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

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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.

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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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School is important, but a student's life does not begin and end in the classroom. The time before and after is their own. Over half the students arrive at school aboard the big yellow buses that read West Clark Community School Corp. These are usually the freshmen and sophomores who are too young to drive. When spring arrives, bicycles begin to appear and other students will be walking. The rest come in cars - everything from golden oldies, to iunkers, to brand new 75's. The price of gas may have risen, but it doesn't seem to have made any impact here at Silver Creek. After school it's off to part-time iobs, maybe to take an order for a Big Mac, a Frostie or some of that finger-Iicking good chicken. Maybe youire pumping gas or cleaning a neigh- bor's house or babysitting those two precocious boys up the street. They're all jobs with one purpose - to get money, maybe for a date with that special someone came Friday night.