Griffith High School - Reflector Yearbook (Griffith, IN)

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INSIDE EDUCATION — PREMIUM OR REGULAR School fills nearly one half of my waking hours. I am either interested or bored for seven hours a day. The choice is mine. Time passes quickly if I try to learn. But if I expect the school to hand me education on a silver platter, I’m being pretty naive. School is not my life. I can compare it to a filling station. I ' m being filled with knowledge to move me along the road of life. If during my high school years, I get just the bare minimum, I’ll only just make life. But if I strive to do my best, I’ll be able to cope with things as they come up. I feel that clubs and sports are extras to complement my interests and social life. They are different from the regular grind of education. Clubs allow me to be what I am. Sports aren’t important to me. They are purely entertainment. I go to games just to see my friends. The school is fulfilling my role as a student. It offers classes in which I can find interest. For me it is true that one can get out of something only what one puts into it. — junior Sue Thomas INSIDE cm WHAT IS SCHOOL? Almost everything that happens to me revolves around the school. Being a student doesn’t just happen from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s a way of life. School is where you meet people and school is where you form your ideas and opinions about life. I’m at school from dawn to dark, getting up at 6:15 a.m. for swim practice and getting home at 5 p.m. after evening practice. Being a student at GHS is a full time job, but it ' s fun. Many students question the role of the school in their lives. Is the building just a meeting place to sit in for seven hours a day. or a place to learn and to experience life? — junior Steve Trinks WHAT THE On those drab, dreary days school is jus t a place to go only for the sake of nothing better to do. At times, school is an escape from any personal problems I may have. It gives me something else to replace in my mind the problems that are bothering me. Many.times I have heard myself say, I can hardly wait to get out of school and work and just be independent. But when I look at the things school offers me, I’m not so sure I look forward to the day when I am no longer part of it. — junior Robin Salima. SAGES SAY Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. — Mark Twain Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. — Euripedes Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. — Benjamin Franklin Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other. — Edmund Burke Love of bustle is not industry. — Seneca

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ruin phase elective To set up Borrow a straight pm from your mother ' s sewing box. cut out paper pointer from old Panther Press and attach both to roulette wheel PHASES — ’GREAT IDEA Phase Electives — mention the term to 10 different students and 10 different responses will be voiced, ranging from, the best thing that ever happened to English to what a fa rce. Basically, the Phase Elective program consists of a series of nine-week courses intended to brighten up English while providing a solid English background. “Within a structure, it provides options for kids that they would never enjoy under the old program, “The ultimate winners in something like this are the students — Kurtz. said Mr. Robert G. Kurtz, superintendent of schools. A student offered his views of phase electives, The courses are good if you ' re interested in a class and if you’re lucky enough to get into that class. I think phase electives are a great idea. For the most part, you are grouped with kids who progress at the same rate you do. Also, since a wide variety of courses is offered, it is easy to get into something you like, another student stated. Still another student countered, English is still English . They just tried to make it a little more attractive with their innovations.” Students received a pamphlet explaining phase electives. The course is designed to offer the student an education which will provide him with a sound understanding of the essentials of English and at the same time allow him a voice in choosing courses compatible with his ability and interests. If he plans wisely, he should enjoy a richer experience than is possible in the traditional program.”

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REFLECTOR 1974 Griffith High School Griffith, Indiana Vol. 33