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

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The Staff of Life Remember any of these faces? No they're not the O'Gorman football team. Or the Pages. It's easy to forget such pretty faces, but then again it is not. They were always there in thick or thin. When we had a problem they were there to solve it, fix it, clean it, or cook it. They were known as the O'Gorman staff. For some, their day began in the business office, writing up tuition checks, or sending out the defi- ciency slips. Then again for others, it all started out in the kitchen. Bending over a hot stove cook- ing up meals fit for a king or even a knight. Finally, for the custodians, Dick and Paul, their day would start out with different odd jobs around the school. Such as mowing, plowing the thick heavy snow, Nast and of course, fixing our unique roof. All of the people worked together and provided for the best skills money could buy: we the QE ---9-.....,,,, LII Q iff -QA K t . KX, .? Knights. .. qw fa T e . 4, tg, resid? f 'swf' if-3, . - ,Ld s. . .110 1 --as-I Vit g PAGE 116: TOP RIGHT: Mrs. Ftoti, the typing aid, averaged out the typing grades and ended up being there all night. MIDDLE LEFT: Paul Persing and the cooks took time off of their busy schedules for lunch. Those beautiful cooks didn't dare show their faces! MIDDLE RIGHT: Connie Butz hard at work typing out those deficiency slips! PAGE 1173 TOP LEFT, 116 Our Fabulous Cooks, From L. to R.: Pat Olson, Connie Krienitz, Ann Louise Perk, Inez Eastman, Colleen Futrell, and Bonnie Neuroth. TOP RIGHT: Zelda Lafollette head of the business office, points out a few things. MID- DLE LEFT: Paul Persing sweeps his way to happiness after a long day of work. MIDDLE RIGHT: Zelda Lafollette and Connie Butz kept things rolling during the Christmas season. BOTTOM LEFT: Dick Lineback custodian, has a little fun on the job while working patiently. BOTTOM RIGHT: After having an enjoyable coffee break Mrs. Collison was caught red-handed.

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Knight Leaders Adopt Changes O'Gorman Policy Experiences Variations During the 1984-85 academic year, much planning and organizing kept the O'Gorman administration on their toes. Mr. Tom Lorang and Mr. Dennis Moran met with the school board on the major topics of the year. Concern for freshmen enroll- ment, the new attendance policy, and the alterations needed for the students' daily schedules demanded much of the administration's attention. The need for change in daily class scheduling became a precident of concern for Mr. Lorang. As principal, he felt with the increase in graduation requirements, the students would also desire an increase in flexibility. In order to achieve more oppor- tunities for the students, an addi- tional class period was added to the day. With this new eighth period, they would have an extra time slot for either taking that desired course or studying when they normally would not have found the time. As a result, the school day lengthened from 8-3 to 8-3:15. Class still remained 50 minutes, and lunch periods were divided into four seperate 30-minute periods. This format is scheduled to continue into the future. A new rule added to the atten- Q' dance policy also brought change to O'Gorman tradition. The state adopted a 10-day law which prohibits a student to be absent from one given class more than 10 days. If this situation occurred, the student's ex- cuses would be evaluated. Ideally, the student would lose credit for the class. This situation was not rare, ac- cording to Mr. Lorang. Each case was dealt with individually and few exceptions were made. This law will also remain in the attendance policy for the future. One last issue which required specific attention by Mr. Lorang and Mr.Moran was that of the growing freshmen enrollment. Two certain problems that accompanied the enrolling frosh included difficulties in organizing the physical education program land accomodating the growth in Religion I classes. In the future, p.e. will no longer be a re- quirement. Also, an increase in at- tention will need to be focused in proportion to the noticeable increase in expected freshmen enrollment. Overall, the Administration faced a wide variety of school issues. The year proved to be one of many changes in O'Gorman policy. 1'l0uq:':xL It I-,,-n-1