George Rogers Clark High School - Powder Horn Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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SrfdvUviy . . . Front entrance to George Rogers Clark School, 1921 Davis Avenue, Hammond, Indiana Gene Kokenis and Marcia McCutcheon pause for a moment to talk and exchange notes before returning to class. Breaking the monotony of a busy day, Ron Vale and Judy Oliver relax in the shade and share a good joke.

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Looking Toward the Future by Karen Johnson Three courses are available upon entering high school: college preparatory, general, and commer¬ cial. Guidance counselors. Miss Veva McAtee and Mr. Arnold Corder, help students plan for the re¬ quirements of the elected course, thus enabling them to develop their talents and pursue the vocation of their choice. Extracurricular activities also help prepare stu¬ dents for their vocations. Chief among these is cadet teaching, a popular preparation for those planning to enter the field of education. Girls desiring to enter secretarial work often become personal secretaries for coaches, and aspiring nurses devote free periods as assistants to Mrs. Florence Miller in the nurse’s office. Future journalists may join the publication staffs to gain experience. Five to ten percent of all Clarkites take part-time jobs. Working in drugstores, department and dime stores, service stations, medical offices, and grocery stores, they prepare themselves for the future by gaining insight into possible vocations. Guidance counselor Miss Veva McAtee confers with Senior Arlene Matis, giving her helpful information on college requirements and possible future vocations. Earning extra money and acquiring valuable experience, Tom Goldhagen serves as general handyman after school and on weekends at Rushton’s Wespark Pharmacy. Teaching the A B C’s is Jean Makis, Clark student. During her study period, Jean teaches fourth grade as a part of the cadet teaching program offered through F.T.A. 5

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Scenes Around School by Sherry Gurevitz Located at 1921 Davis Avenue, in Whiting, George Rogers Clark High School has an enrollment of 800 students, 409 girls and 391 boys. In the grade school and junior high there are 618 pupils. On the three floors of Clark school are a variety of courses taught by 19 women and 21 men instructors. An “early room” has been established this year for students who arrive at school before the doors open at 8:10. In this newly organized room students can study or talk quietly. School begins at 8:30 with a ten minute homeroom period in which announce¬ ments for the day are read. Homeroom period is fol¬ lowed by seven 55 minute periods. In order to accommodate the large number of students who must eat their lunch at school, the practice of staggering the lunch hours is employed. The first lunch hour is at 11:30 and the other at 12:30. On Wednesday of each week the first, second, and third periods are shortened fifteen minutes to pro¬ vide extra time for an activity or club period held between first and second periods. Located two blocks south of school is the athletic field which is used for football and baseball games and track meets. Because the school gymnasium is not large enough to accommodate the huge crowd of Clark boosters, basketball games are played at the Whiting Memorial Gymnasium. Preparing for an afternoon test, Denise Singer and Gretchen Duerr do some diligent last-minute cramming. Diane Dufallo, Cathy Sabol, and Judy Zweig look over their newly acquired POWDER HORNS and exchange autographs. 7