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

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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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Classes Meet Everywhere Classes were held in almost every available space during every available hour. The absence of one of the three mobile units caused the school to seem more crowded, even though figures showed enroll- ment to be down just slightly. No one liked to think about los- ing one or both of the remaining units. Very few places were left to hold classes. The library closed half the day for five classes to meet: two being taught together as team teaching two periods. Students who wanted to use the library in the afternoon could not. The library confer- ence room, the librarian's office, and the audio-visual room were used quite often by the school reading aides, the speech thera- pists. and visiting college repre- sentatives to name just a few. The stage was in constant use except during lunch when the noise of the cafeteria would make it impossible for the teacher to be heard. As condi- tions stood, the classes that met on stage had to find somewhere else to go during the final week of production for a play. In addition the noise from the band room provided another distrac- tion for the classes on stage and the study halls in the cafeteria. Quite a few teachers were ham- pered in their efforts to hold class because they did not have a regular classroom. Teachers, like Miss Virginia Young, who have spent years in the Brown County schools, had to travel from room to room to meet with their stu- dents. One of her classes was even held in the library, which had no adequate blackboard. Too many cars crowd the parking lot during the early days of school, causing local merchants to complain about students using town lots and students to com-| plain about the need for more parking spaces and less grass. No longer can the entire student body fit in half of the gymnasium; now during all school convocations the junior high has to sit across the floor.

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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