Booker T Washington High School - War Eagle Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Durmg the 1974 75 school year, Dr R L Brrght, consultant to the Houston Independent School D1Stf1Cl, and Lawrence Marshall, ASSOCl3tC Suprrntendent for Alternatlve Educa t1on rn HISD concelved and desrgned The H1gh School for the Englneerlng Profess1ons CHSEPJ The purpose of the school was to prov1de a h1gh quallty college preparatory program for students 1nterested1n eng1neer1ng and applred scrence F D Wesley the pr1nc1pal of Booker T Washrngton Sen1or H1gh School and Susan Sclafan1 the Program Coordlnator of HSEP are responsrble for the management of the program Students are attracted to HSEP from all parts of dent 1n HISD IS el1g1ble to apply for adm1ss1on One of the many goals of HSEP 1S to prov1de the opportumty for all groups of students to recerve the preparat1on necessary to compete suc cessfully at the un1vers1ty level S1nce open1ng rn the fall of 1975 HSEP has become a model for many school d1str1cts across the country The students of HSEP may part1c1pate 1n all Un1vers1ty Interscholast1c League compet1t1ve events and many students have recerved numerous awards HSEP s frrst graduates the class of 1978 are now attend1ng some of the fmest un1vers1t1es 1n both Texas and other states Th1s year HSEP has approxunately 422 students and the number rncreases each year the school district. Any ninth or tenth grade stu-

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X I HIGH SCHOCL, I FOR THE ENGINEERING PRGFESSIONS . 1

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'W A 431 3. Engineering Drawing l. F. D. Wesley, BTW Principal, escorts visitors through HSEP labs. 2. Mettra Rector, engineering drawing student. 3. Adria Watson in Testing Center. 4. Stefan Vingsbo in study lab.