Winchester Community High School - Golden Era Yearbook (Winchester, IN)

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“A New Look At W.C.” The school year of 1980-81 was a year of change. We started the year with anxieties of having a new principal and vice-principal. Mr. Fox, our principal, has improved the relations between students and the administration. He has allowed gum chewing and also asked the teachers to keep homework down to a minimum over vacations. Our vice-principal, Mr. Gibson, has the hard task of keeping discipline in the school. In-school detention was a new form of punishment to be used. Being out of your classes for a day sounds like the ultimate dream, but when in detention you cannot talk to other students, walk with them, or even eat with them. Alienation is complete. Is it really a piece of cake sitting in a small room without windows, staring at the blank cement walls? Seven and one-half hours of classes is plenty long enough, but seven and one-half hours of detention is unbearable. As the custom goes, the freshmen found WC bewildering. The first few weeks were experimental, as they became familiar with the school, its policies, and the faculty. The freshmen saw many new faces and made several new friends. This is the first year that they had a chance to choose some of their classes. The lunch schedule was also a new experience. This is the first year that the freshmen had two separate lunches in which they were intermingled with upperclassmen. 3 ABOVE: Ronnie Genius Shoemaker experimenting in Biology class, and taking a Falcon's serious view of academics.

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ABOVE LEFT: Mr. Gibson a symbol of good taste and hard discipline. ABOVE: Freshmen girls show their talent with frisbees in this new competition at FUN AND GAMES. 2

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ABOVE: Bill Jackson and Everett Jarrett ... innocent angels as usual as they make the rounds of the halls. RIGHT: Band members must practice at 7:00 a.m. several mornings a week to keep up their excellence. 4