John Marshall High School - Horn Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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-° Individual Awards Emily Cruse Gold Top Scorer Gold Essay Gold Social Science Gold Interview Bronze Fine Arts Bronze Team Medal B.J. Cooke Bronze Top Scorer Silver Fine Arts Silver Grammar Ciold Economics Silver Social Science Bronze Team Medal Tina Tally Gold Speech Gold Interview Gold Grammar and Literature Bronze Science Bronze Team Medal Chris Chavez Gold Speech Silver Fine Arts Bronze Team Medal Kyle Stein Bronze Science Bronze Team Medal JC Stroud Gold Economics Bronze Team Medal Robert Elzner Silver Science Bronze Team Medal Richie Jarzomhek Gold Math Bronze Team Medal UriJj;L[ Uubc jnd Mrs, Kay McCormick. the reams Icvotcd coaches, enjoy the awards banquet. Academic Decathlon 7

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Touch of Gold Decathletes bring back outstanding awards The nine member Academic De- cathlon team competed January 29- 30 to defend the city championship. The public was invited for this exciting battle of the brains which was held at Clark High School. Twenty eight high schools competed in written and oral exams on seven subjects which included math, sci- ence, social studies, economics, lan- guage and literature, and fine arts. In addition to competing in the Ac- ademic Decathlon, members also participated in the Super Quiz, a Overjoyed with excitement, juniors Tina Talley and Emily Cruse receive their awards competition comparable to execu- tion style Jeopardy. Teams included three-each A, B, and C students. Members of the A team were Kyle Stein, Mitali Chaudhuri, Emily Cruse, and Simon Lee. The B team — B. J. Cooke, JC Stroud, and Tina Tally; The C team — Chris Chavez, Tony Change, Richie Jarzombek, and Cliff Sipes. The Academic Decathlon team came back with eleven gold medals, five silver, and four bronze. BACK RO X ' L ti ) R: Emilv Cruse, B, I Cooke, Tm a Tallv, Tony Cha ng, R.ch. e|a rzombek. Cliff Sipes, Simon U-c, Robert Elzner, a nd Kyle St ;.n. FRONT ROW L ti: . R: Micali Chaudhui -., |C Str, jud, and Chris Ch; IVCZ 6 Academic Decathlon

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Fwaliur. BACK RO X ' : J Thi FRONT RO X ' : K. Hipp. E Ci Commmded: BACK ROW: T. Ehlers. T. Morrow, J DcGroot. S.Jones, FRONT ROW: M. Martin, D. Martin S. Morehouse. V. Do. C. Olvcra PSAT Test takers receive recognition What an honor to be ranked in the top one percent in the state your junior year. For what, you ask!- ' Why — The National Merit Program, of course. To be one of these privileged students, you must score within the top one percent in the state on your PSAT and then accent that score with your SAT score the fol- lowing year. All that will make )ou a semifinalist: Finalists must then have filled out a many-paged application with several teacher and counselor rec- ommendations. The applications arc- then reviewed and finalists are chosen trtim there. From our school alone 18 scholars were named. iMichelle Martin comment- ed, 1 was very proud to have received such an award and I owe a lot of my academic background to Marshall. h s Hnplish 1 d.i Erin Flinn. and Knstcn Bussey. 8 English Humanities