Silver Creek High School - Silver Leaves Yearbook (Sellersburg, IN)

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When Silver Creek High School first started, sports were really big. Basket- ball fever had become an epidemic. We couldn't be beaten no matter what the size of the guys on the team. Mr. Makowsky, who retired from teaching I U.S. History during the 1974-75 school year, was known as a basketball super-star. Girls' basketball was also .l played, but for unknown reasons, it was discontinued after a few years. A football team was also started in 1940. The first game we played the S.C. Creekers came out on top. The games were played in Speed on a field which was provided for by the Louisville Cement Co. r Since then, we have now extended our sports activities to track, baseball, basketball, cross-country, golf, and ten- nis. The girls now have basketball, vol- leyball, and track. A noted alumni of S.C. in the head- lines during the school year was 1971 graduate Steve Green. During Steve's years at S.C. he was a member of the Semi-State squad and was. named to the Indiana Ail-Star Team. Steve was a starting forward on the Indiana University's nationally ranked squad for the last three seasons. ,.1 The Creekers have always upheld the winning basketball tradition at the Dragon's Den, giving I 1070 effort in all com- petitive endeavors. Steve Green, a 1971 graduate of Silver Creek, is a starting forward on the nationally ranked Indiana University bas- Athletic awards are still a means of personal fulfill- ketball team. ment for hard work. Mr. McDonald received his aWard for basketball. 10

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- .1. r-s .s Nostalgia 1'11 97 5 01d and New Create 'Anything Goes 9 As you can see, styles and fads have greatly changed throughout the 50 years at Silver Creek. In the twenties and thirties, there was mostly cotton and wool because synthetic cloth was not made yet. The girls always wore a dress or skirt and blouse. They didn't think of putting a pair of pants on. The colors were very plain and with skirts, a blouse, and cardigan sweater was worn. Bobby sex and saddle oxfords were big fads for the feet. The boys always dressed very conservatively. Blue ieans were only thought of as work clothes. They wore s,wool lace leg trousers and high top boots over the pant legs. The girls had short hair, cut in a pixie style, and the boys had short hair which was slicked back with itgrease. In the forties and fifties, colors started coming into clothes. The kids always looked good but conservativeness was not seen quite as much. Loafer shoes came into style and hair was getting a little longer for girls and shorter for guys. Skirts started getting shorter and the guys no longer wore boots over the pants. Straight skirts and blouses, nylon hose, Our impressions of the 505. and loafers came into a big fad in the six- ties. Hair was just about anyway one wanted to wear it, and skirts rose even more. Straight leg pants and loafer shoes came in for the guys and their hair was worn in flat-tops and crew-cuts. And now for the seventies, anything goes! One sees styles of every kind. The styles of the fifties came back but new ones also are here. The big kick now is blue ieans. Everywhere one goes, he sees blue ieons. So as you can see, itis hard telling what we'll be wearing in ten years.

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'Q-i v Girls' basketball which was re-initiated in '74 began in 1929. The boys' varsity coach, Bruce Murr, proved he wasn't male-chauvanistic when starting the first tea ,, $42337; . V t t Football, 0 now extinct sport at S.C.H.S., was once prominent in the minds of Dragon sports fans. It is hoped by many that a team can be started again. In addition to basketball, baseball was also BIG in the community.