Highland Park High School - Little Giant Yearbook (Highland Park, IL)

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Opposite page top Student guides help parents find their classrooms on Visiting Night. Opposite page bottom light: The balance beam proves popular at the first HGA playday. Top: Brad Walters, president of NHS. discusses the society's function at the initiation. Left: Girls stagger under the heavy cartons of Halloween candy to be sold for Girls' Club scholarships. 19

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On October 15. HPHS students suspended business as usual to respond to the call for a Moratorium on the War in Viet Nam. 800 stayed out of school — legally through the expedient travel form or by moral ditching — to show their support for the Moratorium. They solicited signatures to a petition calling for an immediate end to the war. drove in a symbolic funeral, and attended a rally in Sunset Park. Wearing black armbands in opposition to the war. other students chose to remain in school. There were also those who remained in school to demonstrate support for the President's war policy and strongly urged others to join them. Both factions eloquently vented their feelings by scrawling graffiti on the now famous art department wall. Whatever one's political lean- ings. the Moratorium made it clear that after October 15 Highland Park High School could no longer remain isolated from the agonies of the world.