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cruel. Am I any more cruel t o

that duck I shot than she is to the

fly she swatted or the ant she

stepped on. Do we judge an

animal's worth by its size? Is it

not more cruel to have starving

animals competing for a limited

food supply than to harvest them

through hunting?

Another fact the girl does not

know is that the lack of wild

animals today is due to loss of

habitat, not hunting. Concrety,

not guns, is the killer of God's

symbols.

In paying thirty dollars for a

state hunting license and a duck

stamp the hunter helps pay for

the preservation and improvement

of existing habitats. As a group,

hunters pay more to aid wildlife

than any other group in America.

I ask you people who claim hunt-

ing is cruel, "How much do you

pay to help preserve America's

wildlife?"

Granted not all hunters buy

licenses and not all stop after they

have shot their limit, but most do.

Most love that wild turkey they

are tracking or that elk they see

sports quiz

Vol. 32 No. 12 March 1 1, 1983

Indian Hill High School Cincinnati, Ohio 45243

1. Who holds the current indoor

record for the mile?

2. Which Cincinnati native was

the Olympic male archery gold

medalist in 1976? 3. Who was the first Major

League Baseball free agent? 4. Who was the starting goal-

tender for the Cincinnati

Kids? 5. Who was the only Cincinnati

native to be the heavyweight

boxing champion?

ers are not crue murderers o

south Pacific during the island-

hopping campaign of WWII.

Gallenstein began teaching in

Kentucky in 1950. From 1954 to

1962, he taught at Walnut Hills

High School. He was granted a

sabbatical to finish his degree at the University of Illinois. He then

came to Indian Hill later in ' 1962.

In reference to teaching, Gal-

lenstein stated, "I like the

challenge of teaching. I feel as if I'm contributing something to

society."

by Dwight Poffenberger

"How can you do that You're cruel," said a typical

Indian Hill girl clothed from the neck down with polo and izod

brand-name garments. I had just told her I went duck hunting over

the weekend.

Hunting is not a cruel sport.

It is not a bloody slaughter of defenseless game as many people

exagerate it to be. They do not

realize the long hours before

dawn the hunter spends in a duck

blind sipping coffee with a friend.

The two men share a love of the

wild, a love of the natural things

left on this earth.

Believe it or not, most hunters do not get up at 4 a.m. to see how

many birds they can kill. Most

roll out of their warm bed to

listen to a flock of geese feeding

or to see the sun come up over a

tion. In Ohio this year, dove and quail hunting were prohibited,

because Ohio could not afford the

loss.

What most people fail to real-

ize is that the various state Fish

and Game Departments really do know what they are talking

about. They know approximately how big a species' population is

and how many of them will die of

natural causes. In this way, they

judge how many birds or deer a

region can afford to lose to hunt-

ing without hurting the overall

population.

Hunting then does not hurt

the size of the population. If

rabbit hunting, for instance, was

disallowed in Ohio next fall, there

would not be more rabbits. Here-

in lies another public misconcep-

tion.

Back to the girl who said I am

Four staff members to retire in June by Eric Paul, Kevin Walzer,

Anna Batsakes, and Margot Ayers

Four teachers have decided to

retire at the end of this year.

Miss Eloise Balz, Mr. William

Fogle, Mr. Frank Gallenstein and Mr. William Kincaid have cumu-

latively taught 141 years.

Eloise Balz .

Miss Balz has served for 18

years in the high school. She had

worked for seven years previously

at Drake Road. She lists as her

prime career accomplishments her

organizing and opening the librar-

ies at both schools.

"I organized and opened the

one at Drake. When I came to the

of which were spent at IH.

"The new RIF policy has no-

thing to do with my retirement,"

insists Fogle. "The incentive that

caused me to retire was the early

benefit program." The progam

allows a double retirement bonus

for those who take advantage of it immediately.

Fogle could have retired last

year, but he decided he was not

ready. "Even this year," chuck-

led Fogle, "I was in shock when I realized I was resigning from my

teaching job." After retirement, he hopes for

some form of employment here at

Indian Hill in some limited teach-

ing capacity.

Frank Gallenstein

Mr. Gallenstein will leave IH

after teaching 21 years in the

math department.

MI. Gallenstein has no defi-

nite plans on how he will spend

his retirement. He commented

that after leaving, "what I'll miss

the most is the students that want

to learn."

Mr. Gallenstein attended

Morehead State University where

he majored in mathematics.

From 1943 to 1946, soon after

college, he served on the de-

stroyer escort USS Canally. Gal-

lenstein served as assistant navi-

gator and as quartermaster in the

ANSWERS

William Kincaid

*over the ridge. We want to see

more wildlife and more habitat,

but most of all we want to see that flock of geese or that sunrise

over the glittering water for qur

children to enjoy. Is that cruel?

Although Mr. Kincaid will no longer be teaching in the class-

room, he will remain sponsor of

the Chieftain. Kincaid has been a teacher for

high school 18 years ago, I had

the task of moving the library

from room 234 (currently a phys-

ics room) to the present center.

It was very challenging and most

enjoyable to move the library and

acquire all kinds of new things,

books, audiovisual equipment,

etc."

Miss Balz intends to remain

active after her retirement. "I

want to go out and live again. I

plan to do more work at IH. I'm

not sure what the administration

has planned for me, but I have

advised them I don't do win-

dows."

over thirty-five years, twenty-nine

of which have been in the Indian

Hill School System. He began his

teaching career at Ludlow and

Covington, Kentucky before

coming to Indian Hill. He com-

pleted his undergraduate studies

at Kentucky Wesleyan College

and received his master's degree in

English at the University of Ken- tucky.

While at Indian Hill, Kincaid

has taught English, typing,

speech, journalism, and develop-

mental reading. He has also been

involved in the extra-curricular

aktivities of students. He has

been a sponsor of drama club

plays and a coach of tennis and

golf teams. For many years, Kin-.

rippling lake. Whether a bird is killed or not, they have shared,

and they have enjoyed when the

guns are finally put away.

Hunters hunt because they

love to see, not kill game. Hunt-

ers do not go hunting to see how

many times they can pull the trig-

ger. Thousands of deer hunters

Three IH seniors land athletic scholarships by Paul Monach offer of a 25% football scholar- Georgetown. "I? was a bunch of

Three IH seniors recently re- ship from Georgetown College in small things. I didn't like the ceived schohship offers for their Kentucky but declined. He pre- facilities, and I didn't like the

respective sports from three local sently awaits word for his first area." Fitzmaurice led the foot-

colleges. choice, Ashland College in Ash- ball Braves with 975 yards rushing' Angela Farley received the land, Ohio. Fitzmaurice ex- this past season.

highest athletic compliment with plained why he opted against

all over this land pass up easy a full four-year tennis scholarship

shots at does waiting in anticipa- from Indiana University. As she Inexperience hurts wrestlers at districts . , tion of that big buck. I ask that

girl, "How is this deer hunter a

butcher?"

Hunters kill game mostly for

sport, not to fill up their refriger-

ators. Just as a man or a woman

competes in a tennis match, another hunts; it is a game. A

grouse hunter pushes his way

through stubborn briars bloody-

ing his face to prove to himself

that he can outsmart that grouse.

It is like a chess game, brains

against brains or in our case, will

against instinct.

Another public misconception

about hunting is that hunters

shoot all they can in a day. Noth-

ing is further from the truth. For

each species that is hunted there

is a daily limit and a possession

limit. For example, duck hunters

are allowed to take only one

black duck a day but are allowed

three mallards. Deer hunters are

only allowed one deer per season.

The limits vary from state to state

and are based solely on popula-

has accepted the offer and will

attend I.U. in the fall, the univer-

sity will pay for her tuition, room

and board, and books for all four

years.

Farley, who distinguished her-

self at IH as runner-up in state

doubles her junior year and as

runner-up in state singles this

year, had I.U., presently the sixth-

ranked college team in the coun-

try, as her first choice for college. Farley commented, "I'm glad be-

cause I sort of put all my eggs in

one basket." In addition to play-

ing tennis, Farley plans to major

in Business Administration.

John Gennantonio will attend

Ball State University on a football

scholarship of undisclosed propor-

tions. Gennantonio remarked

about his college choice, "It's a

nice college. I know some people

who went to Ball State and liked

it." Gennantonio earned Ball

State's attention by leading the

city in punting.

John Fitzmaurice received an

by Dave Stradling Three Indian Hill wrestlers

competed in the AA districts at

Hara Arena this past weekend. All three wrestled twice and lost

twice. Freshman Matt Feltman

(98), junior Andy Graham (105),

and junior Brom Espy (185) were

the three Braves that qualified for

the districts one week earlier at

the AA Reading sectionals.

Feltman felt that the wres-

tlers' inexperience detracted from

their performance. "I looked up

at the stands after they called my

name and saw three thousand

people; I couldn't concentrate on

my wrestling," commented Felt-

man.

"I was slightly disappointed,

but my expectations weren't real

high. . All I wanted was for the

wrestlers to gain experience in the

districts wrestling, and they did

get that," stated coach Ron Web-

ber.

Matt Feltman won twice in

the sectionals at Readgg, placing

fourth in the thirteen team field.

Both Graham and Espy followed

his example. Besides the three

districts qualifiers, the Braves got

victories from junior Dave Strad-

ling (112), junior Casey Ryan

(1 321, junior Mike Feltman (1 38),

freshman Steve Baker (155), and

senior captain Tom Geygen

(HWT) The team placed tenth in

overall team points. Reading

took fitst place with 154 points.

Clermont Northeastern placed

second with 125%. In third,

Loveland had 123% points. In-

dian Hill's 52 points were enough

to place ahead of Marie-

mont (47 points), McNicholas (36

points), and Western Brown (34%

points).

Webber said of the sectionals,

"We were disappointed with the

wrestling in the finals, but the

team did better than ever before.

However, our expectations are

always higher." -A-

William Fogle Spanish teacher Mr. William photo by J I I ~ I Koster -

Fogle has taught for 3 0 Years, 22 The four retiring teachers are (back row, left to right) Mr. William Fogle, caid has announced varsity home Mr. Frank Gallenstein, Mr. William Kincaid, and (seated) Miss Eloise Bqlz. football games for the Braves.

9& . . . page

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . .2 Alcohol and the student

Student Opinion . . . . . . 3

Student pressures

Concert Review . . . . . . .6 Neil Young

Senior Sketches . . . . . . . 7

Kathy Fields

Gus Gordon

Teacher Feature. . . . . . .9

Mrs. Wund

I H swimmers at state . . . 1 1

Athletic scholarships . . . 12

Magazines:

Sugar, Pow-Wow '83

Mr. Boss Kincaid

Eight artists advance to state level competition-

projects accepted at the state level

with three. He had two pen and

ink drawings and one ceramics project. Sophomore Stauft and

senior Walker each had two ac-

cepted: Stauft with a linoleum

block print and embossed print

and Walker with two ceramic

sculptures.

Lemmel placed with a collage

project. Wyand had one ceramic

project accepted, Majante had an

acryllic project, and Graham quh-

fied with one mixed media draw-

ing. Gardner sent one raku cer- - -

- - - . . . . -. amic box to the exhibition.

Roughly 300 pieces will be picked from a "field of approxi-

mately 2000 pieces," according

to art teacher Mr. Larry Bernard.

All of the artwork chosen will

automatically be featured in an

art exhibit from April 10 to May

20 at the State Office Tower in Columbus.

The Governor's Art Exhibition

is a statewide competition open

to students in grades 10-12. Nine

regions of Ohio send winners to,

the state competition.

by Kevin Walzer Eight Indian Hill students have

had art projects accepted at the

regional level in the 1983 Gover-

nor's Youth Art Exhibition.

These projects will be sent to

Columbus on March 12 to be

judged for competition at the

state level.

The winners are Jennie Gard-

ner, David Graham, Barry Knabe,

Teresa Lemmel, Petra Majante,

Gay Stauft, Steve Walker, and

Paul Wyand.

Knabe, a senior, had the most

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editorial

CHIEF

One of the largest problems facing high school students today is drinking. At an alarming rate, younger and younger teens submit to peer pressure and begin drinking. Indian Hill is no exception - some s tu~ents become weekend drinkers before they become freshmen.

Indian Hill, like most high schools, has a drinking problem. The controversy stems over specifically what a drinking problem is; is the individual who

drinks on Friday and Saturday nights a problem drinker? Is the individual who drinks on the week- ends and occasionally on .the weekday nights a prob- lem drinker? Administrators and most parents would answer "yes" to the latter question. But what do students think?

More and more often we find students, mostly seniors, hitting the bottle Friday after school, Satur- day morning and other not so "regular times .'' Is this as bad as our elders think it is? Perhaps it is. It is becoming more and more apparent to students that drinking can get out of hand. Years before when we heard "alcoholic" we thought "bum on street corner downtown". Today our eyes have opened. We, es- pecially the senior class, see our peers drinking a great deal of the time out of school.

Another surprising fact is the amount which some teenagers can drink. Friends used to split a twelve- pack two or three ways but now they can drink one themselves. Students who drink so much so often are definitely skating on thin ice.

The problem is not with the student who only drinks a six-pack on the weekend. Under normal circumstances he will graduate, go to college and lead a normal life. The possibility for a problem exists but most individuals can deal with temptation and stay clear of drinking too much too often.

The problem is with the heavy, chronic high school drinker. Unchecked drinking can only lead to prob-

. lems. Spring break is only two weeks away. Let's not start something that may hamper us the rest of our lives.

@ieftgin STAFF Chieftain is written, com-

posed, printed and sold as an

extra-curricular activity by the

students of Indian Hill High

School, 6845 Drake Rd., Cincin-

nati, Ohio 45243. (51 3) 561 -4963 Sponsor Wrn. P. Kincaid

Editors Kurt Dusterberg

Chris Schmalz

Richard Stradling

News Editors John Christine

Ron Zesch Features Editor John Lilly Sports Editors Paul Monach

Dwight Poffenberger Magazine Editors Nancy Hopple

Kitsa Tasslan Assistant Magazine Editor

Ellrabeth Smith Chief Typesetter Diane Remmelt

TAlN as I see it

Beauty is in the by John Bergman

Several weeks ago, the Gram- my Awards were presented to

those musicians who have alleged- ly surprised their contemporaries with the artistic quality of their work. Nominations for the Oscar

Awards were also made public. Most of the discussion which

surrounds events such as these is centered around the merit or lack

of merit of the winners and losers. This is not the topic to be investi- gated in this column. Rather, there is a far more interesting and stimulating area to be explored.

Firstly, is it really possible for a group of human beings to judge the merit of a work of art without using, as their main criterion, per-

sonal opinions? Secondly, even if we suppose, for the purpose of debate, that the answer to the preceding question is yes, should

the quality of a given work of art be judged by its comparison to

other works of art? Opinions and judgments of

good and bad can only be thought of as comparisons to models that we have constructed. Finally, one may say that it is simply a fact that some people should be rec- ognized and congratulated.

My personal assessment of the questions leaves me agreeing with some of the above opinions and disagreeing quite heartily with others. Certainly, one would be foolish to suggest that excellence is entirely a matter of taste. There is clearly a difference be- tween saying that something is to my liking, and saying it is good.

We must accept this to a cer- tain extent, if only to assure that we maintain some standards, as a

base for criticism. We run into a rather sizable roadblock, however, when we realize that art is far more than a display of excellence.

Excellence of form and tech- nique is important, and to be ad-

mired. Art is however, far more

complicated. It is a display of beauty.

People who are in favor of such awards as the ones mention-

Productlon Managers Ken Jones

David Stradling Business/Circulation Managers

Ron Jones

Paul Smith Photographers Jim Koster,

Scott Blanchard, Greg Meyers

Typesetters Savithri Raju,

Sue Gilsdorf, Karen Wiedemer,

Sandy Pesce, Kelly Flaherty

Contributors Laurie Hallam,

Tracy Megison, Jon Kitei, Win

eyes

March 1 1,1983

beholder

ed above, and I should mention here that the polls would suggest they are in the vast majority, would obviously answer both of

the above questions positively. They point out that there are cer- tain criteria which simply are an intrinsic part of all artistic excel- lence.

Concrete details such as method, technique, and perfec- tion of form are as easily measur- ed by artistic experts as feet and inches are measured by a yard- stick. They hasten to add that they realize that technique is not all that matters, but they believe that people who have mastered that aspect of their craft should be duly rewarded.

The second question also arouses an affirmative response from these people's lips, primarily because they believe that it is the nature of the human animal to

compare and compete. They say that all of the conscious decisions that we make are based on ac- quired knowledge and slowly

brewed, but the one pleasure that art brings to us is, in the final an- alysis, uninhibited, non-intellec- tual, unassessable beauty!

The very first impressions that we get from a work of art are un- touched by thoughts of compara-

tive judgement. They are our real reaction to the experience of per- ception of experience itself.

As I see it, this indefinable joy is the factor which takes art out of the realm of competition and

comparison. If a work does not convey this pleasure to someone, it simply is not great art. If, on the other hand, it does, then it is great from the start, and compar- ison becomes a hopelessly unpro- ductive task of cerebral tedium.

Let the craftsman be judged on how he produces his product.

Let the artist be judged on what his product produces in us. in- ally, let all those who wish to in- dulge on competition pick up bats and balls and go out to the play- ground.

Wells, Peter Carr, Gus Gordon,

Todd Adrien, Anna Batsakes,

Eric Paul, Kevin Walzer, Ron

Herd, John Bergman, Kelly

Flaherty, Margot Ayers, David

Stradling, Ken Jones, Jlm

Cook

Productlon Staff Tracy Magison,

Peter Carr, Todd Adrlen, Chrls

Hug, Win Wells, Bob Rhoad,

Jlm Cook, Margot Ayers, Erlc

Paul, Kevin Walzer

March 1 1,1983 CHIEF

West pleased with track turnout by Richard Stradling should provide a sound founda-

It took only one practice for tion in the distance events," said

boys' track coach Bob West's West. greatest anxiety to be relieved. The squad's point of "uncer- Where West had originally feared tainty" will be in the sprints and a lack of numbers, he now speaks hurdles, where younger runners

highly of the turnout. mostly fill positions. It will be, "We are pleased with what we however, the field events that de-

feel is a decent turnout," West termine how the season goes. commented. "We not only have a "Dave Rhodenbaugh will be out-

good number of seniors, but some standing as usual in the pole vault,

new blood as well which is great but the other areas are for the

to see." West also hopes that Pow most part question marks," stated

Wow's ending will see a few addi- West. "We could be really strong tions to his squad. here or weak; it's just too early

The team's strong points this to tell," season according to West will be West added that he "would be in the long distance events. disappointed" if his Braves didn't "I~Iarc Levan in the 400, Dave finish among the top three places Rosenthal in the 800 and Dwight in the EHL, The trackmen open Poffenberger and Richard Strad- their season Wednesday, April 6

ling @ the mile and the two mile in Mariemont.

Swimmers well at state by Diane Remmell

Four members of the IH swim- team participated in the state championships this past weekend in Canton, Ohio.

Senior David Ackermann led the team at the state champion- ships, having qualified for the meet in two events. Seeded eleventh in the 200 I.M., Acker- mann held his own, finishing in

Rookie Benken sees by Tracy Megison

Final cuts will be made next week to determine this year's JV

softball squad.

eleventh place. In the 100 breast

stroke, Ackermann moved up from thirteenth seed to take sixth place in the state with a time worthy of All-American consider- ation. Those qualifying for the All-American Championships, for which 24 swimmers qualify in

each event, will be announced in approximately one month. Un- officially, David is presently qual-

JV softball as a 'lean After a total of five weeks of

pre-season conditioning, which began last Monday, February 28, the- Squaws will play the first of

Otroto by Scott Blanchard

Kristin Mains 1s not going to have much of a chance to tag out "Bill" Zesch if Bill keeps her foot on the base.

TAlN Paae 11

photo by Greg Meyen Seniors Roger Geier and Marc LeVan lead the pack during Wednee- day's practice-@ sub-human temperatures.

z e d number 23 in the 100 breast diving competition, fell to take to go to the All-American Cham- twenty-fust place overall. Win- pionships. Ackermann was gerter, seeded twenty-fourth in "elated" with his performance at the 100 free, moved up in the state and also commented, "The rankings and finished seventeenth.

parties up there were awesome." Sophomore Beth Wingerter, Juniors Scott Lyon and Cliff the only Indian Hill girl to qualify

Wingerter also participated in the for the state championships, took state meet. Lyon, who was thirteenth place in the 100 free

seeded sixteenth in the boys' after going in at fourteenth seed.

~i ng experience' "I did ok," said Wingerter, "but I would have liked to have placed

their 16 games against Harrison in the top twelve." Being the on April 5. The first half of the only IH sophomore who made it team's games will be played away, to state, Wingerter promises ex- while the remainder wiU be on ceptional performances through- home turf. out high school.

Although all teams like to "It was a fun season," com- have a winning attitude, fust-year merited coach Chris Sigler. "I've JV &IS' coach Jim Benken has an enjoyed working with everyone." additional philosophy that fo- While the team is losing three cuses on the educational aspects seniors this year, it will, in of sports. L'I See it as a learning probability, gain quite a few experience in two ways: for freshmen as a result of the in- teaching some of the girls how to volvement of eighth graders on play softball and for those girls the Ottawa swim team W s year. who are looking toward playing

varsity next year." The JV team will be made up of mostly fresh- men and sophomores, Benken predicts, and this will provide for a strong and experienced varsity squad next year.

Benken elaborated further on his philosophy by stating, "This

year we would like to try playing every person on the team every

game. I'd rather lose and play all 15 girls than win and play only

ten." Benken hopes that this en- couraging attitude will motivate the JV girls to show the eagerness,

responsibility, and skill that makes teams winners.

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SO ftballe rs L un for an 0th er !HI title ~ ~ ~ t ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ r ~ ~ l ~ e ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ i c ~ - by Dwight Poffenberger The Squaws wlll play 22 would have an outstanding fear," in the gym on ~ o n d a ~ s and

It's that time of year again games this spring, of which ten said Wessinger. Wednesdays. If the weather co- when the softballs are dusted off are league games. They open play The Squaws started condition- operates, they will be practicing and the bats are taken out. April 5 at Milford. They end the ing Februarv 28. On March 7 outside soon.

Head coach Robert Wessinger is once again preparing a group of Indian Hill girls to make a run at the EHL title. His squad has captured the EHL championship the last two years. Last year the Squaws went 8-2 in the league, and 19-2 overall.

Wessinger feels the team has a good chance for a third straight title but stressed, "For us to win the EHL, we will have to win the close games." The Eastern Hills League is a well-balanced league in softball. Wessinger estimates that one half of the league games are won by one run. As an ex- ample he pointed out how the Squaws only beat Milford by one run in two different games. Indian Hill won the league and Milford finished last. "Anybody

season May 13 and 14 in the Har-

rison Tournament. This season Wessinger will

have a squad of 15 players. Nine of them have previous varsity experience. The team will look

toward Mary Howe, Pam Loewen- stine, and Holly Rodes for leader- ship. "If we're going to have a good season, these three will have to have good years," said Wes- singer. Only two seniors will par- ticipate, JoAnne Pierce and Loewenstine. Wessinger added, "It appears some of the players will be freshmen."

Wessinger feels freshmen "are usually scared to death" but im- prove their sophmore year. He feels last year's freshmen - Molly Roche, Beth Myers, Gretchen Kindel, and Jenny Malloy - will

can win anytime," noted Wessin- help the Squaws a great deal. "I ger. would hope at least three of them Suzanne Lowes makes contact a t the

Braves fall to McNick, 78-55, look to next year by Jon Kitei Though the teams were more The other two returning Var-

For the second consecutive year there was an abnormal balance of wins and losses in the

varsity Braves' record. Over the last two years the

Braves have compiled a dismal 7-35 record with one of those victories coming by forfeit. The

battling Braves suffered their seventeenth and final loss of the

season at the hands of number two seed McNicholas in the first round of sectional play at Lakota.

For the Braves the 78-55 loss was a reminder of just how much they will have to work if they are to

improve their records in recent history.

The Braves were close for much of the first quarter before the Rockets took control of the game. McNicholas was led by Mark Miller, a second team selec- tion to the AA Southwest Ohio All-Star Team and a good small- college prospect, scored 21 points and controlled the entire game from his point position. The Rocket Star played flawless bas- ketball while dishing out count- less assists.

Now that 1982-83's disaster has ended, it is time to look to next year. A major problem on this year's team was the lack of

team cohesiveness. It was as if

there were two Indian Hill squads on the team: the graduating seniors and the underclassmen.

frequently intermingled, it ap-

peared that they played best when tlie two six-player units

were left separate. Sophomore Rick Abrams could act as a bond between next year's seniors and

juniors and help the team play as a unit.

Next year's Braves, like this

year's Braves, will lack the "big man" that so many other schools

carry on their roster. However, the Braves will not be without rebounding strength. Dan Krem- chek at 6'3" and jumping-jack Bill Lange at 6'2" both have the abili- ty to hold the inside. In addition, Rick Watson and Jon Kitei should provide added rebounding punch in starting or relief roles.

sity Braves will be looked on to provide scoring punch.

Abrams, the first of the two, saw a great deal of playing time this year, contributing 15 points in the first Sycamore game. Abrams, a hard worker, is also a good leaper who at times seeming-

ly comes from nowhere to knock

in a missed shot at rim level. The other returning Brave is Mitch Theuring. Theuring, though short

at 5'9", can hit his off-the-shoul- der jump shot from anywhere. The junior speedster saw limited

playing time this season but is expected to regain the form that made him the reserve's MVP last

season. Joining the varsity ranks next

Girls' track lacks runners, not talent by Laurie Hallam the underclassmen, They feels

The girls' varsity track team is that it is too early to point out off to an early start this Year. any specific strengths, but he does Approximately a dozen girls have see potentiaL been ~unning road COurSes On This year Tirey hopes to place Tuesdays and Thursdays for the at least foudh in the league.

past three weeks. Sycamore, who had a young team Despite the small mmber of last year, will once again be a

girls going out for the team, tough competitor. Mariemont, coach Tirey is optimistic. Lisa having lost Missy Castetter, will

More, Shelley Stanforth, Jenny undoubtedly be a weaker team Woodhouse, and Laurie Hallam this spring. "It is unrealistic to

are the returning seniors. "These set our sights on the league cham- girls have been part of the track pionship," says Tirey,"but we

program for three or four years would like to start building the and will be able to make a great girls track program up to where it contribution," says Tirey. As for has been .in the past."

photo by Scott ~lanchard

plate in a recent practice.

season will be four to six of this year's reserves. Most prominent in the picture are 6'2" Pete Sere- metis and 6'3" Curtis Ott. Both Seremetis and Ott can play

the post position. Ott, who is a good shooter from 15 to 16 feet and in, also has the ability to play a wing.

Brian Rowe and Dave Stan- forth will provide shooting ability at guard, and Mike Wentz, another guard, may add some needed ball handline. Finally.

Brian Jehle, a 6'3" dark-horse, and the 6'1" oft-injured John Bishop may also add needed re-

bounding strength.

photo by Greg Meyers Senior Laurie Hallam wonders

how she can be expected to run in this weather.

March 11.1983

student - opinion ..

Herd believes teen pressures exist But w,, , can not . if we act twice our age then why

by Ron Herd

This student opinion con- cerns the pressure(s) on teenagers of today. It originated in a talk with assistant principal Mr. Gary

Gellert, in which he claimed that these pressures do not exist.

Although he altered his smug opinion a little, saying that all of the supposed pressures are "self-imposed," he went on to state that the pressures of today are not nearly as bad as they were

drug scene harder than any other class I know of at Indian Hill. It is not all peer pressure either. Agreed, the majority of it is due to the fact that they just want to be "cool," but there is a small amount who are in it to escape.

The divorce trend is a fine example of Mr. Gellert's "self-im- posed" pressures. "Casualties" of divorced parents find themselves

letter from SC

becoming the parents, while the parents become the kids. On Friday nights they check out mom's date for the evening and wonder if he is going to be a

breakfast guest for the next morn- ing, while staying home to watch the younger kids.

The list of "self-imposed" pressures, which make us act twice our age, goes on and on.

are we not treated like it?

In regards to Mr. Gellert's statement, I can not believe that one of our administrators, one who works for supposedly one of the top ten public schools in the nation, could have said something so unreasonable. Maybe the prob- lem with America is that everyone is too smug to just stop and open an ear and listen.

in the '60's. Maybe this is true - I wa but not 1 have a teenager talked in with the a , 6 0 3 ~ ; few SG calls for participation in Spring Food Drive teachers who grew up in the '60's who could not believe something

so ludicrous. My question is why is suicide

the third largest killer of to- day's teenagers? I guess it would

be absurd to think that pressure has anything to do with it. We

(the teenagers) are no longer the kids of today, we are the "adults"

of tomorrow. Today's society is refusing

kids the right to be immature, childish, happy, pure and naturaL It is no longer act your age; it's now act twice your age. I can already see the effects on the younger kids. I've seen

this year's freshman class hit the

Dear Students, One week has passed, and if

response to our Spring Food

Drive remains as sparse as it has been thus far, we could be do- nating an embarrassingly small amount of food.

To be honest, the goal of our drive was not solely to help local charities, but held a more sym- bolic value as well. We were ap- proached by one or more adminis- trators who suggested in so many words that one problem that Stu-

dent Government could address was the somewhat "self-centered" and "uncaring" attitudes of many

IH students. Our goal was to give IH students a chance to prove

themselves; tb give food to the

needy without extremes in peer pressure or personal incentives.

We did not expect the entire student body to completely rally around this cause, but rather to bring a can or two each in order to show we really are concerned with the problems of the poor. Two weeks remain; quite simply, the decision is yours.

The service committee has in- troduced a baseball "hit-a-thon" of sorts as its Muscular Distrophy project this year. Students are asked to sponsor baseball players or SG members who will then be

subjected to ten pitches in the batting cage. Ten hits at ten cents

a hit is $1.00 and so on. Batting will take place next Friday, March 17.

The following day intramural

teams from around the city will converge on the IH Gymnasium for the annual SG Intramural

Basketball Tournament. Indian Hill will be represented by the winner of the intramural tourna-

ment taking place tomorrow. A reminder that the date of

Musicfest has been moved from

Friday, May 20 to Friday, May 6 to accommodate students partici- pating in AP's.

Sincerely, Todd Cox &

Richard Stradling

* * * * * French exchangers return from Paris, Angers French school education. obseming the methods of

by Win Wells visited the lycee or high school accompanied their families on The group expressed their en-

Thirteen French exchange for two days before the school trips as Nancy HoppIe did during joyment with the trip by relating

students and faculty member Mr. dismissed for nine days of vaca- her visit to Mont-St.-Micheal. their experience upon returning Robert Blaney returned home tion. Most of the exchangers After the week vacation the ex- home. Elizabeth Smith said, "I following three weeks abroad in stayed in Angers, however, some changers spent two more davs at have a whole new outlook on

France on Thursday, March 3. The students left Cincinnati

Thursday, February 10 for the seven hour trip to Charles De

Gaulle Airport in Paris. The group spent the next three days in Paris, where they roomed at the

F.I.A.P., a youth hotel on the southern edge of Paris.

While touring the city, the students walked the Champs Elysee at night and visited La Place de la Concorde, Le Centre

Pompidu, L'Arc de Triumph, Le Louvre and La Tour Eiffel.

Following their stay in Paris, they proceeded, by train, to their

host city of Angers, located about 150 miles from Paris. Upon arriv- ing, the students were greeted by their host families. The wouv

society". Another exchanger, Bob Rhoad, said the idea he found most important with the trip was "being able to make sacrifices in order to adjust t o a different culture."

Accompanying the 12 Indian

Hill students and Blaney on their sojourn was Ann Powers, the

daughter of Social Studies teacher Mr. James Powers. She is a senior

at Ursaline Academy.

Key Club raises $130.

Key Club has collected over $130.00 from Rock-A-Thon sponsors. The Rock-A-Thon took place three weeks ago today as a project to raise money for Camp

Stepping Stones. Club members - . then split up as each student left photo by Elizabeth Smith spent the night in the SSC rocking

French exchangers Anne Richards, BiIl Poffenberger, Mr. Blaney and in chairs and listening to rock with his or her respective family.

While in Angers, the students- Dave Cook watch a Frenchman bake bread in a boulangerie. music.

Page 4 March 1 1,1963 ence, the, club will prepare to

IH IA Club competes at state today- produce picnic tablei-and deck chairs for members of the IH community. The 'money from

by Chris Wiech these and other projects will be Seven members of the Indus- Contests such as Technical members Steve Dubell (Southwest

trial Arts Club traveled to Col- Writing, Technical Speaking, and District Vice-President) and Chris umbus for their annual conven- Practical Drafting are only a few Wiech (AIASA Vice-President)

tion yesterday. Early this morn- of the scheduled events for the will relinquish their seats on the

ing the other fifteen IA members two day contest. A ~ S O at this Ohio-AIASA Executive Commit-

joined them for the remainder of conference the new state offi- tee to the newly elected officers. today's competition. cers will be elected. Senior Upon return from the Confer-

AFS hosts 17 foreign students from 16 countries by Kelly Flaherty A pot luck dinner was held for Tomorrow'several exchangers will

The American Field Service all of the students on March 8. attend Pow-Wow.

Club hosted seventeen AFS stu- dents on AFS Day March 9.

All of the exchange students, who are residing with host fami- lies in Cincinnati, Columbus, and Indiana, are participating in a pro- gram lasting the duration of the school year.

The thirteen students from the Cincinnati area are: German Al- b e r t ~ , Columbia; "Lee" Brao, Brazil; Alice Flett, Scotland; Fiona Frew, Australia; "Charlie" Feis, Denmark; Petra Grabher, Austria; Herman Zulu, Chili; Teresa Macredo, Portugal; "Sweeny" Mogensen, Denmark;

Marit Monterio, Netherlands; Andrea Russo, Brazil; Fredrick Spaey, Belgium; and Kirsten Woischwill, Germany.

The four exchange students

residing in Columbus, who are currently participating in a five

day visit are Diego Coellar of

Equador, Erik Nodlan of Norway, Catherine Simns of Northern Ire-

land, and Dumisoni Tinis from South Africa.

Cafeteria raises by David Stradling

Several changes have been made in the cafeteria, including a

price increase that took effect this past Tuesday.

The price of a regular or "type A" lunch is now $1.05 and

most a la carte items increased five cents, including milk, which is now 25 cents.

Mrs. Rosemary Wilson re- placed Mr. Ken Levit as the Food Service Director. Wilson has brought with her several ideas, in- cluding the condiment table out- side of the lunch line. The condiments, according to Wilson, have cut the time spent waiting in lines by eight minutes.

Wilson has also brought new food ideas to Indian Hill. To

the Deli line she has added a pizza

used to finance next year's club's expenses to the state convention.

Over spring break, construc- tion is to begin on the installation of the new Industrial Arts dark room down the hall from the

drafting room.

If you are interested in hosting a student next year, contact Kelly Flaherty during school or Mrs. Carolyn Berry at 561-4473.

Photo by Jim Koster The hosts and foreign exchange students participating in the AFS five day visit t o IH are (first row left t o

right) Erik Nodland of Norway, David Agin; (second row) Kelly Flaherty, Catherine Simms of Northern

Ireland, Diego Coellar of Equador, Paula Greeno, Dumisoni Tinis of South Africa, and David Rhodenbaugh.

line. This line would serve spe- 1 rich price 1 0 ~ cialty items, including health

foods. Snacks would be available bagel and several sandwiches. In at the ends of other lines. In the addition, today is the debut of future, Wilson is also considering the potato bar. a Red's baseball promotion and

Wilson is also considering re- she plans t o continue all-youcan- placing the snack line with a new eat lunches.

Warfel wins $25.00 in computer contest

by Jim Cook . athletic eligibility. This informa- Junior Tom Warfel recently tion is what is recorded on the

won a 25 dollar savings bond in emergency cards each athlete fills the high school division of the out in the beginning of the sea- ECCO micro-computer program- son.

ming contest. ECCO is an organization made

up of teachers supporting com-

Puter education. They sponsor and wills are available in , the contest to promote fluency in the computer field. I the main office and areL

The idea comes from Miss due March 25th- No' I Wehman, who asked Warfel to

devise a program to keep track .of' I

The

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supporting

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March 1 1,1983

teacher feature

CHIEFTAIN < ...,

Page 9 sori education program at Cincin- nati Country Day. With the em-

phasis on education, Wund has de-

Wund laments geographic mistake veloped teaching. Own on

by Kurt Dusterberg "I know I was a geographic

mistake," says French teacher JoAnne Wund. "I should have been born in France. I was even

born on Dday." Wund's interest in French

dates back to her childhood.

The thought of being different reminded her of another event a

few years back. "One spring when I was away

at school, I had a friend cut my hair. She said, 'Is this short enough?' I just kept saying, 'No - shorter.' Then she got out a

Mrs. Wund hangs out (differently, of

Since her parents spoke Italian and could communicate without having her understand, she viewed Italian as a secret code. "So my

reaction was to learn a different code," Wund explained. "I wanted to be different. I guess I

always wanted to do what was un- expected."

After her birth in New Jersey and a private school education in

course) in the library.

razor, and I had these long braids in the back. She cut them-all off,

and I just laughed the whole time. Then when I came home I re- member Dad saying, 'We're buy- ing you a wig.' I like to be dif-

ferent." Wund still can claim to be

quite different today; she teaches

coming evenks

AP French Literature in the high school, and serves on the AP French Literature Committee. Wund is the only high school

teacher in the country to serve on the staff.

"It's overwhelming and hum-

bling, yet very exciting," Wund

said enthusiastically. "It's really something to work with these people whose textbooks I've read and works I've learned. To have a

voice in something like this is the

ultimate ego trip."

Wund's duties include formu- lating the questions which appear on the AP test as well as grading portions of the exams. Her work

often entails trips to such places as Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco, which she seems to accept rather readily. "It's great fun. I really enjoy

trips with this crowd," she said. Wund feels foreign languages

are very important today not only for their value in college consider- ation, but for career and self- oriented reasons as well. "A foreign language helps your self- discipline. You have to make yourself do it. You have to force

yourself to memorize and repro- duce. And. let's face it. it's a sign - of an educated person."

Madame Wund has taught at

Indian Hill for 15 years. ("Mr. Simmons hired me for the junior

high, so he's the one to blame," she said.) Her husband teaches

math and physics at Wilmington

High School, and they currently

have their five year old son

Charlie enrolled in the Montes-

anh ha it an, Wund again did what W ~ S different and unexpected. Ma rSa 1 is to g race Ci nci n na ti She decided to leave the East to attend Ursaline College in Cleve-

land and then Western Reserve

University where she studied French.

"I left the East because I

realized it was not for me. I was

really fed up with the pseudo-

sophistication."

Although she "was running from all men" at the time, it was

at Western Reserve where she met

her husband who attended nearby

Case Institute of Technology.

Since her husband was science

oriented, "We used to go to the

conservatory at night," Wund re-

membered. "It was so romantic."

Cincinnati Gardens

Billy Squier with Def Leppard - April 5 ,8 :00- do it The Kinks - April 8, 8:00 - good times are "predictable"

Adam Ant with INXS - April 1 7, 8:00 - put on a little make-up

Bogar t 's

Tony Bennett - March 11, 7:00 and 1&30 - celebrating Boss's

birthday Commander Cody - March 12,

8:00 - moving right along Iggy Pop - March 1 3, 8:00 - self-

abuser Wynton Marsalis & his Quintet -

March 14, 8: 00 - pass

Phoebe Snow - March 15, 8:00 - everybody's back up singer

War - March 16, 8:00 - Central American rock

Sha Na Na - March 23, 8:00 - competition for Vandenberg Gil Scott-Heron - March 24, 8:00 - dearoop en porshna

Judy Collins -March 25,8:00 - of "Both Sides Now" fame

Edgar Winter - March 26, 8:00 - in spring

Lene Lovich - March 28, 8:00 - odd little lady

Psychedelic Furs - March 29,8:00

- pretty in pink

"As teachers, we have to real-

ize we have a tremendous influ- ence on kids. We have to realize

that any kid we deal with is not a

finished product; he is constantly

changing. "I am constantly aware, or try

to be, of people's feelings. You have to understand there will be

times when people say, 'Hey, I had a bad night.' Kids are people and their feelings count for a great deal. I try to establish a rapport with my students, but in

no way are they my pals. But I do care about them."

The Wund family lives on a farm in Wilmington. They have a

horse, and raise sheep. "I even spin wool," she said.

Wund enjoys the outdoors whenever possible. Over Christ-

mas, the family went to the Everglades National Park on a camping trip. They also spend time on their sailboat on Cowan

Lake.

"I'm not really athletic. I like to just get out and walk. I do a

lot of things to just compete

against myself." There seems to be no doubt

that Wund is people-oriented, and

that shows up best in her religious views.

"I was raised as a Catholic, but I rebelled," she explained. "I

wouldn't say I'm anti-religious,

but I'm more concerned with

helping people in this life; I'm not concerned with an afterlife.

I figure I'm not an evil influence on the world and I'm an honest

person. My religion is people."

Randy Newman - March 30,8:00

- he may take off his pants

English Beat - April 7, 8:00 - the

beat goes on

Riverfzomt Coliseum Willie Nelson with Juice Newton - March 20,7:30 - bandana man

Rush - .March 30, 7:30 - you'll probably be in Florida

Journey with Bryan Adams - best

o' the month

Kenny Rogers with Crystal Gayle

- April 24, 7:00 - Crystal needs a

haircut

UD Arena, Dayton

The Beach Boys - March 27,7:30

- flogging a dead horse

Page 8 CHIEFTAIN

movie review

'Lords' con tin ues 'Taps' tradition by Ron Jones

As I sat watching The Lords o f Discipline, I notice some similari-

ties to another movie. Taps and

The Lords of Discipline are al-

most the same. Except that in

The Lords of Discipline, the story

continues. Whereas Timothy

Hutton pays his dues as soon as he comes to terms with himself,

David Keith, the movie's hero,

goes on to act and suffer from his

decisions.

David Keith plays Will, a 1964

senior cadet at the Carolina Mili-

tary Institute. He is assigned to

look after Pierce, the first black

man in the Institute's history.

Everybody else on campus wants

Pierce out. But all Pierce has to

do is to pass through "hell night"

along with the rest of the plebes,

and he's in.

Unfortunately, an elite group

called "The Ten" wants him out

even after he passes through hell

night. "The Ten" is a select

group of top cadets who enforce

Institute policies. Their main

weapons are fear, surprise, and a

ruthless devotion to slaughter

anything that gets in their way. One of their victims, a fat man

named Poteet who resembles and

squirms like Curly of the Three

Stooges, spouts out everything

"The Ten" tell him while Will is

try&g to save him from falling to

his death.

Will is tormented by his situa- tion. He realizes his duties to

Pierce, and he knows "The Ten" is after him. Then he learns that

the Institute tolerates and, yes,

even backs the mobsters. Will begins to question his

education and the value of the

Institute, and as soon as he re-

solves his conflicts, he determines

to destroy "The Ten".

Will is made out to be the

human and humane being. Al-

though he is ordered to protect

Pierce, the viewer realize that Will

acts out of other reason. As one

can tell by his civilians clothes,

Will is a rebel. His actions they-

GUS, from p. 7 one outlet for Gus' avocation as a

caricature artist, a hobby he has

been pursuing "ever since I first

picked up a pencil - probably

Freshman year." (In all serious-

ness, he has been cartooning for

many a year now.) As usual, Gus

relates his drawing to a career in

broadcasting; "Ira Joe Fisher

(Channel 12 weatherman) is my

hero. I can already draw; now I just have to learn to do it back-

wards." -

Until he can perform in front

of the TV cameras, though, Gus will simply have to content him-

self with the Indian Hill auditori-

um. He's certainly at home there;

as a long-standing member of

both Drama Club and Thespians,

Gus has done more than a few

acting roles. ,Of his dramatic in-

volvement, he comments, "I like

it. It's 'neat'. I enjoy creating

characters onstage; it lets me ex-

press my pent-up creativity ." Other outlets of Gus' have

included Cincinnati Music The-

atre's production of Hello, Dolly!, in which he was a "chorus boy",

and Indian Hill's own Pow-Wow

musicals.

He is always happy to rave

about any Pow-Wow, and this

year's production of Sugar, in

which he is starring along with

Cathy Fields and Todd Cox, is no

exception. "Paw-Wow is by far

my favorite activity. Sugar is a great show with a super cast -Is

that too many expletives?" Gus has been honing his sing-

ing skills for the big event in the

IH Chamber choir, an organiza-

tion he describes as "top-notch".

March 1 1,1983

fore are of himself and his own

courage. Another interesting

character is his cadetcaptain, "Bear". When Will and Bear talk,

Will is actually debating his gut

feelings with his conscience, as

Bear personifies. The film itself is good. It easi-

ly strikes fear in the audience

concerning the military training of the Institute. However, as a

result of the mood of the movie,

the struggle between Will and

"The Ten" loses some of its effect despite the devastating conse-

quences. The plot keeps the

audience going but never gives it-

self away.

To sum up my feelings, if you

have the time and the money, but

most of all, the desire to see this m.ovie, go ahead. I t would be a

mediocre investment.

Another musical activity of his is

playing first trombone with al-

most any Indian Hill band that

has one. "I must like it; I spend

most of my time there," observes

Gus of his part in the Indian Hill

marching, concert, jazz, and pep

bands, the IH brxss quintet, and

the EHL Honors Band. Upon getting out of this

chicken outfit, Gus plans to at-

tend Miami or CCM, where he will

major in broadcasting and proba-

bly spend his spare time pretty much the same way he spends it now: watching or listening to his

favorite performers. He enjoys the comedy of Benny Hill, Me1

Brooks, and SCTV. As far as

music, Gus has "pretty weird"

taste. "It's Broadway shows,

straight across the board."

Weird? Well, maybe. But

what can you expect from some-

one who eats, sleeps, breathes,

and lives showbiz twenty-four

hours a day and is actually:good

at it?

... Cathy keeps right on talking CATHY, from p. 8 breather, but I know I wouldn't

have enjoyed my high school

years like I have if I weren't in-

volved." Cathy has narrowed her col-

lege choices down to Indiana

University, Miami, University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and

Clemson. But because she is so

close to her family, Cathy admits,

"I think Chapel Hill and Clemson

may be a little out of my zone. I

don't want to go that far away

because I'm not prepared for

coming home only once or twice

a year."

Cathy will be getting a taste of

the business field she hopes to

enter when she begins working for

Creative Marketing for senior

search this spring. She will have

the opportunity to work with a computer Tim, an advertising

agency and a recording studio.

Then again, if dreams could

come true Cathy would be a singer or an actress. She realizes

that her onetime dream of being

Policewoman is not likely 'to

materialize, but she will not rule

out singing.

"I've really keyed on vocals. I

just love to sing. I even sing in

the shower. Still, I don't think I

will ever be good enough for the

real world,"

Whether Cathy is an advertis-

ing agent or an actress or even Policewoman, she hopes someday

"to live in Florida in a place like

Indian Hill ... that sounds snobby,

doesn't it?"

And if, just by chance, she

finds a day with flothing to do , she said, "I think I would relax

and do something fun - maybe go

sailing. Or as Jay McFarland

would say, '1 would just take it

EZ.' "

March 1 1,1983

chieftain survey IC I

Chieftain recently surveyed all of the teachers with the following question. "How do you feel

about the 'teacher evaluation sys- tem' and the tenure system? Do

you think that the administra- tion's present policy for reduction in forces (RIF) is a fair policy for the teacher?" Although few

teachers responded to this ques- tion, here are a few of the re- sponses we did receive:

A great deal of energy has

gone/goes into this difficult job

(of evaluating teachers). Besides

the formal observations and "drop-in" informals (evaluations)

by the administration, there are

observations by department heads

CHIEFTAIN Page 5

comment and observations of individual

teachers of one another - some

times self-initiated, sometimes assigned on an "improvement

task."

Much effort is spent encourag- ing self-evaluation. It would be

hard to increase the opportunities

for evaluation. We do need to in-

crease the publicity/self-esteem

about good teaching work.

As best as I understand it (the

RIF system), it sounds extremely

fair. But these matters always

must be judged by specific results

and that's where the subjectivity

produces disagreement. I know

of no teachers unjustly "rail-

roaded" out.

on new RIF policy To understand the faculty's The system is not designed to

attitude to the teacher evaluation

system, one must first understand

the history of the system.

Briefly: the system was devel-

oped and subsequently modified

by a committee that consisted of

teachers, parents. administrators and

During the last revision, last

year, the committee again met to

consider changes; after many meetings and much work the ad-

ministration disregarded the

committee's work and recommen- dations and unilaterally instituted

the present evaluation policy.

From the original intent of the

evaluation procedure, to improve

performance, the procedure is

now being used to intimidate the

teaching staff. The administrative

philosophy now is that fear is the

best motivator.

The teaching staff agrees that

evaluation is the proper role of

the administration; and we also

want the best people in the class-

room. The problems lie in the

manner in which the evaluation

procedure was instituted and is

currently being used. The

teachers' trust of administrative

motives is very low, and the belief

that criteria other than teaching

ability are being used to deter-

improve teaching, but instead is

an instrument to fire teachers. It

tries to substitute judgement with a form.

I t is a system that no U.S.

corporation would ever accept.

I think the teacher evaluation

is a good system, but whoever does the evaluating is only one

person's opinion. Teachers that

are hot qualified should not have

been hired in the first place.

Tenure - meaningless.

New policy - intelligent. - . - Formal evaluation - ineffec-

tive.

Can an administrator ade-

quately evaluate a teacher on the

basis of a couple observations?

Different administrators eval- uate differently. One could take

a "hard" line approach. Another

could take a "soft" line approach.

The "best" teachers should

stay. Determining what "best" is should take into account many

mine who goes and who stays is variables - academic as well as

Carroll, Wells, Brockman, Smith personal involvement, concern

and consideration shown to stu- * * * * *

selected for BOYS, Girls State dents.

by Kevin Walzer

Four juniors have been se- student must be a junior in high lected as representatives for the school. He must be strong in all

u

1983 Boys and Girls State. Bob academic areas, exhibit strong in- Carroll and Win Wells wiU repre-

sent IH in the boys division, while

Kris Brockman and Elizabeth

Smith will represent the girls. All

applicants were judged by an in- terview with teachers, counselors

and PTA members.

The boys division will be held

June 11-19 at Bowling Green

University in Bowling Green,

Ohio. It is sponsored by the

American Legion, which pays for

all expenses.

The girls competition will be

held at Ashland College in Ash-

land, Ohio. Brockman and Smith

are being funded by the PTA.

The program, which will be held

June 18-25, is also sponsored by

the American Legion.

To apply for the program, the

- terest in matters of government,

and show qualities of leadership.

He should be able to communi-

cate well through written and

verbal expression and should rep-

resent the best aspects of his

school.

According to a flyer supplied by Mrs. Sharon Smith, the pur-

pose of Boys and Girls State is

"to educate young men and

women in the duties, privileges,

rights and responsibilities" of

American citizenship. It is a

simulation of government in

which students have an oppor-

tunity "to learn the problems of

government with special emphasis

on the contributions men and

women make" to city, state and

national welfare.

photo by Jim Koster

Pictured above are next year's newly elected Key Club officers.

Standing left to right are President Janet Nicolas, Vice-President

Paul Monach, Secretary Barb Neu, Treasurer Nancy Hopple, and

Page 6 CHIEFTAIN CHIEFTAIN Page 7 March 1 1,1983 March 1 1,1983 sors. (Little is currently attending

classes at the University of Cin-

nd Liftle receive honors cinnati.)

senior sketch

Gus gears up for Pow-Wow, While in Rome, he will tour

the surrounding Italian country-

side viewing ancient Roman ruins.

"I'm looking forward to getting

materials and pictures for my

classes," Little commented.

Later, Mr. Little will spend

another two weeks at a coastal

resort in southern Italy. The pur-

pose of this visit is to view the

cities of Pompeii and Hercula-

nium. Commenting on the

Roman ruins, Mr. Little said,

"You can read about it all the

time, but by seeing it, you can

really get a feel for it."

by Kenneth M. Jones

Mrs. Patricia Connelly has

been chosen as a consultant fo,

the revision of a math book en-

titled Advanced Math: A Prepara-

tion for Calculus.

Connelly, along with several

other math teachers around the

nation, will supervise the second

revision of Advanced Math.. The

1972 edition of this book was

used last year in the Advanced

Math courses.

According to Mrs. Connelly,

the ievision should be finished by

concert review

July and the hardbook third edi-

tion should be printed in August.

Commenting on her being chosen

as consultant, Connelly said, "It's

quite an honor, and it's good

recognition for the school." * * * * *

Eta Sigma Phi awarded Latin teacher Mr. Sherwin Little with a

scholarship to visit Rome and

other cities in Italy this summer. Mr. Little entered the scholar-

ship competition along with

100 - 150 other members of Eta Sigma Phi, the classics honor soci-

ety. The scholarship required

recommendations from former

college professors and an essay ex-

plaining why the applicant wants

to go to Rome. Little feels one

reason why he may have won th8

scholarship is because the frater-

nity tries to promote the teaching

profession and many of the other

app\icants were students.

Little will spend six weeks this

sunhmer in Rome at the American

Adademy. He will most likely be

th& only undergraduate teacher in

thk company of college profes-

dreams tele ision stardom luminaries through his father's in-

volvement in local television.

And secondly, he probably could

do a decent job of newscasting, if

only because of his experience as

the reader of Indian Hill's own

second period announcements.

"You lose a lot of self-res-

pect," comments Gus, "reading

those things every morning and

knowing that no one is listening."

The frustration has been building

up for months now, and he is aim-

ing for "revenge by the end of the

year."

by John Lilly

The baritone is everywhere. If

you've been to Pow-Wow or heard

Chamber Choir in action or seen a

Drama club production recently,

you've heard it. If you've done

nothing more than simply sit in

second period this year, you've

heard it.

The voice belongs to Gus

Gordon, and by all accounts, both

of them are bound for glory.

"It may sound strange, but I

want to be the greatest anchor-

man in America," says Gus of his 'Mr. Soul' r .ouses Riverfront cro wde The concert seemed to climax

at the end of "Sugar Mountain."

Mr. Soul was exiting the stage

singing "You're leavin' there too

soon," (how true) and the crowd

sang three refrains by itself in

near-perfect rhythm and harmony

before collapsing under the

weight of sheer numbers and

distance.

Cries of "more!" echoed

through the coliseum until Neil

once again appeared on stage for a

second encore. Although no one

liked the rendition of "Computer

Age," I must admit that it was an

effective way for Neil to dismiss a

crowd that would stay all night to

hear him do tunes like "Old Man''

and "Heart of Gold."

. - ultimate dream. "I think Cincin-

nati needs a young face, and I can

give them that."

Gus speaks half-jokingly of

deposing his "close personal

friends A1 (Schottelkotte), Nick

(Clooney), and Rick (James)" as

reigning deans of Cincinnati

newsdom, but none of that talk is

as absurd as i t may sound to the

untrained ear.

First of all, Gus actually has

met many of Cincinnati's video

Just how that revenge on the

entire apathetic IH student body

will take shape is as yet unknown,

but Gus may take it out on his . A +

by Peter Carr

I had second thoughts when

the alarm went off at 3:00 a.m.

Sure, I wanted good tickets for tht

concert, but was it worth getting

out of my nice warm bed and

braving the cold?

I ended up at the Coliseum

Ticketron a little before 4:00, and

there was already a fair-sized

gathering of Neil Young fans

hopping around trying to keep

warm. An unknown number of

people had blockaded themselvcs

off right in front of the box-office

window. Most of that group were

concealed in tents and sleeping

bags.

I asked a guy who wasn't

wearing a coat how long they had

been there. "Oh, just about since

noon yesterday afternoon!" he

blurted and then danced off

singing "Pass out the acid-we all

fall down!" Oh, that's why hc

doesn't need a coat.

Other people were gathered

around an old garbage can loaded

with burning wood and trash.

By 8:00 I determined that I

was undoubtedly insane. I

couldn't feel my toes, despite the

fact I had a blanket wrapped

around my body. Masochism and

music go hand in hand.

Ticketron eventually opened

around 10: 15, and I got wretched

seats. Was it worth it? YES!

About a month after that cold

morning of waiting, the digital

marquis on the face of Riverfront

Coliseum read "Neil Young-sold

out." Tonight's the night.

The actual concert was incrcd-

ibly personal in spitc of the

fact that it was k l d in the

monstrous coliseum. No loud back-up band. No warm-up band.

No ginlmicky jawas (roadeyes)

setting up thirteen foot fake

microphones. Just plain and

simple Neil Young.

The first set was 100%

acoustic (wooden music). I think

he opened with "The Old Laugh-

ing Lady." Some really great

oldies, like "Down by the River"

were played. What I find really

amazing is that such a basic guitar

player can write and perform such

satisfying music. None of his

tunes are difficult or complex,

but they are original. That

personal touch and originality

combine to make Neil Young a

great musician.

The crowd's reaction to the

second set was equally ecstatic.

The energy flowing through the

crowd during such compositions

as "Ohio" and "Powderfinger"

was electrifying. The only break

in that energy was the songs

played from Trans.

Neil Young can play

harmonica, piano and guitar, but

he is rather inept on the

synthesizer. Fortunately for the

crowd, he only did three of these

numbers. All of them got poor

response, despite the amount of

work Neil was putting into the

performance.

favorite punching bag, Chieftain's photo by Greg Meyers

Own tain is possibly the Ned. best publica- "Chief- Gus stardom. hopes t o use the morning announcements t o catapult himself to

tion ever produced by mankind,

especially the comic strips." senior sketch "Ned" has been viciously

~ a m p o o n i n g a ~ a s p e c t s o f I H f o r Cathy basks in IH s~otliahts, one and a half years now and is

f I w ,

see GUS, p. 8 becomes animal's stacle mother

To say Cathy is busy is most

always an understatement. She

works a t Madeira One Hour Dry-

cleaning everyday except over the

last two months because of Pow-

Wow rehearsals.

"I like it a lot," Cathy said.

"It sounds corny, but I've met a

lot of people there and become

friends with them. And I really

like the people I work with."

And then there is cheerlead-

ing. Cathy has spent four years as a cheerleader in high school and

says she enjoys that too when she

is "not up a t all hours making

concoctions for the players. But

they deserve it."

When there are a few moments

to spare in the evening, Cathy

likes t o stay in shape, working out

at Spa Lady or participating in

Jazzercize. "I'm really concerned

about it," she said of her fitness

efforts. "I really like Jazzercize.

I t helps me get out all my frustra-

tions."

Those moments when Cathy

an take time to do her own thing

are few and far between.

"My dad tells me not t o do

too much or I will wear myself

out. There are times when I want t o stop everything and take a

see CATHY, p. 8

by Kurt Dusterberg

There was probably no more

appropriate place to conduct an

interview with Cathy Fields than

on the stage of Indian Hill High

School's ayditorium under the

hot lights on the center of stage.

Cathy has known that stage

before, but sitting on the couch in the middle was symbolism enough

to make the English department

proud. You see, Cathy is center

stage for the current production

of Pow-Wow, playing the leading

lady "At in Sugar. first I didn't think things

would come together, " Cathy

said of Pow-Wow, "but now

things have started to shape up.

I was sort of stunned for a while

because we rechoreographed some

parts, and they were difficult to

learn over."

In her sophon~ore year, Cathy

sang "Wouldn't I t Be Lovely"

from My Fair Lady in Pow-Wow

as her fnst major part in the

annual production. This year,

although his name does not ap-

pear in the program, a fellow

named Huggy will share Cathy's

billing. I t seems Huggy is a

stuffed animal of Cathy's for

which she has a particular affec-

tion.

on the 6pot answers compiled by Todd Adrien

photos by Jim Koster Alan Whitman - I like it because I

don't agree with Ohio's 19 law.

I ~ o m , can I have another beer? . I Craig Johnson - Who can have a

What do You think of the plans to John Bethel - It's alright as long as good time with their parents let Parents serve beer to Seniors at the teachers don't abuse the privi- there? this year's graduation party? lege.

Jay Kohls - Let me ask my mom Teri Rosen - It seems to me that Michelle Adkins - One way or the about it first.

it's a grad. party and we the stu- other everyone will end up drink- -- dents don't place that much ern- ing anyway.

phasis on a non-alcoholic party,

but thc parents sure seem to! Jay McFarland - It's fine as long

as things don't get out of hand.

Priscilla Bower - I don't think our

parents need to have anything to

do with it.

Wendy Wishard - I think it's good,

but I can't see my mom handing

me anything more than two beers.

Jenny Havlovic - If you can't Missy Milligan - It's fair because drink there, people will just get it's your last year in high school

i 1 wasted beforehand. and the Seniors deserve it. DJ Homan - I feel the drinking is\ I

photo by Greg Meyers

&thy and Huggy prepare for their big date in the spotlight. a

0.k. at the party, but 1 don't Kevin McDonald - My parents Laura Humon - It'sfine as long as drink. won't hand me anything. it's 0.k. with yaur parents.

Page 6 CHIEFTAIN CHIEFTAIN Page 7 March 1 1,1983 March 1 1,1983 sors. (Little is currently attending

classes at the University of Cin-

nd Liftle receive honors cinnati.)

senior sketch

Gus gears up for Pow-Wow, While in Rome, he will tour

the surrounding Italian country-

side viewing ancient Roman ruins.

"I'm looking forward to getting

materials and pictures for my

classes," Little commented.

Later, Mr. Little will spend

another two weeks at a coastal

resort in southern Italy. The pur-

pose of this visit is to view the

cities of Pompeii and Hercula-

nium. Commenting on the

Roman ruins, Mr. Little said,

"You can read about it all the

time, but by seeing it, you can

really get a feel for it."

by Kenneth M. Jones

Mrs. Patricia Connelly has

been chosen as a consultant fo,

the revision of a math book en-

titled Advanced Math: A Prepara-

tion for Calculus.

Connelly, along with several

other math teachers around the

nation, will supervise the second

revision of Advanced Math.. The

1972 edition of this book was

used last year in the Advanced

Math courses.

According to Mrs. Connelly,

the ievision should be finished by

concert review

July and the hardbook third edi-

tion should be printed in August.

Commenting on her being chosen

as consultant, Connelly said, "It's

quite an honor, and it's good

recognition for the school." * * * * *

Eta Sigma Phi awarded Latin teacher Mr. Sherwin Little with a

scholarship to visit Rome and

other cities in Italy this summer. Mr. Little entered the scholar-

ship competition along with

100 - 150 other members of Eta Sigma Phi, the classics honor soci-

ety. The scholarship required

recommendations from former

college professors and an essay ex-

plaining why the applicant wants

to go to Rome. Little feels one

reason why he may have won th8

scholarship is because the frater-

nity tries to promote the teaching

profession and many of the other

app\icants were students.

Little will spend six weeks this

sunhmer in Rome at the American

Adademy. He will most likely be

th& only undergraduate teacher in

thk company of college profes-

dreams tele ision stardom luminaries through his father's in-

volvement in local television.

And secondly, he probably could

do a decent job of newscasting, if

only because of his experience as

the reader of Indian Hill's own

second period announcements.

"You lose a lot of self-res-

pect," comments Gus, "reading

those things every morning and

knowing that no one is listening."

The frustration has been building

up for months now, and he is aim-

ing for "revenge by the end of the

year."

by John Lilly

The baritone is everywhere. If

you've been to Pow-Wow or heard

Chamber Choir in action or seen a

Drama club production recently,

you've heard it. If you've done

nothing more than simply sit in

second period this year, you've

heard it.

The voice belongs to Gus

Gordon, and by all accounts, both

of them are bound for glory.

"It may sound strange, but I

want to be the greatest anchor-

man in America," says Gus of his 'Mr. Soul' r .ouses Riverfront cro wde The concert seemed to climax

at the end of "Sugar Mountain."

Mr. Soul was exiting the stage

singing "You're leavin' there too

soon," (how true) and the crowd

sang three refrains by itself in

near-perfect rhythm and harmony

before collapsing under the

weight of sheer numbers and

distance.

Cries of "more!" echoed

through the coliseum until Neil

once again appeared on stage for a

second encore. Although no one

liked the rendition of "Computer

Age," I must admit that it was an

effective way for Neil to dismiss a

crowd that would stay all night to

hear him do tunes like "Old Man''

and "Heart of Gold."

. - ultimate dream. "I think Cincin-

nati needs a young face, and I can

give them that."

Gus speaks half-jokingly of

deposing his "close personal

friends A1 (Schottelkotte), Nick

(Clooney), and Rick (James)" as

reigning deans of Cincinnati

newsdom, but none of that talk is

as absurd as i t may sound to the

untrained ear.

First of all, Gus actually has

met many of Cincinnati's video

Just how that revenge on the

entire apathetic IH student body

will take shape is as yet unknown,

but Gus may take it out on his . A +

by Peter Carr

I had second thoughts when

the alarm went off at 3:00 a.m.

Sure, I wanted good tickets for tht

concert, but was it worth getting

out of my nice warm bed and

braving the cold?

I ended up at the Coliseum

Ticketron a little before 4:00, and

there was already a fair-sized

gathering of Neil Young fans

hopping around trying to keep

warm. An unknown number of

people had blockaded themselvcs

off right in front of the box-office

window. Most of that group were

concealed in tents and sleeping

bags.

I asked a guy who wasn't

wearing a coat how long they had

been there. "Oh, just about since

noon yesterday afternoon!" he

blurted and then danced off

singing "Pass out the acid-we all

fall down!" Oh, that's why hc

doesn't need a coat.

Other people were gathered

around an old garbage can loaded

with burning wood and trash.

By 8:00 I determined that I

was undoubtedly insane. I

couldn't feel my toes, despite the

fact I had a blanket wrapped

around my body. Masochism and

music go hand in hand.

Ticketron eventually opened

around 10: 15, and I got wretched

seats. Was it worth it? YES!

About a month after that cold

morning of waiting, the digital

marquis on the face of Riverfront

Coliseum read "Neil Young-sold

out." Tonight's the night.

The actual concert was incrcd-

ibly personal in spitc of the

fact that it was k l d in the

monstrous coliseum. No loud back-up band. No warm-up band.

No ginlmicky jawas (roadeyes)

setting up thirteen foot fake

microphones. Just plain and

simple Neil Young.

The first set was 100%

acoustic (wooden music). I think

he opened with "The Old Laugh-

ing Lady." Some really great

oldies, like "Down by the River"

were played. What I find really

amazing is that such a basic guitar

player can write and perform such

satisfying music. None of his

tunes are difficult or complex,

but they are original. That

personal touch and originality

combine to make Neil Young a

great musician.

The crowd's reaction to the

second set was equally ecstatic.

The energy flowing through the

crowd during such compositions

as "Ohio" and "Powderfinger"

was electrifying. The only break

in that energy was the songs

played from Trans.

Neil Young can play

harmonica, piano and guitar, but

he is rather inept on the

synthesizer. Fortunately for the

crowd, he only did three of these

numbers. All of them got poor

response, despite the amount of

work Neil was putting into the

performance.

favorite punching bag, Chieftain's photo by Greg Meyers

Own tain is possibly the Ned. best publica- "Chief- Gus stardom. hopes t o use the morning announcements t o catapult himself to

tion ever produced by mankind,

especially the comic strips." senior sketch "Ned" has been viciously

~ a m p o o n i n g a ~ a s p e c t s o f I H f o r Cathy basks in IH s~otliahts, one and a half years now and is

f I w ,

see GUS, p. 8 becomes animal's stacle mother

To say Cathy is busy is most

always an understatement. She

works a t Madeira One Hour Dry-

cleaning everyday except over the

last two months because of Pow-

Wow rehearsals.

"I like it a lot," Cathy said.

"It sounds corny, but I've met a

lot of people there and become

friends with them. And I really

like the people I work with."

And then there is cheerlead-

ing. Cathy has spent four years as a cheerleader in high school and

says she enjoys that too when she

is "not up a t all hours making

concoctions for the players. But

they deserve it."

When there are a few moments

to spare in the evening, Cathy

likes t o stay in shape, working out

at Spa Lady or participating in

Jazzercize. "I'm really concerned

about it," she said of her fitness

efforts. "I really like Jazzercize.

I t helps me get out all my frustra-

tions."

Those moments when Cathy

an take time to do her own thing

are few and far between.

"My dad tells me not t o do

too much or I will wear myself

out. There are times when I want t o stop everything and take a

see CATHY, p. 8

by Kurt Dusterberg

There was probably no more

appropriate place to conduct an

interview with Cathy Fields than

on the stage of Indian Hill High

School's ayditorium under the

hot lights on the center of stage.

Cathy has known that stage

before, but sitting on the couch in the middle was symbolism enough

to make the English department

proud. You see, Cathy is center

stage for the current production

of Pow-Wow, playing the leading

lady "At in Sugar. first I didn't think things

would come together, " Cathy

said of Pow-Wow, "but now

things have started to shape up.

I was sort of stunned for a while

because we rechoreographed some

parts, and they were difficult to

learn over."

In her sophon~ore year, Cathy

sang "Wouldn't I t Be Lovely"

from My Fair Lady in Pow-Wow

as her fnst major part in the

annual production. This year,

although his name does not ap-

pear in the program, a fellow

named Huggy will share Cathy's

billing. I t seems Huggy is a

stuffed animal of Cathy's for

which she has a particular affec-

tion.

on the 6pot answers compiled by Todd Adrien

photos by Jim Koster Alan Whitman - I like it because I

don't agree with Ohio's 19 law.

I ~ o m , can I have another beer? . I Craig Johnson - Who can have a

What do You think of the plans to John Bethel - It's alright as long as good time with their parents let Parents serve beer to Seniors at the teachers don't abuse the privi- there? this year's graduation party? lege.

Jay Kohls - Let me ask my mom Teri Rosen - It seems to me that Michelle Adkins - One way or the about it first.

it's a grad. party and we the stu- other everyone will end up drink- -- dents don't place that much ern- ing anyway.

phasis on a non-alcoholic party,

but thc parents sure seem to! Jay McFarland - It's fine as long

as things don't get out of hand.

Priscilla Bower - I don't think our

parents need to have anything to

do with it.

Wendy Wishard - I think it's good,

but I can't see my mom handing

me anything more than two beers.

Jenny Havlovic - If you can't Missy Milligan - It's fair because drink there, people will just get it's your last year in high school

i 1 wasted beforehand. and the Seniors deserve it. DJ Homan - I feel the drinking is\ I

photo by Greg Meyers

&thy and Huggy prepare for their big date in the spotlight. a

0.k. at the party, but 1 don't Kevin McDonald - My parents Laura Humon - It'sfine as long as drink. won't hand me anything. it's 0.k. with yaur parents.

Page 8 CHIEFTAIN

movie review

'Lords' con tin ues 'Taps' tradition by Ron Jones

As I sat watching The Lords o f Discipline, I notice some similari-

ties to another movie. Taps and

The Lords of Discipline are al-

most the same. Except that in

The Lords of Discipline, the story

continues. Whereas Timothy

Hutton pays his dues as soon as he comes to terms with himself,

David Keith, the movie's hero,

goes on to act and suffer from his

decisions.

David Keith plays Will, a 1964

senior cadet at the Carolina Mili-

tary Institute. He is assigned to

look after Pierce, the first black

man in the Institute's history.

Everybody else on campus wants

Pierce out. But all Pierce has to

do is to pass through "hell night"

along with the rest of the plebes,

and he's in.

Unfortunately, an elite group

called "The Ten" wants him out

even after he passes through hell

night. "The Ten" is a select

group of top cadets who enforce

Institute policies. Their main

weapons are fear, surprise, and a

ruthless devotion to slaughter

anything that gets in their way. One of their victims, a fat man

named Poteet who resembles and

squirms like Curly of the Three

Stooges, spouts out everything

"The Ten" tell him while Will is

try&g to save him from falling to

his death.

Will is tormented by his situa- tion. He realizes his duties to

Pierce, and he knows "The Ten" is after him. Then he learns that

the Institute tolerates and, yes,

even backs the mobsters. Will begins to question his

education and the value of the

Institute, and as soon as he re-

solves his conflicts, he determines

to destroy "The Ten".

Will is made out to be the

human and humane being. Al-

though he is ordered to protect

Pierce, the viewer realize that Will

acts out of other reason. As one

can tell by his civilians clothes,

Will is a rebel. His actions they-

GUS, from p. 7 one outlet for Gus' avocation as a

caricature artist, a hobby he has

been pursuing "ever since I first

picked up a pencil - probably

Freshman year." (In all serious-

ness, he has been cartooning for

many a year now.) As usual, Gus

relates his drawing to a career in

broadcasting; "Ira Joe Fisher

(Channel 12 weatherman) is my

hero. I can already draw; now I just have to learn to do it back-

wards." -

Until he can perform in front

of the TV cameras, though, Gus will simply have to content him-

self with the Indian Hill auditori-

um. He's certainly at home there;

as a long-standing member of

both Drama Club and Thespians,

Gus has done more than a few

acting roles. ,Of his dramatic in-

volvement, he comments, "I like

it. It's 'neat'. I enjoy creating

characters onstage; it lets me ex-

press my pent-up creativity ." Other outlets of Gus' have

included Cincinnati Music The-

atre's production of Hello, Dolly!, in which he was a "chorus boy",

and Indian Hill's own Pow-Wow

musicals.

He is always happy to rave

about any Pow-Wow, and this

year's production of Sugar, in

which he is starring along with

Cathy Fields and Todd Cox, is no

exception. "Paw-Wow is by far

my favorite activity. Sugar is a great show with a super cast -Is

that too many expletives?" Gus has been honing his sing-

ing skills for the big event in the

IH Chamber choir, an organiza-

tion he describes as "top-notch".

March 1 1,1983

fore are of himself and his own

courage. Another interesting

character is his cadetcaptain, "Bear". When Will and Bear talk,

Will is actually debating his gut

feelings with his conscience, as

Bear personifies. The film itself is good. It easi-

ly strikes fear in the audience

concerning the military training of the Institute. However, as a

result of the mood of the movie,

the struggle between Will and

"The Ten" loses some of its effect despite the devastating conse-

quences. The plot keeps the

audience going but never gives it-

self away.

To sum up my feelings, if you

have the time and the money, but

most of all, the desire to see this m.ovie, go ahead. I t would be a

mediocre investment.

Another musical activity of his is

playing first trombone with al-

most any Indian Hill band that

has one. "I must like it; I spend

most of my time there," observes

Gus of his part in the Indian Hill

marching, concert, jazz, and pep

bands, the IH brxss quintet, and

the EHL Honors Band. Upon getting out of this

chicken outfit, Gus plans to at-

tend Miami or CCM, where he will

major in broadcasting and proba-

bly spend his spare time pretty much the same way he spends it now: watching or listening to his

favorite performers. He enjoys the comedy of Benny Hill, Me1

Brooks, and SCTV. As far as

music, Gus has "pretty weird"

taste. "It's Broadway shows,

straight across the board."

Weird? Well, maybe. But

what can you expect from some-

one who eats, sleeps, breathes,

and lives showbiz twenty-four

hours a day and is actually:good

at it?

... Cathy keeps right on talking CATHY, from p. 8 breather, but I know I wouldn't

have enjoyed my high school

years like I have if I weren't in-

volved." Cathy has narrowed her col-

lege choices down to Indiana

University, Miami, University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and

Clemson. But because she is so

close to her family, Cathy admits,

"I think Chapel Hill and Clemson

may be a little out of my zone. I

don't want to go that far away

because I'm not prepared for

coming home only once or twice

a year."

Cathy will be getting a taste of

the business field she hopes to

enter when she begins working for

Creative Marketing for senior

search this spring. She will have

the opportunity to work with a computer Tim, an advertising

agency and a recording studio.

Then again, if dreams could

come true Cathy would be a singer or an actress. She realizes

that her onetime dream of being

Policewoman is not likely 'to

materialize, but she will not rule

out singing.

"I've really keyed on vocals. I

just love to sing. I even sing in

the shower. Still, I don't think I

will ever be good enough for the

real world,"

Whether Cathy is an advertis-

ing agent or an actress or even Policewoman, she hopes someday

"to live in Florida in a place like

Indian Hill ... that sounds snobby,

doesn't it?"

And if, just by chance, she

finds a day with flothing to do , she said, "I think I would relax

and do something fun - maybe go

sailing. Or as Jay McFarland

would say, '1 would just take it

EZ.' "

March 1 1,1983

chieftain survey IC I

Chieftain recently surveyed all of the teachers with the following question. "How do you feel

about the 'teacher evaluation sys- tem' and the tenure system? Do

you think that the administra- tion's present policy for reduction in forces (RIF) is a fair policy for the teacher?" Although few

teachers responded to this ques- tion, here are a few of the re- sponses we did receive:

A great deal of energy has

gone/goes into this difficult job

(of evaluating teachers). Besides

the formal observations and "drop-in" informals (evaluations)

by the administration, there are

observations by department heads

CHIEFTAIN Page 5

comment and observations of individual

teachers of one another - some

times self-initiated, sometimes assigned on an "improvement

task."

Much effort is spent encourag- ing self-evaluation. It would be

hard to increase the opportunities

for evaluation. We do need to in-

crease the publicity/self-esteem

about good teaching work.

As best as I understand it (the

RIF system), it sounds extremely

fair. But these matters always

must be judged by specific results

and that's where the subjectivity

produces disagreement. I know

of no teachers unjustly "rail-

roaded" out.

on new RIF policy To understand the faculty's The system is not designed to

attitude to the teacher evaluation

system, one must first understand

the history of the system.

Briefly: the system was devel-

oped and subsequently modified

by a committee that consisted of

teachers, parents. administrators and

During the last revision, last

year, the committee again met to

consider changes; after many meetings and much work the ad-

ministration disregarded the

committee's work and recommen- dations and unilaterally instituted

the present evaluation policy.

From the original intent of the

evaluation procedure, to improve

performance, the procedure is

now being used to intimidate the

teaching staff. The administrative

philosophy now is that fear is the

best motivator.

The teaching staff agrees that

evaluation is the proper role of

the administration; and we also

want the best people in the class-

room. The problems lie in the

manner in which the evaluation

procedure was instituted and is

currently being used. The

teachers' trust of administrative

motives is very low, and the belief

that criteria other than teaching

ability are being used to deter-

improve teaching, but instead is

an instrument to fire teachers. It

tries to substitute judgement with a form.

I t is a system that no U.S.

corporation would ever accept.

I think the teacher evaluation

is a good system, but whoever does the evaluating is only one

person's opinion. Teachers that

are hot qualified should not have

been hired in the first place.

Tenure - meaningless.

New policy - intelligent. - . - Formal evaluation - ineffec-

tive.

Can an administrator ade-

quately evaluate a teacher on the

basis of a couple observations?

Different administrators eval- uate differently. One could take

a "hard" line approach. Another

could take a "soft" line approach.

The "best" teachers should

stay. Determining what "best" is should take into account many

mine who goes and who stays is variables - academic as well as

Carroll, Wells, Brockman, Smith personal involvement, concern

and consideration shown to stu- * * * * *

selected for BOYS, Girls State dents.

by Kevin Walzer

Four juniors have been se- student must be a junior in high lected as representatives for the school. He must be strong in all

u

1983 Boys and Girls State. Bob academic areas, exhibit strong in- Carroll and Win Wells wiU repre-

sent IH in the boys division, while

Kris Brockman and Elizabeth

Smith will represent the girls. All

applicants were judged by an in- terview with teachers, counselors

and PTA members.

The boys division will be held

June 11-19 at Bowling Green

University in Bowling Green,

Ohio. It is sponsored by the

American Legion, which pays for

all expenses.

The girls competition will be

held at Ashland College in Ash-

land, Ohio. Brockman and Smith

are being funded by the PTA.

The program, which will be held

June 18-25, is also sponsored by

the American Legion.

To apply for the program, the

- terest in matters of government,

and show qualities of leadership.

He should be able to communi-

cate well through written and

verbal expression and should rep-

resent the best aspects of his

school.

According to a flyer supplied by Mrs. Sharon Smith, the pur-

pose of Boys and Girls State is

"to educate young men and

women in the duties, privileges,

rights and responsibilities" of

American citizenship. It is a

simulation of government in

which students have an oppor-

tunity "to learn the problems of

government with special emphasis

on the contributions men and

women make" to city, state and

national welfare.

photo by Jim Koster

Pictured above are next year's newly elected Key Club officers.

Standing left to right are President Janet Nicolas, Vice-President

Paul Monach, Secretary Barb Neu, Treasurer Nancy Hopple, and

Page 4 March 1 1,1963 ence, the, club will prepare to

IH IA Club competes at state today- produce picnic tablei-and deck chairs for members of the IH community. The 'money from

by Chris Wiech these and other projects will be Seven members of the Indus- Contests such as Technical members Steve Dubell (Southwest

trial Arts Club traveled to Col- Writing, Technical Speaking, and District Vice-President) and Chris umbus for their annual conven- Practical Drafting are only a few Wiech (AIASA Vice-President)

tion yesterday. Early this morn- of the scheduled events for the will relinquish their seats on the

ing the other fifteen IA members two day contest. A ~ S O at this Ohio-AIASA Executive Commit-

joined them for the remainder of conference the new state offi- tee to the newly elected officers. today's competition. cers will be elected. Senior Upon return from the Confer-

AFS hosts 17 foreign students from 16 countries by Kelly Flaherty A pot luck dinner was held for Tomorrow'several exchangers will

The American Field Service all of the students on March 8. attend Pow-Wow.

Club hosted seventeen AFS stu- dents on AFS Day March 9.

All of the exchange students, who are residing with host fami- lies in Cincinnati, Columbus, and Indiana, are participating in a pro- gram lasting the duration of the school year.

The thirteen students from the Cincinnati area are: German Al- b e r t ~ , Columbia; "Lee" Brao, Brazil; Alice Flett, Scotland; Fiona Frew, Australia; "Charlie" Feis, Denmark; Petra Grabher, Austria; Herman Zulu, Chili; Teresa Macredo, Portugal; "Sweeny" Mogensen, Denmark;

Marit Monterio, Netherlands; Andrea Russo, Brazil; Fredrick Spaey, Belgium; and Kirsten Woischwill, Germany.

The four exchange students

residing in Columbus, who are currently participating in a five

day visit are Diego Coellar of

Equador, Erik Nodlan of Norway, Catherine Simns of Northern Ire-

land, and Dumisoni Tinis from South Africa.

Cafeteria raises by David Stradling

Several changes have been made in the cafeteria, including a

price increase that took effect this past Tuesday.

The price of a regular or "type A" lunch is now $1.05 and

most a la carte items increased five cents, including milk, which is now 25 cents.

Mrs. Rosemary Wilson re- placed Mr. Ken Levit as the Food Service Director. Wilson has brought with her several ideas, in- cluding the condiment table out- side of the lunch line. The condiments, according to Wilson, have cut the time spent waiting in lines by eight minutes.

Wilson has also brought new food ideas to Indian Hill. To

the Deli line she has added a pizza

used to finance next year's club's expenses to the state convention.

Over spring break, construc- tion is to begin on the installation of the new Industrial Arts dark room down the hall from the

drafting room.

If you are interested in hosting a student next year, contact Kelly Flaherty during school or Mrs. Carolyn Berry at 561-4473.

Photo by Jim Koster The hosts and foreign exchange students participating in the AFS five day visit t o IH are (first row left t o

right) Erik Nodland of Norway, David Agin; (second row) Kelly Flaherty, Catherine Simms of Northern

Ireland, Diego Coellar of Equador, Paula Greeno, Dumisoni Tinis of South Africa, and David Rhodenbaugh.

line. This line would serve spe- 1 rich price 1 0 ~ cialty items, including health

foods. Snacks would be available bagel and several sandwiches. In at the ends of other lines. In the addition, today is the debut of future, Wilson is also considering the potato bar. a Red's baseball promotion and

Wilson is also considering re- she plans t o continue all-youcan- placing the snack line with a new eat lunches.

Warfel wins $25.00 in computer contest

by Jim Cook . athletic eligibility. This informa- Junior Tom Warfel recently tion is what is recorded on the

won a 25 dollar savings bond in emergency cards each athlete fills the high school division of the out in the beginning of the sea- ECCO micro-computer program- son.

ming contest. ECCO is an organization made

up of teachers supporting com-

Puter education. They sponsor and wills are available in , the contest to promote fluency in the computer field. I the main office and areL

The idea comes from Miss due March 25th- No' I Wehman, who asked Warfel to

devise a program to keep track .of' I

The

PTA . IS

supporting

YOU advertisement

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March 1 1,1983

teacher feature

CHIEFTAIN < ...,

Page 9 sori education program at Cincin- nati Country Day. With the em-

phasis on education, Wund has de-

Wund laments geographic mistake veloped teaching. Own on

by Kurt Dusterberg "I know I was a geographic

mistake," says French teacher JoAnne Wund. "I should have been born in France. I was even

born on Dday." Wund's interest in French

dates back to her childhood.

The thought of being different reminded her of another event a

few years back. "One spring when I was away

at school, I had a friend cut my hair. She said, 'Is this short enough?' I just kept saying, 'No - shorter.' Then she got out a

Mrs. Wund hangs out (differently, of

Since her parents spoke Italian and could communicate without having her understand, she viewed Italian as a secret code. "So my

reaction was to learn a different code," Wund explained. "I wanted to be different. I guess I

always wanted to do what was un- expected."

After her birth in New Jersey and a private school education in

course) in the library.

razor, and I had these long braids in the back. She cut them-all off,

and I just laughed the whole time. Then when I came home I re- member Dad saying, 'We're buy- ing you a wig.' I like to be dif-

ferent." Wund still can claim to be

quite different today; she teaches

coming evenks

AP French Literature in the high school, and serves on the AP French Literature Committee. Wund is the only high school

teacher in the country to serve on the staff.

"It's overwhelming and hum-

bling, yet very exciting," Wund

said enthusiastically. "It's really something to work with these people whose textbooks I've read and works I've learned. To have a

voice in something like this is the

ultimate ego trip."

Wund's duties include formu- lating the questions which appear on the AP test as well as grading portions of the exams. Her work

often entails trips to such places as Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco, which she seems to accept rather readily. "It's great fun. I really enjoy

trips with this crowd," she said. Wund feels foreign languages

are very important today not only for their value in college consider- ation, but for career and self- oriented reasons as well. "A foreign language helps your self- discipline. You have to make yourself do it. You have to force

yourself to memorize and repro- duce. And. let's face it. it's a sign - of an educated person."

Madame Wund has taught at

Indian Hill for 15 years. ("Mr. Simmons hired me for the junior

high, so he's the one to blame," she said.) Her husband teaches

math and physics at Wilmington

High School, and they currently

have their five year old son

Charlie enrolled in the Montes-

anh ha it an, Wund again did what W ~ S different and unexpected. Ma rSa 1 is to g race Ci nci n na ti She decided to leave the East to attend Ursaline College in Cleve-

land and then Western Reserve

University where she studied French.

"I left the East because I

realized it was not for me. I was

really fed up with the pseudo-

sophistication."

Although she "was running from all men" at the time, it was

at Western Reserve where she met

her husband who attended nearby

Case Institute of Technology.

Since her husband was science

oriented, "We used to go to the

conservatory at night," Wund re-

membered. "It was so romantic."

Cincinnati Gardens

Billy Squier with Def Leppard - April 5 ,8 :00- do it The Kinks - April 8, 8:00 - good times are "predictable"

Adam Ant with INXS - April 1 7, 8:00 - put on a little make-up

Bogar t 's

Tony Bennett - March 11, 7:00 and 1&30 - celebrating Boss's

birthday Commander Cody - March 12,

8:00 - moving right along Iggy Pop - March 1 3, 8:00 - self-

abuser Wynton Marsalis & his Quintet -

March 14, 8: 00 - pass

Phoebe Snow - March 15, 8:00 - everybody's back up singer

War - March 16, 8:00 - Central American rock

Sha Na Na - March 23, 8:00 - competition for Vandenberg Gil Scott-Heron - March 24, 8:00 - dearoop en porshna

Judy Collins -March 25,8:00 - of "Both Sides Now" fame

Edgar Winter - March 26, 8:00 - in spring

Lene Lovich - March 28, 8:00 - odd little lady

Psychedelic Furs - March 29,8:00

- pretty in pink

"As teachers, we have to real-

ize we have a tremendous influ- ence on kids. We have to realize

that any kid we deal with is not a

finished product; he is constantly

changing. "I am constantly aware, or try

to be, of people's feelings. You have to understand there will be

times when people say, 'Hey, I had a bad night.' Kids are people and their feelings count for a great deal. I try to establish a rapport with my students, but in

no way are they my pals. But I do care about them."

The Wund family lives on a farm in Wilmington. They have a

horse, and raise sheep. "I even spin wool," she said.

Wund enjoys the outdoors whenever possible. Over Christ-

mas, the family went to the Everglades National Park on a camping trip. They also spend time on their sailboat on Cowan

Lake.

"I'm not really athletic. I like to just get out and walk. I do a

lot of things to just compete

against myself." There seems to be no doubt

that Wund is people-oriented, and

that shows up best in her religious views.

"I was raised as a Catholic, but I rebelled," she explained. "I

wouldn't say I'm anti-religious,

but I'm more concerned with

helping people in this life; I'm not concerned with an afterlife.

I figure I'm not an evil influence on the world and I'm an honest

person. My religion is people."

Randy Newman - March 30,8:00

- he may take off his pants

English Beat - April 7, 8:00 - the

beat goes on

Riverfzomt Coliseum Willie Nelson with Juice Newton - March 20,7:30 - bandana man

Rush - .March 30, 7:30 - you'll probably be in Florida

Journey with Bryan Adams - best

o' the month

Kenny Rogers with Crystal Gayle

- April 24, 7:00 - Crystal needs a

haircut

UD Arena, Dayton

The Beach Boys - March 27,7:30

- flogging a dead horse

Page 10 CHIEFTAIN March 1 1,1983

SO ftballe rs L un for an 0th er !HI title ~ ~ ~ t ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ r ~ ~ l ~ e ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ i c ~ - by Dwight Poffenberger The Squaws wlll play 22 would have an outstanding fear," in the gym on ~ o n d a ~ s and

It's that time of year again games this spring, of which ten said Wessinger. Wednesdays. If the weather co- when the softballs are dusted off are league games. They open play The Squaws started condition- operates, they will be practicing and the bats are taken out. April 5 at Milford. They end the ing Februarv 28. On March 7 outside soon.

Head coach Robert Wessinger is once again preparing a group of Indian Hill girls to make a run at the EHL title. His squad has captured the EHL championship the last two years. Last year the Squaws went 8-2 in the league, and 19-2 overall.

Wessinger feels the team has a good chance for a third straight title but stressed, "For us to win the EHL, we will have to win the close games." The Eastern Hills League is a well-balanced league in softball. Wessinger estimates that one half of the league games are won by one run. As an ex- ample he pointed out how the Squaws only beat Milford by one run in two different games. Indian Hill won the league and Milford finished last. "Anybody

season May 13 and 14 in the Har-

rison Tournament. This season Wessinger will

have a squad of 15 players. Nine of them have previous varsity experience. The team will look

toward Mary Howe, Pam Loewen- stine, and Holly Rodes for leader- ship. "If we're going to have a good season, these three will have to have good years," said Wes- singer. Only two seniors will par- ticipate, JoAnne Pierce and Loewenstine. Wessinger added, "It appears some of the players will be freshmen."

Wessinger feels freshmen "are usually scared to death" but im- prove their sophmore year. He feels last year's freshmen - Molly Roche, Beth Myers, Gretchen Kindel, and Jenny Malloy - will

can win anytime," noted Wessin- help the Squaws a great deal. "I ger. would hope at least three of them Suzanne Lowes makes contact a t the

Braves fall to McNick, 78-55, look to next year by Jon Kitei Though the teams were more The other two returning Var-

For the second consecutive year there was an abnormal balance of wins and losses in the

varsity Braves' record. Over the last two years the

Braves have compiled a dismal 7-35 record with one of those victories coming by forfeit. The

battling Braves suffered their seventeenth and final loss of the

season at the hands of number two seed McNicholas in the first round of sectional play at Lakota.

For the Braves the 78-55 loss was a reminder of just how much they will have to work if they are to

improve their records in recent history.

The Braves were close for much of the first quarter before the Rockets took control of the game. McNicholas was led by Mark Miller, a second team selec- tion to the AA Southwest Ohio All-Star Team and a good small- college prospect, scored 21 points and controlled the entire game from his point position. The Rocket Star played flawless bas- ketball while dishing out count- less assists.

Now that 1982-83's disaster has ended, it is time to look to next year. A major problem on this year's team was the lack of

team cohesiveness. It was as if

there were two Indian Hill squads on the team: the graduating seniors and the underclassmen.

frequently intermingled, it ap-

peared that they played best when tlie two six-player units

were left separate. Sophomore Rick Abrams could act as a bond between next year's seniors and

juniors and help the team play as a unit.

Next year's Braves, like this

year's Braves, will lack the "big man" that so many other schools

carry on their roster. However, the Braves will not be without rebounding strength. Dan Krem- chek at 6'3" and jumping-jack Bill Lange at 6'2" both have the abili- ty to hold the inside. In addition, Rick Watson and Jon Kitei should provide added rebounding punch in starting or relief roles.

sity Braves will be looked on to provide scoring punch.

Abrams, the first of the two, saw a great deal of playing time this year, contributing 15 points in the first Sycamore game. Abrams, a hard worker, is also a good leaper who at times seeming-

ly comes from nowhere to knock

in a missed shot at rim level. The other returning Brave is Mitch Theuring. Theuring, though short

at 5'9", can hit his off-the-shoul- der jump shot from anywhere. The junior speedster saw limited

playing time this season but is expected to regain the form that made him the reserve's MVP last

season. Joining the varsity ranks next

Girls' track lacks runners, not talent by Laurie Hallam the underclassmen, They feels

The girls' varsity track team is that it is too early to point out off to an early start this Year. any specific strengths, but he does Approximately a dozen girls have see potentiaL been ~unning road COurSes On This year Tirey hopes to place Tuesdays and Thursdays for the at least foudh in the league.

past three weeks. Sycamore, who had a young team Despite the small mmber of last year, will once again be a

girls going out for the team, tough competitor. Mariemont, coach Tirey is optimistic. Lisa having lost Missy Castetter, will

More, Shelley Stanforth, Jenny undoubtedly be a weaker team Woodhouse, and Laurie Hallam this spring. "It is unrealistic to

are the returning seniors. "These set our sights on the league cham- girls have been part of the track pionship," says Tirey,"but we

program for three or four years would like to start building the and will be able to make a great girls track program up to where it contribution," says Tirey. As for has been .in the past."

photo by Scott ~lanchard

plate in a recent practice.

season will be four to six of this year's reserves. Most prominent in the picture are 6'2" Pete Sere- metis and 6'3" Curtis Ott. Both Seremetis and Ott can play

the post position. Ott, who is a good shooter from 15 to 16 feet and in, also has the ability to play a wing.

Brian Rowe and Dave Stan- forth will provide shooting ability at guard, and Mike Wentz, another guard, may add some needed ball handline. Finally.

Brian Jehle, a 6'3" dark-horse, and the 6'1" oft-injured John Bishop may also add needed re-

bounding strength.

photo by Greg Meyers Senior Laurie Hallam wonders

how she can be expected to run in this weather.

March 11.1983

student - opinion ..

Herd believes teen pressures exist But w,, , can not . if we act twice our age then why

by Ron Herd

This student opinion con- cerns the pressure(s) on teenagers of today. It originated in a talk with assistant principal Mr. Gary

Gellert, in which he claimed that these pressures do not exist.

Although he altered his smug opinion a little, saying that all of the supposed pressures are "self-imposed," he went on to state that the pressures of today are not nearly as bad as they were

drug scene harder than any other class I know of at Indian Hill. It is not all peer pressure either. Agreed, the majority of it is due to the fact that they just want to be "cool," but there is a small amount who are in it to escape.

The divorce trend is a fine example of Mr. Gellert's "self-im- posed" pressures. "Casualties" of divorced parents find themselves

letter from SC

becoming the parents, while the parents become the kids. On Friday nights they check out mom's date for the evening and wonder if he is going to be a

breakfast guest for the next morn- ing, while staying home to watch the younger kids.

The list of "self-imposed" pressures, which make us act twice our age, goes on and on.

are we not treated like it?

In regards to Mr. Gellert's statement, I can not believe that one of our administrators, one who works for supposedly one of the top ten public schools in the nation, could have said something so unreasonable. Maybe the prob- lem with America is that everyone is too smug to just stop and open an ear and listen.

in the '60's. Maybe this is true - I wa but not 1 have a teenager talked in with the a , 6 0 3 ~ ; few SG calls for participation in Spring Food Drive teachers who grew up in the '60's who could not believe something

so ludicrous. My question is why is suicide

the third largest killer of to- day's teenagers? I guess it would

be absurd to think that pressure has anything to do with it. We

(the teenagers) are no longer the kids of today, we are the "adults"

of tomorrow. Today's society is refusing

kids the right to be immature, childish, happy, pure and naturaL It is no longer act your age; it's now act twice your age. I can already see the effects on the younger kids. I've seen

this year's freshman class hit the

Dear Students, One week has passed, and if

response to our Spring Food

Drive remains as sparse as it has been thus far, we could be do- nating an embarrassingly small amount of food.

To be honest, the goal of our drive was not solely to help local charities, but held a more sym- bolic value as well. We were ap- proached by one or more adminis- trators who suggested in so many words that one problem that Stu-

dent Government could address was the somewhat "self-centered" and "uncaring" attitudes of many

IH students. Our goal was to give IH students a chance to prove

themselves; tb give food to the

needy without extremes in peer pressure or personal incentives.

We did not expect the entire student body to completely rally around this cause, but rather to bring a can or two each in order to show we really are concerned with the problems of the poor. Two weeks remain; quite simply, the decision is yours.

The service committee has in- troduced a baseball "hit-a-thon" of sorts as its Muscular Distrophy project this year. Students are asked to sponsor baseball players or SG members who will then be

subjected to ten pitches in the batting cage. Ten hits at ten cents

a hit is $1.00 and so on. Batting will take place next Friday, March 17.

The following day intramural

teams from around the city will converge on the IH Gymnasium for the annual SG Intramural

Basketball Tournament. Indian Hill will be represented by the winner of the intramural tourna-

ment taking place tomorrow. A reminder that the date of

Musicfest has been moved from

Friday, May 20 to Friday, May 6 to accommodate students partici- pating in AP's.

Sincerely, Todd Cox &

Richard Stradling

* * * * * French exchangers return from Paris, Angers French school education. obseming the methods of

by Win Wells visited the lycee or high school accompanied their families on The group expressed their en-

Thirteen French exchange for two days before the school trips as Nancy HoppIe did during joyment with the trip by relating

students and faculty member Mr. dismissed for nine days of vaca- her visit to Mont-St.-Micheal. their experience upon returning Robert Blaney returned home tion. Most of the exchangers After the week vacation the ex- home. Elizabeth Smith said, "I following three weeks abroad in stayed in Angers, however, some changers spent two more davs at have a whole new outlook on

France on Thursday, March 3. The students left Cincinnati

Thursday, February 10 for the seven hour trip to Charles De

Gaulle Airport in Paris. The group spent the next three days in Paris, where they roomed at the

F.I.A.P., a youth hotel on the southern edge of Paris.

While touring the city, the students walked the Champs Elysee at night and visited La Place de la Concorde, Le Centre

Pompidu, L'Arc de Triumph, Le Louvre and La Tour Eiffel.

Following their stay in Paris, they proceeded, by train, to their

host city of Angers, located about 150 miles from Paris. Upon arriv- ing, the students were greeted by their host families. The wouv

society". Another exchanger, Bob Rhoad, said the idea he found most important with the trip was "being able to make sacrifices in order to adjust t o a different culture."

Accompanying the 12 Indian

Hill students and Blaney on their sojourn was Ann Powers, the

daughter of Social Studies teacher Mr. James Powers. She is a senior

at Ursaline Academy.

Key Club raises $130.

Key Club has collected over $130.00 from Rock-A-Thon sponsors. The Rock-A-Thon took place three weeks ago today as a project to raise money for Camp

Stepping Stones. Club members - . then split up as each student left photo by Elizabeth Smith spent the night in the SSC rocking

French exchangers Anne Richards, BiIl Poffenberger, Mr. Blaney and in chairs and listening to rock with his or her respective family.

While in Angers, the students- Dave Cook watch a Frenchman bake bread in a boulangerie. music.

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editorial

CHIEF

One of the largest problems facing high school students today is drinking. At an alarming rate, younger and younger teens submit to peer pressure and begin drinking. Indian Hill is no exception - some s tu~ents become weekend drinkers before they become freshmen.

Indian Hill, like most high schools, has a drinking problem. The controversy stems over specifically what a drinking problem is; is the individual who

drinks on Friday and Saturday nights a problem drinker? Is the individual who drinks on the week- ends and occasionally on .the weekday nights a prob- lem drinker? Administrators and most parents would answer "yes" to the latter question. But what do students think?

More and more often we find students, mostly seniors, hitting the bottle Friday after school, Satur- day morning and other not so "regular times .'' Is this as bad as our elders think it is? Perhaps it is. It is becoming more and more apparent to students that drinking can get out of hand. Years before when we heard "alcoholic" we thought "bum on street corner downtown". Today our eyes have opened. We, es- pecially the senior class, see our peers drinking a great deal of the time out of school.

Another surprising fact is the amount which some teenagers can drink. Friends used to split a twelve- pack two or three ways but now they can drink one themselves. Students who drink so much so often are definitely skating on thin ice.

The problem is not with the student who only drinks a six-pack on the weekend. Under normal circumstances he will graduate, go to college and lead a normal life. The possibility for a problem exists but most individuals can deal with temptation and stay clear of drinking too much too often.

The problem is with the heavy, chronic high school drinker. Unchecked drinking can only lead to prob-

. lems. Spring break is only two weeks away. Let's not start something that may hamper us the rest of our lives.

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TAlN as I see it

Beauty is in the by John Bergman

Several weeks ago, the Gram- my Awards were presented to

those musicians who have alleged- ly surprised their contemporaries with the artistic quality of their work. Nominations for the Oscar

Awards were also made public. Most of the discussion which

surrounds events such as these is centered around the merit or lack

of merit of the winners and losers. This is not the topic to be investi- gated in this column. Rather, there is a far more interesting and stimulating area to be explored.

Firstly, is it really possible for a group of human beings to judge the merit of a work of art without using, as their main criterion, per-

sonal opinions? Secondly, even if we suppose, for the purpose of debate, that the answer to the preceding question is yes, should

the quality of a given work of art be judged by its comparison to

other works of art? Opinions and judgments of

good and bad can only be thought of as comparisons to models that we have constructed. Finally, one may say that it is simply a fact that some people should be rec- ognized and congratulated.

My personal assessment of the questions leaves me agreeing with some of the above opinions and disagreeing quite heartily with others. Certainly, one would be foolish to suggest that excellence is entirely a matter of taste. There is clearly a difference be- tween saying that something is to my liking, and saying it is good.

We must accept this to a cer- tain extent, if only to assure that we maintain some standards, as a

base for criticism. We run into a rather sizable roadblock, however, when we realize that art is far more than a display of excellence.

Excellence of form and tech- nique is important, and to be ad-

mired. Art is however, far more

complicated. It is a display of beauty.

People who are in favor of such awards as the ones mention-

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Ron Jones

Paul Smith Photographers Jim Koster,

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Contributors Laurie Hallam,

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ed above, and I should mention here that the polls would suggest they are in the vast majority, would obviously answer both of

the above questions positively. They point out that there are cer- tain criteria which simply are an intrinsic part of all artistic excel- lence.

Concrete details such as method, technique, and perfec- tion of form are as easily measur- ed by artistic experts as feet and inches are measured by a yard- stick. They hasten to add that they realize that technique is not all that matters, but they believe that people who have mastered that aspect of their craft should be duly rewarded.

The second question also arouses an affirmative response from these people's lips, primarily because they believe that it is the nature of the human animal to

compare and compete. They say that all of the conscious decisions that we make are based on ac- quired knowledge and slowly

brewed, but the one pleasure that art brings to us is, in the final an- alysis, uninhibited, non-intellec- tual, unassessable beauty!

The very first impressions that we get from a work of art are un- touched by thoughts of compara-

tive judgement. They are our real reaction to the experience of per- ception of experience itself.

As I see it, this indefinable joy is the factor which takes art out of the realm of competition and

comparison. If a work does not convey this pleasure to someone, it simply is not great art. If, on the other hand, it does, then it is great from the start, and compar- ison becomes a hopelessly unpro- ductive task of cerebral tedium.

Let the craftsman be judged on how he produces his product.

Let the artist be judged on what his product produces in us. in- ally, let all those who wish to in- dulge on competition pick up bats and balls and go out to the play- ground.

Wells, Peter Carr, Gus Gordon,

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Eric Paul, Kevin Walzer, Ron

Herd, John Bergman, Kelly

Flaherty, Margot Ayers, David

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March 1 1,1983 CHIEF

West pleased with track turnout by Richard Stradling should provide a sound founda-

It took only one practice for tion in the distance events," said

boys' track coach Bob West's West. greatest anxiety to be relieved. The squad's point of "uncer- Where West had originally feared tainty" will be in the sprints and a lack of numbers, he now speaks hurdles, where younger runners

highly of the turnout. mostly fill positions. It will be, "We are pleased with what we however, the field events that de-

feel is a decent turnout," West termine how the season goes. commented. "We not only have a "Dave Rhodenbaugh will be out-

good number of seniors, but some standing as usual in the pole vault,

new blood as well which is great but the other areas are for the

to see." West also hopes that Pow most part question marks," stated

Wow's ending will see a few addi- West. "We could be really strong tions to his squad. here or weak; it's just too early

The team's strong points this to tell," season according to West will be West added that he "would be in the long distance events. disappointed" if his Braves didn't "I~Iarc Levan in the 400, Dave finish among the top three places Rosenthal in the 800 and Dwight in the EHL, The trackmen open Poffenberger and Richard Strad- their season Wednesday, April 6

ling @ the mile and the two mile in Mariemont.

Swimmers well at state by Diane Remmell

Four members of the IH swim- team participated in the state championships this past weekend in Canton, Ohio.

Senior David Ackermann led the team at the state champion- ships, having qualified for the meet in two events. Seeded eleventh in the 200 I.M., Acker- mann held his own, finishing in

Rookie Benken sees by Tracy Megison

Final cuts will be made next week to determine this year's JV

softball squad.

eleventh place. In the 100 breast

stroke, Ackermann moved up from thirteenth seed to take sixth place in the state with a time worthy of All-American consider- ation. Those qualifying for the All-American Championships, for which 24 swimmers qualify in

each event, will be announced in approximately one month. Un- officially, David is presently qual-

JV softball as a 'lean After a total of five weeks of

pre-season conditioning, which began last Monday, February 28, the- Squaws will play the first of

Otroto by Scott Blanchard

Kristin Mains 1s not going to have much of a chance to tag out "Bill" Zesch if Bill keeps her foot on the base.

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photo by Greg Meyen Seniors Roger Geier and Marc LeVan lead the pack during Wednee- day's practice-@ sub-human temperatures.

z e d number 23 in the 100 breast diving competition, fell to take to go to the All-American Cham- twenty-fust place overall. Win- pionships. Ackermann was gerter, seeded twenty-fourth in "elated" with his performance at the 100 free, moved up in the state and also commented, "The rankings and finished seventeenth.

parties up there were awesome." Sophomore Beth Wingerter, Juniors Scott Lyon and Cliff the only Indian Hill girl to qualify

Wingerter also participated in the for the state championships, took state meet. Lyon, who was thirteenth place in the 100 free

seeded sixteenth in the boys' after going in at fourteenth seed.

~i ng experience' "I did ok," said Wingerter, "but I would have liked to have placed

their 16 games against Harrison in the top twelve." Being the on April 5. The first half of the only IH sophomore who made it team's games will be played away, to state, Wingerter promises ex- while the remainder wiU be on ceptional performances through- home turf. out high school.

Although all teams like to "It was a fun season," com- have a winning attitude, fust-year merited coach Chris Sigler. "I've JV &IS' coach Jim Benken has an enjoyed working with everyone." additional philosophy that fo- While the team is losing three cuses on the educational aspects seniors this year, it will, in of sports. L'I See it as a learning probability, gain quite a few experience in two ways: for freshmen as a result of the in- teaching some of the girls how to volvement of eighth graders on play softball and for those girls the Ottawa swim team W s year. who are looking toward playing

varsity next year." The JV team will be made up of mostly fresh- men and sophomores, Benken predicts, and this will provide for a strong and experienced varsity squad next year.

Benken elaborated further on his philosophy by stating, "This

year we would like to try playing every person on the team every

game. I'd rather lose and play all 15 girls than win and play only

ten." Benken hopes that this en- couraging attitude will motivate the JV girls to show the eagerness,

responsibility, and skill that makes teams winners.

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cruel. Am I any more cruel t o

that duck I shot than she is to the

fly she swatted or the ant she

stepped on. Do we judge an

animal's worth by its size? Is it

not more cruel to have starving

animals competing for a limited

food supply than to harvest them

through hunting?

Another fact the girl does not

know is that the lack of wild

animals today is due to loss of

habitat, not hunting. Concrety,

not guns, is the killer of God's

symbols.

In paying thirty dollars for a

state hunting license and a duck

stamp the hunter helps pay for

the preservation and improvement

of existing habitats. As a group,

hunters pay more to aid wildlife

than any other group in America.

I ask you people who claim hunt-

ing is cruel, "How much do you

pay to help preserve America's

wildlife?"

Granted not all hunters buy

licenses and not all stop after they

have shot their limit, but most do.

Most love that wild turkey they

are tracking or that elk they see

sports quiz

Vol. 32 No. 12 March 1 1, 1983

Indian Hill High School Cincinnati, Ohio 45243

1. Who holds the current indoor

record for the mile?

2. Which Cincinnati native was

the Olympic male archery gold

medalist in 1976? 3. Who was the first Major

League Baseball free agent? 4. Who was the starting goal-

tender for the Cincinnati

Kids? 5. Who was the only Cincinnati

native to be the heavyweight

boxing champion?

ers are not crue murderers o

south Pacific during the island-

hopping campaign of WWII.

Gallenstein began teaching in

Kentucky in 1950. From 1954 to

1962, he taught at Walnut Hills

High School. He was granted a

sabbatical to finish his degree at the University of Illinois. He then

came to Indian Hill later in ' 1962.

In reference to teaching, Gal-

lenstein stated, "I like the

challenge of teaching. I feel as if I'm contributing something to

society."

by Dwight Poffenberger

"How can you do that You're cruel," said a typical

Indian Hill girl clothed from the neck down with polo and izod

brand-name garments. I had just told her I went duck hunting over

the weekend.

Hunting is not a cruel sport.

It is not a bloody slaughter of defenseless game as many people

exagerate it to be. They do not

realize the long hours before

dawn the hunter spends in a duck

blind sipping coffee with a friend.

The two men share a love of the

wild, a love of the natural things

left on this earth.

Believe it or not, most hunters do not get up at 4 a.m. to see how

many birds they can kill. Most

roll out of their warm bed to

listen to a flock of geese feeding

or to see the sun come up over a

tion. In Ohio this year, dove and quail hunting were prohibited,

because Ohio could not afford the

loss.

What most people fail to real-

ize is that the various state Fish

and Game Departments really do know what they are talking

about. They know approximately how big a species' population is

and how many of them will die of

natural causes. In this way, they

judge how many birds or deer a

region can afford to lose to hunt-

ing without hurting the overall

population.

Hunting then does not hurt

the size of the population. If

rabbit hunting, for instance, was

disallowed in Ohio next fall, there

would not be more rabbits. Here-

in lies another public misconcep-

tion.

Back to the girl who said I am

Four staff members to retire in June by Eric Paul, Kevin Walzer,

Anna Batsakes, and Margot Ayers

Four teachers have decided to

retire at the end of this year.

Miss Eloise Balz, Mr. William

Fogle, Mr. Frank Gallenstein and Mr. William Kincaid have cumu-

latively taught 141 years.

Eloise Balz .

Miss Balz has served for 18

years in the high school. She had

worked for seven years previously

at Drake Road. She lists as her

prime career accomplishments her

organizing and opening the librar-

ies at both schools.

"I organized and opened the

one at Drake. When I came to the

of which were spent at IH.

"The new RIF policy has no-

thing to do with my retirement,"

insists Fogle. "The incentive that

caused me to retire was the early

benefit program." The progam

allows a double retirement bonus

for those who take advantage of it immediately.

Fogle could have retired last

year, but he decided he was not

ready. "Even this year," chuck-

led Fogle, "I was in shock when I realized I was resigning from my

teaching job." After retirement, he hopes for

some form of employment here at

Indian Hill in some limited teach-

ing capacity.

Frank Gallenstein

Mr. Gallenstein will leave IH

after teaching 21 years in the

math department.

MI. Gallenstein has no defi-

nite plans on how he will spend

his retirement. He commented

that after leaving, "what I'll miss

the most is the students that want

to learn."

Mr. Gallenstein attended

Morehead State University where

he majored in mathematics.

From 1943 to 1946, soon after

college, he served on the de-

stroyer escort USS Canally. Gal-

lenstein served as assistant navi-

gator and as quartermaster in the

ANSWERS

William Kincaid

*over the ridge. We want to see

more wildlife and more habitat,

but most of all we want to see that flock of geese or that sunrise

over the glittering water for qur

children to enjoy. Is that cruel?

Although Mr. Kincaid will no longer be teaching in the class-

room, he will remain sponsor of

the Chieftain. Kincaid has been a teacher for

high school 18 years ago, I had

the task of moving the library

from room 234 (currently a phys-

ics room) to the present center.

It was very challenging and most

enjoyable to move the library and

acquire all kinds of new things,

books, audiovisual equipment,

etc."

Miss Balz intends to remain

active after her retirement. "I

want to go out and live again. I

plan to do more work at IH. I'm

not sure what the administration

has planned for me, but I have

advised them I don't do win-

dows."

over thirty-five years, twenty-nine

of which have been in the Indian

Hill School System. He began his

teaching career at Ludlow and

Covington, Kentucky before

coming to Indian Hill. He com-

pleted his undergraduate studies

at Kentucky Wesleyan College

and received his master's degree in

English at the University of Ken- tucky.

While at Indian Hill, Kincaid

has taught English, typing,

speech, journalism, and develop-

mental reading. He has also been

involved in the extra-curricular

aktivities of students. He has

been a sponsor of drama club

plays and a coach of tennis and

golf teams. For many years, Kin-.

rippling lake. Whether a bird is killed or not, they have shared,

and they have enjoyed when the

guns are finally put away.

Hunters hunt because they

love to see, not kill game. Hunt-

ers do not go hunting to see how

many times they can pull the trig-

ger. Thousands of deer hunters

Three IH seniors land athletic scholarships by Paul Monach offer of a 25% football scholar- Georgetown. "I? was a bunch of

Three IH seniors recently re- ship from Georgetown College in small things. I didn't like the ceived schohship offers for their Kentucky but declined. He pre- facilities, and I didn't like the

respective sports from three local sently awaits word for his first area." Fitzmaurice led the foot-

colleges. choice, Ashland College in Ash- ball Braves with 975 yards rushing' Angela Farley received the land, Ohio. Fitzmaurice ex- this past season.

highest athletic compliment with plained why he opted against

all over this land pass up easy a full four-year tennis scholarship

shots at does waiting in anticipa- from Indiana University. As she Inexperience hurts wrestlers at districts . , tion of that big buck. I ask that

girl, "How is this deer hunter a

butcher?"

Hunters kill game mostly for

sport, not to fill up their refriger-

ators. Just as a man or a woman

competes in a tennis match, another hunts; it is a game. A

grouse hunter pushes his way

through stubborn briars bloody-

ing his face to prove to himself

that he can outsmart that grouse.

It is like a chess game, brains

against brains or in our case, will

against instinct.

Another public misconception

about hunting is that hunters

shoot all they can in a day. Noth-

ing is further from the truth. For

each species that is hunted there

is a daily limit and a possession

limit. For example, duck hunters

are allowed to take only one

black duck a day but are allowed

three mallards. Deer hunters are

only allowed one deer per season.

The limits vary from state to state

and are based solely on popula-

has accepted the offer and will

attend I.U. in the fall, the univer-

sity will pay for her tuition, room

and board, and books for all four

years.

Farley, who distinguished her-

self at IH as runner-up in state

doubles her junior year and as

runner-up in state singles this

year, had I.U., presently the sixth-

ranked college team in the coun-

try, as her first choice for college. Farley commented, "I'm glad be-

cause I sort of put all my eggs in

one basket." In addition to play-

ing tennis, Farley plans to major

in Business Administration.

John Gennantonio will attend

Ball State University on a football

scholarship of undisclosed propor-

tions. Gennantonio remarked

about his college choice, "It's a

nice college. I know some people

who went to Ball State and liked

it." Gennantonio earned Ball

State's attention by leading the

city in punting.

John Fitzmaurice received an

by Dave Stradling Three Indian Hill wrestlers

competed in the AA districts at

Hara Arena this past weekend. All three wrestled twice and lost

twice. Freshman Matt Feltman

(98), junior Andy Graham (105),

and junior Brom Espy (185) were

the three Braves that qualified for

the districts one week earlier at

the AA Reading sectionals.

Feltman felt that the wres-

tlers' inexperience detracted from

their performance. "I looked up

at the stands after they called my

name and saw three thousand

people; I couldn't concentrate on

my wrestling," commented Felt-

man.

"I was slightly disappointed,

but my expectations weren't real

high. . All I wanted was for the

wrestlers to gain experience in the

districts wrestling, and they did

get that," stated coach Ron Web-

ber.

Matt Feltman won twice in

the sectionals at Readgg, placing

fourth in the thirteen team field.

Both Graham and Espy followed

his example. Besides the three

districts qualifiers, the Braves got

victories from junior Dave Strad-

ling (112), junior Casey Ryan

(1 321, junior Mike Feltman (1 38),

freshman Steve Baker (155), and

senior captain Tom Geygen

(HWT) The team placed tenth in

overall team points. Reading

took fitst place with 154 points.

Clermont Northeastern placed

second with 125%. In third,

Loveland had 123% points. In-

dian Hill's 52 points were enough

to place ahead of Marie-

mont (47 points), McNicholas (36

points), and Western Brown (34%

points).

Webber said of the sectionals,

"We were disappointed with the

wrestling in the finals, but the

team did better than ever before.

However, our expectations are

always higher." -A-

William Fogle Spanish teacher Mr. William photo by J I I ~ I Koster -

Fogle has taught for 3 0 Years, 22 The four retiring teachers are (back row, left to right) Mr. William Fogle, caid has announced varsity home Mr. Frank Gallenstein, Mr. William Kincaid, and (seated) Miss Eloise Bqlz. football games for the Braves.

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Editorial . . . . . . . . . . .2 Alcohol and the student

Student Opinion . . . . . . 3

Student pressures

Concert Review . . . . . . .6 Neil Young

Senior Sketches . . . . . . . 7

Kathy Fields

Gus Gordon

Teacher Feature. . . . . . .9

Mrs. Wund

I H swimmers at state . . . 1 1

Athletic scholarships . . . 12

Magazines:

Sugar, Pow-Wow '83

Mr. Boss Kincaid

Eight artists advance to state level competition-

projects accepted at the state level

with three. He had two pen and

ink drawings and one ceramics project. Sophomore Stauft and

senior Walker each had two ac-

cepted: Stauft with a linoleum

block print and embossed print

and Walker with two ceramic

sculptures.

Lemmel placed with a collage

project. Wyand had one ceramic

project accepted, Majante had an

acryllic project, and Graham quh-

fied with one mixed media draw-

ing. Gardner sent one raku cer- - -

- - - . . . . -. amic box to the exhibition.

Roughly 300 pieces will be picked from a "field of approxi-

mately 2000 pieces," according

to art teacher Mr. Larry Bernard.

All of the artwork chosen will

automatically be featured in an

art exhibit from April 10 to May

20 at the State Office Tower in Columbus.

The Governor's Art Exhibition

is a statewide competition open

to students in grades 10-12. Nine

regions of Ohio send winners to,

the state competition.

by Kevin Walzer Eight Indian Hill students have

had art projects accepted at the

regional level in the 1983 Gover-

nor's Youth Art Exhibition.

These projects will be sent to

Columbus on March 12 to be

judged for competition at the

state level.

The winners are Jennie Gard-

ner, David Graham, Barry Knabe,

Teresa Lemmel, Petra Majante,

Gay Stauft, Steve Walker, and

Paul Wyand.

Knabe, a senior, had the most