Alief Elsik High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Hudson, Loss Lead NFL at Tournaments The National Forensics League (NFL) promotes the interests of interscholastic debate, oratory, and public speaking by encouraging a spirit of fellowship and conferring upon deserving candidates a worthy badge of distinction, said sponsor Mrs. DeLecour. Their year started off with days of practicing which takes a lot of time and hard work. During football season they helped in stadium clean-up. They participated in the Middle School Speech Festival, which is a speech tournament put on by the middle school students and judged by high school students. They also had a bake sale. NFL has entered numerous speech tournaments such as the Westchester Tournament, Robert E. Lee Speech Tournament, Kashmere Speech Tournament, Clear Lake Speech Tournament, Westbury Speech Tournament, and the Memorial Speech Tournament. The Spring Branch Student Congress is a speech tournament in which the students are members of the Congress and discuss and debate the pros and cons of politics and other topics. The members have received numerous individual awards for Debate, Prose Inter- pretation, Poetry Interpretation, Extemporaneous Speaking, Dramatic and Humorous In- terpretation, and Original Oratory. At the Memorial Speech Tournament Eric Hudson won 4th place in Prose Interpretation. Gary Loss was a quarter finalist in Lincoln- Douglas debate. Missy Brown and Scott McFarlane were Semi-finalists in Extempo- raneous Speaking, and Penni Siemens was a Semi-finalist in Poetry Interpretation. Speech Club enchances your communication skills by helping you deal more with your problems and people around you, because everyone needs and uses communication in everyday life. It plays an important role, replied Gary Loss. Club member Ginger Winstead comments, Speech Club has taught me how to deal with and talk to people, it has brought me out of my shyness . Mrs. DeLecour commented, I am really proud of my group of kids because they are trying out new things for the first time and have really been successful at it. They are a dedicated group of kids . Penni Siemens practices after school for the Memorial Tournament. Photo by S. Lackey Missy Brown and Penni Seimens researches for their upcoming tournamen Photo by S. Lac Gary Loss practices in front of memt after school. Photo by S. Lac! 174 Participation Speech Club

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Ramrod Board Members: The Arp's, the Skinners, the Shauniburgs, the Raineys, and the Tuckers. All photos by R. Law Ramrods Give Athletes A Boost Approximately one-hundred family members were involved in Ramrods to support the Elsik athletes. Ramrods helped with scholarships, fund-raising, run- ning concession stands, and putting together two banquets. A watermelon social kicked-off the beginning of the football season. By acknowl- edging coaches and players of all sports, and introducing them to the parents on Parent Night, they aided in the establishment of strong parent involvement. The family members raised money for the Football Banquet, Spring Banquet, cheerleaders, training room, equipment, and any scholarships that weren't purchased by the school. The Bar-B-Que with the Spring Game, and the Football Banquet, were new activities that the Ramrods organized. By Robyn Nichols h Bryant and A M Head Coach Jacky Shcrill prepare for their speech at the all Banquet. •od, Mrs. Adams, enjoyed the -que at the Football Banquet. Ramrods Mrs. Skinner and Mrs. Brouss prepare floral table decorations. Ramrods Participation 173

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PS Members: Front: L. Brown, S. Shah, C. Doan. Second: Sponsor Mrs. enberry, L. Hahn, L. Farney, M. Ma. Back: P. Rose, G. Winstead, R. Husscini. Photo by R. Law Junior Lore Hahn puts pages in order before sending them off to the printer. Photo by R. Law omorc Ginger Winstead and Senior Richard Husscini select pictures to go their literature. Voices 6th In 1979 Mrs. Alice Pierce was the beginning sponsor of the literary magazine. Afterthe 1980 issue, she was unable tocontinue this role and publication ceased. Not until 1983 did Voices find a new sponsor. Mrs. VVrotenberry volunteered to take on this task. During the fall Voices planned the contests and worked on publicity. They learned how to judge literary merit and solicit material to be submitted. Then they began to select what exactly would go into the magazine. Preparation of the copy started during March and April. The 1984 Voices had 172 pages of literary and art jmorc Melissa Dozier enjoys her ide to the U of H workshop. Photo by R. Law- Sophomore Chris Theofamidis enjoys amusing Senior Richard Husscini and Sophomore Darryl Orsak after a long day at the U of H Presentation. Photo by R. Law in State work. There were 76 art contributors and 60 literary contributors. This long process ended in May and magazine sales, along with the sale of Gold Coupon Books with NHS, contributed to their fund- raising. V o cesentered the Texas High School Press Association Con- test where they were awarded 6th place in State and have plans to enter the Scholastic Compe- tition and the new NCTE competition in the future. Voices held weekly meetings on Mondays at 7:00 a.m. in Room N220 to provide a showcase for the literary and artistic talent of Elsik, and to further organize the magazine, explained Mrs. Wrotenberry. Voices Participation 175