Calumet High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Student solutions to the energy crisis Sandra Fraley: Senior I feel the American Oil Companies should produce more oil to meet our de- mands. Diann Gonzalez: Sophomore We should have car pools and if driving 55 m.p. h. is going to help then we should do it. Connie Scott: Senior I don ' t think there is so much of a shortage as there is a panic at the thought of one. Mark Smith: Senior I don ' t think there is an energy crisis because the large oil companies just want to form a corporation and raise the price of gas. Susan Davies: Senior Everyone should reduce their driving speed and if possible do all your errands in one trip. Younger kids with licenses should ride bikes more instead of using the car for every little trip they have to make. Out of gas . . .

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Mixed emotions Gas P. 0. W. ’s and tapes The fall of 1974 was a time of dwindling gas, countless P. 0. W. ' s being reunited with their loved ones and continuous probing on Watergate and Nixon ' s White House Tapes. CHS students were very aware of these situations. The gas problem would effect them directly. The P. O. W. re- turn and the Watergate situation was often a topic of classroom discussion. Whether pro -war or anti- war, kids overall were re- lieved and elated at the re- turn of our Prisoners of War. The progress of the Watergate trial and de- mands for the President’s telephone tapes interested students as they formed their own rational opinions. 1L, FIRST LET ME EMPHASIZE MV COMPLETE FAITH iN Ol PGE SIRICA E) A GREAT JURIST (CZyCK) .... WHY, GOOD MORNING, BEBE (PAUSE) i £ OUST SITTING HERE THINKING WHAT A (CLICK) GREAT GUV X)THAT OLD (CLICK) JUDGE SIRICA IS (click) (MUSE). , , . ER.WHV ? The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants, of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up danties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize over their teach- ers. -- Socrates, 394 B. C.

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YB: Mr. Dakich, this is your first year as principal actually you ' ve only been here a couple of months, what is your reaction so far to the position itself? Dakich: I will preface by saying that I was assistant principal for three years un- der, what I consider, one of the most outstanding princi- pals in the area, Mr. Julius. I learned a lot by findin g out really what some of the problems are that we have here. In regards to the prin- cipalship. I ' ve been here I think three weeks today, yeah, thats it, three weeks today, I find the job very, very complex (Phone rings) excuse me. (Mr. Dakich gives his ok to a student to sell Halloween suckers) I have to say in the last three weeks I ' ve enjoyed it im- mensely. There are some problems that a Principal has that I wasn ' t aware of and maybe that ' s what’ s the challenge. I think in this day and age, which we call the modern age, I think the prin- cipal has to be aware of the problems that the kids are having today. I think I ' m adjusting to that, I have ad- justed to that this past three or four weeks. YB: Going back, what posi- tion did you start as in your public school career. Dakich: I started here in Lake Ridge Schools when it was called the Metropolitan School District back in Sep- tember of ' 59, which means I ' m starting my fifteenth year. I started out as a Jr. High math teacher when this building was the Jr. High. I taught seventh and eighth grade math; Mr. Borlick and I came at the same time. From there I moved to the high school which is now Ridge Jr. High. I became director of distributive ed- ucation where I initiated our first vocational co-op pro- gram. To be specific, the D. E. program which led to all similar programs such as health occupations, office education and industrial oc- cupations. That was 1963 and I held that position for three years and remained at the high school as a business teacher and as freshman basketball coach. Then in 1969, when we went to two junior highs, Mr. Julius be- came principal of Ridge Junior High and I went over with him as Dean of Students. I stayed there for one year as Dean then Mr. Julius came here to the high school in 1970 and I came over as assistant principal and re- mained his assistant princi- pal ' til October 3rd of this year, at which time he got a promotion to Director of Vocational Education and I was promoted to the princi- palship. YB: Undoubtedly, the times have changed since you started as Math teacher lead- ing up to principal and the kids have changed along with the times and what noted differences do you see from the people of 1959 to 1973? Dakich: Without any question, the high school kids of today are more intellegent, if I may use the word intellegent, in all areas. They watch more television, see more movies, do more things, and probably one of the biggest things they ' ve got going for them has to do with intelle- gence. They are more mo- bile today than they were in the past. Just check our parking lots.