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

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All over town alarm clocks come to life with happy ringing, buzzing, and music. The re¬ sponses they provoke consist of surprised yelps, unhappy groans, and soft mutterings. Morning routines vary from person to person, but perhaps the most interesting are those of high school students. From the ways they get themselves out of bed to the ways they choose their wardrobes, high school students are a sight in the morning. Some rip the covers off and sit up on the edge of the bed very quickly in an attempt to drive the sleep from their bodies, while others slowly and laboriously roll from the bed groaning about the early hour. While some students choose their apparel very carefully the night before, there are those on the other end of the scale who put on the first pair of jeans or sweatshirt they trip over while still half asleep. Once a student gets himself up and off to school, what does he do? At Crown Point High School he can do many things. By the time most of the students arrive here, the flag has been raised, signifying the start of a new day. When a student gets to school, he usually seeks out his friends. Before school different groups of students congregate in various areas of the building depending on interests or maybe just habit. If a student is interested in drama, he would probably find his friends by the audito¬ rium. If he is a music student, he will most likely go to the music hall or pop machines down¬ stairs. Jocks can be found almost any place. If they are not at an early morning practice, they might be in the gym or pool area, in the cafete¬ ria, or maybe just roaming the halls. By habit, some students visit with a favorite teacher, do last-minute work on assignments, or get extra help in a class they are having trouble with. Many students who don’t especially like school usually meet outside and stay out as long as they can without risking being late for class. Most of these students have a particularly well- timed morning schedule, knowing where to be at what time and how much time they can spend there. But no matter where a student and his friends happen to go in the morning, when that bell rings at 7:25, READY OR NOT... HERE COME THE BULLDOGS Theme 3

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READY OR NOT... HERE COME THE BULLDOGS In the child’s game of Hide and Seek, whoev¬ er is “it,” hides his eyes as he counts to an agreed upon number. Then he shouts out, “Ready or not, here I come!” Life, in general, and high school life, in par¬ ticular, seems to illustrate that chant. Whether we are “ready or not,” life marches on. Life demands that we cope, adjust, meet its chal¬ lenges to be the best of whatever we are, but it does not stand still to wait until we are ready. At age 14, ready or not, most of us are auto¬ matically freshmen. At age 18, ready or not, we bid farewell to high school and go on to a job, to a trade school, to college, or even enter into marriage. “Ready or not” represents to us the challenge high school offers to us. If high school did not present us with specific challenges at various times, whether we are “ready or not,” we might be forever at a standstill, just as in the child’s game, without the chanted “Ready or not, here I come,” a child might go on searching for the perfect hiding place. “Ready or not” implies making the best pos¬ sible preparation within a certain time period, and for this reason it symbolizes to us the chal¬ lenges of the 1984-1985 school year. “Ready or not” we must start back to school at the desig¬ nated hour. We must present ourselves at school each day at the prescribed time. We must go to classes, do assignments, take tests, play games, attend meetings, go to press all at a particu¬ lar time. To us the phrase represents the for¬ ward movement of high school and the ever¬ present time schedule within which school oper¬ ates. But the very demands of this schedule require us to be constantly alert and ready, to advance, to do the very best we can within the time frame allowed us. The raising of the flag signifies the start Mike Theil talks with a friend while of a new day. nearby another student begins his day. Students gather in the cafeteria before Eac h day begins by getting books for school. morning classes out of lockers. 2 Theme

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Greg Angernsan, Tony Jones, and Missy Garcia (opposite page) take time be¬ tween classes to joke around. Students in Mr. Jerry Caravana’s sec¬ ond hour business management class display different ways to spend their free time in class. Sue Doty (below) checks Terri Erlen- bach’s blood pressure in Mrs. Donna Duffy’s third hour HOE class. Orchestra students wait for their cue from Mr. Jim Deal. Kris Gursky (opposite page) enters her program into the computer in Mrs. Jan- cich’s second hour beginning computers class. 4 Theme