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

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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

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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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Whoops! says Kaye Boxell, when she sees that she might get trampled while retrieving her books as she goes to class. How rough can lifegetatBHS? Some make it and some don ' t. Some can cope with the frustration of a usual day, and some come unglued. But for all of us, there are the inevitable prob- lems. In a typical day there are jammed lockers, dropped books, and struggles through crowded halls. As a result, stu- dents often find it difficult to make it through the obstacle course which oc- casionally leads to tardiness. And once the student has accumulated three tar- dies from any one teacher, he has to visit the new seventh hour detention study hall to pay for his mistake. Lurking in the shadows of a day can be such minor disasters as having car trouble, catching the current bug, losing today ' s homework, or forgetting lunch money. Usually there is a day when a student doesn ' t feel like getting out of bed — but has to or else. Then sometimes when he finally makes it through a tough day, he misses the bus. It can be a tough world — but there may be a better one tomorrow. 24 Hard Luck Cold weather strikes Kristie Carpenter ' s car so that she needs the assistance of Mark Cogan and jumper cables to get it started.