Elston High School - Elstonian Yearbook (Michigan City, IN)

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Open the door, Five, six pick up sticks . l A Seven, eight open the gate! Parking Lot Yields To Expansion. . . new building is a new building is a new building building ... it is made of bricks and it is cold. It has no character. It doesn't say Look at me; look at all I've been through; look at everything I've seen. it just sits and stares, waiting for experience. Elston has a new building with a cold name: llElston Physical Education Complex . Sounds good? Yes, it does sound like a spic and span floor connected to spic and span walls, connected to a spic and span ceiling. Elston, however, survives on tradition. Perhaps someday, when Elston High is falling down, falling down, the physical education building will be a fair lady; proclaiming its nobility to all who enter. Building Blocks. i ;

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Students Pioneer A Foreign Land ast summer two of h Elston's Seniors 9 . . deeded to skip town and Visit several countries in Europe. Actually it wasn't as easy as it seemed. After filling out an application and attending an interview, Donna Mershon was selected to go to Hamburg, Germany for the Children's International Summer Village tCISVl. There she was a Junior Counselor for forty eleven- year-old children from all over the world. Communication was difficult at first but Donna managed to pull through. She participated in activities ranging from organizing games for parties to swimming in the Baltic Sea. Greg Yeater was Chosen from a group of teenagers from 35 states to participate in the American Musical Ambassadors' European Band Tour. Greg also filled out an application sent to him for performing in a band concert at Butler University. He was accepted and became a member of the band, playing the baritone horn. Greg visited France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, England, and Holland. In Holland, instead of staying in a hotel, the band stayed with families. Besides playing concerts in parks and by rivers, the band was able to cut a record in Krekrade, Holland. Greg visited the Olympic sights in lnsbrook, Austria and enjoyed trying to communicate with the people he met. A tshurch in Heidelburg, Germany. summers

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A Voyage Into The Past Becomes wenty three men, traveling through the now developed Midwest, canoeing and portaging from Montreal to New Orleans in 1976-77; that's history in the making. No, that's a fairytale! That's LaSalle Expedition II, a group of 5 educators, 16 high school graduates, a priest, and a playwright, reinacting the 17th century expedition of Cavalier Sieur De LaSalle. Though the voyageurs frequently dined in schools and had the opportunity to come inside for presentations to school students and civic groups, they had other problems LaSalle did not have to contend with. For example, the coldest winter in 104 years which forced them to abandon their canoes and portage a distance of over 400 miles. During one of their portages four voyageurs were struck by a truck as they traveled on the shoulder of the road. A semi- truck ploughed into a light truck pushing it into the line of the crew that was proceeding legally: single file, facing the traffic. Walking on the pavement in moccassins and carrying heavy packs caused many voyageurs to suffer from back injuries and fallen arches. The LaSaIIe ll expedition visited Elston in mid- December, with Elston's T.V. Productions class doing a series of T.V. programs, the French classes escorting the voyageurs about. Their feat aroused interest from the students, the faculty, the administration and the community. Cliff Wilson relaxes after a day under the stage lightst