Barbe High School - Les Memoires Yearbook (Lake Charles, LA)

Page 130 text:

126 SHAKIN IT UP. Io Cootrmbaod Heritage clutet studeots learo (be Cajun way of life through different activities. At the annual crawfish boil Senior Mike Strattoo helps out by being chief cook. Academics Into llu» Fun Things at School Reading, writing, and rithmetic, dance to the sound of a hickory stick! There wasn't any dancing done, but still teachers managed to stick a little fun into the day to day drag of the educational week. Students experienced the joy of examining and dissecting earthworms and frogs. I didn't like to even look at them, much less touch them. shuddered freshman Shannon Gaharan. Added sophomore Mary McCann. I thought I would just watch, but after we started. I did most of the cutting! Speech was an all-around neat class. Poems were recited, stories acted out, costumes worn, and makeup applied like a professional. I'm really nervous about delivering my speeches, but not as much as when I first started, commented sophomore Mary Benoit. The four languages proved to be interesting, too. In French II. they had a French food-tasting unit. In German. the class attended a foreign language festival at USL and presented a skit entirely in German. Latin was no longer a dead language, as many students struggled successfully to master at least a small part of it. Spanish provided a good deal of history along with the language. In the F.nglish classes, in April, students participated in Quiz Bowl. Quiz Bowl is really a mindexpanding experience, decided senior Jim Hutchins. Of course, getting any high school student to admit in public, that classes were enjoyable and that they actually liked school was impossible. Those excited, smiling faces and squeals of delight are figments of everyone's imagination. — CHOZFN The. ROMAN EN 2 Drachma CAesnRAVl

Page 129 text:

| Step % Stefr CRAMMING IT UP. School isn’t 11 fun nd games especially when you have a biology lest «o study for. Sophomore Derrik Woodscn gets in a few last minute facts during his lunch break. into the Wonderful World of Tests and Term Papers n between late winter and early spring, junior and senior English teachers handed out (heir latest out assignment. While the task's required note cards, rough drafts, and final copies might be a boon for the paper industry, for the students it spelled f-c-a-r. d-i-s-g-u-s-t, and l-o-a-t-h-i-n-g. In the beginning, only the knocking knees and trembling hands of the term paper-searching students could be seen and heard in the library. However, after the initial shock wore off, students were surprised by their reactions. Once I got into the work, it was really kind of fun. said Roma Breaux, junior. Some were plagued with procrastination. I had typed most of my term paper the night before, explained junior Gary Robertson, “but I wasn't quite finished. So I paid some ■■■■■■■■■[ guy $3.00 to type my title page and data sheet 1st hour, and turned it in 2nd hour. The thought of having a biology test, geometry exam, and an English Quiz, all on the same day, was enough to make the average student sick. Of course, tests had a purpose; to see if one was learning what one was supposedly learning. However, if one hasn't learned anything, one had to spend the night before the test studying what one should already know. And somehow, what is on the test is never what you've studied. No matter how hard I study, sighed freshman Robbie Firaro, “I never study what I need to know. Claimed Stephen Kitt. If we never had tests. I guess I would never bother to learn anything that didn't interest me. — CHOZEN THE EYES HAVE IT. In the commons Sophomore Anna Tarver takes time out from her lunch break to read over her geometry notes before the test.

Page 131 text:

PLAYING THE PART. Senior Keith LeDoux plays a soldier telling a family about the war at a speech rally performance of the play An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” DIALING DIRECT. Impromptu phone conversations in French class give almost as much trouble to Sophomore Dave McLclland as the phone system in France docs to tourists. WHERE'S THE BEEF? At the annual Thanksgiving Dinner in Mrs. Maurice Harris's Contraband Cuisine class Swiors Mark Lundy and Peggy Tucker act surprised to see turkey on their plates. PROUD SMILES. As part of oral reports in Mrs. Stewart's English II, Sophomores Lauren Sonnier and Gina Eggers designed their version of a Roman newspaper. Academics — 127