Brown County High School - Shadows Yearbook (Nashville, IN)

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Activities Feel Scrunch Extracurricular activities even joined in on the tug of war over space. The gymnasium during basketball season had a practice schedule that would have seemed difficult for the most complex computer to decipher. The wrestlers and drama shared the cafeteria after school. Dur- ing deadline time for both publi- cations the science classes were interrupted by students going through the chemistry room to reach the darkroom. Other clubs had to meet in the library, caus- ing a shut down of facilities. More space was desperately needed. Sharing the lobby as a practice space with other groups, such as the drill team, is not unusual for all the cheerleader squads. Francie Heimburger, Sandy Miller, and Robin Bunge can only find room in the hall during the day to prepare props for the basketball game. 8

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An unusually large junior high choral class meets in the band room, causing the need to push aside music stands and some of the instruments stored there to make room. Many teachers have no room to call their own. as is the case for Mrs. Dee Bales, who must travel to five different rooms to teach her math classes. Drama, an extracurricular activity, finds the stage so small and inadequate for some productions, that the action must be moved off the stage to the floor of the cafeteria. 7

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Left: A student has to study where he can find the room, even if the only available space is a lunchroom table. Right: Narrow halls have long been a complaint of students and faculty alike, especially during the passing periods. Since open lunch has been resumed for the juniors and seniors, the senior high students have more space and faster lines in the cafeteria. hejunior high lunch periods tend to be the most crowded when both the seventh nd eighth graders share the cafeteria. Brown County High School: Not All Bad This account was not written to put the school in a bad light. Good things did happen at BCHS as this book relates. The students and staff must have learned to adapt if nothing else. But, was adaptability enough? The school being forced to oper- ate under inadequate conditions left doubt in the minds of many about the quality of education in Brown County. The answer to the problem could not be a snap decision, but somewhere along the way a firm decision had to be made for the good of all the stu- dents. The big question left unanswered was, “When?” 9