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

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An extra added attraction this year was the installation of vending machines. Freshman Liz Kmetz rummages through her purse contemplating whether to buy a delicious pear while Sophomore Mary Ann Poracky inserts a coin in the fruit machine to get her apple. 15

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Clark Improvements Add Comfort to Work After thirty-two years of loyal service, these exhausted rem¬ nants are being replaced. Marred by scratches and etchings, the desks are no longer useful to Clark’s new modern trend. Scratch-proof, fire-proof, and student-proof desks have intro¬ duced the “new look” at Clark. The student can no longer engrave their initials in these new formica top desks. A.V.O. boys prepare our new microphone and speaker system for an assembly program. School bells ring. Children sing? It’s back to old GRC again. But old GRC is tainted with a touch of “new”. Forsaking nostalgia for progress, GRC welcomed its 1963 facelifting. A light of wisdom now falls upon students com¬ fortably seated in the most modern desk facilities. So comfortable indeed, that now and then students have been known to fall asleep in them. To further the student’s home-away-from-home, vending ma¬ chines have been provided. Varying from beverage dispensers to fresh-fruit dispensers, the student’s health as well as pleasure is tended. The latest and most efficient speaker systems have been added to our vast audio-visual department. Our instructors have not been neglected in 1963. A recently completed teacher’s lounge replaces the makeshift meeting places previously used. With pride we hold our facelifted heads high.

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Inotlxer role - for a time Junior Class Play “Motion study is fine as long as it’s somebody elses motions you’re studying,” complains the Gilbreth’s housekeeper. Fun and frolic invaded the GRC stage when the Junior Class presented “Cheaper By the Dozen.” Six¬ teen players and a patient Miss Jeani Knapp, faculty director, can truly boast a successful two-nighter. Sixteen long days in preparation was enough to make this warm story live again. Our junior thes- pians proved to be just the rascals to fill the bill. Efficiency was Dad Gilbreth’s creed— so efficient that our own Lee Marcisz, portraying Dad, was the first on stage for those nightly rehearsals. The six sons and six daughters of the Gilbreths’, were guinea pigs for the motion study experiments. If occasionally the “dozen” proved unwilling, only an experiment in laughter would result. One such instance was the matter of the family pet. From the moment the frisky collie set foot in the house, you could hear Dad protesting, “Any pet that doesn’t lay eggs is an extravagance that a man with twelve children can ill afford.” The task of leashing the lively collie inclined Virginia Sroka and Karen Vasilko to agree with Dad. Successfully surmounting all tasks, the final cur¬ tain fell and the last of the butterflies flew. It’s a rug for a tub in this bathing demonstration. 16