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

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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

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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

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128 USING THE OLD NOODLE. Homework is a major nuisance during (he year. Freshman Pam ( horen exercises her brain on the large a (noun l of homework given (o her in one day. ALL WORK AND NO PLAY.Staying after school isn't just sitting in a desk and staring at the wall. Freshman Calvin Blair uses a little elbow grease to wash boards. s something t about ... te: rets, term pajx r darkest corn ere things mi signments. Tl jsed for danci 1 stick. made a convii r sixth time, Satui igned. One got i :urday at hard of a student's mir dreaded than th were the sentence out of step to the Cleaning chalk ing punishment. detention. grumh Collette, hut I'd pi else with my afternc Being late to cla step. After a certain victim is sent to del TELLING IT LIKF IT IS. After writing ?nn lines stating I will not talk again -Junior Doug Felton defends himself to Ms. Gwen Lan-con who insists that she only counts 17S.