Episcopal High School - Accolade Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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PE provide!, a break from the day and a chance for fun and relaxation. Cointment: Yes, you have to dress out! Crawford: 1, 2, 3 (clap, clap, clap) DeRouen: Girls, I'm sorry but ... Duplcchin: This is going to be a catchup day. Hisc: Girls! Line up! Richards: Get a partner and a ball. Hold the balls!! Ms. Marla Ferguson, a graduate of EHS, filled in for Mrs. DeRouen during her absence. Ferguson went to LSU and continued her education at the University of North Carolina at Greensburo where she received her master's degree. While attending LSU, she was the first girls Jr. High basketball coach to be paid in the city of Baton Rouge. She went on to coach volleyball and basketball at Southeastern Louisiana University and became the Women's Athletic Director there. Ferguson works part time for a land developer, but would like to get back into full time high school teaching and coaching. Presently, she coaches sixth grade volleyball at EHS. Brannon LeBlanc Marcia Richards 99

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% Physical Ganging lip This year, many changes took place in the PE Dept. In the past, students had always seen PE class as a time for fun and relaxation. Although the class proves to be an opportunity for just that, the coaches have put more demands on PE students in the areas of health and fitness in addition to the usual sports. For example, the PE staff auanged foi the American Heart Association to come to the school for two days in the early spring to conduct a CPR class. These highly trained paramedics instructed the tenth graders on valuable Mmim for fiiitKs! life saving techniques. The Presidential Physical Fitness Test, which has always been a popular event among the middle school students, saw tougher requirements this year. Instead of the 600 meter run, the distance has been changed to a one-mile walk run, said Chinkie Cointment, the middle school coordinator. The students have to run the specified distance in a certain amount of time to gain recognition. In order to do so, the classes have had more intensive training for the test.

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Mr. Disch assists seniors Nancy Garrett and Janie MacLauchlan in hooking up wires in Physics class. Mmt leathers Tnjoi Their Work hat, in your opinion, is the most rewarding thing about teaching? This was the question posed to several members of the Science Department. This group of teachers, ranging from lower middle school to high school, had various things to say on the subject. Friday! was physics teacher Mitch Disch's immediate response to the question. Actually, he lives for the times when students express interest and enthusiasm for science. I enjoy seeing children develop intellectual curiosity, said Violet Rutter, a fifth-grade science teacher. Seeing such young children want to seek answers to their own questions, she feels, can be very rewarding. Motivating children so young is, in her opin- ion, an essential factor in preparing them for a good education. Upper Middle School teacher Dot Dickinson's favorite aspect of teaching is watching the students work in science lab. For Mrs. Dickinson, the long, difficult hours she puts into teaching arc worth it when her students get so enthusiastic when they are learning by doing! (Top, left to right): Beth Snelling, Larry Wilkinson, Dot Dickinson, Yvonne French, Mitch Disch, Paula Babin, and Lynn Freeland. Lower Middle School science teachers: Dr. Charles Sauls. Danny Ti-berghein, and Violet Rutter. 100 Lynn Freeland, a high school science teacher, feels that her work pays off most when she sees the results. She especially enjoys having a student call me a year after taking my class to say, 'I placed out a year of freshman biology. Thank you Mrs. Freeland! Also, she, along with the other teachers, likes it when students take time out to say, I really like you and your class. You make it fun! Chemistry teacher Larry Wilkinson enjoys seeing someone understand, for the first time, the scientific principles behind a common occurrence such as why salt melts ice or why oil and water don't mix. Science Department Head Yvonne French, who also teaches chemistry, most enjoys watching the students grow, both socially and intellectually. Also, Dr. French likes teaching little brothers and sisters, and visiting with the alumni when they return. Although teaching is a very demanding job, these teachers find the job worth it because of the benefits they pointed out. Throw together some interesting scientific facts, plenty of labs, and a classroom of brilliant Episcopal scholars and a very interesting class can result. And if it doesn't .. well, there's always Friday! .