Mentone High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Mentone, IN)

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RIGHT SIDE-FRONT ROW: Jay Smith, Den- eice McFadden, John Shircy, Connie Landis, Keith Irwin, Debra Hibbs, Steve Sccrist, Donita Teel. SECOND ROW: Kay Goshert, Jim Wise, Teresa Howard, Cam Rathbun, Carolyn Boggs, Larry Flenar, Janet Wiard, Barbara Shotts. THIRD ROW: Jay Teel, Kristine Hoffer, John Phillips, Tanya Sisk, Richard Pefflcy. Linda New- ton, Keith Franks, Joyce Hoskins, Jim Martin. BACK ROW: Elizabeth Smythe, Annette Hib- schman, Larry Fore, Norma Montel, Rex Orcutt, Jane Ettinger, Jim Hackworth, Rhonda Yazcl, Vicki Shortz. SIXTY-SEVEN ACCEPT DIPLOMAS Kim and Keith await their placement in line. Graduation exercises and practice brought seniors to a sudden realization that college, marriage, the service, or “That Job” was very close. There was the usual amount of sentimentality but nervousness prevailed as hard-to-find employment was sought and the not-so-distant future be- came more of a threat. Commencement speaker June Erwin who spoke on the “Generation Gap” was preceded by addresses from the valedictorian Jane Ettinger and salutatorian Keith Remy. 17

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Cobwebs are hurriedly swept from his mind as each student realizes it’s the start of a new day at M.H.S. The rustling of pages noisily brings each class to order. Homework assignments are torn out of workbooks. The lonely steps of the office clerk are the only sounds in the hall as absentee slips are picked up and announce- ments are passed out from room to room. Upon opening the band room door the steps are immediately forgotten as the music fills the air. The numerous instruments led with the drums’ beat are breaking the silence in harmony. Working minds keep functioning as the tapping adding machines, clicking typewriters, and swishing sliderules fol- low their manipulators’ tempo. As the day grows older, whining oscillators, excitement over a successful experiment and the whoosh of an ignited Bunsen burner add a soundtrack to its log of accomplish- ments. But sometimes, teachers prefer to hope often, some- thing sparks. “Education” is not only pounded into but ab- sorbed into the brain. Sound waves travel through the mind, transmitting bits of information which ignite. Then the only sound waves that leave the brain are in the form of questions, the tools of learning. All of these combined are THE SOUNDS OF LEARNING