Pike High School - Pikes Peek Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Left: Another event that signals the beginning of school is the annual bonfire held at the end of August at the north end of the football field. Below: Unpacking and shelving books for the bookstore is one of the jobs Mrs. Bobbi DeWitt does to help Pike ready itself for the new school year. Bottom: One of the traditional back-to-school ac- tivities for Pike students is picking up their books and supplies at the bookstore. . • A 13 It seems like uje never left!

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Below: In a relaxed position, Mr. Bill Hansell types up the class objectives for thie incoming chemistry class. Bottom: Junior Jan Martin (far right) teaches freshmen Sheila Jones, Lisa Collins and Maria York a cheer in summer afternoon practice. bock home ogoln? Well, it seems like home. We live at school seven hours a day, five days a week, nine months out of the year. That doesn ' t include athletic practice, play rehearsals and club meetings af- ter school. When the bell rang on the last day of school in June, the kids who had en- rolled in a summer school might as well have stayed seated. Band mem- bers and football players walked out the door, said hello to the outside world, and headed back to Pike. Sometimes it just doesn ' t seem worth it— leaving the sunshine and poolside to hit the books, and having to wake up at 6:00 a.m. Yep. We ' re here at Pike High School for another nine months— in sickness and in health ( I think I ' m catching a cold from the air conditioning. ) for ri- cher or for poorer ( $24.95 for book rental?! ' ) for better or for worse. ( I think I flunked my calculus test. ) The 1975-76 school year is here.

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Right: During halftime festivities, Susie Rothl opf, last year ' s winner, crowns ttie 1 975 homecoming queen, senior Joni Cummins. Below: Band members stuff paper napkins into the chiGl en wire of their drum float which even- tually placed third in the competition. Bottom right: Sophomore Joanie Crowe poses in her ' 50 ' s outfit as freshman Mike Mason exits. PSPS sponsored ' SO ' s day before Friday ' s game. 14 §r as the halftime announcer who didn ' t Icnow the micro- phone was still on said, I know. We got beat. For the first time since perhaps the beginning of time, a class (this time, the one of ' 76) went through four years at Pike without winning the float competition. The junior class be- came victors (as in many years past) with their Liberty Bell float. Soph- omores were second, the band third, frosh fourth and seniors fifth. However, all was not lost for the se- niors because they won the overall competition in the pre-homecoming events. After winning the powder puff football game, pie-eating, root beer chugging, girls ' sack race and the boys ' tug-of-war, they nudged the