Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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netted skippers, and Attendance secretary, Mrs Yvonne Crooks makes an attendance list from the absence lists as Asst Principal Howard Hull discusses the new attendance policy with seniors John Toby and Margaret O’Connell Introduction Attendance 5

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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

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the positive aspects Displaying the hats sold by the senior class. Carry Parker. Dave Madigan. Tracey Voder. Bruce Bassett, and Guy Biddle chant the You. you. you cheer Sampling foods tram all over the world are International Club members Gwen Ewart, Rita Barren and Susan Antinokis. as Barb Blocker finishes her painting for Penpoint. 48 page magazine. Continuing in the arts, the band underwent a change of their own by using a completely different style of marching and competing in the state contest for the first time, and for the third time the Blazer Band toured Europe in the summer. Also the Shades of Blue took a trip to California to perform at Anaheim. The formation of International Cultures Club and Bible Club brought about more changes in extra-curricular activities and sponsored some new events such as senior hats, Noel-O-Grams, and donut- eating contests. 6 Introduction Positive continued to get better. In publications, Penpoint magazine was revived after a seven year absence. Literary and artistic works of Central students and faculty were featured in the Rt the beginning of the year the atmosphere in the school was different than in the past. Instead of wanting to really get things rolling, nobody cared what happened, or how, as long as they didn’t have to get involved. And even though a feeling of apathy was present, a small group of hard working students soon got things going. Before long the good aspects of the school overrode the bad and