Hector High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Hector, AR)

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This Could Never Happen To Me! Who can get excited about study- ing art and music rather than painting and performing? If you were in these classes, though, you would think differently. Learning be- comes fun as you apply what you have discovered. Picture this! A short, blonde-headed senior is walking down a sidewalk on North Arkansas in Russellville. She is wearing a blue choir robe with a white collar, walking like a stiff-legged toy. This is just the way it happened on No- vember 9 when the choir attended the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Choral Festival at ATU. The choir had just finished eating lunch and had headed back to the bus. A group of girls were walking together toward the bus, and no one suspected that this certain girl’s hose were sliding down. With every step she took, it grew worse. She thought that she could make it to the bus without anyone knowing about her situation. Just as she started to step on the bus, her hose fell to her ankles. We won’t mention who she is, but her initials are Making a mistake, Brian Mellon, seventh, realizes that he did not come in at the right time during their performance of “The Mol- dgu . 28 This Could Never Happen To Me! Carla McCuin. You think you’ve seen it all. You should have been in Fine Arts one day when we were studying paintings. It seems that one of the paintings was quite graphic. That’s one way of putting it, but as Tammy Warren puts it, “It was cmbarassing, alarming, and dis- gusting.’’ Music classes are offered to all stu- dents: elementary music, elementary band, seventh grade general music, high school choir, and survey of fine arts. All music classes are taught by Mr. Foster. Many aspects of art are covered in Mrs. Glover’s classes. Students practice in using water colors, acrylic painting, and sculpture. Time is also spent on art history and art appreciation. Much time is spent outside studying the sce- nery and duplicating what they see, us- ing different mediums. Some work is done with paper machee. Students not only learn the basics of art, but they learn to look at the world through the eyes of an artist.

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If you had visited Home Ec. lately, you could have wit- nessed a new course in the making — Creative Manipulation. It seems that Jeanie Holt couldn’t get the pocket to fit ‘right’ on her apron. She enlisted the help of two gullible class- mates. After much whispered discus- sion, Jeanie made the work assign- ments. One unnamed cohort was as- signed to push the reverse button at the right time. The other unsuspecting cul- prit was assigned to guide the material under the pressure foot. As boss, Jeanie made sure the needle was sewing in the right place. Result — a beautifully sewn pocket, all done by sewing in re- verse. Since this masterpiece was not accomplished by sewing forward, the pocket had to be removed and sewn on the right way without the help of her now wiser friends. The overseer of the Home Economics department is Mrs. Marty White. In addition to the creative sewing class, she teaches foods and nutrition, housing and home furnishings, interpersonal re- lationships, clothing and textiles, con- sumer education, child development. Home Economics I, and career orienta- tion. Another addition to the vocational education department is the shop classes taught by Mr. G.B. Swaim. Each eighth grader must also take nine weeks of practical arts which Mr. Swaim teaches. Another option that Hector High School students have open to them is the Area Vocational Technical Center in Russellville. Students can elect to take any one of a number of courses: auto mechanics, drafting, electronics, horticulture, metal fabrication, or pre- cision machining. Hector students are bussed to the Center each morning and return to Hector afterwards to attend the rest of their classes. Stanley Sackman. junior, works intenslcy on complet- ing his magazine rack. Cynthia Ledford, sopho- more. measures her collar to make sure it will fit. Academics Home Ec., Shop, Career Center 27

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JagSe s the key to any one's ation. — Barbara Bure hard Art Award Winner “Musk feeling is an expression of one’s — Christy Patton Music Award Winner Doing the Sol-Keg System, this fourth grade class learns the basis for future sightreading skills. Discovering various artist's techniques. Lisa Hill, ju- nior. shows Tammy Warren, senior, parts of the painting. Poor C aria McC'uin, senior, reenacts that dreadful day when her hose fell to the ground Academics Art-Music 29