Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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on students, athletes. Restrooms closed due to vandalism are a nuisance to everyone While talking on the phone, lumor Amy Shea examines the patches in the wall including Charmaine Bucher Below, listening to Coach Debrular are covering Tina Galloway. Lyn Mulgrew. Tracy Grubb and Molly Rogers

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as discipline tightened Construction ot the new root can be seen behind Deb Daum. Penny Along with John Belushi, the Athletes’ Manual shares a place in Mark Yeakey’s Wolt and Michelle Mapes as they leave the building locker Rn overall crackdown on discipline was a distinct change that Central students had to adapt to. Along with the new attendance policy, more faculty members were seen in the halls. Why so strict? The major reasons were vandalism and locker thefts. Vandalism ranged from graffiti in the restrooms to the wall covering torn off the walls. Locker thefts came in spurts. The schoolday wasn't the only place where a crackdown on discipline went into effect. The athletic department experienced a change of its own. The formation of the Athletes’ Manual. The manual spelled out all the training rules Central athletes were to follow. Punishment for the abuse of these rules was also stiffened. Changes, that is what Central students faced this year, and all of these changes took place under the construction of a completely different surface for the roof. Previous attempts to patch the old surface were unsuccessful, so the new had to be added, making it a year of 2 Introduction Changes beneath the surface in Blazer country.”

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Hourly attendance policy One ol the many jobs of office runners is to pick up the absence lists English teacher. Mrs Jean Allen hangs the every hour and record the absences on students permanent files, as absence list for one of her classes Mariln Jones and Julie Kiser are doing It’s fourth hour, you have a test and you didn’t study, so you just won’t go. Besides that they don’t take attendance fourth, so there is no way you can get caught, right? Wrong! In the past attendance was only reported to the office once a day, and it was quite easy to skip. However, the faculty and administration put an abrupt end to the “skippers” fun by revising the attendance policy. Now absences are turned into the main office every hour, and it’s easy to spot kids who have cut class. The new policy has proven itself very effective. During the first semester of the 78-79 year there were 507 withdrawals failing. In 1979-80 this number was cut to 185. Along with this the average daily attendance increased 2.99%. 4 Introduction Attendance