East Central High School - Hornet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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SHOW THEM HOW TO JAM. Fannybees Pam Smith and Carta Campbelljam to the dance Wipe Out for the crowd at the pep rally. The pep rally is for the Veusity boys basketball team as they work their way to the state tour- nament. 189 .. . Faculty

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' )Orn b BREAD NOT BOMBS. Joseph Lazor car- MIS ,) poster d(sp iy duruig a rally against Contra Aid. This is Just one of his many contributions to society. ••MAKE IT A DOUBLE!- K.u.-n Honeycutt serves ice cream tn Judy Scheffier in the teacher s lounge. Every now and then teachers deserve a special Ireal. Lazor faces challenges in Mexico while sharins! time with homeless Lvatched a man die after a friend and I pulled him and his family out of his little hut in South- em Mexico. He ivas being uictim- ized by drug dealers and had al- ready been shot several times by the time ive got there. He died before iMe could get him off the mountain. The tvife ' s tears and frustration was the most poignant scene I ' ve ever ivitnessed. Joe Lazor said. Mr. Lazor faces assorted situ- ations such as this one through the community work he does. He was very active doing volunteer work at Camino a la Paz, teaching an ethics course in the Department of Religion at Trinity University, directing a choir at St. Mary ' s Catholic ChiM-ch emd working at the San Antonio Metropolitan Min- istry (SAMM) shelter for the home- less. Mr. Lazor strongly believes in helping one another and the next generation. I like teaching and believe that I can help the next generation in dealing with the world, even when teaching math. People who have to sleep on the streets of San Antonio need help and the government is un- willing to accept responsibility. Therefore the task is left to vol- unteers, ' he said. Like many important contribu- tions in life time was the enemy. I often feel frustrated in realizing I could be doing better if I had more time. The work always seemed more than the time which is alot- ted, he said. Working at Camino a la Paz dealt with putting on programs having to do with nuclear weap- ons and money spent on the weap- ons, racial prejudism, the way our money was invested and other contemporary topics along those lines. Mr. Lazor ' s ethics class allowed him to get a different view of the world through college student ' s eyes rather theui high school stu- dents. Students are more influ- ential at the high school age, and I like that. There is more intellectual stimulation in college and that is something I miss, ' ' he said. Although he misses the intellec- tual stimulation Mr. Lazor planned to stay with high school life be- cause he felt he had a larger im- pact on the next generation. Mr. Lazor by Deelaina Stowe ... 190

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Ohl No! Not another essay. The groans per. correct grammatical errors, analyze zould clearly be heard throughout the ■oom. It meant hour after hour of writing, ■ewriting. and the possibility of writing 3.gain. It meant research into the topic if ' here was no prior knowledge. Most of all, ioweuer, it meant time. Something there leuer seemed to be enough of was time. As the grumbling still continued, some- one softly murmured What did we do? Why did she have to make us write an zssay. It seemed a sort of punishment, he word essay . The loss of their time vas a sort of punishment to many stu- dents. What they failed to realize was that hey weren ' t the only ones losing ualuable ime. Teachers had to spend as much time, if tot more, grading the horrid looking stack of papers which represented hours of in- iiuidual work. She had to read each pa- it, comment on it. and then place a grade on it. Why did they do it if all it did was take up even more of their time than simply gluing out a multiple choice worksheet? Did they like to spend their evenings in front of a never-ending stack of papers? Of course, they didn ' t. They, too, had many other things they needed and want- ed to do. They did it for you. They did it because it was something they thought you need- ed for the future. Whether it would be in college or in work, the ability to organize thoughts on paper would always be nec- essary. That ' s what they were there for and what they tried to do. They were there to help get you educated in what- ever way they could. Faculty . . . It