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

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Club raises 1220 canned goods for needy Be Aware — Appreciate — Achieve — this was the Reagan Awareness club ' s theme, and this was the message that the club tried to impress upon its members. One purpose of the club was to encourage the members to be aware of who they were, where they were, where they were going, and what it would take to get there. The club stayed very active this year with regular meetings and rap sessions. One of their discussion topics was You are Somebody Special. Several successful activities were carried out this year. In November a canned food drive was held and the food was donated to needy families around the holiday season. There was a competition between second period classes to see who could bring in the most cans. The winning class was given a cake and Coke party. The canned food drive was completely successful, reported Adolph Evans, president of the Awareness club. There was a great deal of participa- tion from both the faculty and the students, he added. Also around the holiday season, both the Reagan and LBJ Awareness clubs held a party at the Kingston Village party house. To celebrate Black History Month in February, the club sponsored a program held during school hours in which various young Blacks performed talents such as singing, speaking, and playing musical instruments. Other activities of the year included a trip to Six Flags and the Annual Afro Ball. Salisa Little, Vincent Humphries, and Luke Mercer deliver Ms. Mary Schawe ' s class At a unJraiser carwash, Rhonda Works and Alonzo Johnson lake lime to cool conlribuiion to the canned food drive sponsored by the Awareness club. ofV. Sophomores Sharon Hernandei Yolanda Hernand. 153

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Media no blow-off course, says Banks It has been eight years since Ms. Estelle Banks brought the Media program to Reagan. Since then, she said the class and club seems to be getting more enjoyable. Students are interested in doing a lot of activities and shows, Ms. Banks said. Ms. Banks said the Media club was formed to allow those not in the film class to use the equipment. Technically called Film Mak- ing Analysis, the Media class teaches juniors and senior (with exceptions) to operate cameras, video systems, tape recorders and stereos. And despite student opinion that media is a blow-off course, Ms. Banks says it is indeed a difficult course. Media is not an easy-credit course, she stressed. A lot feel since it looks easy and looks fun that it is easy. But it really isn ' t. Students are also required to write scripts as well as critique and edit other work. There ' s one group putting on a fashion show, Ms. Banks said. There ' s also a group putting on a production warning students of the danger of dropping ou t of school. In the production, a couple of girls drop out of school and become prostitutes and are treated badly. They look at their life and decide to straighten out their lives, she related. Do students enjoy the course? They choose exactly what they want to do, Ms. Banks said, and they enjoy because they ' re in charge. Media duk (fronl row): Clark Shay, Carta Hill. Alecia Piland, Anehony Onega. Kim Peier- A big part of Media class is learning how (o use a camera. Ms. Estelle Banks shows son; (second row): Roberl Cox, Cliff Keeling. Deborah Wilborn, William Herron. Karrie third-period student Mark Sheeran ihe correct way to focus the camera. Cosson; (third row): Alecia PuUin.Jim Penrod, Rosemary Wilson. Sylvia Neal. Jackie Robin- son, Jereen Wright; (fourlh row): Chris Roberts, Deneen Hill, Robert Castillo, Robio Castimore. Cynthia Brooks. Tony Carrington. Ms. Estelle Banks. !• 1 ken Ken nedv Joh iKerr i r ' ' V •%, Vi m L y w ■tk t M :iH Shanna Kolhrr Laura Lahai Melissa Lar Linda Lindholm Michael Lii 155