Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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familiar country side and re- But I can't just sit here and reminisce ' worried Dorothy, I need to find my way back to Blazer Country where I can have some more good times. She looked off in the di- rection of the rainbow and spotted a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion. Upon spying Dorothy the scarecrow said, We need some brains! A heart; some courage, finished the other two. Where can we get these qualities? they cried. With a smirk, Dorothy replied, At Elkhart Central, of course, you dummies! Just then she spotted a Central track man running down the road. Let's follow him, said Dorothy as she swayed slightly on her magic five inch blue platform shoes. Grabbing her three com- panions, she clicked her platform heels together three times, and said, There's no place like home. Soon they were following the trail blazed by the runner and they all , found themselves in i Blazer Country. M Seeing the Blazer runner Matt Kidder follows the rain- bow road into a myriad of Blazer “Our Times” starting with Dorothy’s sea of blue pom-poms during the Central-Memorial game. Next is a small piece of Christmas followed by Janet Mills and friends in a spring disucssion. Carrie Newcomer fashions a clay pot while Melissa Smith digs an accounting project out of her locker, Members of Ms. Diane Sheltons Spanish class go over their exercises while Mary Treckelo, Doug Miller, Sue Boger, and Jim Bair do their studying on the front lawn.

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Irten Hovtr ford Hue Of I MAINTENAN MECHANIi vienctd. One of (He Moom in area hat V Pmowood area 'KJ mamtarunct r !ft of heatmi |. Cicallant c all 10 0. MINT ENTRY-LEV SUPERVISE Night Shil an tmmadiata o I lume photo finis! parson with |o »ho is mtaresfad out of a job selected will I attributas. A oriented, able ressure and pror • accept respo wall; will be hours; definite ion and will hi and; not be job or admmi! salary will be i eptndmi on th and. If you a I you meet tt nts call 759-36 a.m. for more E.O.E. M ■ENT TRAINEES And I remember, thought Dorothy the fun I had at Spring vacation taking off with friends to Florida. And the satisfac- tion I had in knowing that the yearbook staff was re- ceiving a Five Star All American award from the National Scholastic Press Association in Los Angeles. Then she recalled with pride the North Central Evaluation team's comment, The student body (of Elkhart Central) displays a temperament of talent, pride and decency. And the prom at Concord Mall which we shared with Memorial. Tux, formals, corsages, a spraying foun- tain—all were replaced the next day with swim suits and the 32 degree water at the dunes. The pleasure of seeing ECHS win the Northern Indiana Conference All Sports Trophy. Wasn't it great to be in a school where all the spring sports—track, golf, and baseball won their section- als and went on to advance in the state competition. Those were good times, sighed Dorothy. But as a sense of reality returned, she also thought of the bad times. Unemployment in the mobile home industry of Elkhart helped push the jobless rate to 13%. Many of my friends had to use free lunch tickets for the school cafeteria. The number of those tripled over last year, thought Dorothy. Remember the problems many students had in try- ing to find a summer job. especially for the summer before college. And there was the van- dalism that reared its ugly head ... the Thursday morning in late November when we walked in the school and saw the win- dows broken, equipment da- maged, trophy cases smashed. Even the Old Mangy Lion got his nose chipped. But most of all I re- member seeing the red- eyed, crying choir members on Friday morning, De- cember 20. Then I learned that Mr. William Gowdy, our choir director, had died of a stroke the night before. He had been choral direc- tor at Elkhart since 1942. It was impossible to believe he was gone. I couldn't believe it! Student Activities Album 60,61

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Introduction 7