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

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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.

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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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why does the world have to seem so tall when untall jack Elliott has a hassle getting throuf h the hall of tali people? A familiar sight to all students is this one of Karen Clamme, who tries to locale a missing object in confusion of her locker. Time crawls at a snail ' s pace for enrollees in the Everyday aches and pains are tielped along the way new seventh hour detention study hall, as Mr. Al by school nurse Mrs. Phyllis Erdman, taping ailing Knapp supervises. wrist of Angle Lysinger. Hard Luck 25