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

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Scratch a teacher, find a people Weekend Only one day left before the weekend starts. What are we going to do? Wecan goto the ball- game Friday night, and to the dance afterwards. That sounds OK, but how about Saturday? The movie at Marquette is pretty good, and then we can go to Pizza Hut. Most students probably re- cognize this kind of conversa- tion. This or a similar occur- red every week. But did you ever think about what teachers do? They, too, enjoyed weekends and spent their time enjoying dif- ferent activities. Students saw educators at sports events, a few served as coaches! But what were the rest doing? They participated in a variety of activities; the most common were golfing, bowling, backpacking, tennis playing, fishing, do-it-yourselfing around the house and, of course, doing house work. Then there were those not so common hobbies such as plumbing, farming and painting. Many joined numerous clubs, not just sponsoring school clubs, found in the Michigan City area. Some also had extra jobs, both paying and non paying ones, such as security guards, bartenders, summer-school teachers, printers, handymen, etc. 29

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7 Mr. Peterson not only teaches horticul- ture, he also has it as a hobby. 2 Golf provides a leisurely form of relaxation as demonstrated by Mrs. Hahn. 3 Mr. Glenn dreams about fishing trips while checking out fishing poles in his tackle shop. 4 Are all the doors lockedf Mr. Newman checks a second time on his night pass through Sullair. 5 Everybody needs a hobby, states Mr. Griffis, as he finishes sanding a bench. 28

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Hard to get? — I need a dime for (he phone; do you have one? — I need a few dollars for the game tonight; could I mow your lawn? — I'd like to buy that radio. I get my paycheck Friday. — I need $45 to go to I.U. How much can I get for this vase? — I need my week's supply. Here's $50 from that store that was broken into last night. Students all need money for different reasons, and they all earn it in different ways. Each student is hooked on the spending habit. It may be 20 cents for a brownie or 200 dol- lars for a used car, but it is still spending — that basic drive that enables our capitalistic system to keep functioning. Many students have no scruples when they try to earn their pay. With infla- tion and high unemployment, the Puritan ethic of a good day's work for a good day's pay is being replaced by beg, borrow or steal. Of course, it is the middle road where working, begging, borrowing and stealing blend that most students satis- fy their habits. This is best shown when a student begs his parents for a few extra dollars. Has he work- ed for it by doing chores around the house? Or does he intend to borrow it by working more later? If his mother tells him to get the money out of her purse, will he take some more because she won't miss it any- way? Each person will choose his own alternative. In families where the cash flow is slow, getting the money from parents is impractical. Therefore,some students turn to their class- mates; or sometimes it's even easier to borrow from a complete stranger. People part with their money much more easily than they ever would imagine. A gentle prodding with such phrases as Hey, man — gimme a dime, usually empties most pockets. Extortion with threats of violence yields even better results. To enhance the conventional method of working for money, some students exhibit fathom- less imaginations. Here are some actual examples from our students; — Rick Havlin earned $1 for renting a textbook to a fellow student during an open-book test. — Jackie Ream earned $1.25 an hour for portraying Chuckles, a clown. — Dan Meyer, selling pop, icecream and golf balls on the golf course, collected $50 last summer. Indeed methods are varied. Some people still profess that money is hard to come by. Perhaps they have never thought of these unique and dif- ferent money-raising schemes which other stu- dents have used: — $.40 a gallon for selling si phoned gas. — 1. apiece for home- made Christmas ornaments. — 1.80 an hour for printing promotional sign. — 2.15 an hour for licking envelopes. — 2.50 an hour for milking cows. — 2.50 an hour for painting stripes on bouys. — 3. an hour for chopping wood. — 3. an hour for binding catalogs. — 3.85 an hour for greasing overhead cranes. — 5. for pretending to steal a casset tape. — 5. for running out onto the White Sox's playing field after a baseball game. — 5. a pair for stealing hubcaps. — 5. a yard for picking dandelions. —15. for giving a speech on farming. — 16. a day by simply ask- ing friends for it. — 17. a game for playing poker at a swim meet. The list is endless. Money has been made from creative thought everywhere throughout time. And money will be made from ideas not yet dreamed of. Our methods are as varied as our needs. Does it matter where students get their money or how they spend it? To them- selves — of course it does. But to the system money is money, and the only thing to do with it is spend it. David Ruzic