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

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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

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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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yeT if The sTories were individually ouTsTanding Then They would go on To conTesT and that was kepT in mind, Too, iunior RegiT FeaTure EdiTor Diana Moore said. I wroTe my in-depTh sTory back in The summer iusl To help The REGIT ouT and I was surprised when I won somelhing Tor iT, Howells said. The Safari sTalT worked aT Tollowing in The TooTsTeps ol The previous book which was namecl All American by The NaTionaI ScholasTic Press Associalion and an All Texas wiTh special Honorable MenTion Trom The Texas High School Press AssociaTion. AnoTher group, Journalism lsTudenTs. conTribuTed To iT was senior s responsibiliTy To assign To Take picTures and Take many phoTos himselT. such as This insTance when he sl1oT a picTure To appear on The RegiT boTh publicaTions whenever possible. The workload was never insurmounTabIe, buT I Took help oT any kind Trom anyone aT anyTime, senior SAFARI EdiTor Shelley STarnes said. Novice iournalisT iunior Mary BouTTard remarked, ConTribuTing made you wanl To be on The sTaTT nexT year because you geT inTeresTed and become aware oT all The work Thal qoes inTo iT. li ,,. The final issue oT The year is planned during a sTaTT meeling led by Regil EdiTor Jelf Fogle, Fealure EdiTor Diana Moore. ReporTer Tom 6riTTiTh and Managing Edilor Kris Gauger conTribuTe Their own ideas during The brain sTorrning season, 1 As The closing deadlines Tor The yearbook approach, Tuesday nighTs are seT aside Tor picTures and layouTs Tor The l98O Safari. AssociaTe EdiTor Sylvia Howells Ty es The names of The swim Team in liner role as coordi- naTor OT group picTures while EdiTor Shelley STarnes addresses anolher sTaTT member. Journalism