Hartford City High School - Retro Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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are exciting but tense and trying What ' s on her mind? In the midst of an exam a worry suddenly bursts into the silence and controls one ' s thoughts. Josephine Perry thinks behind the wrinkled brow of Larry Lockett. Someone must be dancing with Bill Bell ' s girl, and chances are that Allen Bell put them up to it. Even o teasing situation can be a tense one as Allen ' s roller coaster position demonstrates. Elation, the partner of victory, is shown on the faces of these team won a victory over Elwood. Judy ' s pepsodent smile two Airedale backers, Linda Dewitt and Judy Parker, after their exemplifies one of the extremes where teen-cge emotions dwell.

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These ' best ' years If anytime rivals the end of fourth and seventh periods for getting tension out of our systems, it ' s the few minutes before fifth period be- gins. Cindy Pratt and Sue-Ann Mullen communicate with a scream. How often our parents, teachers, and other adults tell us, These ore the best years of your lives. Much of the time we would agree, but, as every teenager knows, our life is not always so hunky-dory. Though our problems often seem trivial or un- warranted to our parents, they can be earth- shattering to us. Boyfriends and girlfriends are causes for as much depression and emotional strain as they are causes for fun and happiness. We find love can be parallel with hate, envy, jealously, and loneliness; but when you ' re going wi th that special one the world seems rosy again. With our new freedoms in high school come new responsibilities too. Grades, tests, jobs — these are continuous reasons for anxiety and frustrations to teens. Few of us leave high school without some problems — perhaps shyness for some, inferiority feelings for others. As uncomfortable as our troubles may be, they help us to mature and to find ourselves. And once we get them solved, how often we can laugh at our past problems and see their trivialness and lightness.

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There is a time set aside in many of our days known as Study Hall. Glenda Wine and Sue Ann Hoy demonstrate that it can be profitable. But aren ' t they writing on two ends of the same sheet of paper? At home we set up ideal study situations which include plenty of snacks, a telephone, and a radio. Carol Beck shows how we prepare ourselves to concentrate- Tote those books, lift that phone. Students are found in numerous ways and posi- tions in which they can best concentrate, and their study habits vary from sitting quietly in a room reading history to sprawling across the floor, figuring trigonometry on the wallpaper. It often appears that food and a telephone encourage a student ' s desire to learn. As the junior high students climb the grade ladder into high school, they soon realize the importance of achieving high grades to better prepare themselves for their futures. It is important for a young student to start with good study habits because those which are begun early in life will be those which are used throughout one ' s education. Perhaps bent backbones, stiff necks, and cramped hands may result from a specific study- ing habit, but all the effort and time will seem worth it on graduation day. Environment is very important to the success of studying. Barney McCombs has spent years surrounding himself with interesting things in his room at home. Barney ' s friend, who was studying with him, is resting his eyes. 1