Plainfield High School - Silhouettes Yearbook (Plainfield, IN)

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PHS and Community with Music and Drama The PHS marching band and majorettes they lead the parade from the junior add music and color to homecoming as high school to the football field. ALTHOUGH PHS's academic pro- gram is often seemingly strict and regimented, it is occasionally enlightened by entertainment. One major source of this entertainment is music, which is provided by PHS's band and chorus. The band's eighty members, under the direction of Mr. Dale Jackson, provided diversion for PHSers and the community in many ways. They presented interesting and entertaining music and formations for football and basketball audiences. Also formed for public enjoyment were a dance band, a pep band, and a concert band. The chorus, also with eighty members, acquired new robes this year. Directed by Mrs. James McCart, the chorus has branched out into an ensemble, mixed choir, and male and female choruses. These different groups sang at com- munity and private functions, school con- vocations, and commencement exercises. The main musical presentation of the year was the Christmas program, for which the chorus and band combined. 0 17 The members of the ensemble practice their parts for several numbers they will sing at a concert.

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ACADEMICS Study, study, study. At PHS, classes were larger and subjects were tougher than last year's. In their classes stu- dents gave of themselves by working with an open mind and learning. In so doing they prepared themselves for the world after high school. They learned better communications with others in English, composition, speech, journalism and language classes and logical, precise reasoning in math classes. They attained a useful knowledge of science in preparation for the hyper-scientifically-minded world, and they learned many skills for voca- tional careers in various commercial courses. PHS taught all this with the hope of helping students in the quest for useful, satisfying lives, which will secure a better world for posterity.