Thomas Carr Howe Community High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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JV Left: Which tool should I use? Damon Falconer asks himself while he's in the tool shed. Above: Damon Lacey cuts up in class, but it's O.K. He's working the band saw in Industrial Technol- ogy class. Below: A sense of pride and satisfaction is felt by Senior, Antonio Robertson as he builds his model to exacting specifications. 1 .;. . HM 1 M m end of a metal shaft. Left to Right: Wayne Wellington, Department Head Lowell Hester Steve Taflinger Industrial Technology 27

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INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY New Classes Highlight The Industrial Technology Department The Industrial Technology Depart- ment seems to have been zapped over the summer. This year when the school year started, the teachers were faced with to- tally new courses — Graphic Communi- cation Systems, Electronic Communica- tions Systems, Constructing Structures, Construction Planning and Design, Transportation Systems, Energy Sys- tems, Community Planning, Designing and evaluating Transportation Systems, Manufacturing Materials and processes and Product and Manufacturing System Design. If you like to print products, work with computers, make things and work with your hands, then maybe you should consider signing up for one of these courses next year. Department Head Mr. Wayne Wel- lington says, The courses are now more working with your hands. You hardly ever do book work. The teachers are adapting well to the newness of the courses. The department is still working collectively trying to integrate the old with the new curriculum while they are waiting to see how the students like the new courses. The change was inevitable, with the world of technology shifting so rapidly in the real world , the school must change to prepare the students for a more realis- tic situation in the job market. And with the reality of job skills for today's mar- ket, Industrial Technology meets the needs of students to prepare them for today's world. Jennifer Hardy Top: Future architect, Nichole Wilson, isn't going to let her Wilson Bridge fall down as she double checks her measurements. Above: No, it's not knight school. Mr. Hester dem- onstrates a lathe to his students as he faces off the end of a metal shaft. 26 Industrial Technology

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M A T H E M A T I C S Below: Chalk up another one for Angela Stubbs! She seems to know all the angles! Right: Mr. Walters has the undivided attention of his class as he sums up his lesson on multipli- cation and subtraction. Below Right: Mrs. Freeman's Geometry class prepares for an unparalleled test. Hypotenuse is on the Loose It's dangerous going; watch out! There's a hypotenuse out there some- where and it has a nasty byte. It lives in a strange land where the trees have square roots and their logs a rhythm. So arm yourself with the enchanted book of theorems and the magic slide rule. You've entered the world of mathemat- ics. Well, it's really not as bizarre as all of that, but it can be just as exciting if you just open your mind. Mathematics holds the key to another sort of magical king- dom. Making things disappear now be- comes easy; it's called subtracting. Want it to reappear? AbraCadabra! Just add or multiply. No, I must admit taking a mathematics class will not enable you to saw your mother in half, but it will en- able you to stretch your knowledge and imagination in ways you never thought possible. Give Mr. Brown the chance to teach you all the things that can be accom- plished with the aid of a computer. Give Mrs. Freeman the chance to show you how to use formulas as short-cuts to long problems. But most of all, give yourself a chance, and don't sell yourself short in the math department. With a pencil driven with determination, you can be as tall as you want to be. Lisa Zoeller 28 Math