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

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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

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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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Rrrring! The last bell rings, ending the aca¬ demic school day for the students of Crown Point High School. They rush to their lockers, thinking back over the day trying to remember for which classes they must take books home. Numbers on combination locks whiz by in a blur as kids work them to open the metal doors. Jackets are haphazardly thrown on and books extracted from the shelves that hold them. The doors are slammed with a clang, and life after classes begins. For some students this means going to some type of practice. For some, late afternoon hours are spent at football, wrestling, track, or cross country practices. For others, the hours might be spent at band or choir practice. Students who are on the Windfall staff might go to room El 17 to study photographs and drawings or read po¬ ems and short stories. Members of the Inklings staff weekly spend hours after school in E236 pasting up t.he paper to go to press, while Boost¬ er Club members make posters for dances and other school related activities. There are many students who are not in¬ volved with extracurricular activities at school, and many of them head for their jobs. McDon¬ ald’s, Burger King, Rax, and the Mall employ quite a few high school students from Crown Point as well as other schools in the area. Still other students head for home after the last bell. Homework and television take up their time. Weekends are spent at the movies, health clubs, roller rinks, and parties. Some kids com¬ plete their weekend assignments as soon as they get home on Friday, but others begin their weekend activities each Friday at 2:35, leaving their homework until Sunday night. Regardless of what they do after 2:35, READY OR NOT... HERE COME THE BULLDOGS 6 Theme