George Rogers Clark High School - Powder Horn Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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George Rogers Clark High School is located at 1921 Davis Avenue, in the Robertsdale district of Hammond, Indiana, and has an enrollment of 788 pupils: 409 girls and 379 boys. Clark’s faculty con¬ sists of 17 women and 22 men instructors. The school session begins at 8:30 followed by a ten minut e homeroom period in which announce¬ ments are read. Each class period last 55 minutes. Three minutes between classes enables pupils to get to their next class on time. In order to accomodate the large number of pupils who eat lunches at school, there are two lunch hours. The first lunch hour is at 11:30 and the other at 12:30. On Wednesday of each week, an activity period is scheduled between first and second period classes. Because of this activity period, the first, second, and third periods are shortened fifteen minutes each Wednesday. The athletic field, which is used for football, base¬ ball, and track, is located two blocks south of school. Since the school gymnasium is not large enough to accomodate the hugh crowd of Clark boosters, var¬ sity and B-squad basketball games are played at the Whiting gymnasium. MIGHTY PROUD OF IT... 2