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

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OUT COIVIE THE CARS

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Too much radio music without the car run- ning required some help from passing cruis- ers lay Rhoton and Kenny Hummer. Lines of dimmed head- lights replace rays of the sun as it disappears behind the horizon. This popular time has burned gallons of gas, started and ended ro- mances, eased a person ' s cluttered mind, and filled a bored evening with activity. Between the newly added Pizza King and the A W drive-in, the person behind the wheel needs more skill than just being able to keep the car on the road. He must dodge the chuck holes, lis- ten to his tape player, keep a conversation going, and be conscious of all passers-by in order to honk at those famil- iar. At a comfortable speed of 30 mph, car after car goes past Hook ' s ( Not too many cars parked at Hook ' s yet; we ' ll go through a couple more times before we stop. ); then on down the strip. Keeping an eye out for anyone or anything exciting, the kid-packed cars circle lohn ' s, making sure the headlights have been turned off ( Well, no one at lohn ' s. ) And they ' re back out on the highway going back through town only to turn again at the car wash. A continuous cycle with varied events to keep it going is similar to life at Blackford High. Each day ' s schedule is the same, it ' s the small events that keep everyone at Blackford CRUISIN. When tNe sun sets B Cruisin ' 1.

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SoMETilVIES WE RE SErIoUS Deep in thought, junior Terry Townsend (Upper Left) diligently studies his French while junior Janet McClain (upper Right) expresses herself through the drawing of boiler room pipes. Sophomore muscle-man Leon Schmidt (Right) uses serious concen- tration and biceps power on the weight-lifting apparatus. Flunking a Geometry test, burning a pie in Home Ec, placing first on the balance beam, and getting through Thursday to realize we have only Friday left to suffer through the agony of the contact burning sensation in our eyes — all these many examples of one thing — EXPRESSION. Everyone likes to be happy-go-lucky, but this mood can ' t al- ways prevail. BHS students on the whole sport a serious face between 8:15 and 11:37, then take time out for craziness during lunch. Afterward it ' s back to serious business and books until 3:09. After 3:09 the trend is to Express Yourself with BHS students taking on a slew of after-school activities. Perhaps sports provide the largest expressions release for most Bruin fans. Fans release emotions all the way from downright sobbingbecause the team lost by one point in four overtimes to tears of joy and happiness because we just beat a top-10 state- ranked team. Wherever we are, whatever we ' re doing — celebrating a victo- ry or crying our eyes out because we just missed a D-in Calculus by one point — we still go on expressing ourselves. 8 Expressions