James Monroe High School - Echo Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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“KISS ME, ’ SAYS JEFF Miller, a senior who seems to have no fears. IN AN ACCURATE portrayal of the revered Mr. Burch, Mike Burchisa crowd pleaser in the Creative Thinking class. “WRONG!” FLAUNTING THE sculp- tured nails is not Mrs. Zacchini but David Mackie. DANCING IN THE S.A.D.D. Dance-a- thon, student leaders Susan Bennett and Tom Moulton work up a sweat. FRIENDSHIPS MOVE BEYOND the classroom to a game of touch on the mall. George Coghill, Scott Pollard, and Greg Randall partici- pate in the action. PERCUSSIONIST ALEX BOWMAN orders a band portrait taken after Jayem’s first competition. ) Pluses 15

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The Jayem curriculum has many offerings for a school of this size. Almost five levels of each subject area were offered to meet requirements for four different kinds’ of diplomas. It was a lot of hard w ork, but class work had many pluses. The summer standout was a Governor's Program for vocationally gifted students in Robotics and assroom Pius CAD (Computer Aided Design), also, Student Leaders were involved in learning and teaching leadership techniques. The band — orchestra scheduling provided a new football performance format. For the first time a course was offered in Cre- ative Thinking where students often role played and participated in simula- tions. To make learning 14 Student Life 4 come alive, teachers often found resource people to visit their classrooms. Perhaps resource person Jim Woodward, a Jayem alumnus, provided the most excitement when he brought his snake collec- tion to science classes. His pythons were real exten- sions to an already colossal curriculum. In ADVANCED FRENCH CLASS, Charity Sheffield, Elizabeth Merrill and Meredith Parry work on a group assignment.

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Observe, hypothesize, experiment, collect data, interpret data, draw con- clusions — the scientific method in operation. The Science Fair’s main purpose was to have students apply this method to their own research. The fair also created an atmosphere of competition — within a specific subject, by grade levels, by teachers. This was the second year of the event. It drew a fr | 4 MR. BURCH AND HIS daughter Jamie check out the scale model of the Challenger space shuttle made by Stephen Mann and Benedyct Delacroix-Muirhead. science Fair Be |nere large number of parents and students. Also, since it was the second year, students Knew what was expected so that the quality of the projects was better. The grand prize winner, Andrea Manolis, conducted an in-depth ex- periment on the transport of nerve impulses. She found that the ‘Missing Link’’' in transporting nerve impluses to the heart is acetylocholine. 16 Student Life ¢ GRAND PRIZE WINNER Andrea Manolis literally takes Physical Science first place winner, Tyler Scott, under her wing as they beam with pride. THE SECOND ANNUAL Science Fair welcomes hundreds of observers who study amazing Mee ieee of our creative scien- ISUS: