Brazosport High School - Exporter Yearbook (Freeport, TX)

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Crafts The very popular ceramics and jewelry courses did a lot ol' innovative things this year. Ceramics workers made banks and such by forming clay around balloons. Various containers were made by placing clay coils inside boxes of any shape. The second semester ceramics project required an I8 inch or larger coil Work. The hardest part of the course was work with the wheel to form a clay vessel. ln the jewelry course, students were exposed to in- teresting silver soldering, gold and silver electroplating, centrifugal cast- ing, and vacuum casting. ln the last method, molten metal is pulled into a mold by a vacuum. Works with lea- ther consisted ol' making things such as sandals. Une very successful method was the casting ol' jewelry in 14k gold. The only bad thing about it was the cost. 47 X ,., . xt Q ,A is s XX 1 aww i 68-ACADEMICS 1 1- - v - 1 1 'ar' is . 1 r,, ,I ' THIS PAGE: ftopj t'Thjs makes a fine roach killer. David Slaugter and Bruce Broadway design jewelry. fmiddle leftj UNO, Greg, this is not Play Dough! Mr, Bruce Good helps Greg Fields in ceramics. Qmiddle fight, t'For a flakier pie crust, try clay. johnell Allen rolls it out. fabovej Mr. Robert Bregenzer, Barbara Weidig, and Mike Gladney Work in the jewelry lab. fright, 'S0k, where do you want this ton of clay'?', Materials arrive for the ceramics classes.

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THIS PAGE: fbelowj Becky Ingalls and Elizabeth Matthews make up the top BHS Girls' Debate Team. fbclow rightj Debators Pat Breen and Terry Kenyon win many de- bates together. fbottomj Members of the BHS Debate Team are fback, l. to r.j Timary Weinfeld, Amy- Blackmar, Becky Ingalls, Elizabeth Matthews, ffront, l. to rj Pat Breen, Cleve Hardman, Jeff Blackmar, David Thompson, and Terry Kenyon. Speech' and debate Nearly 50 awards, among them trophies, scholarships, merit certificates, and six medals at the District 25 AAAA spring meet were won this year by the young and growing BHS drama-dehatefSpC6Ch participants. The year had many bright spots: Sweepstakes at the Brazosport College Tournament, third place in de- bate at Lamar University with 50 high schools competing, a second place finish in district competition for de- bate and first, second, and third place awards in both boys and girls divisions of the Optimist lnternational Oratory Texas Zone Contest. These honors were overshadowed by the experience and pride gained by a group of Ex- porters composed mainly of sophomores and freshmen. ACADEMICS-67

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xg' THIS PAGE: nlt's not easy converting a lawn mower to a space shipf, Daniel Boley improves his skill in Power mechanics. fbelowj 'gHelp me get my finger out!l! Robert Rasberry and Emerson White work in wood shop. fbottom leftj It doesn't do anything, but it looks goodf' Glenn Skinner works in power mechanics. Qbottom rightj Miki' Smith works with metal bars in general met' S. auf' WX Industrial arts ln eourses dealing with wood, students mastered required skills and moved on to larger pieces such as gun cabin- ets. ln general metals classes, after students became proficient in the live basic areas, they eould work the rest of thc year on big projects. They in- cluded barbecue pits and ornamental iron works. Power mechanics classes were very successful this year. After mastering the small air cooled motor they moved up to a Volkswagen engine, a WW ll airplane engine and a grinder-shredder.