Broad Ripple High School - Riparian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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FENDER-BENDER Bumpei stickers and other paraphernalia represented Shoriridge pride long after the school was closed PRESCHOOL BLUES Listening to various speakers at a Shortridge tea. new students attended preschool functions to acquaint themselves with Broad Ripple 2 brbttt m v 1 M POMPON POWER During dn outside rehearsal. Crystal Miller practices new pompon routine steps With the fall athletic activities, after school practices were not uncommon sights. TOGETHER Veteran players Nick Law and Randall Banks from Broad Ripple and Shortridge. respectively, united for the 1981 football campaign Banks was one of four team Rocket captains • . » n ;2 i - .. ' • ' ,j m

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l t%1» JV ViT At .■- Ml V ' 5 ' l ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Rplurnincj tor a ddy to the Fltll ' , the ?Oth C ' i ' nturv c IdSb bops dt .1 so k hop in the (jifls ' ijvni PIED PIPERS During the annudi Penrod Day celebrations at Oldhelds. crowds gather to listen to one of the many musical groups SCHOOL SPIRIT Displaying school pride when threatened to be closed, BRHS students decorated the building with orange and black slogans Opening 3

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BR + Shortridge = crowded halls 1600 + 300=1900. Chaotic halls demonstrated that in theory this equation seemed simple but when applied to people proved quite difficult. The goal of 1900 students: to cover the length of an entire building in five minutes, dodge hundreds of other hurrying bodies and make it to class on time. Even agile hall-wise seniors found their darting techniques useless against the multitudes of people. TESTING 12 3 ... Attempting to get the attention of the audience, Rachel Riegel prepares to speak during the Shortridge Tea. The Tea was planned to help parents and students become acquainted with Ripple. Stampedes of people and muddied schedules took back seat to the undercurrents of emotion that followed throughout the school. The 300 new pupils transformed from mere figures on paper to real-life people. Changing the newspaper to the Riparian-Echo, moving the S.P.A. and creating a new BRHS seemed minor concessions to those students who had lost a school. Freshman and Shortridge teas, club meetings and athletic events rotated around involving new students. A distinction remained, however, between Ripplites and Ridgers. Blue and white inevitably popped-up on Black and Orange days, and Ripplites begrudged Ridgers for hanging on to the past. Gradually a combination began to form, and instead of swallowing Shortridge alive, B.R.H.S. expanded and grew. The equation altered from one of digits to that of ideas and people. PIN-GP . . . Popping-up on sweatshirts, jackets and buttons, the slogan Shortridge Is Indianapolis represented the Pride of former Ridgers. When I first came here, it was too large, and I had trouble getting to classes. I am adjusting very slowly. — Candy Edmonson, sr. I feel I will never be able to love any school as much as I love Shortridge. — Anne Daniell. jr. People here seemed friendly: I seemed to be lost, and they (Ripple people) showed me the way. — Kelli Little, jr. People were more liberal at Ridge; there ' s more discipline here it seems. But I do like BR. — Chuck Rice, jr. I want everyone to know where I come from, and what 1 stand for. — Anna Harper, jr. I don ' t think I ' ll ever adjust completely. Deep inside I ' ll always be ' Blue and white ' . — Paul Galloway, jr. I like BR this year a lot because of the new activities such as performing arts, but I don ' t like the violence. — Patsy Briscoe, sr. I think the people that chose to come to BR this year from ' Ridge are really neat; they ' re very interesting. — Betsi Wiley, soph. I think that a lot of SHS people are making the transition to BR, but some are negative. — Jim Durrett, soph. It is a cattle farm of students. — Tracy Swatts, sr. Broad Ripple doesn ' t seem like a family anymore. Now there are too many people to know everybody. I would like everyone to be a family again. — Monica Bryant, soph. 1 BALLOO sketch in downtown, Liz White and Susan Appel participate with OBRC in the annual IPS May Day celebration. Opening 5