Anderson High School - Indian Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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AboveThe former Anderson High School, recently Central Junior High, awaits its razing to make way for the AH$ student park. Above right: While preparing foe a girls' gymnastics meet. Vicki Roberts perfects her straddle vault brer the side horse 6

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---------------------E------------------------ Everyone wants proven success. Tradition furnished security for the Indian. Each day the Indian reversed the time and repeated actions that may date back to the twenties. He occupied a building which was 64 years old and had 85 classrooms captured within it. New activities came, but the school spirit of AHS lingered on. Since 1922. the name Indians had illustrated the students of AHS. and since 1940. the Indian mascot had been the symbol of For decades, the deflated feeling of The Place For Tradition opening day. the stimulation of the first pep session, and the curiosity of the k classroom have united to fabricate the Indian's environment. It consisted of 31 flights of stairs. 104 teachers, and three separate buildings. The students, faculty, and community reenacted their ordeals at AHS and recalled the traditional ingredients. If the Indian wondered where it all started, he must confess that THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. l«»t Utrng the desks to their fullest learning potential. Mr. Porter's trigonometry class form tangent curves with desks to illustrate graph problems. Above-. Adding their own spirit to the homecoming pep session, mascot and maiden Scott Frendt and Cheryl Vetter conclude the traditional victory dance

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4 Everyone wants changes that keep up with today's pace. The Indian initiated new ideas concerning new places and new people. A new principal, Mr. Horace Chadbourne. led changes to the Indian. One idea was hall supergraphics which added color and perspective to AHS. Although it was a new concept in this area, the supergraphics had an over-whelming popularity. Students invaded what was formerly the teacher's parking lot. Only those with a 3.00 or better grade average TUp Dl.pp |?,vr fhnmn could acquire passes to park there. HI I let TUI V ll«tlllJL Honor roll students were also able to use library facilities during school with- out presenting authorized passes. The increase to four girl sports and the addition of three new courses gave the Indian a variety of changes. The destruction of Central Junior High made possible the construction of a student park. When he desired the new, the different, he discovered that THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. Lett Trees rarely seen before sprout into open sight as the Central J. H. S. building gradually falls. Above Due to the student's invasion of the faculty parking lot. Mr. Chadbourne and Mr. Sparks abandon their daily chores in favor of Stenciling numbers on parking places.