North Branch High School - Bronconian Yearbook (North Branch, MI)

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Training for Future Vocations . .. Our Industrial Arts Program is an exploratory education experience. The students work in different areas in order to determine which field of work they would like to special- ize. During the first year the General Shop course covers such areas as General Sketching, Basic Drafting, Woods, Metals, Electricity, and individual interests study. The second year consists of the study of Advanced Woods, Cabinet Making, Carpentry, Metals II, Sheet Metals, and Welding. The third year consists of specialized areas of in- dividual interests. An Industrial Arts course in Drafting is available the 10th, 11th, 12th, graders--this includes in- struction in Sketching, Pictorial Drawings, Orthographic Projection, Dimensioning, Perspectives, Development, Revolutions, and Threads. Mr. Donald Gleason is in charge of the Industrial Arts Department. Under his tute- lage, die program has grown during the past 2 1 2 years. Next year a course will also be offered in Machine Draft- ing. Mr. Gleason also teaches Driver Education. He has taught at N.B.H.S. for 2 1 2 years. Mr. Robert Curry makes plans for the F.F.A. project of selling the 300 Slow Moving Vehicle signs seen on his desk. DEPT. OF VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION The Vocational Agriculture program is under the supervision of Mr. Robert Curry who joined our staff in December, 1966. Agriculture I covers areas of Basic Soils, Conservation Practices, Principles of Plant Growth, Livestock and Livestock Judging, Fertilizer, Small Grains, and Crop Diseases. Agriculture II is the study of crops and crop production. Farm Shop offers areas of instruction in Farm Carpentry, Welding, Electricity, Plumbing, Concrete, Gas Engines--Repair and Maintenance. Advanced Agriculture is the study of Farm Man- agement. Mr. Curry and students are engaged in farming practices on students farms. Students, parents, and school work hand in hand in developing sound farming projects. Mr. Curry is at the present time in the process of reorganizing the North Branch Chapter of the Future Farmers of America. The rebirth of this is being heard each day through their various projects and it is ex- pected to be more prominent and active in the future. Our Co-operative Education Program--Co-op, as we call it--is a work-experience program in which our students attend school half the day and work in local business or industry the other half. Areas covered in this program are: Distributive education, Trade and Industry, and Office Practice. At the present time, we have 30 students enrolled. This is an ever expanding program limited to the availability of job situations in our local areas. This program is under the direction of Mr. Edward Krepps, chairman of this department. Mr. Krepps has taught at N.B.H.S. for 20 years and served as Guidance Counselor. as A1 Peet and Ron Hutchinson observe. Mr. Curry laughs and Mr. Gleeson acts surprised as Mr. Krepps, chairman of the Vocational Instruction department, hams it up outside the Faculty Lounge.

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Norm Edwards, Eugene Caldwell, Gary Bennett and Jim Goss study their individual Related Instruction material. These four students are on the Co-op program. Mr. Curry points out to the Freshmen Ag. class ori- entation on F.F.A. Ken Milbocker practices his blue print reading assignment in full view of his report card. Mr. Edward Krepps, chairman of this department and Guidance Director hands out the familiar morning excuse. Dennis Schlaud, Fred Bruman, Rich Blumerich, Ron Hutchinson and Doug Lauwers watch Don Ball as he marks measurements on a dowel in Advanced Shop. Don Ball and A1 Haack do their drafting assignments

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Exploring Life Through DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE—ENGLISH Left: Kathy Lake debates the American Revolution with Mr. Hunter. Right: Juniors copy informa- tion from the blackboard in 4th Hour American History. This year the freshmen found they were preparing for their future classes in English by writing term papers and one-act plays. Miss Carol Anderson, who has been with us for two years, and Mr. David Murphy, new to us second semester, teach English IX. The sophomores read THE KING AND I and JULIUS CAESAR as preparation for future literature classes. Mr. James Cowan and Mr. Robert Perrigo, both new to NBHS this year, teach sophomore English classes. Research and writing themes and term papers kept the juniors busy. Mr. Robert Solomon, new this year, teaches junior English. The seniors found that in some classes they were de- fending their ideas before the class. Many were kept busy writing themes each week and reading DAVID COPPERFIELD, OLIVER TWIST, and LORD OF THE FLIES. Still another group wrote autobiographies and letters of application. Mr. Cowan is observed lecturing in Speech Class. 20 Miss Anderson hands back one of the many themes students must write in English.