Tampa Bay Tech High School - Titan Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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Unique Educational Experiences Carpentry Builds Vacation Cottages TBT ' s Carpentry ' students will have the necessary- experience needed to work on any construction site upon graduation from this program. They are building a vacation cottage straight from the blueprints. This experience will prove invaluable on the job market. In addition to this project, all Carpentry students are well-skilled in cabinet making and work- ing with all grades of wood and materials. Mr. Gmeur heads the project and provides the leadership necessary to produce outstand- ing craftsmen. Machine Shop Serves TBT Machine Shop students repair equipment and facilities for TBT. They have done every- thing from repairs in the cafeteria to fixing the director ' s chair. Whenever something is taken into the shop it is taken into the shop it is known as job shop. Whenever they do ourside repairs they call it live work. Their tasks are far too numerous to list, but they must be praised for all they do. They can make anything that needs to be machined and are responsible for all plastic signs and engravings. Machine Shop made the Tour Guides ' pins, directional signs, bathroom labels, name tags for the shops, and many engravings for the administration, and county offices. Machine Shop is one of the hardest work- ing shops around and certainly deserves an outstanding shop of the year award.

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Outstanding Shops Provide Agriculture Of all TBT shops, Agriculture is the most involved in co-circular activities. One of the largest projects the students are undertaking is the (BOAC) Building Our American Com- munity-project. They are competing for the state award for the best landscaping of the Agricultural Business Center. Each year at the Florida State Fair Agricul- ture students walk away with honors. Nor- man Cale received six First place awards, four Second place, and three Third place awards in ornamental horticulture. In addition to the State Fair awards, TBT students participated in the Strawberry Festi- val, the State Ornamental Horticulture Con- test, State Citrus Contest, and State Live Stock and Dairy Contest. Mr. Davidson, Mr. Lennard, and Mr. Green are the men behind the winning stu- dents. They have confidence in their students and take every opportunity to praise them when they deserve it. Maybe that is why we have so many winners from Agriculture. Commercial Art Commercial Art goes above and beyond the call of duty to provide students with the proper exposure to experts in the field of advertising, art, and illustrating. Each and every student receives expert instruction in every facet of Commercial Art, and has the chance to view first-hand, the people who actually work in the field. Aside from the fact Mrs. June Prance and Mrs. Lisa Rodriguez are both accomplished artists, Jim Childress, illustrator of Conchy Comic Strips; Fred Las- well of Snuffy Smith Advertising Agency and Al Kitchen of the McDonalds Little Adver- tising Agency are just a few of the speakers that visited the department. In addition, several Commercial Art students attended a banquet for the Society of Writers and Illus- trators, of Children books. Nine published authors headed the guest speaker list. Angela Drapier, an illustrator of many childrens books and the artist who painted the race horse for the Sarasota Hall of Fame was among the honored guests. In addition, the department ' s Commercial Art students visited the art department ' s of Darrcl! Chester checks root growth large chain stores on se veral field trips. They are also given the opportunity to design the Commercial brochures for the shops and are also responsible for the layout and design of the Hillsborough County School Calendar. Recently students painted a huge mural on the classroom walls and created all the charac- ters of the faculty that are displayed in the lunchroom. Mrs. Prance and Mrs. Rodgriguez work together to schedule the field trips and guest appearances. Speakers are rotated yearly. It is not surprising that each year Commercial Art has a long waiting list of students anxious to get into the program. No student interested in Art could ask for anything more than the privilege of being in TBT ' s Commerical Art program. 50 Shop Recognition

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King of Trades Mike Marshall When you say Mike Marshall you are say- ing self-motivated, talented, a perfectionist, ambitious, and willing to learn. According to his Art Instructor, Mrs. June Prance, He is the most outstanding srudent I have ever had the privilege of teaching. He listens! He follows instructions! He is the only student that I have ever had skip a whole grade because of his talent. He never asks for favors or special privileges. He has worked ever since he has been at TBT and I say I am proud to have a small part of training him for his career. One of these days, he will be famous and I will be able to say I knew him when . . . Mike Marshall has been described by his fellow students as a loner. A person who keeps to himself. He not a joiner — but is extremely well liked. He ' s loyal. He is a very special person. Mike is doing free lance art work for several businesses and plans to go to New York to continue his career. He is superb in all areas of commercial art, but he has a pref- erence for cartooning, and illustrating. According to Mrs. Prance Mike is my very best student. I like everything about him; especially his humility and his faith in God. 52 King of Trades