Blackford High School - Reflections Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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Extra-large study halls made seating charts a necessity, as Mr. Welge illustrates, assigning students to their permanent seats in a cafe- teria study hall. Workmen were an accepted part of BHS school life at the first of the year. Classes quickly adapted to the situation, however, and learned to ignore their presence. Getting up a little earlier seems to be a problem for Keith Caperton. Becaus e of the rural location of the school, most students depended on buses for transportation.

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Labor brought us our newer world To meet ihi- ' luillirigo of an (n ' cr more complex and soplii.stifatMJ .society, school administrators built a world of learn- ing in RIackford County. Out of a mountain of bricks, mortar, wires and confusion, a structure which housed 1150 county students became a reality after three years of planning. Rush was the keyword during those weeks before school opened. Besides the anxieties of meeting the construction deadline, there was the continuous list of equipment to be processed. Finally, after a week ' s delay, the doors swung open September 15 for that mem- orable first day. Students and teachers alike discovered and were delighted by a sparkling new educational world whose scope and beauty they are only now fully realizing. Many students helped move furniture out to the neiv building; these boys hastened the moving process by sanding old desks and re- moving ancient leads of gum. Above left: Installing huge lights in the park- ing lot was an impressive sight. Left: Miss Mecklenburg and Mrs. Sanders use any bo.x they can find to transport books.

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■ Building maps were mailed to all sludenu hcfore school itarled. Freshmen and upper- classmen alike kepi their maps handy the first day, as Mark Baughey arid Jeff Champ did. yisitors to BHS are not unusual, hut this furry fellow seems less than welcome. As cool weather set in, mice became common residents of lockers and classrooms. We adjusted to our world What ' s the prescription for adjusting to a new school, a new student body, and a new name? Blackford students found one — and in a hurry. The formula : Keep your cool! During that first month students patiently memorized landmarks to find their classrooms. They adjusted to chairs in one class, stools in another, tables in a third — and overstuffed (,ah-h-h!) furniture in the library. They noncha- lantly side-stepped boxes piled high in halls and waited patiently in cafeteria lines that first week. . lso. many who had never before ridden school buses learned that buses don ' t wait. But by the end of six weeks, a col- lection of half-scared students had be- come a school — and the word Bruin meant much more than a si, non) ' m for bear.