Griffith High School - Reflector Yearbook (Griffith, IN)

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Incentive is added when Kim Reno works as she gets not only money, but a school credit boost because she is a member of the DECA program. Grease, grime and oil stains are all a part of the job that senior Terry Mulvihill tolerates when on the job as a mechanic. All those dirty tables!” Table clearing is one of the many daily tasks routinely performed by junior Olga Rocha at restaurants such as Ponderosa. « I 8

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Development finds a place in the sun day. Exercises ranged from jumping over stacked boxes to jumping up and down stairs. These exercises strengthen the girls’ legs and the team ' s net game as the player’s height on their jumps increased. Other students practiced equally as hard during the summer. These were members of band and Pantherettes. Two weeks before school started, the band learned the new glide and ankle-knee steps. After morning practices to learn the basic marching steps, the Pantherettes joined the band for evening practices. Some students attended summer school to receive a necessary graduation credit while some just wanted to learn how to drive. In the end, the students’ efforts were rewarded either by a winning team, precision marching, an earned credit, or a driver’s license and many students could then look back at their summer and discover that maybe it wasn’t wasted after all. While most students are still sound asleep in bed, Panther football players built the strength and endurance needed for a winning season. Swimming, bicycling, playing softball, or just cruising around the town were some summer activities of students. But for others, summer was a time of preparing for the coming school year. The football team started running sprints and lifting weights two weeks after school let out. Their program at the end of summer met four hours a day, four days a week. The girls’ volleyball team also trained during summer. Players had to run at least 15 minutes a

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Get a haircut, put on a tie, polish shoes, suck a Certs - N it must be an interview ervously crunching a breath mint, while adjusting his tie for the fifth time, he fidgets restlessly in the chair. The room seems to close in upon him, while perspiration trickles down his forehead. Minutes drag mercilessly into hours. Is this the true story of Richard Nixon awaiting his pardon? Not really, but is typical of a high school student before his first job interview. Teenage necessities of dating, lunch at McDonalds, candy bars for English and gas for the ' 65 Chevy seemed to rank over school activities as local employers hired students seeking part-time jobs. Even though fries and a Coke bring change back from a dollar, students found dad’s allowance not stretching quite as far as they had hoped. Although getting a job meant less freedom, it was usually easier and yielded more income than asking for a raise in allowance. While holding down a job, students enjoyed the extra cash, even if they couldn’t always change their schedules to attend Friday night games. After the interview, the student loosened his tie, gave a sigh of relief and then pulled out a Cert, now as a candy mint instead of a breath mint. In expectation of the passing of ERA, many businesses are hiring more girls like Nancy Kussmaul, to take the place of previously dominated male jobs. Consideration and efficiency are factors needed in a job that deals with people. Juniors Annette Labarge and Ruth Cernia practice these attributes on the job. 9