Mount Vernon High School - Hoop Pole Yearbook (Mount Vernon, IN)

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Just because school was out for the summer, MVSHS students did not slow down. Many students continued their achievements throughout the summer. Jim Goodridge, John Hall, Jim Stickels, and alternate Steve Fulton attended Hoosier Boys' State this year. Pam Wilcox attended the Hugh O'Brian Leadership Conference in Indianapolis. Becky Dunn also attended the conference as a counselor, and she later attended the International Conference also held in Indianapolis. Closer to home, Tony Acuff played on the sectional winning Funkhouser baseball team in Evansville. Two MVSHS students traveled out of the country this year. The first, John Reed, went to Australia to visit relatives, attend school, and participate in some extra curricular activities. Junior, Jim Culley participated in an exchange program sponsored by 4-H. He spent a month in Japan. 4 Summer Activities

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THE FUTURE: UNDER CONSTRUCTS ari OWNING SECTION opening bids 4 SENIQRS inishedproau 17 JUNIORS — taking shape 45 SOPHOMORES — foundation 53 FRESHMEN -4 blueprint stage ► f 61 FACULTY — engineers 69 ! i SPORTS — building bodies ! 75 ACTIVITIES — building activities 117 ORGANIZATIONS — building leadership 127 J ADS r— community assistarice 161

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Members of our Junior Classical League, led by president Jim Goodridge, traveled to Indiana University at Bloomington to attend their national convention. Those JCL members that received awards were Jim Goodridge — second place in sculpture; John Goodridge — first in pastel art and second in ink; Mini Jain (Graduate) — ninth in oils and acrylics; Mary Higgins — third in small models and fourth in the junior 100- meter dash; Richard Lutterman — sixth in the junior marathon; and Jim Stickels — seventh in Modern Mythology. The Future Farmers of America attended their state convention, where the MVSHS Chapter was ranked 11th out 207 in the state for overall activity and ranked 1st in the State Foundation Drive which raised over four thousand dollars in our area alone. Attending FFA members receiving awards were Brian Parkinson (Graduate) — National Central Region Winner in Outdoor Recreation Proficiency; Deke Vogel — fourth in the state in Outdoor Recreation Proficiency; Jeff Denning — second in state in Cereal Grain Production Proficiency; Dave Thayer (Graduate) — fourth in state in Computers in Agriculture; Bill Rowe and Matt Allyn — third in state in Quiz Bowl; John Lang — District X President for 1986-87 and recipient of Hoosier Farmer Degree; Jennifer Allyn — recipient of Hoosier Farmer Degree; and Tim Seifert (Graduate) — recipient of Hoosier Agribusiness Degree. The MVSHS Pom Pon squad showed that hard work and training pay off when they attended a training camp at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. The girls won more than 30 blue ribbons individually and won second place out of eight squads attending. Summer Activities 5