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

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Playing poker in The Odd Couple are Dave Wil- Lisa Ford battled with Paul Montgomery after refus- kins, Chris Neel, Bill Beymer, Larry Stockton, and ing to tell the whereabouts of heroin-filled doll in Clay Miller, who enjoyed food and beer. Wait Until Dark. W t ie world ' s a stage—school, too! William Shakespeare said the world is a stage and all the people are actors. And role playing, as a learning tech- nique, was found in many classrooms, as well as at home and on the school stage. Pretending was the theme of many class projects, such as in French class, where students simulated TV commer- cials in the French language. In social studies classes mock trials and political campaigns during the summer session placed students in the roles of jurymen, candidates and campaigners. But the most obvious role playing was one on the so-called stage in the cafetorium. Three major full-length dramas were produced. Wait Until Dark, a drama placing the insight of a blind girl against the wiles of gangsters, was produced by Masque and Gavel in the fall. Thespians produced Play it Again, Sam, a play idolizing Humphrey Bogart, as the win- ter play. Masque and Gavel gave The Odd Couple, in the spring, a comedy familiar to TV audiences. Most students realized a mixture of Fantasy and reality is another formula for getting educated. 34 Learning By Role Playing A Mark Feitt teaches the senior college prep English class about short story. The experiment was used to develop in-depth thinking. The Odd Couple starred Bill Beymer as the sloppy Oscar, and Mike Sills as the neat-as-a-pin Felix, a conflict- packed comedy.

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Wrench, hammer, screwdriver, holli! calls a fel- low Muncie Career Center student to another car surgeon, Boh- Henderson, BHS junior. Who says hoys are all thumbs in the kitchen? Brian Ross and Andy Langdon show cooking skill in the class now called Brewin ' Singles. Learning can be a bandy ' process Manual labor is usually thought of in the form of tired bones and aching muscles, but as the old song goes, It ain ' t necessarily so. Actually, in many of the fun classes, students used their hands. In one such manual area, Home Ec opened the old Brewin ' Bachelors to the new Brewin ' Singles. The ruling also changed the Phys. Ed. classes to include both boys and girls. For the first time in several years the Bands, where fingers make the music, had a student teacher. He was Mr. Bradley Roberts, a precussion major from BSU. Art Department students used their hands on a type of sculpture called Sub- tractive. This art starts with a solid block and is chipped and filed away. The Advanced Biology classes col- lected bacteria for cultures from some unusual places such as an armpit and Mr. Ross ' s forehead. Intensely concentrating on the negative at hand, sophomore Merrill Coodspeed achieves photo per- fection in Photography class. Surrealism, a type of art made famous by Dali, i% as used by Jim Bantz for a one-man show in the hall- way across from the cafeteria. Learning Manually 33

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Larry Stockton inspects a dead Paul Montgomery after he was stabbed by Lisa Ford, who is being comforted by her neighbor, Jodie BoxelL y ' L vt I HI H P ' o Jl H ' fl B gS PCTMii B 1 IHH ■u SHI Ib K—i Meow, says cats Kathy Shores, Chanda Cook, to owners Linda Tyler, Debbie Atkinson, Mary House- man, acting out commercials in French. Learning B Role Playing 35