Douglas MacArthur High School - MacArtair Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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kidding Latin students - Robin Crumbley Grant Slater, and Ray Smith are surprised at what the teacher is saying about their daily work. Not missing a word, Second year Ger- man students Caroline Khalaf, Dawn - Dickman, Sharon Solomon, Dennis Hall, Audrey Davis, Thomas Davis, Donna LeClere listen attentively as the teacher lectures on the country culture. ,xx Number please dents Penny Strothers Alfred Luna Kha laf Khalaf, Deborah Wisenbaker Danette Aucoin are absorbed in the sounds of French singing as a part of their less

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T Words, words, words. Trying hard to copy the assignment from the shorthand book, Raynell Nicklas, with the help of her finger, has everything under control. A Shorthand, foreign part of everyday life S me Curls, loops, flips. Shorthand is not just Q for girls as Darrell Strothers' activity dis' M plays his work. 84 practice makes perfect lf at first you don't succeed, try, try again, Take tl bull by the horns, Don't go out on a limb, One goc deed deserves another, and You're as stubborn as mule, are only a few cliches commonly used in the En Iish dialect. But one that might be more applicable to st dents is Practice makes perfect. As most commonly known, school can be one of tr most important focal points to exercise this particul cliche. Many daily routine classes can be perfect exar ples of practicing. One of high school's hard-working courses can cor monly be voted in as being shorthand. No, this class doi not require one to cut part of one's hand off. But due the amount of work you have to do in there to keep up a passing grade, you feel like you wore away about tvf inches just writing all the time, says Cindy Weaver. St dents take dictation for five minute periods at 80 wor per minute. Then they transcribe it on the typewriter quickly as possible. Papers are graded for accuracy a length of time taken to transcribe. Practicing for perfection is even harder in the eyes t foreign language students who tackle the art of speakir a whole new language. Spanish, French, Latin and Ge man are all taught in their correct forms. lt is very hard ' teach young Mexican-Americans how to speak Spani correctly when they've been around people who used t slang all their lives explained one language teacher. Comparing answers. Team work is the name of the game as Liz Marroquin shows Flosie Pequeno the correct way to do the Spanish work.

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EZKELMBLISS Aside from the usual 3 R's Creading, writing and arithmeticj English and Math classes offer excite- ment for interested students. College-bound mathematicians have courses such as Analytic Geometry, Trigonometry, and Cal- culus to choose from. Those desiring to spend their time competing at math contests can join the Num- ber Sense, Slide Rule or Calculator team. English courses such as Readings in British Liter- ature, Nlass Media and Creative Writing are offered to juniors and seniors. For students who like to spend their spare time reading student-authored lit'- erature there is a membership on the staff of Kalei- doscope, the school literary magazine. Test. Mary Vadare writes her name on an English test before attempting to answer the questions. f . I . , 5 U., 5 r A-d-a-rn-e-n-t. Adament - Renee Cobble works on improving her world of vocabu- lary in 12th grade English. . 15, --- f ,VZ ,gf In K is V What a paper. Ms. Cheryl Dunn sits at her desk checking notebooks in class. its-fy vi, l