, everything you can make out of wood, we've made it. He was refer- ring to the various projects constructed in his day and evening woodworking classes. He taught two night classes and two day classes. The day classes were called Machine Woodworking while evening classes were called Beginning Woodworking. Adults in the community enrolled mainly in night classes. They were interested not in the credit hours but the projects themselves. Some dedicated adults have enrolled in as many as sixteen semesters of the course. Enrollment also increased when the new facilities in the john Collins Vocational Building were finished. We're pretty proud of our enrollment, Tarrant said. He explained that there were 51 people enrolled in the five classes, which included a wood finishing class. The classes were considered full with ten per class period. The department added a new full-time instructor, Gary Barker. This was Barker's first college teaching job, he formerly taught high school industrial education at Lin- colnville. The change was for the bet- ter, according to Barker. They're here because they want to be, not because they have to be. They're more eager to learn and a lot more pleasant to work with, he said. Most of the beginning students started with simple projects and moved on to more difficult ones as their skills progressed. I made a dresser in high school and this gives me an op- portunity to build the mat- ching mirror frame, said night student Ron Kreutzer. As far as the classes combin- ed they build all kinds of stuff, from real simple to com- plex projects, Barker said. Students in both beginning and machine woodworking drew their own unique plans. By building their own fur- niture pieces, Tarrant estimated that students spent only about one fifth of what they would have paid for the same item in a furniture store. The department purchased several different kinds of Squaring up stock-Ron Kreutzer runs a piece of walnut over thejointer. It was later used as the side of a mir- ror frame. 88 Wood ProductionlAcademics wood and supplies. The students kept a material bill and paid for the project when they were finished. They pick- ed their project as well as the supplies. We don't dictate to a stu- dent what they should build, Tarrant said. We want them to build something they have a need for and could use at home.

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