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

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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

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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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TOP: Looks like Andy Sullivan is having a Big Mac Attack! MIDDLE: Laura Wilson, the next Pierre Cardin, showing her latest designs for the French class sale. BOTTOM: Grayson Cox as Honor Society president leads initiation ceremony. It Takes All Kinds Each individual in our school has a certain uniqueness which is combined with the other students to form WC. There are students who show leadership through the different organizations they are involved in. There are the athletes of our school who strive to accomplish victory and help heighten the spirit of WC. There is a great band which devotes hours of hard work and determination in order to retain the state championship year after year. The studious people set high standards for themselves and also encourage other people to do so. Along with the good comes the bad. The troublemakers of the school are always getting into mischief, but what student doesn't see the humor in a harmless prank played on a teacher? Even the Joe Schmoes play an important part at WC. Without the average student, our school would be like eating an Oreo without any creamy middle. And last but not least, there are always the clowns of WC. These people provide entertainment and add a touch of happiness to everyone's heart at one time or another. All of these unique people linked together make up the overall personality of WC. 5