Hammond High School - Dunes Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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for not knowing 7 7 The theater is in need of a circu- lar saw to replace the one stolen out of the tool cabinet over the summer. 7 Herald staff will have a bake sale today during lunch hours. 77 77 A reward is of- fered for the re- turn of a bullwhip lost Feb. 22. 77 77 Support CREAD and your environment. Come to the school cleanup tomorrow. 77 77 Miss Grose ' s PE classes will meet in the gym today. 77 7 To our great Wildcat basket- ball team: due to the fact that we do not have the facilities to give your great team a pep session, we just wanted you to know that we 7 re really back- ing you 1 00%. 77 LEFT ABOVE: Preparing for completion of high school, juniors program sen- ior schedules for processing by com- puter. LEFT BELOW: Transferring in- formation to his notebook, freshman Bob Alamillo summarizes history chap- ter. RIGHT MIDDLE: Despite the con- struction-scarred background, English teacher Mrs. Emanda Jones adds beauty to her classroom with a vase of flow- ers. BELOW RIGHT: Lack of classrooms at HHS forces social studies students to hike to Civic Center for 10 weeks. School life 7

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Daily announce- ments help tell the year ' s story: Club and acti- vity perio d will be held today at 8:45 a-m. Make sure you remem- ber the time schedule today, especially when the lunch periods end. No excuses 6 School life

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Morality- rules and princi- ples of conduct set by society. Youth disre- garded many mo- rals established by their parents because of a need to find their own way of life- We ' re all try- ing to get it together for our- selves instead of someone ' s doing it for us, said a junior boy. One way some students got it together was through explora- tion of such spiritual inter- ests as the Jesus movement and Far Eastern prac- tices. Despite these new religious leanings, child- hood-instilled racial, social and ethnic prejudices still swayed some. Drug usage in- creased in an atmosphere of greater accept- ance and tolerance. In the wake of controversy over its legalization, some students smoked grass (marijuana) • Others dropped acid ( LSD) and other hallucino- gens. A few tried the needle. Indulgence in pre-marital sex also seemed more common, or at least more open. Consequently, pregnancy and its decisions— whether to get married, have an abortion, keep the baby or put it up for adop- tion-confronted teenage girls. Another danger for both boys and girls was vene- real disease, which reached epidemic propor- tions nationally. Use of alcohol was another area for moral deci- sions, as it has been in pastyears. Responsibilities of voting faced 1 8 -year-olds. These problems, as well as every- day relations with adults, fam- ily and friends, stood in the path of youth ' s search for himself and the guidelines for his life- 8 Morality