Rockville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Rockville, IN)

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WERE A LI Located in AmericaTs heartland, less than two hou's a dozen or more universities, boasting of three state poz' its county boundaries, situated on crossroads of two major U V. highways, Rockville still is A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY. At first glance one might think Rockville is a sleepy. lime. midwestern, county-seat town. A myriad of active organizations involving its people from the smallest Brownies and Cub Scouts to the Senior Citizens proves that this county-seat town is any- thing but sleepy. Ingenuity and energy of the county residents created the sev- enth largest tourist attraction in the nation. The Covered Bridge Festival brings people from all over the world to enjoy the beauty of our landscape and the fact that we are still A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY. Not to be outdone by our city neighbors. we built a swimming pool and a golf course with volunteer labor at a reduced cost. We saw the need for helping others and organized the Parents and Friends of Retarded Children who. in turn, built a school for those children. We have a crew of volunteer firemen, who labor willing- ly to protect our property. Medical clinics, a newspaper, four small industries join the local merchants and farmers in maintain- ing the necessary functions of a community while it still remains A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY. We have gone a little bit International. Our community has welcomed a family from Vietnam, and we have participated in foreign exchange student programs. The student body has been enriched through friendship with students from several Central and South American countries. This year we're learning about Northern Europe and the Scandanavian countries from Hanni Schulte of Finland and Carin Skalander of Sweden. We have been able to incorporate in our small school system some of the programs available in larger cities. By working on a regional basis, we have included in our curriculum specialized courses in Learning Disabilities, and this year have added voca- tional programs such as Building Trades and Business. Thus we are striving to keep pace with schools in larger communities while maintaining a more personalized approach to education. In their teenage years, our grandfathers wore knickers, dated flappers tour grandmothersi, and shocked the world with their jazz. Our fathers wore zoot suits. dated bobby-soxers tour moth- ersi and scandalized their parents by jitterbugging. Our older brothers wore straight-legged pants, dated girls in mini-skirts and rocked and rolled to the utter disgust of our parents. In 1980, teenagers nationwide are wearing Wranglers and Levis, western shirts, and cowboy boots and hats. The girls we date are some- times seen in Wranglers and Levis, but dresses are becoming more popular. We dance to a slow rock which has become A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY. World events leave us breathless. The future seems uncertain. Everywhere the search for stability and meaning goes on. The nation has come tull-cycle. The sophisticated people of the cities are discovering what we have known all along-that the way to be is A LITTLE BlT COUNTRY.