Baton Rouge High School - Fricassee Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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While the creative arts are an integral factor of our school, the academics are the main-stay of our students. Those who chose science and mathematics as their major are accepting the challenge of observing and studying nuclear reactors, developments in science and aeronautics, and the effects science and technology have on man. Those who chose English as their major area of concentration delve into literature and its origins from PILGRIM’S PROGRESS to Beowulf”, and authors from Milton, to Poe. Steinbeck to Susann. They discuss the origins of the English language and of theatre, and the structure of our language. Our students strive to excell in these areas and their efforts show each year when awards begin accumulating. At the 1978 Literary Rally, we placed first in Drama. Oral Interpretation. Extemperaneous Speaking, and English 1. 2, 3. and 4. Other awards won were for Spanish. French. German. Algebra I and II. Calculus and Chemistry; Scholarships to Harvard. Cal Tech. Stanford. M.I.T., University of Chicago, Brigham Young. Millsaps. Xavier University. L.S.U.. and the Houston Ballet Academy were won by our students. Other schools which accepted our students are Yale. Princeton. Carnegie-Mellon. Columbia. Williams. Amherst. and Georgia Tech. ■■■■I Calling a G.C.U.S. meeting to order i$ Greg Carlson. Supervising decorating of the Senior wall is Tm happy , says Teddy Gandy Tara Wilson. Opening 5

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 Above In profile is senior Lori Pierce, right: Seniors Marty Lalleur. Tar3 V ilson. and Julie Howell prepare to launch campaigns. 4 Opening BRHS students take top honors BRHS students freak out” at the disco dance

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We have all had the desire to achieve instilled in us from early childhood, and BRHS allows us the opportunity to revel in intelligence, creativity, and success. We can work with a student who excels in Chemistry, while another is a Dickens scholar, another a movie trivia nut. another an excellent poet. We have students who are National Merit Scholars (eight alone last year), and our average ACT score was a twenty-four composite. Some of the most selective schools in the country ask for a tepid 20. Obviously the students at BRHS are a cut above. While all of us aren’t scholars, there is an affinity between all of us, scholars and artists, that allows BRHS to flourish. Only at Baton Rouge High can the actor fit in with a group of aspiring engineers, for there are no cliques, as such. All of us striving for the same goal, excellence, are as one — a unit working together, infallable. alive and altogether unforgettable. This is BRHS. What are the typical Magnet schooler’s haunts? Although we do stress academic and artistic excellence, we aren't introverted scholars. A student can almost Above: I want my Mommy”. (Chris Hanna-man) Right: P.E. teacher. Mrs. Perkins directs John Mitchell to the locker rooms. Local night spots frequented by BRHS students Enjoying fall weather in Indiana are Alison Kinney and Sonctarc Bizette. 6 Opening