Twenty years and 5 remodels does that make a good teacher? Well yes.
Travis “Lucy” Lucero is the welding teacher along with Orlando “San Francisco” Sorenson. Lucy has been teaching at Bingham for 20 years and has seen it all from a shear that caught on fire once a day to a kid stealing a motorcycle in front of everyone else and driving away. He has grown the welding program from Three welders, only one of which worked to over 16 good working Miller multiprocess welders, and a second welding teacher, San Francisco. He has been hired to teach other schools because Lucy has grown the program large enough to do so. Lucy has also liked having San Francisco around because “he brings a new perspective and new ideas.” These new ideas have been helpful in the endeavor to separate the welding and collision shops.
He got his love for welding and autobody because his dad was a pipe fitter for the local 42 pipe fitters union and he just loved welding and cars because of it, and then went to collision school and learned that he liked autobody. His love for autobody and history of welding is what allowed him to teach at Bingham through a course where he got teaching lessons as he taught his students through a government program. One of his favorite things to do in welding is paint, which is evident in “Frankie”, his project truck with a $20,000 paint job. He got that truck from a family friend who made him finish it.
Lucy is a great teacher that has been making students’ lives better through welding for the past 20 years and is leaving a legacy to continue teaching.
