Corner View:Impression

Impressions are important.

Often that first one is your only chance to connect--

to end up in someone's life or in their company (as in job).

Unfair? Perhaps, but that is the way a lot of 'society' is.

No one was decorating this display window.

Therefore, when anyone walked in our school,

especially freshmen students embarking on a new and scary journey

and parents wary of what these next four years would hold for their child,

they saw a blank pegboard with bits of paper hanging here and there

and ugly staples bearing witness that at one point someone cared,

but no longer.

I shuddered every time I saw this.

So when I volunteered and got the positon of advisor to Student Council

and saw that I had a group of artistically talented teen-agers

with pride in their school,

I went to the principal and asked for permission for the SC to take over

the display window.

Next I talked with the group of seniors from SC who all had 7th period study hall.

From these talks emerged the following display.

Anyone walking in immediately sees

we have organizations

and we have artists.

(Also that the district signed a contract with CocaCola to carry only their drinks for our pop, but the vending machines don't work until 3:00PM.  Milk is sold in the cafeteria.)

All of the drawings were done free-hand and then cut out.

K. loves to come up with ideas and figure out a way to make them work.

The lettering, except for the  "Welcome Back! Get Involved. . ."

is also done free-hand which is especially difficult when you have to half-climb

in the window and contort your body to write the words.

M. is remarkable in her ability to do so.

Color is extremely important to this group---they are vibrant, life-loving students

and their world is not made up of muted or dull colors.

Art and sports (the trophies) are important here.

This was at the end of the year last May

when many kids had already taken their work home.

The door is metal and cold.

You would never know that behind it is a world of imagination

with murals on the walls

and paintings on the ceiling.

Ms. C is a talented artist and truly works at getting her students

to reach deep inside to find the artist living there.

Agriculture is important at our school

and we have many Future Farmers of America.

Our seniors are honored each year with a display of photos.

We are a rural school district.

For more corner views,

please check out Francesca's Fuoriborgo.