Noblesville High School - Shadow Yearbook (Noblesville, IN)

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i As gas prices soared and available jobs plummeted, students searched for good times in Nob City by Michde Miller and Beth Fraze $1.30 a gaflon! All right if you all want to go to the movie, everyone will have to chip in for gas. In the search for a good time, this situation became all too common. Students either hunted for some in-town entertainment or scrounged up the money to pay for a drive to Indy. In-town entertainment left Nob City when the Diana Theatre was turned into a bank in 1978. Substitute entertainment in- cluded numerous fast food chains that had and still were springing up. Students spent their time eating and socializing at Pizza Hut, McDonald ' s, Noble Roman ' s, Kalmer ' s, as well as numerous others. Of course, most of these eating places were filled with students only after that night ' s athletic event was completed. Spectators and participants then rushed to the restaurants to hold a place in the familiar long lines. Weekends were not only for athletic events, however. Speech team members were busy trying to impress judges during Satur- day morning meets. And while military and dancing drill teams tried for the number one trophy, choirs were seeking recognition. Those who preferred less organized entertainment could go the local roller skating rink, video game center or Forest Park. Many chose to stay home and watch the newly installed cablevision. As if the weekends didn ' t hold enough to do, the majority of the student body attended school the entire day, from 7:55 a.m. to 2:35 p.m. The few students granted a late arrival or earlyout went through rigorous screenings to get these privileges. Screenings entailed interviews with a counselor and principal. The pupil was also required to show financial need and have his employer verify the employee ' s work hours. Some full time students worked a part-time job into their sched- ules. Though finding time and energy was sometimes a prob- lem, neither hindered picking up that check on payday. The search for a good time, whether during school or on a weekend, caused clique-ish students to make new acquain- tances. They had to relinquish their stereotypes and step onto middle ground. While some juniors repair the homeconiing float, others pile into the truck bed at the parade Stan. (Beatty photo) Student life • 7 I

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With a semester course crammed into six weeks, and learning to drive costing more than ever before, summer school changed by SMUt Bill When the final bell rang on May 29. it meant freedom for most students, but for 404 people it was just a four day weekend and then back to the books. Summer school gave students a chance to earn credits for classes needed to graduate. The classes offered included biology, driver education, government and health. Mrs. Maria Lipton found an old. but good way to wake students up. She brought in doughnuts and punch on a couple of morn- ings. Mrs. Lipton said, if I ever teach biology in the summer again, I ' d put it on a rotating system, so the students can take turns bringing things in. The driver education course suffered a drop in enrollment over the previous year, dropping from 272 to 240 students. This could have been caused by an increase in cost. Student drivers were required to pay $45 compared to the $13 they paid during the summer of 1980. Assistant principal. Mr. Jim Land, stated that the rise in cost was needed because the dealers are no longer supplying the cars free. They are charging $250 for each of the seven cars. The rise in cost may also be contributed to the fact that the state was no longer funding summer school to the extent it had pre- viously. State Representative Richard Dellinger commented. The reason the state is no longer funding the program to the level they had in the past is because they needed to cut the budget. It is now up to the individual schools to decide how the monies will be distributed among classes. Driver education students listen attentively in their final week of the classroom portion of the course. (Beatty photo) Aher being kidded about his short hair style, government teacher Mr. Richard Dellinger submits to wearing a wig drawn by Jeanette Guffey ( 82). (Bdrdach photo) 8 • summer school The students in Mrs. Pat Swank ' s health class participated in a public service project. They collected about 5000 universal codes from consumer products to help someone get time on a kidney machine. While some people thought attending school during the sum- mer got in the way of other activities, some students actually liked it. 1 didn ' t mind going to school six extra weeks. said Holly Wyatt ( ' 84). It really got my day going. Wyatt added. 1 felt more at ease. I didn ' t really care what 1 looked like. Tony Renner ( ' 84). a 7:00-9:30 a.m. health student, said, I liked getting up early, because I liked to go home and go back to sleep. I didn ' t do well on tests b ecause it was so early in the morning. Another change was made in the summer of ' 81. A half-hour was added to the length of each class in order to shorten the total number of weeks in session from eight weeks to six. Lara Gumpert ( ' 84) said she really liked this change because it took up less of her summer and she felt like she was missing out on some of her leisure activities by spending time in school. Government student Jennie Miller ( ' 82) described summer school as being much different from the regular year. She said, It was more difficult because we had to learn more in one day. Although this was hard to do, she was glad she got one of her required classes for graduation over. When the final bell rang on July 10. it again meant freedom for 404 summer school students.