Dobie High School - Roundup Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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S ing is Elena Lopez as she displays the plaster- he made in her art class. Urschel listens as Bea Wyman, Art Club introduces guest speaker llosalea Watts. Art is one of the few classes that you get to do your own thing. Nobody does the same thing. -Tippy Hammond X: 1' Vs Y W .- 4-4, efuf do During the last few minutes of Harold Briggs's English class, Sonny Frazier, Ed- mundo Delgado, and Martin Zera read through their copies of the newly printed Write-Un magazine. English teachers Harold Briggs and Rosemary Rayburn double as Write-Un sponsors. ' if 0 Write-On Ari Club! Write-On 155

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Art Club I Producing Prized and Enjoyable Image: Competing and winning best described the Art Club this year as many of its members com- peted in various competitions both locally and nationally. When asked what special thing the Art Club did this year, Bea Wyman. sponsor, remarked, We think everything we do is special. This statement proved to be true when Art Club students brought home various awards for their art work. Senior Elena Lopez was one of five students from the district whose art work was selected to go to state for Youth Art Month. Ada Lozano. also a senior, won a scholarship to San Jacinto College for her art work. And in the Scholastic Art Contest, a very stiff competition, eight art students were recognized on the district level and two students received certificates of merit. There were also two gold medal winners whose art work advanced to the national com- petition in New York. Besides entering their talent into competition, Art Club mem- I truly enjoyed being editor of the magazine. It was a lot of work, but it was the kind of work I enjoy-reading the creative work of others. -Diane Nino Art Club members Tracie Brownlee, Kevin Sheffield, Ada Lozano, and a visiting student listen to guest speaker Rosealee Watts during an Art Club meeting held in the art room. bers learned more about art and creating it. Art Club members did some Raku tiring and made plaster casts, or what is more commonly called Death Casts. The Art Club also had two guest speakers at their meetings. However, the members did not spend all of their time creating. They visited the Scholastic Art Awards Show and went to South Houston High School to learn how to take and develop pic- tures. And to end their year of activities, members got together for a dinner. This year's club was led by Lopez, president, Steve Shef- field, vice-president, Tonya Mit- chell, secretaryftreasurer, and Betsy Urschel, historian! parliamentarian. These students worked to fulfill the purpose of the J. Frank Doble Art Club by giving students the opportunity to participate in art activities, to better inform them with guest speakers, and by providing comradship with other students who shared an interest in art. Another group who worked with talent was the staff of Write-On, the school's literary magazine. Even though the staff slowly vanished through the year, the Write-On editor Diane Nino and sponsors Rosemary Rayburn and Harold Briggs worked to put together a collec- tion of the creative work submit- ted by the student body. This was Rayburn's first year to work on the magazine. She volunteered to take over the magazine after Marilyn Dodd, previous sponsor, was promoted to reading supervisor of the district. Rayburn said, lt's so important to recognize students who can write. They are so talented, yet they get so little recognition. She said Write-On tries to give those talent students the opportunity to , recognized. Rayburn and Briggs read oi all of the material with Nino, a together they decided what w to go in the magazine. Ev though students responded w over a hundred submissior this year's magazine was i any larger that last year's w only 18 pages printed front a back. The main reason for tl was that individual studei submitted several of their item: We looked for things we f students would enjoy readi and what we enjoyed readir There were some studen however, who submitted five six of their original items tl were all enjoyable and we written. We had a hard tii trying to decide which ones put in because we felt f magazine should contain variety of students' works not be a book of just student's work, explai Nino. Due to its late start and lack man-power, Write-On was i printed until May 15. Nino typ all of the pages to be printed 1 she and her sister, Elaine Ni freshman, printed 100 copies the magazine on the offset pr ting machine at St. Luki Catholic Church on Hall Road. The magazine went on si May 17 for S1 a copy to defi the cost of printing materi The student body responded thusiastically by buying thr fourths of the magazines in week. Others who contributed to t publication of Write-On were tists Nancy Ward, junior, a Eileen Nicholas, sophomore, vi. drew most of the illustrations this year's magazine. 154 Art Club! Write-On

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Self improvement Club Improving Your Senses To help the people feel good about themselves, was Diane Enghrock's, freshman, reason for starting the self-improvement club. Engbrock went to Mary Clingan, nurse, with her idea. Robert Cotrone, sophomore, ex- plained that the members gave each other support. During the meetings the students got into rap sessions where topics such' as weight loss, fashion and outlooks on life were discussed. Clingan exlplalned that it was hard getting the club started, but progress was made throughout the year. Members of the club were, Engbrock-president, Mirain Lewis-vice-president, Cotrone- secretaryftreasurer, Brenda Medina, freshman, Sonya Smith, freshman, and Tonya Miller, sophomore. The club sponsored Health Awareness Week April 17-24. During lunch periods different types of health care were demonstrated. s l NX 1 N 1 N At a meeting you can say anything you want: it's like having a family discussion. -Mafiall Lewis The Math Club this year of- fered many different areas of compeititon. Students competed in areas such as algebra 1, calculas, calculator, computer, and number sense. The numbers sense test involved solving as many problems mentally as a student could within a 10 minute time limit. The -club attended various math tournaments throughout the year. At the Lamar University tournament, Feb. 5, Mark Chassay won first place in Division 3 calculator. Joey Talghader won second place and third place Algebra I and ll at Pasadena High School on Feb. 6. Feb. 13 San Le received second place in calculasat the Clear lake High tournament, which helped him to acquire the title of best all-around math student at this school. This club also sponsored the third annual Math Relay on April 15 in which 21 teams from all grades levels participated. Third period gym girls demonstrate an aerobic routine lunches for Health Awareness Week. ,,,,,.....-.---- A H was ...s 'Tw Self Improvement Club members attend a meeting before school on Thursday morning. 156 Self improvement clubfivlatn Club