Northrop High School - Bear Tracks Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Creating beauty or learning to see beauty around us was the teaching directive of the art department. Proffessional quahty was the goal Art is the study of the beauty in life and the practice of making some of that beauty yourself. Art at Northrop is thriving. Classes in art do everything from drawing and painting to sculpture and jevk-elry. From a good basic art program, students go into a chance to specialize and work with the media the interest them. One of the newest of the specialty classes is the photography classes. It is so popular that the number of students has doubled in the last year and have doubled again for the next year. Mr. Gene Porter is the photo teacher and is also offering a new class in a field class of commercial art. Department head Bob Johnson teaches a number of classes in his specialty of paint- ing and large sculpture while Miss Peg Whon- setler directs classes in jewelry and textiles. One of the big events for the art depart- ment is the National Scholastic Art contest. This year was no exception as Northrop ' s crop of artists won a lion ' s share of the top prizes. Several of the works were send on to New York for judging on a national level with several being hung. One of the purpose of art is to help see beauty in one ' s environment and another is to create beauty. In both of these, the Northrop art department is helping students to live up to the expectations around them. liob .liilinson explains some of llu- tin poinis (irskotcliini: toChaun Marlin.

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I . ==4 Jeff Linville and Julie Riley present Miss Sandra Todd and Mr. Bill Mitch- ell with riiristmas canes for the SC sponsored Christmas Post Office. This mass of cans shows the effort all Northrop put into the SC backed Can Drive for Christmas. Rita Covin and Kevin Allen llsh out pennies from the student council big Penny Pitch Contest.

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Charlotte Motz finds art class not at all all work and no play, Debbie Hook makes glazing look easy.