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

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Students, if not teachers, look forward to organiza- tions picture day, when class is interrupted with Will all members of . . . Time-Outs were welcome escapes The story of a school day was punctu- ated with parentheses of interruptions to relieve the pressures — and bore- dom — of routine class work. Some time-outs were planned; others were surprises. But almost all were welcome. On the scheduled side, convocations and pep sessions provided rests in school routine. Noon hours, too, meant a time for conversation and re- laxation in addition to providing one- half hour to satisfy ravenous appetites at the cafeteria line. On the unexpect- ed side were fire drills, snow-day dis- missals, and emergency meetings for groups that could not meet at other times. Sometimes these were even more enthusiastically received. Traditional adages like Spaced learning is more effective and All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy were enough to justify time-outs as a standard part of the process of get- ting an education. for those inclined to humor, time-outs were for L % [j» clowning. Kim Hughes poses for photographer m. J?iiB and an amused Brian Green. 22 Time-outs

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It was a blast ' - ' the winter kind After two fantali ing false alarms. Mother Nature stopped her horseplay and came through with some really se- rious winter. Temperatures plunged to 18-below, closing school and delaying the end of the first semester five days. But that didn ' t end 1977 ' s jarring Jan- uary. Dire blizzard forecasts forced an early exit from school Jan. 26, followed by a Midwest winter crisis which brought business, travel, meeting schedules, and education to a paralyz- ing halt. School was not to resume until Feb. 3. Meanwhile many students, if not marooned with their families, aided other victims of the record-breaking Arctic winter. The electric heating system saved BHS from the general fuel-shortage cri- sis. However, schedule-shifting became a major problem. A seasonal field trip of Mr. Welge ' s athletic training class travels around the snowy campus to exper- ience cross-country skiing. Persistent winds repeatedly re-filled plowed roads such as Ind. 3, a usual thoroughfare tor school buses in better weather. Displaying his walking ability on snow, Bruce Edg- ington is attacked by fragniients of a mysterious shat- tered snowball. V inter of 77 21

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A sudden break comes when the lire alarm sounds and students exit more hurriedly than relurtanily. One per month was scheduled. A strategy huddle during a hail game was a more literal time-out. Coach Stroup directs his Bruins to a change in offense. A scheduled exit from class brings school personnel to the gym for a convocation such as that of ventrilo- quist Clifford Cuest. Time-outs 23