Elwood Community High School - Crescent Yearbook (Elwood, IN)

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Our lockers really are much simpler than the parking meters of an ordinary city. For example, instead of paying five or ten cents every morning, noon, and evening, you pay seventy-five cents for a lock when you are a freshman. This enables you to park” four years—or longer, if necessary. As in any well-regulated city, our school must have its traffic regulations and rules which are enforced by our teachers. Any infraction of hall rules can be punished by detention slips which cause you to linger in the libraiy for forty-five minutes after school. These extra study periods are supposed to make an offender think twice before committing the same error. We also have our street department or janitor's system which works all day keeping our halls and rooms clean and in repair The many comparisons and examples which have been pointed out, all prove that our city has the most unique streets in existence. Page Five

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Our Streets . . . The halls of our school can be compared to the streets of a busy city. For example, both have fast and slow moving traffic which you encounter if you venture down one of our halls between classes. The first, fast moving traffic, is a menace to life and limb because of those who rush pell-mell from class to class knocking or pushing aside all interference just for the joy of being first. Those students who by some quirk of fate are always found walking in twos, and the students who simply cannot walk any faster are found in the slow-moving traffic. This type causes most of our traffic jams. We have our up and down stairs which are much like one-way streets. One thing they have in common is that some people always seem to be going in the wrong direction. These are generally either freshmen who don't know any better, or seniors who think they can get away with something. We also have our parking meters or lockers. We have two separate areas—one for boys and one for girls. There must be some confusion as to just where these lockers are located, for there always seems to be boys clustered around the girls' lockers. Although there are a few boys occupying lockers in the girls' areas and vice-versa, for the most part, these are restricted zones. Page Four

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Our Houses . . • Then there are the houses of Willkie High. Here the boys and girls spend much of their time learning new and better ways to improve tomorrow. The library is perhaps the most colorful house of them all with its brightly colored books lining the walls. The students come here during their study hall periods using the hundreds of books for information and help in their studies. The next house we come to along the busy streets of Willkie High is the typing room. Here live the students who wish to take up secretarial or business training. Many times during the day you can hear music playing with the clicking of every typewriter keeping time to the rhythm of a familiar march. There are some other interesting houses in our town, five of which are used for shop where only boys work. In one of these there is a mechanical drawing class; in another, the supply room, is kept everything from toothpicks to two-by-fours. The next room is the study room where students are given instructions before they start a project. The other two rooms contain all kinds of machinery and tools. In our math rooms the students learn everything from A to Z about mathematics—from simple addition to trigonometry. In the history classes the student learns of the past and present of his country as well as that of other nations. This study shows the student the mistakes and hardships, and the ambitions and dreams of those who came before him so that he may profit by their examples. Page Six