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

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Rainbow Builders Local 347 8 Rainbow Construction Local 101 32 Stay In Line 90 Rainbow Company 126 Time Is Money 188 Index 217 Out of the maze of blue prints, rolls of vinyl wall covering, and paste and paint buckets (top), a bright new look for CPHS emerges. Workmen (above) operate monstrous-looking machines to complete floor finishing. The eight-lane all weather track (left) is due to be completed by the fall of 1975. Workers (far right) decode blue prints to organize the tangle of wires now converted into the sleek electrical control panel in the main office. ' iHH 2

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EXCAUBUR CROWN POINT HIOH SCHOOL 401 W. JOLIET STREET CROWN POINT INDIANA 46307 VOLUME FIFTY-NINE

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When students came back to school last September, they found it had changed immensely. Bulldozers and trucks were no longer a hazard in reach¬ ing the front door. Inside construction went on all around them. During the course of the year, cor¬ ridor walls were covered with bright hues of blue, orange, red, green and gold vinyl. Once dingy lockers matched the bright wall coverings. The old library had been converted into one huge makeshift office. Out of this jungle of stacked boxes, books, and clutter of desks, the business of the school was carried on for the entire first semester. The principal, assistant princi¬ pals, counselors, and secretaries all func¬ tioned with amazing efficiency out of this seemingly hopeless welter. Since many classrooms were still un¬ der construction, temporary rooms were used in many instances. Although ham¬ mers echoed and drills buzzed, classes went on. By now construction seemed here to stay, and students and teachers had pretty well accepted the attendant inconveniences as facts of life. But as the year wore on, day by day, progress was evident. Business students and teachers found their new depart¬ ments complete with carpeting and fur¬ niture to complement the bright wall coverings. The art and music depart¬ ments also felt compensated by the im¬ provements in their areas. Week after week, new classrooms were turned over for use. Shortly after the Christmas holidays, the office staff made the great exodus across the hall to their new offices. Some areas remained behind schedule at the year ' s closing, but prospects looked bright. CPHS was well on its way to building a rainbow—not just of build¬ ing materials, but of spirit. Little by little, as the year progressed, that intangible thing called spirit began to rekindle. PROGRESSES CONSTRUCTION 3