Griffith High School - Reflector Yearbook (Griffith, IN)

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J ' JEW 1 FACE 5 The veteran teacher strides purposely into the sixth hour sophomore English class just as the high pitched bell stops ringing. Adjusting her bifocals, she focuses her eyes on the class list, names leaping out at her. She organizes her thoughts, and prepares to tackle the task of associating the new faces before her with the names on her class sheets. After calling roll, (mispronouncing several names) she arranges students in alphabetical order, calling different students Bob, Steve, Cindy, Mike or Carol, after older brothers and sisters. All the students forgive her except one; she doesn’t appreciate being called Mike. Many teachers face the dilemma of having to learn names for 125 or more students every changing nine weeks. But they aren’t the only ones adjusting. The sophomore moves into high school surrounded by upperclassmen and teachers whom he has never seen before. Most juniors and seniors don’t have this problem, having already recognized teachers from their previous high school years. Their only problems are new teachers, not to mention a few new students. Once the year draws to a close, everybody knows everybody in his class, and students know which teachers are nice and which ones are not. The aforementioned teacher recognized her students, having classified them by abilities, personalities and individual little quirks. She knows the girl who sits in the back row during fourth hour because she’s the one who keeps blowing bubbles and letting them pop in her face. Old face, new shape. Junior Dean Van Gorp shows that though muscle coordination is necessary for bench pressing, the face is free to release tension. Dean is working to improve skills for varsity football. 2

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Reflector 80 New Face 2 • Academics 12 • Student Life 34 • Sports 78 • People 116 • Ads 144 Griffith High School Griffith, Indiana Volume 39

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New teachers and new students face new surroundings. Miss Kathryn Allen, chemistry teacher, and junior Bill Larson, both new to GHS this year, experiment in chem lab, aided by junior Debbie Van Horssen. With the addition of the $4.2 million gym complex the school had received a face lift. The gym includes a track, three basketball courts, weight rooms, locker rooms, and classrooms to serve the students. A change of pace is in order for senior Dave Teasdale as he becomes one of the new faces around school. Dave is originally from Bellaire High School, Ohio. He started at Griffith at the beginning of the year. A new face on 45th Street, the Sports Illustrated Court Club, offers students like junior Tim Wilkie a chance to use inexpensive courts to learn the game of racquetball and to exercise. 3