Plainfield High School - Silhouettes Yearbook (Plainfield, IN)

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involvement becomes english focal point GF Q , ,sg I . . . M985 Two televisions and nine radios all blaring in the same room cer- tainly does not sound like an Eng- lish class, but the study of advertis- ing techniques had students watching and listening to com- mercials. A guitar even found its way into the classroom as students learned to appreciate literature through music. Not even the customary eight to three-thirty school day was ob- served as Miss Bleakley organized night seminars to prepare interested seniors for college advanced place- ment programs and achievement tests. Putting it all together, Mrs. Cowen and her advanced speech students, Sandy Muncy, Rhonda Dieckman, Marcella jones, Brad Vo- gel, and Carey Burks make the final tape for their radio program. Which cereal is better? Irs. Debby Poynter, Greg Battershell, and Kenny Cadwell conduct the taste test in their original commercial. ENGLISH 15

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Student involvement became the focal point for the English depart- ment in 1972. The traditional class- room was extended as students at- tended selected movies and plays in connection with their studies. Writing and compiling original anthologies, keeping journals, pro- ducing dramatic presentations, and preparing panel discussions re- leased students from boring read story, write theme teaching. Uses of the library, the auditorium, and the English independent study area be- came integral parts of the enriched program on all levels. md ..gn....vf'- Aping the antics of a gorilla is no problem for jr. jeanine Watts in her pantomime presentation. Senior Advanced Placement students Linda jones, Landra Armand, Sue Sargent, David White, Pam Hayes, Ie-ff Hughes, Paul Case, and Bobbi Gibson, laughingly take their pun- ishment after reading about the crime. Exploring the mystical magic of poetry, soph. Debby Wernl-ie talks about 'The Me No- body Knows. 14 ENGLISH

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staffs improve publications Charges for parking in Schop- meyer's lane are due and payable. 82.00 an hour. Crazy Classifieds, entered the Quaker Shaker for the first time as a money making project, and imaginative students found much to advertise. Moving for the third time in three years, the newspaper found a per- manent home inthe yearbook office. It seemed at first as if the two staffs would be at each other's throats all year. However, after solving such office-sharing dilemas as whose sign should be highest and which draft- ing tables belonged to whom, the Quaker Shaker staff settled down to improve the image of the school paper. No-o-0, I don't think it will fit, worries Mrs. Bierce as she checks preliminary copy with soph. Chana Hutchinson and sr. Cheryl Seneff. Evaluating student writings. Miss Bleakley and srs. Paul Case, julia Miller, Brenda Yo- com, and Sue Sargent begin to put together the literary magazine. All that hair doesirt seein to bother sr. Lisa Bannister as she painstakingly sets a headline for the next Quaker Shaker. 16 QUAKER SHAKER 1 ..,-f ' QUAKER SHAKER STAFF: Front row: Billie Bierce. Susie Burchyett, Cheryl Seneff: 2nd rowg Chris Hardin, Tom Hale, Cinda Telfer, Eva Loweryg 3rd row: Glenda Spencer, Lynn McDowell, Margaret Head. lohn Albright, Beth Newkirk, Chana Hatchinsong 4th row: john Hays, Tim Costello, Lisa Bannister, Therese Lashbrook, Pat Wertz, Lynn Mahoney, lon Stultz. --ag