Griffith High School - Reflector Yearbook (Griffith, IN)

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School Always a first When people think of firsts, they think of Washington or Armstrong, but firsts can also happen to the ordinary. During her junior year, senior Jenny VanSickle achieved her first. Jenny broke the conference, sectional and regional record for the long jump. She then attended state competition at Warren Central High School in Indianapolis. With a jump of 18 ' 6”, Jenny became state girls long jump champion. Each year, two or three members of the band try out for the position of drum major. Junior Lynn Fiegle has made GHS history this year by becoming the first female to receive this honor. Stepping out in a black skirt and vest, Lynn assists Mort Tucker in leading the band during parades and the halftime activities of football games. After-school tardy session failed, a new policy is being tried. If a student accumulates more than 3 tardies, he or she must spend one day at in- school suspension. For every day in the pit,” 2 percent is removed from the student’s final nine week grade. This plan was put into effect by Mr. Tom Schatzman, director of pupil personnel. Nine years ago Tom Bakken swam the 50-yard breaststroke in 1:08.2 minutes. This year junior Bob Szurgot broke the record with a time of 1:07.8. The first indoor track and tennis courts will be contained in a new $4 million fieldhouse. The 74,000 square feet will c ontain a gym, weight room, wrestling room, health center and nurse’s office. The indoor track will be Pro-Turf with moveable borderlines. Several locker rooms will also be available for physical education classes and athletic teams. Jenny ' s Bob’s and Lynn’s achievements, the pit and the fieldhouse may not go down as history first, but even George Washington Band, ten-hut!” Junior Lynn Fiegle keeps in time to the music while leading the band in parades and at football games. Lynn is the school ' s first female drum major. chopped down a cherry tree before he became president. Splashing into the sand pit, junior Jenny VanSickle takes a first in state with a long jump of 18 ' 6 . Photo by Griffith Sun Journal 4 There Has to be a First

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Community Always a first Remember When Santa Brought Your First Two Wheeler? You Could Not Wait Until Spring Arrived To Try It. Only too soon did you discover that at first it wasn ' t as easy as it looked. But, you mastered the skill of bicycling and finally rode on the nearest street instead of the nearest sidewalk, because the street contained fewer bumps which, of course, meant faster speeds. Your next big first was your want to drive. If you were one of the lucky ones, Dad had taught you to drive before your driver’s ed class. If not, you were forced to get in the car and start it up with the instructor and two classmates staring at you. After locking the door, buckling the seat belt and releasing the emergency break, you realized you were too short to reach the gas pedal. Thus you yanked up the seat, only as the seat belt cuts off your circulation did you discover that you had worked it in the wrong order. But, finally you were out on the road that had once been your bike path. The only difference was that the road was no longer smooth. Streets were ripped apart, potholes were inevitably hit and detour signs pointed everywhere except in the direction you wanted to go. On your bike, the sewer construction held little effect, but in the car it was quite different. Firsts. For the town, sewer construction was on the top of the list, followed by even more neonization along Ridge Road. Where you first went to see “Bambi at the Ridge Road Drive-In, you were now eating breakfast at Sambos. Everything will have to happen at least once, whether it was the first railroad track laid in Griffith or Armstrong ' s first step on the moon, that once” had to be a first. There Has to be a First 3

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Absentees, tardies and tons of papers for O nce trampled by football players ' spikes, 1002 students make Mr. Thomas Schatzman, this lot now gets a face-lift to make room new director of pupil personnel and for a new gymnasium. Work slowed when the Mrs. Janet Konopasek job ' s hectic. company ordered the wrong size steel.