Griffith High School - Reflector Yearbook (Griffith, IN)

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Activities night once again highlighted Homecoming. Wheel barrel and tricycle races as well as other events amused participants and viewers alike. Presenting Annie Get Your Gun as its fall musical production, the Drama Department adds another play to its wide list of performances. ✓ jf ' AA, V -S ' Free time is limited for students who decide to engage in part-time jobs. Since prices keep rising, parents are no longer a good money source. Even though gas prices have skyrocketed, students continue driving to school. When these situations arise, traffic problems occur. A permanent sight outside the school, the flagpole with its banners waving in the breeze, had special meaning as the bicentennial year took form.

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£3 ' 76 seemed routine traditions kept intact; just another year or no? typical elevator seasons of ups and downs and as it turned out, it seemed as if neither team got out of the basement. If the opposing team wasn ' t enough, the track team found more battles as it fought against sparse crowds and the unpopular tradition of scheduling Prom the night before the Conference track meet. Girls track took up arms as it too fought for fans and the threat of extinction due to lack of a coach. Fall and spring musicals returned to entertain a somewhat less than full house audience and the frequent clashes between the stars and chorus spiced up the tedious rehearsals. Student Council resumed its traditional role of preparing Homecoming and then spent four weekly meetings debating whether to paint the school ' s wastebaskets red, white and blue. The annual epidemic of Turnabout and Prom Fever rerupted as girls saved for that special dress and guys searched for that extra nerve and money needed to ask girls out for a date. Once again career days were set aside to help students in choosing a vocation. And once again the students flocked to the rooms just to get out of their classes. Not to be left out, the band continued its tradition at parades by performing the Number 89 song on the WLS music survey of 1967: Everyday People. Events of the 1976 school year happened as they had in previous years. Traditions were kept inact and few new events were started. So it appeared as if 1976 would pass as though it were nothing spectacular. But was ' 76 Just Another Year? 4

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WHAT HAS MADE 1976 DIFFERENT FROM OTHER YEARS? “It is a year of celebration - our country is almost 200 years old. It has given stores a reason for sales, it has given people, a reason for painting red, white and blue stars in the middle of their streets and a reason for planting red, white and blue flowers in their flower boxes. This year is making people think what it means to have survived for 200 years and to decide just what being Americans means to them. — senior Laura Kane It means that now it ' s only two years until Charles Manson has a chance for parole. — senior John Trinajstich 1 976 has been lots more fun because I ' ve gotten to do more things (and gotten away with them) than I did in 75. — sophmore Brian Thompson WHAT DO YOU DO THE MOST IN YOUR SPARE TIME? I don ' t have much spare time because I come to practice in the morning before school. Then again after school we have practice. By the time I get home all I have time to do is eat, watch television and go to bed. — senior Brian Toweson I like to take advantage of the weather. If it snows, I go tobogganing. If it ' s hot, I like to swim. If it ' s rainy, I like to read. But most of all I like to spend my spare time with my girlfriend. — senior Kevin Troxel It ' s a heck I usually don ' t have much spare time because I teach at my mom ' s dancing school. But when I do have spare time, I just like to relax. sophomore Elizabeth Bathurst. 6