Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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Above—Queen Penny Free along with her at- tendants Betsy Conn and Cindy Peterson anx- iously await the crowning done by Mike Emer- son, Dave Peat and Duane Miller. Right—Helping to pull the winning float are NHS members Matt Putnam, Bob Cleaveland, Judy Miller, Vija Jansons and Mike Bender.

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The peculiar evil of silencing an opinion is that it is robbing the human Above—Freedom to think and express ideas is ef- fectively presented in this Patricia Ellen Ricci pos- ter which hung in the Writing Lab. Left—The enemy within poster from Psychology To- day illustrates the danger of air pollution which Americans became increasingly aware of. Far Left—lIncreasingly, the cry of the patriotic young as well as the older Americans has been for an end to the war in Indo-China. This stop sign was found near Edwardsburg, Mich.

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ecoming 69 Tension erupts between blacks, whites on voting Homecoming this year was a time of change for everyone in the school. Festivities went as usual until the immediate week of Homecoming. Then the black students de- manded equal opportunity to have a black candidate on each class float. A black girl was nom- inated at a convocation held by the black students preceding the parade. On Thursday night the parade went as usual and Penny Free was crowned queen at the pep session. The spirit was high and all seemed well until the pep ses- sion was dismissed. Then, in the parking lot, there were scattered outbreaks between a few blacks and whites. With the next night, Friday, there was no official crowning of the queen. Because of these out- breaks and the tension they caused, most of the activities for many months were cancelled. There was no Homecoming dance, there was no Basketball Homecoming and the list con- tinues. Top Left—After the pep session the queen, at- tendants, band and audience head for home. A few trouble makers remained, however, and managed to get into a few fights. Left—Junior class float pulled by Chuck Krum- wiede and Jerry Doty (class president) displays junior attendant candidates Pam Cantrell and Bev Buckley (in the front) and behind them Pam English, Beth Bowers and Cindy Petersen. Hidden from the camera view behind Cindy is another junior, Chris Minelli.