O Gorman High School - Knight Legend Yearbook (Sioux Falls, SD)

Page 13 text:

Q-2 'QS Clockwise startlng at far left: Mr. Lorang does hls daily work . . . Mr. Moran reaches out to touch someone . . . 2nd semester TEF row: Mark Curley, Katle Randall, Jeannette Lovett, Sherrie Olshove, 2nd row: Deb Sherschllgt, Cary Ronan, Matt Norris, Mike Rooney, David Barr and Jeff Barnett . . . Susan Walsh, Barb Gllley and Sherri Kaufmann sit at the voting table while Tlna Mack and Katie Daugherty place their ballots. Q vi YL g Tuition raised 30 dollars During the 1982-83 school year, there have been a few administration changes, some more drastic than others. First, on a rather happy note, tuition will only go up thirty dollars next year. This comes from more students coming to O'Gorman than expected. ln the past, the tuition would rise quite a bit from year to year, so, this comes as an unexpect- ed change in tuition policy. Secondly, a death knell has come to the uninhibited rampagings of habitual late-comers. No more Mr. nice-guy Garrison, now, if someone comes in late to class or school, he must make it up at 7:30 the following school morning. The alternative is suspension with loss of credit for that day. Notes from parents will not help anymore. lf someone comes in late for making up the tardy, he must make it up the next school day. To begin with, students will get two free tardies that they don't have to make up. lf a student comes to class half-way into the class, he will have an absence spattered across his record. Many students feel that this new policy presents itself as unfair because they now connot get excused by their parents, even if it didn't happen to be the student's fault that he or she came late. On the other side, others feel that the new policy is fair because they feel that any student can get to school on time if he puts his mind to it, with exceptions, of course, such as car crashes, earthquakes or other little inconveniences. 9

Page 12 text:

, 'of ' ,V,, V ' A ,, ,lit Administration comes up with the answers When asked about their jobs and what they do in their spare time, Mr. Lorang and Mr. Moran replied with some interesting com- ments. Q: What is the best part of your job? Mr. Lorang: Working with other people. Mr. Moran: Working on something new each day. Q: What is the worst part of your job? Mr. Lorang: Working on the budget. Mr. Moran: Having to disci- pline students. Q: What do you do in your spare time? Mr. Lorang: Read, jog and 8 have fun with the family. Mr. Moran: Read as much as possible and play tennis. Q: What might you be doing if you weren 't working as principal and assistant principal at O'G? Mr. Lorang: Clinical or indus- trial psychology teaching or mis- sionary work. Mr. Moran: I gave up a promising career as a brain surgeon to devote all my time to reading announcements. Q: With regards to your personality, what star reminds you of yourself and why? Mr. Lorang: The mayor on Carter Country . Mr. Moran: Tom Selleck- sweet and huggable. The student council's work load certainly increased this year. The group took on the responsibility of organizing the OWL Exchange. The OWL Exchange stands for 0'Gor- man, Washington, and Lincoln. In the program, students from the 3 Sioux Falls high schools transfer to another school for a day. Some students host visitors from other schools. All in all, the program had a successful first year run. In addition to running the Exchange, the council fulfilled their duties of organizing the annual homecoming picnic. Next year's council have high hopes. The uniform program will surely occupy a large part of their discussions.

Page 14 text:

SR. MARGARET Home Economics MRS. DARLENE MRS. CINDY AHRENDT D Debate, Social Studies MR DOUG BASCHE Yearbook, English MRS. JANE BRADFIELD Business Education N MR JIM BREUKER C . FR CHARLES CIMPL ... Chaplain, Religion Mathematics . , , MR KEVIN BRICK ' ' . M, zl' Religion , ' A CLARKE SR. SUZANNE C 0 TTER Religion, La tin DUNN Mathematics 1 tag W, S Teachers' handwriting infamous This article primarily applies itself to those of the student body that haven't yet acquainted them- selves with the idiosyncrasies of some of the teachers. Mr. Steve Krier presents him- self as one of the numerous social studies teachers. He does get the information across to his pupils extremely clearly which comes as luck because if the students don't watch him as he writes his notes they probably won't be able to understand the arrows which he flings across the board, not that these present themselves as bad habits, they just exist. This brings to mind the in- 10 famous handwriting of Mrs. Ah- rendt. Once you decipher the abbreviations and scribblings on the board, government can be understood relatively easily. Mrs. Ellen Erickson presents herself as another of the many teachers that one might encounter in the four long years at O'Gorman. Her English Enrichment Program continues to be successful and in her normal English classes, she managed to keep several separate groups going including, vocabulary, grammar and a few people working on literature and scholastic aptitude tests. 3