Lanier High School - Viking Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Friendship and Pun I ,Q 4' l 2 Rx- t . sz.. 'CN xnxx, 'M Jay Stautler, Alvin Bryant, Patti Steger, and Wayne Haas listen as Frau Bur- nett leads discussion on transportation to Lake Buchannan. German Club members said good-bye to graduating Senior members and elected new officers on the weekend trip. Top: Fliding paddleboats at Landa Park in New Braunfels, Adam Curran, Frau Burnett, Laurie Steger, Veronica Bockelmann, and Tammy Bostock discover a paddleboat iam LAGS went to Vvursttest in New Braunfels on l-ligh School day. Adam Curran smiles as Becky Davis bites into the sausage end of LAGS sausage and buns at the Carnival, LAGS raised about 540,00 through the sale ot food and T-shirts. - german 225

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ptllllifff f E I i X i K O ,qt it ,. 2 i .lt so QW it U, PX Ll 5 l A club concerned with letting people have their own niche at such a big school was LAGS - Lanier Association of German Students. ln the words ot Mrs. Burnett, sponsor of eight years: Our l school is so giganticg it you don't have anyone to comment to when you walk down the halls, it's really not worth being here. Thats why we have the German Club - people can have somebody to talk to who they know have the same interests. LAGS must have been very attractive to most German students - two-thirds ofthe people who took German Capproximately thirty-tive peoplej were involved in the organization. A picnic for new members, a high school day in New Braunfels at the Wurstfest, selling sausage and buns at the Bicentennial Carnival, and competition at the TAGS CTexas Association of German Studentsj convention in San Antonio were activities which took up the time of LAGS members. At the end ofthe year, there was a private convention of LAGS at Lake Buchan nan for a tinal get-together for students. Under the direction of President Valerie Starr and Vice-President Allan Breazeale, LAGS put on a production at the TAGS convention which was rewarding as well as fun. The play consisted of a take-oft of a i Guten Tag film which was shown in . German class. At the TAGS convention, everyone participated, and one didn't , necessarily have to be a member of Lags. They key point was participation - whether a member ofthe play cast, the German band, or the German folk dance group. There was really no pressure to win, just to be a part ofthe action going on. Money raising was one of the main concerns of LAGS. Although there were money raising projects such as Carnival l sales, T-shirts, and the ever-popular l gummy bears, money was used to help T students pay for activities expenses and not necessarily just to raise funds. T The German Club set out to make l students feel at home in a large school and succeeded in just that. Any student involved in LAGS was sure to have the time i of his life with a bunch of special people. LAGS President Valerie Starr spends time mak- ing a flower tree to decorate the Sunday House for the Carnival. Valerie led the club, as well as participating in the German Band at the TAGS convention. Sitting: T. Starr, Alvin Bryant, Jay Stautfer, Presi- dent Valerie Starr, Laurie Burnett, Sponsor Frau Burnett. Standing: Wayne Breazeale, Treasurer Wayne Haas, Vice-President Allan Breazeale, Parliamentarian Adam Curran, Treasurer Patti Steger, Donnie Youngbloom.

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226 latin Operating in the Arts and Crafts wing, a little known but active organization sailed through the year learning much about Roman life and language. The purpose of Caesar's Circle is to give students practical experience with Latin. Anything you have practical experience with, you remember. Our weekly meetings help us to plan what we are going to do with the other clubs in Austin. Being in Latin Club helps the students meet other people with the same interests and unique school activities, said sponsor Mrs. Sayers. An Arts and Crafts teacher, Mrs. Sayers had an extra aid in bringing Latin to life for her students who met every first period. When learning a facet of Roman life, for instance, students could build a replica of the city ot Rome, or dress dolls they made in costumes ofthe period they were learning about. Caesar's Circle earned money to help educate a boy in the Philippines and to plant trees on Town Lake. At the end ofthe year, club members attended an all-city Senatris Romanorum banquet. This organization participated in city meets and competed in vocabulary, Greek, and Roman grammar, literature, and history, and Olympic events such as discus throwing and track running. Latin Club attended contests throughout the year. In a city contest, Ric Sullivan placed third in the city on vocabulary contests. At the San Antonio Classical League contest, equivalent to a District competition, President Patti Parkinson came out tops on Roman life. When the club ventured to the Texas State Classical League meet, all Lanier students who participated from Caesar's Circle came home with placement inthe top ten in the state. Quite a showing tor a club virtually unknown at its own school. Cindy Moritz works on a salt map depicting the city of Rome. Materials were easily accessible as class was held in the Arts and Crafts wing. df ' J? Pat Hunter displays pottery made in Latin class. Ceram- Bottom Row: Recording 'V-411' C7 if F! Shawna Wilkenson, Treasurer Mary Scribner, President ics were made and sold to raise Latin Club Funds. Patti Parkinson, Vice-President Stacey Hawthorne. Second Row: Pat Hunter, Terry Flogers, Theresa Vittek, Ftic Sullivan.