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

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With shovels in hand, Cindy Whiting and Jon Zanngr dig into lhoir walk. Horticulture

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Students planted and picked LEARNING THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS Stevie Wonder sings, My love sits outside my window ..4 on his Secret Life of Plants album. In the organic atmosphere of Room 0-136, horticulture students' love sat outside the windows, on I plan to attend Purdue, West Lafayette, and study Horticultural Business Manage- ment. Someday I'd like to open and manage my own florist shop -Senior Debbie Lud- ington. Selecting weeds for wall plaques with dried floral arrangements are Karen Robbins, Ml- chelle Savinski, Jeff Gangwer and Glendira Davis. 12 Academics shelves around the classroom and in the courtyard. Students fiddled with flowers, rummaged with ribbons and struggled with straight pins. The finished products were Homecomingcorsages. Horticulture Classes designed twenty-eight for the candidates with boutonniers for their escorts. They were constantly improving the school grounds, planting evergreen shrubs and mum plants. I'I enjoy trying to get the students to appreciate plants and their environments, explained Mr. Princinsky. ' Learning about nature meant taking the good with the bad. Mr. Princinsky's 1:00 Class ventured into the woods, gathering seventy different kinds of leaves for their collections. Georgeanne Alevizos not only gathered four maple leaves and handfuls of ivy; she also came back with four limbs and a face full of poison oak. I had to wear socks on my hands at night so I wouldn't scratch, remembers Georgeanne. I still think I should have gotten an A for the semester. Students planted, picked, and potted - all in learning that secret life of plants. Homecoming Queen Candidates wore cor- sages designed by the horticulture classes. Jackie Hovey practices the art of trorsage ar- ranging. Tom Bailey gives the Pyracantha bushes their fall pruning.

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14 Academics Art has always come naturally to me, and I've decided to make it my career. Junior Mike Signorino e The Minnesota Tiger watches Sue Washing- ton and Kelly Appleby do their pen and ink drawings. Designs emerge in O . muItI-medla STUDENT ART HIGHLIGHTS CALENDAR Ideas are the roots of innovation and the roots of creativity. Six Classes of art students spent almost as much time thinking of ideas for their projects as on the projects themselves. HMagaZines and books give me many ideas, said Art Four Student Diane Granzo, but whatever idea I adopt and adapt, I'm proud to see the finished work. Each semester students paid $7.00 for supplies. Though only 800m of the money was collected, all students had the opportunity to create puppets, watercolors, figure drawings, Charcoal prints and tempera paintings. These Becky Hohnke and Stacy Smith bring their puppets to life Denise Cooper weaves a wall hanging. projects were assigned aarording to the students experience. Selected students submitted their favorite piece of work for a calendar, put together by both Rogers and Elston art students. Calendars sold for $1.75, and the money was used to buy a new printing press and an electric wheel for clay. Shaping the puppet head just right, waiting for paint on a canvas to dry and displaying finished projects in the art cases stemmed from art students' most difficult work - the idea.