Tell City High School - Sagittarius Yearbook (Tell City, IN)

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Clockwise from upper left. The hill, as it simply became known as, was definitely a colorful characteristic of TCHS through- out the expansion project. In this photo, several students take time out to observe the monotony of school life in the shade on the hill. A new morning a rises over a darkened city of tiny lights. Gathering next to the lockers, Rhonda Snyder, Darla Hook, Tina Tharp, and Pat Goble await the beginning of a new day of classes. Construction workers were an ever famil- iar sight. This fellow tracks through the mud that will soon be a hallway connect- ing the old to the new. Opening 3

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2 Opening NEW Where do we begin to recap- ture the images and emotions of a year in the lives of so many people ... on the football practice field at dusk of an August day while heat lightning flashes silently in the clouds looming far off in the distance, ... in a dimly lit crowd- ed corridor before the beginning of school while we stand around and chat about weekend exper- iences, ... in the bleachers of Le- gion Field on a pleasant autumn night while the band performs a renditiop of Rossini’s “William Tell Overture,” ... in an uncom- fortable classroom, blowing hot and then cold, while we doodle on a notebook as the instructor de- scribes the anatomy of a worm, ... or in the chairs of the gradu- ation ceremony late in May, as we thoughtfully reflect upon the last twelve years and the next ten? The yearbook staff had to de- cide where to begin the 1980 Sag- ittarius with a theme that could recount for everyone the moments of the 1979-80 school year. After looking at several possibilities, we decided to use the theme “New MORNING Morning” from a song by Bob Dylan. What theme could better describe the beginning of a new decade than that of “New Morn- ing?” The past year was the morning of a new decade which, like all mornings, bred all the uncertainty of a new day. And as morning began to pass, the staff began to prepare the following pages in an attempt to capture a small piece of everyone’s life during the year.

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4 Opening SUMMING-UP THE HIGHS AND LOWS Ten years ago, January 1, 1970 ushered in a new decade of pessi- mism and turbulence. Most of the class of 1980 was still in second grade at the time when lunch money and Batman’s predica- ments seemed to be our only wor- ries. We, in general, were quite oblivious to the plight of the world around us. But now, being young adults, it is easy to look back and objectively see just how much the times were changing during the past decade. Nationally, it was a healing pe- riod from the 1960’s, although many old and new sores were opened. Dissatisfaction and disil- lusionment from Kent State, Viet- nam, and Watergate seemed to be the rule instead of the exception. In the 1970’s, we saw the American love affair with the large car come to an end. Long gas lines appeared in 1973 and 1979 because of an Arab oil em- bargo and the Iranian Revolution, respectively. Of all the problems, this was probably the most obvi- ous to students who saw gas prices rise from 25-35 cents a gallon in the early 1970’s to $1.10 in 1979. Students also witnessed the end of the draft, a beginning of “de- tente” with the Soviets, the bicen- tennial, the recognition of China, and the taking of 50 Americans hostage in the embassy in Iran by radical “students.” Locally, the 1970’s was a peri- od of growth. The high-rise apart- ments were opened for the elder- ly, the Highway 37 improvement began, and the southern end of town along Highway 66 found the arrival of new shopping centers and nationally-known restaurants. The massive school expansioh and remodeling project began in the late 1970’s. Although some has been completed, the entire new facility will not be fully oper- ational until September of 1980 or beyond. The project, an $11 million facelift, probably has had the most imposition, besides gas prices, on students in many ways, be it the loss of the library, audi- torium, or the re-location of classes. All the events of the past dec- ade, whether they were nationally significant such as the end of the Vietnam involvement, or just lo- cally impressive such as the addi- tion of McDonald’s to the area restaurant chains, made some im- print on our lives that affected us then, and will continue to influ- ence us into the 80’s.