Lanier High School - Viking Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Karen Walker Michael Wall Darrel Warneberg Paula Watrous Donna Webb Kathy Webb Justin Weeks Wes Weise Michael White Kathy Whites Gloria Whitfield Larry Wianecki Michelle Wilkins John Williams Kristi Williams Vicki Williams Susan Wilpitz Andrea Wilson Lee Wilson Terry Wimberly L. G. Wood Bobby Wright Nathan Wright Glenn Wucher 2 foreign lang uagefjuniors 1 Sharon Statler and Don Davis enjoy the warm sun and cool Guadalupe River at Wurstfest. The annual trip to New Braunfels was lun, cultural and educational. 2 Cindy Toth and Hilary Yarrington make their theatrical debut as mice in French class, The class performed original skits that they wrote themselves and were graded on them. X 554: ,ffiy bi 3 Pam Clayton, .Jay Moeller, Lesa Kunkel, Mrs. Welsher, Mrs. Clinton, Fiicky Cruz-Aedo and Val Murray look at the birthday card given to Val. Foreign . if-I I 5 ' language clubs offered the opportunity to develop close relationships.

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3 ITo Speak for Qurselves lassics, verbs, fiction, participles, novels, parallellism. Eng- lish was the basis for all communication. We had to compre- hend and respond to our fast changing, growing environ- ment. We needed English to progress in our learning in sci- ence, in social studies, in lite. We constructed speech trees in courses like Grammar I and ll. We conjugated verbs and familiarized ourselves with participial, infi- nitive, and gerund phrases in Basic and Advanced Usage. We grew frustrated when we had to add in a that when we'd previously been told the four letter word wasn't necessary. We moaned and groaned when we were unable to recognize faulty parallellism. We prepared ourselves for college entrance exams like SAT and ACT. Completing four years of English made the freshman year of college a little easier. Profs' at UT weeded out the weaker students the first semester. We waded through literature from Reading Techniques to Advanced Short Story to World Literature. We read the ideas of Poe, Twain, and Shakespeare and reviewed the great works of famous writers in Survey of American Literature and Critical Analy- sis. We envisioned fantastic gods and goddesses in World Mythol- ogy, Students like l-leather Smith and Johnny Gonzales illustrated basic definitions in a Mythology Vocabulary Notebook. Frank Dahl- berg brought a model lyre to school tor extra Credit. Bill Thompson, Lisa DeVane, and Ken Phillips acted out a skit of their mythical version ofthe world's creation. Interested students like Barbara Ernst and Valarie Franklin enjoyed discussing plots, themes, and viewpoints of world- renowned authors. Mark Keeter and Frank Schiller dramatized the close relationship between Huckleberry Finn and Jim in Survey of American Literature B. Leslie Marshall read works of Shakespeare to satisfy personal curiosity and to know more about Elizabethan writing, The English department worked to achieve one major goal - getting back to basics. Colleges and universities questioned what students learned in high school English. We enrolled in Reading Techniques to improve our reading abilities. We memorized defini- tions of common vocabulary words to interpret and comprehend everyday conversation and future reading. We learned basic parts of speech to speak correctly in everyday life. We carried over ideas through media. Roberto Corrada, Chris Fairman, James Starr, and Tracy Hester competed in debate tour- naments as first-rate orators. We expressed inner emotions by act- ing out plays and skits in Beginning and Advanced Drama. We cap- tured other peoples expressions and moods on film in Photo Jour- nalism and Media. Whether it was grammar, literature, composition, or language arts electives, English was the root of all learning. language arts 91

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' .. -V .,.,... .. ----' MWA '? rally 1 g . 'A I, . an - v wzs, ,nl E?w,mw.-wwf-tlft-wfwwfM'wV' g 4 ' V V. , ,.,..-..---- . . .M I W, . . , 1 ,f K ' tional Mexican folk dance. 4 A notch above a two-step, Mrs. Donaho's Spanish class performs a tradi- In Foreign Languages ulture and education brought students together for a unique and interesting learning experience. Verb tenses, vocabu- lary, and memorizing dialogues were not the only skills learned, Learning to speak the language, observe the customs and traditional holidays, and especially to prepare and eat the foods, all intermingled for a fascinating and fun learning expe- rience. Building close bonds between friends and your sponsor was perhaps one of the most beautiful learning experiences you could hope for. Students actively involved in Pan Am helped needy families, sell- ing candy and raising funds. Pan Am donated S250 to UNICEF, a turkey to a needy family, and a S100 donation to Pesos for Braces. Lesa Kunkel took 164 cupcakes to the State School that the club made especially for the children. Celebrating special occasions, Pan Am had a birthday party for Mrs. Salinas, a Christmas and Hal- loween party, and for traditional Cinco de Mayo festivities they pre- sented The Ballet Folklorico. Laurie Mitchell and Vic McWherter helped set up for most of the parties. They rented a close by apart- ment for a day for the annual Christmas party and helped with dec- orations. The Latin club cultured students in the art of Latin dancing and making Latin costumes. They participated in various fund foreign language 93