Slatington High School - Reflections Yearbook (Slatington, PA)

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OVERPOPULATION AT SHS 18 Overcrowding has been a slowly growing problem at Slatington High School for a number of years. The extent of this problem can be seen in the crowded halls, classrooms, and lunch periods. Many students as well as faculty members voiced their concerns on this matter; they all agreed that an overcrowded building is not beneficial to either students of teachers. Presently, there are 695 students enrolled at SHS. This exceeds the ideal en- rollment by 132, or nineteen percent. More importantly, the population at SHS will con- tinue to climb even more in the next two years before all the construction projects are com- pleted. The projected enroll- ment for 1981-1982 is 792 stu- dents, grades 9-12. These freshmen from Homeroom 32 were stopped just as they were crowding into the cafeteria through a narrow doorway. The students uncomfortably jammed into the picture include Willis Hough, Tammy Jones, Bryan Kadingo Becky Kaul, Todd Keiser, Gregg Xemmerer, Dale Kem, Brian Hest- er, Randy Kibler, Robert Kibler, John Kirchner, Bruce Kistler, Craig Klevenhagen, Rodney Kline, Sharon Kline, Lisa Klingborg, Roxanne Knappenberger, Wayne Koch, John Konowall, Steve Ko- pecki, Justine Kraynik, Shelly Krotzer, Lisa Krysiuk, David Kunkle, Tammy Kunkle, Michelle Kurtz, Edyth Lahanas, David Lear, Johnny Leibold, John Lichtenwalner, Donna Lobach, Troy Long, Jim Lorah, Jim Mac Crindle, Arnold Mack, Donna Mack, Tracy Markell.

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FORMAL STUDY HALLS Below is what an informal study hall might look like, if such a thing were permitted at Slating- ton High School. However, all SHS study halls are to be formal in nature. Although formal study halls are very conducive to studying, many students feel they are too strict. The AM Vo-Tech students who are studying hard in the audi- torium are Debbie Strohl, Sue Kline, Dennis Olsen, Kris Bell horn, Connie Best, Eugene Bowers, Robert Breiner, Kevin Christman, Brian Dotter, Ted Engle, Alden Parber, Rick Gabovitz, Lise Grammes, Samuel Hartman, Tim Hausman, Quinn Horn, Leon Jones Mark Loy, Sherri Mack, Doreen Martinez, Brian Pritchard, Chet Shiner, Tim Walter, David Wana- maker, Chir sse Ahner, Gary Auman, Romke Bosga, David Bowers, Ray Boyer, Tina Mantz, Sheila McHenry, Ed Christman, Dawn Dengler, David Dieter, Rhonda Pritzinger, Ryan Gruber, Jackie Guss, Doug Hahn, Deena Hoftrann, Tony Italiano, Jim Kem, Blaine Kirchner, Dale Kleintop, Trudy Knappenberger, Darlene Krause, Robert Krebs, Lee Lichtenwalner, Dan Mack, Colette Martinez, Melissa Metz- ger, Brian Neff, Suzanne Neu- stadter, Steve Owens, Andrea Pavleco, Denise Rex, Mindy Rooney, Cindy Schmick, Jocelyn Suranofsky, Ken Yenser, Cindy Zellner, Clayton Haas, and Ginny Angstadt.

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 Ihe student who devised the experiment, Jeffrey Stoneman, felt that students have a natural instinct to bump into each other, no mat- ter how much space they are given in which to move about. So, a random sample of students were selected to participate in a test of the Stoneman hypo- thesis. They were given an area the size of a football field and no instructions. After 46 seconds had elapsed, the students began to madly crash into each other. The experiment was repeated un- til 3 of the students re- quired medical attention. On 106 test runs, the stu- dents exhibited a 96 percent collision factor. Even more startlingly, the students seemed to need a collision about every 19 seconds. These figures surprised the world of social psycho- logists, many of whom are now conducting their own tests of the Stoneman hypo- thesis. Stoneman, meanwhile, has received a federal re- search grant to investi- gate the bumping habits of social psychologists. The participants in the land- mark Slatington test were honored at a special dinner at the Allentown Hospital. They were: Mary Ann Oswald, Mike Parry, Susan Peters, Eric Ralston, Lisa Reitz, Randy Reitz, Dean Remaley, Deanne Remaley, Jay Reppert, Christine Rex, Kenneth Rex, Mike Rex, Donna Roth, Scott Rowlands, Carl Rucker, Joyce Schaeffer, Greg Schall- er, Darryl Schellhamer, Terry Schew, Charles Sch- moyer, James Schrayer, Mike Schuck, Angela Scott, and Rhonda Serfass.