Munster High School - Paragon Yearbook (Munster, IN)

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WHETHER PREPARING FOR college or the job world, the curriculum provides courses to meet every students’ needs. Learning how to work a drill press, freshman Randy Merritt gains experience that might help him on the job. THE JOB OF a sponsor goes beyond school hours. Frantically stuffing the last flower on Fozzie, Mr. David Russell, Senior Class co sponsor, guides the seniors as they hurriedly finish to meet their 1:30 p.m. deadline. I I BETWEEN THEIR HECTIC schedules, students find relief during lunch. Confronted with a messy ketchup dispenser, junior Heidi McNair resorts to the “lift and pour” method. — 6 Student Living —

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FINDING A VARIETY of food to satisfy his lunch- time munchies, senior Nick Wolfe chooses a package of cookies to top off his meal. HAVING THREE FORMAL dances a year is an unusual happening for most high schools. Freshmen Matt Travis and Kelly Comstock enjoy the refresh- ments provided by the freshmen at their “Rainbow Connection” Homecoming dance. NOT EVERYONE CAN drive to school. Deciding not to walk home through the mud puddles, senior Nancy Maginot thinks about nicer weather as she waits for her ride home. BY OFFERING A variety of classes, every student is able to find something which interests him. Junior Diane Peterson mats her block print during Print Making as she expands her art interests. A GAME CAN be won from the sidelines. Getting in “the middle of things,” Coach Dave Knish gives timeout instructions to the starting five, while juniors Hal Morris, Mark Gozdecki, Bob Hulett, Jim Zajac and senior John Zajac momentarily give up their seats to their resting teammates. — We break it 5 —

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Linking grind with good times “It’s all in a day’s work.” Three formal dances, two additional required credits, tissue paper-stuffed Homecoming floats, and eleven newly added courses all helped to break through the cliched confines of a typical day’s work. True, school days were filled with plenty of hard work, but a little variety and creativity combined learning with fun to form a uniquely diversified student life. From 8 a.m. to 2:40 p.m. the academic environment definitely rang to the sound of its own bells. Whether delicately dissecting the internal organs of a fetal pig in zoology or struggling over the derivation of the law of cosines in trigonometry, students delved into a variety of new experiences and hassles. Yet student living was not all work and no play, as traditional activities enthusiastically broke up the long 175 days of school. Homecoming brought about the first wave of excitement with a victorious senior float and a Highland football victory, while Winter Spirit Week came to the relief of many snow-slumped students. Besides $500 plus Homecoming floats, the three formal dances of Prom, Chi and Homecoming, have become as traditional as the second hour announcements. Three nights out of the year the boys traded in their Converse All-Stars and Levis for a suit or tuxedo while the girls exchanged their corduroys and loafers for a short or long formal dress and flowers. In all aspects, student living was out of the ordinary. Nothing was taken for granted as interest and enthusiasm kept old traditions going strong and adapted new ones to fit the times. From the disappointment of a low biology grade to the final satisfaction of Graduation, student life actively broke the mold of a typical school year. REFLECTING ON THE excitement of Homecoming, junior Ann Broderson observes the frenzy going about her, moments before the start of the parade.