Booker T Washington High School - Hornet Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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A I y Q A 2 untaineering Front row Ray Duncan Robert Daily, Greg Greenfield, Lisa Chennault, John man Todd Pennington Terry Harper David Brodsky, Ken Young, Doug LeMaster, Paula Phillips y Farris Rob Alger Anita Neal Tien Jordan. Second row: Kurt Sauer, Faye Carter, Richard tee Roger Erker J W Harges John Pierson, Jack Kirby, Danny Hamblin. Hanging: Nick Hiebert, car Kevin Davis Meredith Campbell Tommy Williams, Cheryl Bays, Ann Peppito, David Lindhal, k Whitney Gene Beckwith Cindy Cambpell, Brian Coffee, Teri Long, Allen Hall. Above: Randy e Matt Hankuns Lincoln Gup Leigh Bailey, Jamie Smith, Jay Raines, Dale Stuart. Moutaineering They weren't Mount Everest, but the rocks at Chandler Park and the stadium walls taught us the skills of mountain climbing. We didn'tjust play all thetimeg many of our class periods were spent studying equipment use, knot tying, mapping and learning first aid. We had two rappel-a-thons scaling over ten miles to raise money for much-needed new equipment. We had a downhill skiing trip at Angel Fire, New Mexico, a five-day cross-country skiing trip in Colorado and a canoeing trip down the Buffalo River. We were instilled with self-confidence, stamina, teamwork and self-discipline.

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LJ- We were the ones who ran around the nature center taking care of the animals and their habitat. Some of us also worked on nature centers at different elementary schools. We tried to establish something that students could use in the future years as well as in the present. We continued to have newspaper and aluminum can drives, even though most people at BTW didn't know about them. We spent a lot of our time away from school: we went to the Illinois River, Spring Creek, the Salt Plains and other places around Oklahoma and Arkansas where we could study and enjoy nature. Last summer, some of us went to Colorado to spend a week in the San Juan Mountains at the Phillips University Science Camp. We wanted people to know about our club, so we had the National Art Honor Society paint a logo on the Ecology pre-fab. At the beginning of this year, we concluded that everything is connected and depends on each other. So we worked as a team - with ourselves and with nature. First row Jeff Stone Sidney St.Clair,SponsorTim O'Ha oran, ico os ee Stone Rae Lynn Parkinson. Third row: Dorothy Meisner, Kevin Blair, Vicky Christopher Lisa Wright, Mitch Simmons, Laura Passmore. Fourth row: Rich Pittman Mitch Blessing, David Davidson, Debbie Coblentz, Roxanne ll Fi' Fh 3

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Washington Forum Starting our second year with new members and a new sponsor, we were once again a very small group. Floyd Long and Scott Fields worked together with sponsor Judith Kimrey to bring interesting speakers and guests to Washington. Dealing with primarily controversial issues, our aim was to allow students to participate in discussion of current events. We invited Sam, the narc dog, and his trainer to visit and answer questions, but they were unable to come at the last moment. However, we did stage a debate before the presidential election between Senator Frank Keating and Gary Allison, a professor at the University of Tulsa. They provided, respectively a Republican and Democratic point of view. Hoping to provide forums dealing with current world and local situations to interest BTW students continued to be our goal. Youth and government We were interested in understanding the law making process and in taking an active part in government. With the help of our sponsor, Rick Arrington and Robert Price of the YMCA, we were able to reach these goals. We developed our own model legislature in order to prepare for a prelegislative session in Stillwater and an actual legislative session at the capitol. ln both we introduced bills we had written that we felt would have a positive effect on the government and could possibly become state laws. For a group that has been in existence for only three years, we have become highly respected in Oklahoma.