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

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Before renovation, about three years ago. Wood Shop was the only class offered at Clark. Now Clark students are offered a wide selection of shop classes. Power Me¬ chanics are now possible classes in addition to Wood Shop. All shop students became ac¬ customed to the new buzzing, grinding, saw¬ ing, and whirling sounds. Added space re¬ sulted in new equipment for Clark. The differ¬ ent classes have specific rooms in which each student could progress at his own rate. Stu¬ dents in Wood Shop worked on projects ranging from bookends to rocking chairs. In Power Mechanics, students learned to work with various machines which, never even for the most part, a majority of them had never even seen before. The Electric Machines courses was offered to the exceptionally tal¬ ented individuals wishing to work with power tools. Renovation provided students more op¬ portunities to become educated in Industrial Arts. 24

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Choir members from Grovers Corners await the cue from Simon Stimpson. Applying makeup is one of Mr. She¬ pard ' s many talents. The theater provided an interesting extra¬ curricular activity for the many students who participated in the productions of Catch Me If You Can and Our Town. Catch Me If You Can was a mystery in which a small town detec¬ tive, portrayed by Rudy Winderlich, was faced with a baffling case when the missing wife of a wealthy man suddenly reappears. The plot became complicated when the dis¬ traught husband, played by Mark Pavlovich, claimed she was not his wife. The play ended with suprising results. Our Town centered around the lives of two young people, who were portrayed by Linda Woitena and Mike Hlebasko. The underlying theme was stated by Emily after she had died and had tried to return to her past life. Emily questioned whether people ever realized the true mean¬ ing of life and lived it to the fullest or just merely took it for granted. She, herself, dis¬ covered the true value after it was too late. History had been made and new talents re¬ vealed, as the faculty combined with the stu¬ dents for the first time in the production of Our Town. Proper characterization is o key foe- tor to cast member Mike Hlebasko. 26