Brownstown High School - Webb Yearbook (Brownstown, IN)

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Mother Nature initiates a snowy midwinter vacation The month of January turned out to be an unexpected “snow vacation”, for Centralites. Jackson County received 23 inches of snow between January 5 and January 28. Snow drifts and slick roads forced most schools, including BCHS, to close. This unusual weather temporarily paralyzed the county. Community offi- cials urged everyone to keep off the streets. Offices and shops cut back their open hours drastically and community activities, including church services, were curtailed. When they were able to dig their way out, those students who dared to brave the sub-zero temperatures found a vari- ety of winter activities. Library hill was closed off for sleding while frozen ponds and lakes provided ice skating. Browns- town became the home of an unusual population of snowpeople and animals. After two weeks at home the majority of Centralites expressed relief at return- ing to school. Since many basketball games had been “snowed out” two or three games per week were scheduled in the first weeks of the 1977 school year. Teachers rushed students in order to finish their quota of work for the six weeks. It took a few weeks to return to normal after “the great snow” brought a midwintér vacation to BCHS. TOP: Students use the library during free periods for research and reading. LEFT: Although the wintery weather caused slick roads and made driving hazardous there were no accidents in the school parking lot, especially after the huge drifts started to melt. . Everyday life 15

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Students give impressions of their average school day by Tim Long, senior; Randy Pedigo and Teresa Kindred, juniors; and Beth Quade, freshman. TERESA: Most students shuffle non- chalantly to their classes, deposit their books on their desks and themselves in their chairs and manage to fake the teacher out by looking utterly intrigued while in reality they are sleeping. The bell rings and the student, refreshed from his nap, makes a mad dash for his next class, it doesn’t matter if it’s across the hall or on the other side of the build- ing, five minutes is never enough time. BETH: Some classes | look forward to, but some | just dread. It is really hard to like a class in which teachers don’t try to get along with me. If they’d take more time to help us when we don’t under- stand, it would be better. | like classes with a relaxed atmo- sphere where students can work at the board, work on projects or play sports. It helps when the teachers are friendly and not afraid to joke around a little. TIM: Noon, | eat second lunch period, which means | attend study hall for half an hour on an empty stomach. | eat lunch with some of my very best friends, di scussing matters like religion in schools and the Bible, activities around school, and sexuality and permissiveness for half an hour. Then the third half hour | try to study with a full stomach fighting off the influence of drowsiness. RANDY: Between classes each day | have the privilege of walking my girl- friend to class, something that has fallen into a definite pattern of my normal day. TIM: At the end of the day when I’m finally out of the building, and into the world, | have achieved the desire | have been trying to satisfy all day, almost complete freedom. ABOVE: On their way to class students stop to help search for a lost contact lens. RIGHT: Carol Flynn and Terry Gray tune up their instruments during activity period. 14 Everyday life

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RIGHT: As part of the Easter convocation, Simon Peter, portrayed by Reverend Howard Pauley of the Honeytown Christian Church, tells the story of his life as a disciple. BELOW: Before Christmas, Santa Claus visits a home basketball game, bringing with him bags of “sweet treats” for the spectators. FAR RIGHT: As a special halftime show at a home basketball game, swing choir members perform a medley of songs from the 1950's. LOWER RIGHT: National Honor Society president Ray Redicker presents the Outstanding Freshman Award to James Ison. 1 16 Special events