Jefferson High School - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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for Themselves President Reagan promised the audience, largely made up of high school students, that he would do everything in his power to make the world a safe and secure place to raise the next generation. At the same time, he stressed the need to continue to ex- plore new territory and presented the schools with the first model of a hyper- sonic plane that will be used in exploration.

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Pictures That Speak President Ronald Reagan addressed an enthusiastic crowd of students on February 7 in the gym at Jefferson. Students questioned the President on issues ranging from teachers in space to prayer in schools.

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Garcia is interviewed “on air.” Astronaut Dale A. Gardner demonstrates drinking in weightlessness techniques to Garcia aboard KC-135, “‘Zero-G” aircraft. Astronaut G. David Low, right, briefs (1.r.) Lathlaen, Garcia, Morgan, and Metcalf on the full fuselage trainer in JSC’s Shuttle mockup and integration laboratory. Garcia Explores New Frontiers The NASA Teacher in Space Project brought in 10,060 applicants nation- wide, 224 just in Va. Judy Garcia, the chairperson of the foreign languages department at TJHSS T, was one of the 120 finalists selected. June 1985, in Washington, D.C. NASA selected 10 of the 120 finalists to go to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Judy Garcia was selected to fill one of these positions; she was not chosen to don a space suit, blast off, and be the first teacher in space. Garcia, if she was chosen, had planned to establish a network of students selected from competition with whom she would communicate from the space shuttle. Garcia is a woman of vi- sion who seeks to see not only borders of towns from an airplane or stars from a space capsule, but a life from a different point of view. While many people were looking for ways to reduce stress, Garcia was looking for ways to cope with additional stress — stress that would natural- ly come with inviting the whole world into a single life. As much as she wanted to reach expanses of the universe, she ex- panded her thinking, “I try not to get too over- whelmed. I say this has to fit in — then suddenly almost a kind of peaceful- ness takes over in the midst of chaos,” she said.