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

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

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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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Homecoming celebrated during day with spirit boostei School began a month ago and the grind is just getting to be a habit. The go to class and study and do homework is normal and everything is status quo... but wait. Now is the time to break the status quo and to see if the regular routine can stand a little bit of variety. It ' s Homecoming Week. It ' s not that the regular classes are dropped but that a new schedule is added. It is time to get out of study halls and help decorate the halls. And maybe get out of class a few min- utes if the teacher is done with the lesson for the day. And then there is a different activity for each day. Bruin day is fun when the girls get little paper bears at the beginning of the day and then keep them as long as they are not going to talk to some guy. Most of the little paper bears had a life span of about the end of first period. And by the end of the day the guy with the most bears got an award for his diligent efforts. But then there was hat day. The teachers couldn ' t yell at you for wearing hats in the building, and the weirder and stranger your hat is, the more your chance of winning so as the day went by, the hats got stranger and stranger and stranger. And then Lick ' em Day. That was ever ' bodies favorite except the dentists. All of the Cheerleaders were hustling lollipops and it was sort of an unwritten rule that you could eat them in classes. It was a new way to get that mid morning energy snack without the trouble that was so easy to get. And the final big during the day Home- coming activity had to be the pep session. Playing Snider that night added fuel to the fire that didn ' t really need help, but with a chance to play Snider and a chance for the Northrop North SAC championship, well, it was all over for the roof we veiled off rti If 1 1 f ' il II h