Shortridge High School - Annual Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

Page 7 text:

Shorrridge Lives' Shorrrldge has occupred rr s place ar 34th and Merldlan slnce 1928 For ren years lf had needed renovarlon yer none had been glven Finally rn rhe sprung of 1977 when rhe school board vored ro keep SHS open rhlngs began ro look up A magner school for the perfarmlng arrs was added rn the fall of 1978 and rhe school board commlred urself ra a renovarron plan Orlglnally rr was ro have been for 18 mlllron buf lr was larer reduced ro 5 mlllron A separate S475 OOO was also allored for repalrs needlng rmmedlafe arrenrlon In the fall of 1979 some prellmlnary work had been srarred buf rhere was not much lndrcarlon rhar SHS was gerrlng whar had been promised Alrhough we ar Shorrrldge have walred PRINCIPLE BEN JOHNSON gnves a fond farewell ro a 979 graduate ALTHOUGH THE SCHOOL BOARD members could nor make rhe flnal deaslon rhey played an rmporranr parr IO flnallzlng rhe renovanon plan for S H S parlenrly for the plans ro be flnallzed we canrrnue ro awarr urs begrnnlng wlrh enrhu slasm We have nor losr lnreresr ID our cause or ler IT dle for we ar Shorrrldge are srrll very much ahve From our flrsr days as freshmen ro rhe graduarlon ceremony everyrhlng from football games ro engllsh class have been kepr alrve The people of course are whar really make up SHS The ranglble parr of rhe school the bulldlng and :rs facrllrles are also a parr of Shorrrldge as a whole Bur IT has been proven rhar excellenr facllmes do nor a school make We ar Shorrrldge de serve frrsr rare facllmes buf as I0 the past we have learned ro llve wlrhour Whar rs lmporranr IS the facr rhar we have maln rained an ldenrlry as a llvlng funcrlonlng school body Wrrh the new bulldlngs and equlpmenr the school wlll have an even berrer chance ro llve

Page 6 text:

2 Theme THE FOOTBALL TEAM drew many people ro the gome rms yeor, provnng rhor spurur Inves In S H S ., sz 3,-,TASK -, C mix fy., , , H ?w5.+T,, K. '-.5 ' -A M- ' I

Page 8 text:

4 Strilse STRHKE STRHKES HOIFOSO Y Ridge Lives Through If 14 .-,5::? fx Qs- Y. The opening of school found things quite living increose. The school boord mointoined g o bit different thon we expected. The first thot becouse of funding problems with the ' sight to greet us wos picl-:eting teochers stote it could offer no more thon the totol - who hod gone on strilse. This wos, of AZ roise. The other issues involved were course, quite o blow to the orgonizotion of teocher preporotory time, split closses, ond 'f V the first doys octivities, But even though reimbursement for purchose of moteriols. Q Y' things were more disorgonized thon usuol The teochers hod voted to go on stril-ze if ' 41 S this wos not to be the only result of the they did not hove o controct the first doy of ? strike. school. At o:OO AM., September 4, ot o The teocher'sjob oction forced the clos- teochers' rolly ot Butler University, o strike ing of schools, coused disruption of the be- wos colled. For the students, the first doy of ginning of school ond on o lighter note influ- the strilee wos not entirely unwelcome. Sen- . L SX , 1 U ll enced the chonging ofthe Shorrridge soccer ior Susie Stillwell soid, l'The first few doys ' teom's nome, the new nome, the Shor- were greot, lt wos exciting ond seeing thot N' fridge SFVTISGS. But oll of this WGS HOT wholly ng 009 W05 regdy t0 gtgrt bgqlg it WQ5 Q Igr Q I the foult of the teochers. The more occu- of fun, The first doy, IPS, reported 5171, of 8 Y ' rote ploce to put the blome would be to the teochers obsent while the IEA. report- N----Q- ' divide it between the teochers ond the ed 761 out. By the second doy, the figures school boord, First, o clorifocotion of the hod grown ond ot Shortridge only 18 of the X9 6 0 G UQ porties involved. The two orgonizotions in- regulor C33 teochers showed up. But os the Mm volved were the l.E.A. Clndionopolis Educo- first strilse to hit the lndionopolis school sys- U tion Associotionb which is the lorgest teoch- tem since 1972 lengthened, student ond f fx 4, ers union Copproximotely 3800 members? in community opinion begon to chonge. l'lt in ',,q f lndionopolis, ond the lndionopolis School begon to get boring ofter owhile, ond l T Boord of Commissioners, the governing hoped it Wouldm lggr Igngf' Sgphgmgrg 5 , .D body of the lndionopolis Public School sys- Debbie Dougherty commented. , 5 f ,1 N TGFTW. M? s 'gh The problems begon when the two por- Com Om D 7 , .,g.: , , b -I ties foiled to reoch on ogreement on o - '9OCh9 5 COVWOC' bi' me fm dot' of School MR txov ABERSON confesses school boord or me The I'TTOl0 l55U9 in QUGSUOVW WO5 O V059 in September 25th meeting Mr Aberson wos the only pgy fOr the tegqherg, The tegqherg Qglqed Shortridge teocher to oddress the boord during the H 5 for on 11.52 roise in oddition to o CWD cost of 'e9U'O' 599901 SQQTTTQTT' of me mee fT9 I I 4:AAA'X hJ u xr f sf Q 1 'QF -im. 3