Hoover High School - Husky Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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The most serious Haw in 1973’s curriculum was student misconduct. First semester open finals were cancelled solely because of student misbehavior. Fire alarms plagued lunch hours early in the year, and vandalism spread to in- clude various signs and posters, fire ex- tinguishers, and innumberable personal items. Other problems were not dealt with realistically. Smoking was hypocritically accep- table for faculty members and “a serious viola- tion of city fire ordinances for students. Activities at Hoover were few but successful. Too many events that were successful in past years - Cheap Thrills, Fun Nite, Sock Hop, Pan- cake Day - were cancelled because of a lack of in- terest. A weak, almost nonexistent Student Council was unable to get people involved. Attandance plunged to record low numbers and abolishment was discussed. The Council ' s election for the fall semester of 1974 was reduced from the traditional all-school assembly to personal es- says in one issue of The Challenger to simple nominations and elections at one of the last Coun- cil meetings. Meetings were cut to bi-weekly assemblies. Other traditional activities were ab- breviated. Hoover Seminars, originally the Keck Seminars, were held just one day with the choice of classes also smaller than the year before. The estimated 50% of the students that attended were pleased with the majority of classes. Sports activities grew in number and size. Boys’ football, basketball, cross country, and water polo had winning seasons. Hoover had two squads of girls’ basketball playing in a city-wide round robin tournament with conference com- petition planned for 1974. The defeat at the State Girls’ Swim Meet was a disappointment to the Marlins, but The Challenge r staff learned more about individual rights from the dispute that followed between Roosevelt’s swim coach and Hoover parents over the use of ninth grade girls on the state champion team. The Challenger staff grew to evaluate sub- sequent letters with more discretion after Hoover parents wrote a letter to the paper con- deming Roosevelt’s coach. Introduction 7

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6 hilnuiuction

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8 Introduction