Gavit High School - Futura Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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where 17 squads, cheerleaders, new Stepping up his pace, senior Paul Kozubai tries to beat the toss to a Noll Warrior. Claditors yell from new grid bleachers. With their installation, Gavit could claim largest home-side seating capacity in city. 12

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Bouquet from Jane Messman honors Linda Venable in Goodbye, My Fancy.” Mike Hanneld, Vicki Meyers watch rites. Photographer Frank Purcell learns from secretary Andrea Beaty of Congresswoman Reed’s love for him in Goodbye, My Fancy.” auditorium, wait for future productions, facilities ■ Drama productions said “adieu” to the gym ' s makeshift stage and acoustics in three final plays here. Last May’s “Goodbye, My Fancy , Drama Club’s first, used props but had no major scene changes. Thespians moved to the cafeter- ia for a December performance of Our Town”, junior class play. Back to the gym for “Arsenic and Old Lace” went Drama Club in February. Height was added by using the gym balcony as an upstairs. Meanwhile, cranes and drills worked on the auditorium. Shop construction halted in January to add high school shops: metals, wood, printing, drafting, electric and power mechanics. Language labs in the 15-room west addition received the brunt of work for fall ’64 completion.

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equipment, boost pride, stir school spirit, interest ■ Teams from junior high to varsi- ty levels in eight sports gave Gladia- tors, both doers and watchers, a full bill of athletic fare. They could choose from football, basketball, baseball, cross country, wrestling, track, golf and tumbling improvement and expansion were both key words in the year’s picture. Witnessing varsity grid meets for the first time on home soil, home fans had about 3000 seats to choose from, thanks to new permanent stands on the west side and tem- porary bleachers on the east oppo- nent ' s side. The entire athletic field, including last spring ' s new baseball diamond, added a permanent fence. With winter’s sub-zero onslaught, fans moved inside. When they wit- nessed hoopsters, they could sit in new folding bleachers on the west, or boys’, gym balcony. More bleach- ers were to be added to the east side after shops went to the new wing. Football, basketball and track went into their second year of varsity status, joining them were baseball and wrestling, which had been main- ly b-team last year. Cross country and tumbling moved into more in- terscholastic competition. Highlights of the sports year in- cluded three new coaches; junior high city football championship; an- nual gymkhana; new equipment, such as scorers’ tables and more uniforms; freshman, b-team and varsity Gavit holiday tourneys; im- provement of season records; and a New Year’s prediction by the ‘‘Hammond Times’’ that Gavit would dominate local sports. Caged tiger reminds gridman Bob Takacs of Gavit’s 13-7 win over Hammond Tech to end the Gladiator football season at 7-2. 13