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

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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

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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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It’s an average day at Crown Point High School. The sun is shining, and a slight breeze rustles the branches of the trees outside. Inside, the empty corridors ring with the hollow echoes of a teacher’s footsteps. Looking through doorways, an observer can see what is happening inside the classrooms. A ge¬ ometry class struggles over proving theorems while general science students study the func¬ tions of a cell. Those studying industrial arts mold wood, plastic, and metal into anything from baby cribs to hammers, while upstairs in the home economics department students cre¬ ate with food and cloth. Looking into more classrooms, an observer can discern the different ways to study. There are many ways to study, but most fall into one of three main categories. First there is the con¬ fused student who places his head as close as possible to his paper in hopes that the answers will find their way out of his jumbled brain and leap onto his paper. Then there is the girl whose mind is clear and works like a finely tuned time¬ piece. She sits back in her seat very relaxed as the words and numbers flow from her brain through her arm and out the end of her pen. Lastly, there is the teenager who closes his eyes and lets the information run across his mind like a computer print-out. Many teachers mis¬ take this activity for sleeping, but this student is actually studying as hard as anyone else. Many students become interested in their topics of study, but when the bell rings look out because READY OR NOT... HERE COME THE BULLDOGS Theme 5