Woodlan Senior High School - Arrow Yearbook (Woodburn, IN)

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Agriculture brings year-round activity Woodlan agriculture department is very ac- tive , not only in the surrounding area but also in the state. This recognition comes from year-round participation in 144 different con- tests. Just a few of the contests that the students participate in include livestock, crops, forestry, entomo- logy, poultry, soil. welding and horticul- ture judgings . Class activities include FFA (Future Farmers of America). Everything that is done outside of class is on the teachers ' and students ' own time. These teachers and their courses are Mr. Richard Grubaugh, Agriculture 7,8,9, Horticulture and biology, and Mr. Ron Hefty, Agriculture 7,8, 10 and Conservation. 1 . Agriculture not only deals with farming and crops, but also with repairing equipment when it gets damaged. Freshmen Jammie Hughes and Rodney Strautman display their talents at repairing a grain wagon in the shop area for the freshman agriculture class. 2 . Freshman Christopher Gerardot displays how the band saw operates by putting the finishing touches to his fish project in the freshman agri- culture class.

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Indstrial arts involves one-third of students •Industrial arts in- volves 35 per cent of the students at Woodlan. One reason is that more and more are en- rolling in these tradi- tionally male -dominated industrial arts classes. In these classes each student must make a pro- ject, which can be al- most anything, such as transistor radios, color organs, T-shirits, rub- ber stamps, cedar chests cabinets and special school activities. The industrial arts department at Woodlan offers a wide variety of classes. Mr. Tom Harris teaches Woods I, II and III , Mr . Denny Miesle teaches Graphics I and II, Industrial Arts 9 and Advanced Drafting, and Mr. Dean Ray teaches Metals I and II, Industrial Arts 9, and Mechanical Drafting. 1 . Sophomores Mark Delagrange and Scott A. Delagrange draw in the geometric construction unit of Mechicanical Drafting . 2. Junior Jan Salway, one ' of the few girls in woods , works on her wall hanging project. 3. In Mechicanical Drafting sophomore Kurt Spieth works on a geometric construction project. 4. Senior Lisa Messmann dis- plays her skill with the press in Graphics II . r

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The first step in art class was getting the assignment from Mrs. Janice Reifsnider. The next step was let- ting the imagination go wild: No holding back, going to extremes, tak- ing it out of the mind and creating it with the hand with guidance from the eyes . First semester em- phasized skills in draw- ing and sketching por- traits, posters and still lives. Second se- mester emphasized crafts, such as molding clay and making jewelry 1. Seventh graders woi k on their color wheels.