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

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New routines were an important product of In an effort to learn from others, Marilee Ogren, Susy Gurevitz, George Halik, and Roseanne Sue Lukacsek and Karen Trelinski’s week of Holmes spent a week at the Indiana University Leadership Conference, hard work at Purdue University. Special interests delved into during Newswomen Sally Winner, Leslie Weiner, Pat Ruf, and Chris Olio dis¬ covered new techniques at Ball State and Wisconsin universities. Spike Murphree, John Shields, Jack Klasen, Phil Lund, and Frank Foreman expanded gymnastic abilities at the National Summer Palaestrum in Traverse City, Michigan. 8

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Clark unity Individuality marked each Clarkite as he stamped his identity into the ever-changing pattern of school life. For one student, school might have meant an academic schedule of Physics, Advanced Algebra, third year Spanish, and English, while for another Concert Choir, Band, Publi¬ cations and Student Council might have comprised the bulk of his sched¬ ule. Although Wednesdays meant ac¬ tivities open to everyone, one stu¬ dent’s choice might have been a lan¬ guage club, as another’s time was taken by GAC or Booster Club. But as unique as it was for each person, school unified all the students with a powerful bond of pride and a sense of common, over-all purpose of preparation for the future. “Nothing, but nothing, is more powerful than a locomotive,” cries Engineer Dave Krall to Super-Tuna Paul Strabavy.

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Marilee Ogren realized her goals in art at an Indiana Artists’ Conference. summer 1968 Gaining new ideas for future pub¬ lications was the purpose of summer journalistic institutes. Twirlers, gymnasts, and cheer¬ leaders took advantage of specialized camps in their areas. Through the efforts of the National Science Found¬ ation, students were able to study scientific topics. Fine arts was another topic of interest as art and music skills were mastered. For the third year, audio-visual members attended the AVO convention. Communication was stressed at the institutes held for Student Coun¬ cil and Girls’ and Boys’ State rep¬ resentatives. At an audio-visual convention, Brian Olds was introduced to more modern equipment. Kansas, Purdue, and Western Michigan universities provided an opportunity for Pete Brand- man, Pete Stecy, Debbie Svitek, Cindy Hric, and Cindy Gaspar to delve into diversified scien¬ tific fields and sample college life.