Rogers High School - RYB Yearbook (Michigan City, IN)

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If you don't belong to a club, you just don't belong. There were thirty-eight regis- tered clubs and organizations at Rogers in 1975, not includ- ing sports, performing-arts groups and assorted casts for plays, musicals and variety shows. Approximately 30 of all Rogers students are participants in clubs. Only 1 3 of these students are considered active. These few students, in a sense, run the school. Who will or will not be in this group is based largely on who one knows. Some say they joined certain clubs because their brothers or sisters were in them. Some wanted to know what was going on. Often, reasons given for not joining were There's no ben- ifit from clubs, I don't have time, They never tell you when to join.” But by far the most frequently stated reason for join- ing or not joining clubs was I want to be with my friends. Most students, joiners as well as non-joiners, believed most Ya gotta belong students joined clubs to help themselves socially rather than to help the school. However, one student argued this was probably true when a student first joined a club, but a genuine interest in the club's purpose and activ- ities was needed to keep stu- dents coming back year after year. Several students agreed with this when they remarked, I joined certain clubs this year because I liked what the club was doing last year. One non-joiner felt he would probably join a club if his friends did, but he would have to like what the club was doing first. Another student simi- larily confessed he would join practically anything if his friends were involved. In the opinion of the gen- eral student body, clubs are merely friendship societies with ulterior motives. But every- one does agree clubs give bene- fits and are good for the school, although not everyone agrees joining them is worthwhile. 10