Perry Meridian High School - Passages Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Sophomores Gobi Kostiuk, Kara Doran, and Margie Foley take a break from reading Huckleberry Finn to act out scenes from the book in English III. Mr. Fred Powell, vice president of Indianapolis Life Insurance Com- pany, answers questions from fresh- men during Project Business in guid- ance. Sophomores Linda Zukawski and Debbie LaVine are right on tar- get when it comes to archery dur- ing their second and final year of gym. Mrs. Walter ' s class tries to get in the swim of things by learning how to toss a life ring to a floundering victim in life saving. -|P Required 13 i

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■Warming Up- This Nuisance Is Necessary The guidance student stared blankly at the question Where can the bool entitled I Never Met a House Plant I Didn ' t Like be found in the In- structional Media Cen- ter? Then in a flash of sudden memory, the an- swer blazed itself across his mind. It was the elev- enth book from the left, under 630, on the second shelf, in the back of the sixth bookcase from the right. This, along with ex- ploring careers and memorizing the school fight song were some of the things taught to fresh- men in guidance. In addi- tion to this, they tried to cope with trying to keep up on the chapters in To Klli a Moclclngbird and keeping their parts of speech in order while dia- graming sentences. In Gym, the ten push-ups turned out to be quite a trial. For sophomores, health and safety was a re- quired course. It was not so bad as long as one re- membered the twelve cranial nerves of the brain and how to wrap a tour- niquet on a bleeding vic- tim. With this done, pass- ing was not much of a problem. In English class, sophomores were able to take unimaginable ad- ventures with Huclcleber- ry Finn. Finally there was the last year of gym. No more push-ups, no more forgetting gym clothes, and, at last, no more skill tests, yet this class posed one problem; what to do with dripping wet hair through six weeks of swimming. Project Business and push-ups. Huckleberry Finn and swimming, fresh- men and sophomores sur- vived it all. Mr. Roach teaches The Body Hu- man to sophomores in health and safety. Bryan Hite and Steve Wilkes re- search for a group report on To Kill a Mockingbird in freshmen English. 130 Required

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starting Out Seniors Play At Life It is a fifth grade film, thierefore you should un- derstand it, Mr. Cunning- ham commented on the film Johnny Tremain. For juniors, the work was not always this easy in U.S. History. This class was the only required course which led some juniors to believe things had gotten easier but . . . they soon realized this was not true. Juniors were taught ever- ything from George Washington and the American Revolution to Richard Nixon and Water- gate. In the future, one might even remember the day the Declaration of Independence was signed, and it was not the Fourth of July! The best was saved for last for the seniors. Gov- ernment and economics or sociology were the choices among twelfth grade social studies classes. Government in- cluded mock Congress which offered the chance to dress up and play senators and repre- sentatives. The class taught how the system works and how to under- stand what goes on in the system at all times. Sen- iors also received a taste of the real world when they played the game of life in economics. Couples not only found them- selves married, but with budgets to balance and children to feed. Students in this class also had the chance to make it big by playing the stock market. It was good practice for future millionaires. Soci- ology has taken the place of the legendary American Problems as the elective opposite of eco- nomics. This class enabled students to observe each other, and by studying various social ethnic groups, better prepare themselves with knowl- edge of the country and also, themselves. By learning the rules on which this country was based, and the rules to the game of life, juniors and seniors were able to gain knowledge about starting out on their own. Cheryl Lighty and John Schmitz play the game of Life in economics and find themselves married, with eight children before they realize it. Miss Kuntz ' s sociology students find they learn about one another more fully by working in small groups. 132 Required