Hammond High School - Dunes Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Stimuli strike teen reactors with pleasure , pain Succumbing to winter’s temptation, Odestress McCoy revels in sliding through fresh snow. Stark beauty of an icy afternoon in Harrison Park invites Rich Card and Denise Paluck. Their senses assaulted, tantalized or invigorated, HHS teens saw, heard, felt, tasted and sniffed. Their eyes delighted in greening grass, the tulip tree budding on the south lawn, a steady’s smile. Hearing a vocal department fi- nale thrilled them, though their 7 a.m. alarm clock jangled them. To erase recollections of a sub- zero wind whipping off Lake Mich- igan, March’s first coatless day warmed arms and gladdened hearts. Anything fattening teased taste buds, but nothing could turn them off faster than warm, flat cokes. Chocolate cake baked in home ec caused envious sniffs throughout the building, but a dose of smog from East Chicago’s steel mills and Whiting’s oil refineries was enough to choke any Hammondite. Thus stimuli struck HHS teens for a kaleidoscope of reactions. Electronically amplified, comboist Robbi e Clavier provides pulsating soc hop sounds.- 13

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Fads , foods , fun , fashion deplete student wallets Fads, foods, fun and fashion de- pleted students’ funds. Average ac- tive Wildcats spent approximately $500 annually on school-associated expenses. HHS’ers disbursed dollars on top records “Those Were the Days,” “Love Child,” Hey Jude,” and movie blockbusters “Rosema- ry’s Baby,” “The Boston Strangler ” and Cone With the Wind.” Fashion-minded students acquired sweater vests, wide ties and muf- flers. Girls donned culottes, leath- er outfits, ruffled blouses and heel- to-toe pants. Boys wore turtle- necks, and CPO and army jackets. Students emptied their pockets for posters, stationery, I Am Loved paraphernalia, magazines, and snacks: pizza, fries and cokes. Knit-shirted John Lewis and Eunice Burns, wearing heel-to-toe slacks and a ruffled blouse, chat during basketball halftime. Clad in sportswear typical of student school togs, monitor Robin Keightley, in culottes, vest and turtleneck, returns admit to Frank Cursansky, who also sports turtleneck sweater. Attired in leather shorts, Beth Webb accepts coke proffered by army-jacketed Martin Tharp. 12

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Headlines remind HHS’ers of world happenings Rejoicing in US space feats and enduring international strife, HHS citizens reacted to headlines. Robert Kennedy’s assassination June 5 besmirched the Presidential campaign. Republicans nominated Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew in Miami Beach. Democrats staged their spectacle, replete with po- lice-citizen riots, in Chicago. To complicate matters, conser- vative George Wallace and Curtis LeMay carried some southern states, but Nixon eyelashed Humphrey to become the 37th President. But before Lyndon Johnson left office, he witnessed Apollo 7 and 8 space spectaculars highlighted by 8’s Christmas Eve moon orbit. Another Christmas US gift came in the form of North Korea’s re- lease of the Pueblo crew 1 1 months after their capture for espionage. Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher and crew told a naval inquiry court of their tor- ture and coerced confessions- In other trials, Sirhan Sirhan pleaded temporary insanity in Rob- ert Kennedy’s murder; James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to Martin Lu- ther King’s murder; and Clay Shaw was found innocent of conspiring to kill President John Kennedy. Once inaugurated, Nixon toured six European countries in February, hassled with the anti-ballistic mis- sile question in March, then mourn- ed former President D. D. Eisen- hower’s death March 28. Cabinet secretaries included Mel- vin Laird, defense; William Rog- ers, state; and controversial Wal- ter Hinkle for interior department, Vietnam war continued, but peace talks in Paris — once delegates had decided the table’s shape — offered some hope for settlement. Other international news came from Russia’s invasion of Czecho- slovakia, Biafran starvation, Arab- Israeli clashes, skyjacks to Cuba. While student revolts rocked campuses, teachers struck in New York, East Chicago and Hammond. Hoosiers elected Republican Ed- gar Whitcomb governor, had their cars inspected and paid the sec- ond highest auto gas tax in the US. Natural forces made known their power when a pre-noon earthquake rocked 19 midwest states, includ- ing Indiana, Nov. 9. Floods and an offshore oil leak plagued Cal- ifornians. Mid-winter’s Hong Kong flu epidemic scourged the world. Wedding news came from Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis, Ju- lie Nixon and David Eisenhower. Baseball fans saw Detroit beat St. Louis in the World Series, while grid enthusiasts saw Ohio State beat Southern Cal in the Rose Bowl. New York Jets upset Bal- timore in the pro Super Bowl. UCLA with Lew Alcindor took a third straight NCAA cage title by whipping Purdue and Rick Mount. Unbeaten Indianapolis Washington went to the wire against Tolles- ton in winning the final game of the state basketball tourney. Indicative of campaign fever that swept HHS, Fred Baginski sports political pins.