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

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Activities: rising After hours of rehearsing lines and moves, opening night arrives. Make-up and lights are ready, and the curtain rises. Fledgling actors and actresses quell their nerves while they take that enormous step from the shadows of the wings to the naked, dazzling light of center stage. Excalibur, Inklings, and Windfall staffs race from typewriter to drawing board and back again. They write, edit, rewrite, and re-edit. They spend after¬ noons and evenings cutting, pasting, and measuring to meet another deadline. Marching band members stand pois¬ ed and stiff, holding their breaths. A field judge walks by. Their heads high, elbows out, faces emotionless, the musi¬ cians are proud. The music begins and they lock into position. Each footstep and note falls perfectly into place after hours of practicing and drilling and to the challenge practicing some more. Student Council works as a team to benefit the entire school. Dances, pro¬ grams, and benefits for other people set a precedent for students to follow. Members learn early the basics of the American system of government and will become the basis for it in the future. Activities face a different type of challenge. It is unlike any challenge that presents itself in the classroom, and it is unlike a challenge found on the playing field. This kind of challenge takes a commitment to give up long hours; it re¬ quires exercising the mind. But no grades will reward these sacrifices, and no trophies will be presented to those who participate. These activities reward in their own special way. They foster the sense of pride that make students give of themselves and willing to work long, payless hours to rise to the challenge. Senior Pam Thiel, (top) a participant in the C.O.E. program, files cards at the Administrative Service Center. Sandy Kersey and Miss Chris Jawor (middle left) set up the refreshment table for the Homecoming Members of the Royal Regiment (above) lead the band in the Homecoming parade around the square. Latin Club members Mike Crowley and Larry Geisen (left) race their chariot in the Indianapolis chariot race.

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Andre Courte, a foreign exchange student, (top left) presents his humanities project to the class. Alexis Clark and Tammy Lundell (top right) work on promotion sales for the yearbook. Karen Galambos (above) eyes her music intently as she plays her French horn. Bill Fifield (middle right), Rotarian Club presi¬ dent, shakes the hand of Bill Johnston, Junior Rotarian, at the Rotary meeting at Youche Coun¬ try Club. Student Council officers (right) Mario Soto, Teri Anderson, Dean Niepokoj, and Tom Feder con¬ duct a meeting concerning a “teacher apprecia¬ tion” day.

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Athletics: rising to the challenge As a brightly colored balloon rises toward the sky, determined athletes rise to the challenge: The challenge to push a straining body a little farther each day, the challenge to be better than their competitors. Just as one small balloon moves dog¬ gedly upward and onward battling the wind and the rain and the snow, the athlete forces himself to excel upward and onward against the tired and the hurt and the pain. Waking early to cut through icy water, sacrificing vacation to shoot baskets, sweating through runs and passes and tackles on a sweltering August day, an athlete gives up much. Running all summer to keep in shape, attending classes while knowing yet another practice session lies ahead, bur¬ ning the midnight oil to complete study¬ ing that others finished while he was at practice, the athlete disciplines himself as no one else does. The swimmer endures the cramps, the football player accepts the injuries, and the runner ignores the rain and the ice. Each has a challenge before him. When the race is lost, when the end of the game leaves the athlete sore and gasping for breath, when the team is hurting and disappointed, only the challenge can make it worthwile. Along with the tears of pain come the tears of joy: The races won, the friend¬ ships made, the wonderful things learn¬ ed about oneself. The self-satisfaction and the inner feeling of accomplishment will all combine to form the lump that sticks in his throat when he remembers his team in years to come. He may not have been a champion, he may not have set any records, he may not have done anything that sets him apart from a thousand other athletes, but in his mind he is the victor. He climbed the highest mountain there is to climb. He put himself at the beginn¬ ing of a long, arduous journey that must be traveled alone. In every sport the athlete must rise to meet the challenge. Junior Steve Brownlee (top) darts forward, trying to keep his lead. Senior Rich Riddle (above) escapes from a tackle and runs towards the goal post. Senior Steve Tobias (right) awaits his opponent’s opening move. .t