Griffith High School - Reflector Yearbook (Griffith, IN)

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REFLECTOR 1974 Griffith High School Griffith, Indiana Vol. 33

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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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r INSIDE J i N OUTSIDE Tumbled, tossed and trembling, Alice cried out in anguish as she felt herself falling through a cloud of darkness. Smack! She landed before a brick building with glass doors and windows. Where am I, she wondered to herself. To her surprise, a Voice from beyond boomed, Griffithland. Her eyes glimpsed an inscription on the wall which read Griffith Senior High School. With all the kids sitting outside the building, Alice realized that she should have guessed that this was some type of youth establishment. Baffled by the Voice and forced on by some mysterious power, Alice stepped into the wide lobby. A list of 51 faculty members on a wall near her right side caught Alice ' s attention. I wonder what they do here? The question flashed in her brain and again the Voice answered in its computer-like monotone. Teachers are present from 7:45 a.m. to 3:70 p.m. as required by the administration. This does not include the time given by teachers who stay after to help students with classwork, homework, special problems and clubs or teams. Alice, both pleased and annoyed by the Voice that could read her thoughts, peered up and down the corridor. It seemed as if dozens of kids lined a narrow ledge and hundreds more wandered through the hall. Alice was lured by the constant motion of the 1,040 students. This place must look like a ghost town in the summer. Again the Voice read her thoughts. After the 38 weeks of the regular school session, summer school opens, lasting from six to eight weeks. The six credit courses, ranging from typing and health to driver ' s education and government, furnish knowledge to 400 students, 300 of which enroll in driver ' s ed. The courses are not only for the student who has failed a class necessary for ALICE DISCOVERS GRIFFITHLAND graduation, but also the one who wants to get enough credits to graduate early. The driver ' s ed class can help students get driving benefits and insurance breaks if . . Stop! What ' s that room over there used for? Alice ' s attention focused on a small room with the word Guidance above the door. A woman looked up and smiled at Alice. Inside, the room was orderly and the neat office ' s friendliness agreed with her. Heartened by the impression, Alice ' s curiosity overcame her fear and drove her to turn to the Voice. Hey, Voice, tell me how this friendly place fits in with the school and if there ' s other places like it hidden here. Guidance department members help students with class schedules, future careers and disciplinary problems. Yes, Alice, we have many special places like this in the building. Some are the audio-visual department, the Resource Center, the library and the cafeteria. Wait. You ' re going too fast; tell me more about this career business. A special career center is available for use by all students. Material on variety of careers from sanitation workers to lawyers is provided. Students may visit the career center during class or after school. The school also has a Career Day when over 3 0 persons from various occupations come to speak to students. The audio-visual department, the Voice continued, services both the senior and junior high. It prints much of the mimeographed classroom material including student handbooks and final exams. The Resource Center helps students who can ' t carry the full academic load by cutting classroom size and providing extra attention for the student who needs it. This all sounds good, Voice but I hear students moving and think if I don ' t start moving, too, I ' m going to miss something. S