Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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GYM LURES STUDENTS AT NOON Taking part of their lunch hour, CPHS stu¬ dents join in the volleyball intramurals. This was one of the many activities popular with students during their lunch hours. The intramural program, compared with past year ' s, attracted more partic¬ ipants this year. There were more sign-ups and the students seemed to enjoy the various intramural activi¬ ties. Each team plays in a round robin type of tournament. There was a play¬ off to find the best boys team and the best girls team. Mr. Tom May, coordinator of the intramural program, put the Crown Point gymnasium to good use fourth and fifth hours by promoting student warfare through many activities, in¬ cluding ping pong, volleyball, basket¬ ball, and tag team wrestling. What was once the AV room and the weight room became the cafeteria area. The cafeteria was broken up into three eating areas. By the fall of 75 the new cafeteria with a seating capacity of 600, with a carpeted floor covering three-fourths of the floorspace should be complete with all of these features. All this will be located west of the existing gym¬ nasium. One problem was the fact that the cafeteria had no storage rooms due to the construction. The cooks and stu¬ dent workers had to go to the gym to get supplies where they were stored. Inflation hit the cafeteria very hard. For example, a box of napkins that sold for $7 last year jumped up to $13 this year. One hundred pounds of sugar which cost $16, sky-rocketed to $47. Inflation hit hard at CPHS in 1975.

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IMPROVISED CAFETERIA ACCOMMODATES STUDENTS After eating lunch, many students (top right) play cards in the cafeteria area. Dave Harris (above) devours a juicy hamburger, one of the cafeteria ' s most popular items. Chris Anderson considers whether he should go back for seconds. In the background, stu¬ dents relax during their lunch hour.

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Larry Hoffman, Finch ' s nephew, (above) celebrates his triumph in an advertising ven¬ ture, part of his campaign to get to the top in the business. Ron Katz (Finch) and Jeff Buhse (Biggely) join in a chorus of Rip Those Chipmunks, the fight song of their alma mater (below). A Metracal can, a set of golf clubs, and even a half-knitted bird cage cover were a few of the properties needed for How to Succeed in Business With¬ out Really Trying which the Crown Point High School Choral Department put on for its annual spring musical This year instead of just one side of the stage being used for the audience, there were chairs set on two sides of the stage with bleachers. The stage was almost a theater-in-the-round. The musical takes place in the vari¬ ous offices of the World Wide Wicket Company. Wickets can be applied to anything you can imagine. In this satire it applied to any big business. People have different ideas about making it big in the bustling world of business. J. Pierpont Finch follows a book of rules, titled surprisingly enough How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. The story revolves around the rise of J. Pierpont Finch from a window- washer to Chairman of the Board. Bud Frump, the nephew of the company ' s president Mr. J. B. Biggley, is deter¬ mined to stop Finch. Finch starts in the mail room where Mr. Twimble explains how he ' s lasted 25 years by playing it the Company Way on his way up the ladder of success. He makes the right friends and he wisely avoids entanglements with Hedy Larue, Mr. Biggley ' s friend. The zany antics conclude with Finch convincing Wall Womper, Chair¬ man of the Board, that there really is a Brotherhood of Man. The cast of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying prac¬ ticed four nights a week. They started practice March 1 for their debut on the 16, 17, 23, and 24 of May. Hard work and determination were added to good singing to put this production together. No matter what part each person had in the musical, they put together a unique play. ' HOW TO SUCCEED ' CAST WORKS TO PRODUCE A UNIQUE MUSICAL 22