Spring Woods High School - Safari Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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, YT To Trace The drawing lor The Tera: AEM conlesl senior Alan Mrchla uzez f1f,ifCl6l6Vf1Dlclle a ilrulfinq rriacliiriff and dl ruler. The drawing in called a Slep Bearing ' and was enlered in The runleglulonq Ni1hTheTwo Olher drawing finished in mechanical ilraliing. Changing sparlc plugs iiriil r1'ril.iririigcJil'miilsisiriiirlfil The iT-lil, lfmlirii- lui iiiilii viii-i lmriii ', xi-iiiiir slim Giiylcin. iiaiiiii ini lll'EIWIIlU llllillll They can be Tound under cars wiTh greasy hands. polishing a Table Top worlcing wiTh a laThe or drawing an isomeTric design. lndusTrial arTs sTudenTs covered a broad range oT Tields including wood and meTal shop. auTo mechanics and draTTing. Their daily school rouTine consisTing oT class insTrucTion and proiecTs. was occasionally inTerrupTed by various club as well as Tield Trips which were scheduled ThroughouT The year. Tony Jones. woodshop Teacher, planned a number oT Trips including a visiT To The Pennsylvania l:urniTure Company which was exclusively Tor sTudenTs in The l.A. club, Jones said. STudenTs nurTuring an inTeresT in auTomobiles. wheTher To learn more abouT Their own vehicle and whaT malces iT Ticlcu or connecTing iT wiTh a Toreseen career, noT only acquired useTul knowledge buT more imporTanTly gained priceless experience during The year long course. li Tggi auTo mechanics Tor me if learn how To Tix my Car correcTly f. iunior John Balmer said. fXuTo mechanic sluden' repaired cars belonging -5 individuals in The communiTy and were pgij by These cuslomerg TQ,- Their services. These sTudenTs Toolc Their work seriously: regarding Them noT as regular school proiecTs, buT raTher as an excellenT display ol skill, auTo mechanics insTrucTor Dennis Copp said, We were assigned a proiecT aT The sTarT oi each quarTer and were expecTed To have iT compleTed by The encl ol The quarTer, iunior meTal shop sTudenT Michael LP' 'isp X .. J. Q , Av... Y' 2. K. 'S if' . 41

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French levels I and ll sTudied culTure and vocabulary. French I composed dialogues, while French ll wroTe and prepared monologues. BoTh exercises, memorized and presenTed orally To The class Tor a grade, sTressed pronunciaTion and provided oral pracTice. Every Two To Three weeks we do a monologue, 80 To IOO words To be presenTed by memory, said iunior Donna Rhea, a sTudenT in French II. Oral is The mosT imporTanT parT oT The grade. lT's one-Third oT The grade and poinTs are given Tor parTicipaTion, Rhea said. Johnson, also a French I sTudenT, Teels The dialogues are worThwile, even Though she haTes To geT up and do Them. German sTudenTs spenT a lof oT The Time preparing Tor The Texas AssociaTion of German sTudenTs compeTiTion. TAGS evenTs include skiTs, a spelling bee. reading comprehension, The use oT Tense, prose and , Meme Oblivious To The view from The window behind him, senior Alan Michka reads in his LaTin l TexT- book. Michka, who enrolled in The class To help his vocabulary said, IT's noT a hard class. DiligenTly concenTraTing on her Spanish homework exercises sen- ior Kelly Joyner Tries To Tinish beTore The bell rings. I enioy Spanish, iT's inTeresTing, Joyner added. poeTry readings. choral singing. and plays. Advanced German sTudenTs, German III, IV, V, and Vl, were in a mixed class and did The same work buT were graded on diTTerenT levels. ATTer sTudying The old German radio plays The advanced levels wroTe and presenTed radio plays oT Their own. I.aTin I sTudenTs were required To learn a quoTe per week and be able To reciTe all previous weeks' quoTes Tor each TesT. We made ChrisTmas cards aT ChrisTmas, and we also did commercials, said iunior Becky Baldwin who Took l.aTin because she is inTeresTed in a medical career. German club members all had a background in German, eiTher being enrolled in The class presenTly or having been enrolled aT one Time. AcTiviTies included aTTending OkToberTesT aT Bavarian Gardens, The lnTernaTional ChrisTmas ParTy, TAGS compeTiTion, a Trip To STephen F. AusTin's compeTiTion, and The annual banqueT. FarTicipaTion in The lnTernaTional ChrisTmas BanqueT was only one oT several ways The French club was acTive. ln addiTion To joining all The Toreign language clubs aT The banqueT, French Club members aTTended a Tall ouTing and compeTiTion. We wenT To New York, New York Pizza, Sonia Espanol, club presidenT said, IT was To geT The new members acquainTed. Money needed To aTTend The STephen F. AusTin compeTiTion was raised by selling DrosTee candy bars and SoTTe Chews, a TaTTy-like candy. Spanish Club also parTicipaTed in The lnTernaTional ChrisTmas BanqueT and The SFA compeTiTion. For The banqueT club members broughT Spanish, LaTin American, or Mexican dishes. They also perTormed skiTs abouT Spanish ChrisTmas TradiTions. Like The French Club They also sold DrosTee candy bars and SoTTi Chews To raise money Tor a Trip To The STephen F. AusTin compeTiTion. Review papers in hand German Teacher Linda MarTin aids soph- omores STeve Bobzin and Linda Giesecke wiTh Their German quarTer Tinal review. The quarTer Tinal provides a way oT checking sTudenTs' progress. Foreign Languages 7 7

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With a Torch in his hand, senior Brad Bloomer works on a meial lab proieCT which requireg assembling a large bird cage Tor Coach KurT Poole's cockaToo. Gallucci said. IT seemed like a long Time period buT The proiecTs were very Time consuming and we weren'T allowed To work on Them ouT oT class. Along wiTh The many individual proiecTs accomplished ThroughouT The year, Jim l:raughTen, meTal shop Teacher, assigned group proiecTs involving The maior uniTs oT sTudy which consisTed oi compounds oT meTal, OperaTinq machinery and compuTing dimensions, iunior Chris MoTherwellsaid. T WiTh The lndusTrial ArTs Fair only a Tew weeks away. senior Ricky Carlson skefches his own one sTory house in ArchiTecTure. ' 5: 'V .5e33s ', ,:5g,.2:- . Busily laying ouT work Tor Table I legs. sophomores Paul Casso and LoThar BaTschauer Trace ouT The righT proporTions for Their own individual Tables. I DraTTing, as well as oTher l.A. courses oTTered, demanded neaTness, uniTormiTy, and parTicular aTTenTion To exacT deTails. You have goT To have a sTeady hand and know how To Tigure wiTh scales and sizes, senior Daryl Warren said. Affer repairing his car engine. iunior Bobby Uzzi receives help Trom senior Terry PeTers in pre- paring The cylinder head Tor insTallaTion in his T974 Vega. . f Si. I A micomefer is used To check The diameTer oT a parT in The meTal laThe as Treshman Greg SmoTek begins producing a cenTer punch as parT of a required proiecT. ' lndusTrialArTs