Griffith High School - Reflector Yearbook (Griffith, IN)

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In a battle of semantics, the administration stated that since students could leave school grounds at noon, the lunch was open and driving cars would only cause accidents. Principal T. J. White vetoed the proposal. Undaunted by their predecessors failure, the 1972-73 council argued for an open lunch. Their petition met a similar fate. However, during the summer, Mr. White and Superintendent of Schools Robert Kurtz reconsidered and granted the proposal. Get on your mark. Get set. Go. As the buzzer sounded, announcing the 35-minute lunch period ' s arrival, students treaked toward the parking lot, leaped in cars and headed toward McDonald ' s in lieu of sneaking toward autos illegally parked on side streets. Others who preferred to remain at school or weren ' t blessed with friends who drove, gobbled sack lunches, grabbed a bite in the short line or ate cafeteria grub. Since open lunch, were these people as scarce as an honest politician? Not according to the cafeteria ' s head cook Mrs. Barbara Brill. We only serve about 60 less lunches now and the ones who leave school are never here anyway, she commented. Those fleeing school lunches raced against the clock and faced the danger of tarrying too long in Tastee Freeze or McDonald ' s. I don ' t have any exact figure on it but tardies have increased an awful lot since the open lunch started, Director of Pupil Personnel, Mr. Charles O ' Rourke stated. Prohibition. Open lunch. People, fought for these causes and won. Open lunch has its disadvantages. Sophomore Laura Bolla discovers that staying for lunch over the 35 minutes means getting locked out till someone notices her. Lack of a car sometimes meant staying in the cafeteria. Brian Boris and fim Terpstra find themselves confined to hum drum school food. 19

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Because of 35-minute lunch breaks, students rush to their cars in order to get food at nearby drive-ins and be back in class before the tardy bell rang. Tired of fighting the crowd and waiting in the long line for lunch. Sue Buikema and Chris Barta find a solution by eating at home. Open lunch provides variety for many. Lunch period is not only for eating, as junior jill Konopasek finds it a good time to finish an assignment for her next class and catch upon some reading for Current Events. WHAT ' S NEW IN THE LUNCH ROOM? The quest for women ' s suffrage. The fight to repeal prohibition. The bout for integration. The struggle for an open lunch. While the first three subjects denote famous causes in America ' s history, the last one portrays a noted goal in the annals of Student Council. Seeking to alleviate the cafeteria ' s overcrowding, 1971-72 Student Council suggested an open lunch where students could remove their cars from the school parking lot. 18

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variety offered; english takes on a NEW FORM “Why do I have to read this book? I ' m not interested in colonial history. For all I care the pilgrims could have landed on the North Pole. This is one book that ' s going to rot in my locker. “Aren ' t you interested in anything? Sure, just the other day I was reading a book on the Civil War. Did you know that the rebel prison Andersonville was one of the worst in £73 — Civial War Literature I don ' t believe I flunked another grammar test. I listen but I guess I need more time than other people. Two weeks of grammar just wasn ' t enough. What am I going to do in college? If I don ' t do well once I get down to Purdue, my dad said ... £ 23 — Advanced Grammar for the College Bound I hate the long books we have to read in here. By the time I finish one, I ' ve completely forgotten what happened at the beginning of the book. And that ' s only when I ' m lucky enough to Please turn to page 23 In Great American Classics II, Bob Rastovski finds that An American Tragedy, although a serious book, contains some humorous lines. 20