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

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those magic months called vacation Crystal Snowe secludes herself from the rest of her classmates to write irv a friends yearbook of all their good times together.

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High School— the best four years of your life.” I wonder if high school—Clark, can be given all this credit? After all it only takes 1,344 required hours of my life. But, then there is homework and research and seldom time for myself. Student life; someone once called it that, but isn ' t my life a game? I have a weekend free so i go to a college campus or a football game. I often wonder why the four seasons are intertwined in a year, which is only a number to add on to my life. I like to think about Autumn. Right around then, everyone is bored with school. Driving around the town, going to unbelievable wild parties, stopping at McDonalds, working ... all are types of escape routes i often try. Sometimes i know exactly what i want to do but there are limitations—like parents of my best friends, the Whiting-Hammond policemen. Besides burning down the school is illegal. By the time Winter comes i am sick of routine. Of course there isn’t much to do around school because of the small amount of activities available to attend, so i began to search elsewhere. My borrowed free time comes to a sudden halt when i realize you do get suspended for ditching. I know that my student life involves more than just school. It involves my habits, my morals, my feelings, my activities—just a column to choose from; some certain subject to guess at. It puzzles me that i cannot figure it all out. What can i call this? Finding out who i am? But i know! It ' s just life set to the rules of a game. Homecoming . . . weekends . . . working . . . Wow Wee . . . drinking . . . clothing . . . everything is just a matter of taste. I guess most of my life really takes place after 3:20 everyday ... it kind of puts my life in a position of Jeopardy!

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Participating on a softball team, or just being a spectator helped fill the warm summer months. While several Clarkites forfeited a week of vacation to attend workshops, others sprawled on the beach and bronzed their bodies! Typical meeting places like the auditorium steps or Wow Wee became popular gathering grounds for students. Athletes preparing for their oncoming season willingly gave up precious leisure time to prepare themselves physically for a driving, winning season. Many summer evenings were spent beneath the twilight at Bobby Beach, sitting on the sand watching flames of a bonfire or just getting into the music, heightening the days activities! Many eager students as well as not-so-eager students filled the corridors to take advantage of a wide variety of classes offered during the summer term. While nervous driver education students attempted automobile maneuvers, freshmen students receive their first taste of high school life. Whatever the Summer allowed; traveling to the Dunes, rehearsing a couple of nights a week for the July 4th parade, or working to help ease future costs still seemed to give a sense of freedom to young and old alike! So much for those magical months . . . summer vacation 1 1