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

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ThroughouT The year despiTe a serious lack oT encouragemenT Trom Their peers. Everybody Talked abouT The people involved in sporTs, sophomore James De La Cruz said. No one knew whaT was going on wiTh The orchesTra. l Think ThaT sTudenTs C.lidn'T supporT us as much as They could because They ThoughT ThaT we were conservaTive, senior Evelyn Fleming said. They ThoughT ThaT They could noT ever like The kind OT music ThaT we perTormed. which may have been True in some cases. Senior Terice PreTo TelT ThaT encouragemenT was limiTed because we didn'T represenT The school as widely as The band. ThroughouT The school year The group, as a whole and as individuals, was honored Tor Their excellence. PreTo and De La Cruz were accepTed inTo The All-STaTe Symphonic OrchesTra Padding SOHC!!! The pressure OT jun- ior Johanna FanT's violin as she prac- Tices during a Third period orchesTra session. while Fleming was honored by being selecTed as a parT oT The All-STaTe YouTh OrchesTra. The Three venTured To San AnTonio Tor Tour days where They rehearsed Tor Three days and Then gave a concerT, according To PreTo. AT The UIL disTricT perTormance, PreTo and De La Cruz clisTinguished Themselves by receiving ones on solo perTormances while The Trio oT PreTo, Fleming and sophomore Rene Williams received a one on Their Trio. AT disTricT wide compeTiTion, The group won The sweepsTakes award. Among The concerTs The group added Their skill To was a collaboraTion wiTh Their NorThbrook counTerparTs, Two perTormances wiTh The choir, assisTing in The ioinT producTion oT The Sound oTlv1usic, a ChrisTmas Time perTormance and a Tinal year end presenTaTion. Didinguishing herselT as a Tourfh chair celIisT while sTill a freshman, CaTherine Cha delicaTely plays her insTrumenT during The orchesTra's ioinT concerT wiTh The choir. STarTled eyes and acTive hands are exhibiTed by junior Karlene Wilson as she wafches insTrucTor Barbara CorkinsinTenTly. OrchesTra

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A Hand holds iunior Sendhya Pafils violin music helping her To learn The piece and converf if To memory. InTenTly conconlreiinq on Their per- formance ol The Hanson Sym- phony, ' sophomore James De La Cruz lirgr chair Qellist and senior Terice Prefo second chair ceIIisT pgrTiQipaTe in The regional orchesfrg Comperihon. Bofh wen? on To qualify for sfafe-wide orchesfra. lillllllll EI llUW For Those who lend Their TalenTs To The various aThleTiq Teams. There is The respeclol Tellow sTudenTs and The exhilaraTion oT a one of a lrind Teelinq associaTed wiTh being Q- The sTage, Those who are musically inclined enjoy individual pride in adding Theifi unique performance To an ensemble made up of Tellow musicians. The same eTTorT, yeT wiTh less recoqniTion, was required ollhf orchesTra, who excelled UndaunTed concenfrelion ii required of senior Jennifer Bedwell as she plays her violin par? in Tha performance of The Hschuberi Mass.

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Apparalus used in dexeloping pic, lures surrounds sophomore pholog- rapher Sleielxn Null as she prepares fa alilige lhe enlarger which will increase lhe size ol her prinr. WPIIB llll' lllll lllll Similiarlo alhleles. Tigerelles. drama. choir. and band sludenls. iournalism sludenls lormed a close bond belween lhemselves lhrough everyday lruslralions ol meeling deadlines. sharing iokes, losses ol lemper. and casual conversalions. The work load ol bath slalls was a lull lime iob. and each slall devised il's way ol coping wilh ilis assigned responsibililies. The newspaper slall began planning issues in lhe summer during workshops al Trinily and Universily ol Houslon. along wilh inlormal meelings al Edilor .lell Fogles house. We slarled ahead ol lime hoping lo gel lhe iump on lhe olher papers by coming oul early and selling a lrend. We were For lulure reference senior Regil stall members Edilor Jell Fogle and Managing Editor Kris Gauger lake nofes during Superinlendenl Henry Wheeler s lirsl press conlerence. 84 Jos ls also exciled aboul doing the paper and summer was lhe besl lime lo plan wilhoul school going on. Fogle Said. The SAFARI slallis worries did nol begin unlil aller Chrislmas. Then conlinuing lrom lhe new year unlil May. lhere were lhree maior deadlines lo meel lo assure an early fall arrival. Occasionally each slall borrowed lalenl lrom lhe olher publicalion in order lo smoolh rough edges. The beginning ol lhe year was a lough lime lor lhe REGIT. bul in lhe spring lhe Journalism l kids have lheir own issues lo do lo gel experience. so we helped lhe Salari meel lheir deadlines. senior Regil Managing lfdilor Kris Gauger said. The main dillerence aboul lhis year's slalls is lhal lhey don'l acl like separale slalls. ll is more ol a all lor one - one lor all allilude ...whenever someone linishes lheir work lhey ask someone else if lhere is somelhing lhey can do lo help lhemf' adviser Lynn Rosenleld said. l-lowever. somelimes lhe Hrealislic learning silualion became a nighlmare ol pica rulers. lypewrilers. copy sheels, pholo orders. carbaii paper. and cullines. The slalls devised an unique way ol relieving lhe buill up pressure. Al lhe beginning gl lhe year, each sludenl picked a lellow iournalislsg birlhday dale lrom lhe hal. They were lhen asked lo plan a celebralion on lheir persons special day. ll was a surprise lo walk in lhe lab and lind cookies and slull lo eal - lhe calories sure did add up lasl lhoughf' senior SAFARI Associale Edilor Sylvia Howells said. Seeing weeks ol work gave personal salislaclion. bul compelilive individual awards were slrived lor goals also. As a slall memberl was expecled lo conlribule, l ri -1 ':.. '1 TF 1