John H Reagan High School - Spur Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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WQ)W i laiwsi t tf 0) • mm D CO 15 o o CO When Mr. Travis Greenwood was 43 years old, he retired from the Air Force after serving 23 ' 2 years. He then had to decide what his second career would be. He had been a pilot instructor off and on and had enjoyed it. So, he decided to become a teacher. He has been teaching at Reagan for 15 years, and in that time has been the chairman of the Social Studies depart- ment off and on six times. Mr. Greenwood said the only prob- lem the department had this year was the reoccurring problem of teaching courses without textbooks. There is no unlimited money for books, and sometimes a course just won ' t have a textbook, related Mr. Greenwood. Another problem Social Studies teachers have arises from the cur- riculum. Since it changed, requiring either Geography or World History for graduation, and not both, the teachers in the Social Studies department were having a hard time teaching. Mr. Green- wood explained why: With only one of the two courses re- quired, a student usually takes geography in ninth grade and that ' s it. He never gets World History. Yet, when we try to teach Government, we naturally assume the stu- dent knows where law originated. Often, because they ' ve never had World History, they don ' t. What was Mr. Greenwood ' s most rewarding experience as a teacher. ' That ' s easy — observing someone learning, seeing a person analyze and evaluate so that he will do two things: 1) continue his education, not necessarily in college, and 2) become a critical citizen who ' s able to inform himself and be in- formed, said Mr. Greenwood. To celebrate ihe end of a geography unit on Latin Americ2. Ms. Lorine Clark and Cindy Johnson break a pinaia fo the class on the cafeteria stage. After asking his Government class a question, Mr. Duane Moore has to endure a typical answer from one of his students. Air. Rois Moss explains to his American History class how the gold rush helped expand the US population westward. Junior Mike Wright shakes down a potential bank rob ber (Officer Harold Hoffmeister) in Street Law class. 102

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Ai Jennifer Clark watches, Gaye Gibich prepares to heat her lest tube for the lab. W:i. .I SlJ ann • ■nk■ll John S7endr. Mi. Carmella LaValle helps sophotnore Sam Allen collect the right chemicals for his lab. CO 5 o o CD 101

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Social Studies depanment chairman Travis Greenwood goes over a Government worksheet before having it run off on the duplicator. (Left) Police officer Alvaro Hernandez frisks suspect John Zamarripa in Mrs. Wrights Street Law class. (Above left) .Mr. Frank McDonaU shows Susan Conway her grades for the six weeks in World History. (Above) In Street Law class, Mrs. Earlene Wright goes over criminal and civil rules and regula- tions with the class. CO o CO c Q. CD CO 103