Crawfordsville High School - Athenian Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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e Usual Harsher critics might hasten to point out the lack of a true ring upon viewing the above caption and then the accompanying photographs. True, we never romped about on the well-manicured greens of C. H. S. However, on the pages which fol- low will be found scenes which were the usual and commonplace. The greater part of our time was spent in classrooms absorbing, to varying degrees, the benefits of English, math, social studies, the sciences, vocational arts, languages, and so forth. Achievements in the classroom were the basic reason for our being in high school, and most of us applied ourselves to our academic tasks. But we would not pretend that all was work with no play. We enjoyed the lighter and brighter side of school life. Athletic events, parties, dances, plays, con- vocations, special programs, club meetings, finals, homework, report cards, confer- ences, study halls-all these were elements of our golden days. Page Four

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e Focal Point Physically, Crawfordsville junior-Senior High School was organized on the tln'ee-three plan, all classes housed in one building. The history of our school, as a public school, goes back to 18739 and the first class of graduates went forth in 1877. Since that time some 5,61S have been granted diplomas from Craw- fordsville High School. As the 1953-54 school year drew to a close, 1,095 students were enrolled at C.H.S. Our school was a comfortable appearing edifice, exhibiting a look of wear with care. Before school, during school, after school, and at countless other times it was the focal point around which many Athenian lives revolvedg and as the day of June :Znd drew near, some 13:2 seniors made ready to sever themselves from its routine. YVe were tempted to say 'Kseyered from its inHuencev but that cannot be. Its influence was to be felt for more years than we knew. Page T11 ree

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i l Let's get a clearer focus of the senior class and its activities. Do you recall Nlay of 1953 when that year's graduating class left C.H.S. to us? 'Nlemher when it seemed as though we'd never get to he seniors. when we thought Let us take over. and we'll really show you how to make things go? Sounds kind of silly now, but those were land probably always will bel the thoughts of impatiently aspiring under- Page classmen. XVe can recall the time when we would have traded 'most anything for the opportunity to don those coveted SENIOR CURDSH XVhat a difference a little time makes. Let's not deny itg many of us experienced a new feeling of dignity and possession when we returned in early fall to take up tho responsibilities of our final year in the home of the Atheniansf' Fiite