Meadowbrook High School - Sceptre Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Speakers imported, students exported Sometimes during the school year students walked into a classroom to find that there was a guest speaker that day. Speakers coming from outside could generally cover information from first hand experience that a teacher might not have been familiar with. A speaker from Dirt Shirt came to talk to the DE classes. Max from XL 102 also visited Mrs. Susan Hudson’s classes. In photography, George Nann, head of the photogra- phy classes at VCU came to speak and in Drama a mime artist came to share her knowledge with Miss Priscilla Barth’s classes. There were speakers for the political candidates early in the year, speakers in lan- guage classes and the entire school attended an assembly at which the speaker was a man who had finished the Richmond Marathon in a wheelchair. Some students had the ad- vantage of gleaning knowl- edge from guest speakers and then heading out for some very special travel that helped them gain some knowledge first-hand. In the winter Roxanne Combs and Greg Mum- power were part of a Friend- ship Force trip to Central America. When looking through a scrapbook of photos that Roxanne had painstakingly organized to record her trip, it became evident that she had made many friends dur- ing the trip. During spring break, Mrs. Linda Davidson and her hus- band chaperoned a group of students on a week long trip to France. The students did not have to be taking French but the approximately twen- ty students who went from Meadowbrook were all French students. The trip was filled with hu- morous contact with the na- tives, seasickness crossing the English Channel and qui- et country picnics. When students returned to school from these trips they became asort of built-in guest speaker for their class- mates. ZZZ Continent hopping hits Mrs. Linda Davidson with jet lag. Celebrity time A lively conversation seems to be in progress between Mrs. Susan Hudson and Max of XL 102 during his visit to Meadow- brook. Uck! Students ‘show their stuff” while picnicing in the French countryside. Speakers Field 13

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The crossing Martha Eastwood, Robbie Boswell, Theresa Wiley, Bri- an Sadler and Mary Tonenbaum seem in need of rest as they cross the English Channel. Take your choice A speaker from Dirt Shirt shows his wares to a DE class as Mrs. Susan Hudson looks on. Pretty chilly Standing on top of a vo- lacano in Central America, Greg Mumpower and Roxanne Combs get a bit chilled. 12 Speakers Field

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== Fine Arts They decked the halls The past year brought about some rather drastic changes in the blank wall scene around school. Mr. Ev- erett Butler put his advanced students to work on graphics in the cafeteria, gym and auditorium. Kathy Talley and = Lyn Woodlief put the finishing touches ona jungle scene on the cafeteria wall during the summer. It was a project done collectively by some of Mr. Butler’s advanced art students at the end of last year. It’s generally agreed by 14 Fine Arts all users of the cafeteria that the mural brightens the area considerably. There has long been an acoustical problem in the auditorium, so Mr. Butler ap- proached Miss Priscilla Barth, the drama instructor, about having his students design and execute large banners to hang on the walls to help re- flect sound. The best designs from an advanced art exam last year were chosen and the artists, Kathy Talley, Lyn Woodlief and Jeannie Grubbs went to work this year painting them in acrylics and adding felt borders. The motif was one of playing cards. The far end of the gym wall had a blank look, so Kim Summers, Betsy Stroud and Tina Pritchett went to work painting a large mural con- taining symbols for all of the sports played in the gym. They spent afternoons com- pleting the work. All of the other art work in the gym has been executed by Mr. But- ler’s advanced students. The poster for the chil- dren’s play ‘King Arther’s Sword”, was designed by Yun Lee. The illustration on the poster was also used on the program and tickets. They were all printed at the Tech Center. Yun also did the illustration for the ‘81 Sceptre cover. No one can say that the students in art and photogra- phy don’t learn anything. One only has to turn to a wall or publication at Meadow- brook to find evidence of what they’ve accomplished. Get the point? Yun Lee checks over her artwork on the poster for King Arthur’s Sword.