Meadowbrook High School - Sceptre Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Take note Mr. Bill Portlock discusses | Other ways Casting is not the only the vegetation at the edge of the way to catch creatures that live be- Mattaponi as students take notes. neath the surface of the water. Massive Students casting a net are Dry land The group takes a break framed by one of the large old trees from the water to discuss life forms along the rivers edge. in this wirey grass along the shore. River Trip 23

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A trip on the Mattaponi The 27 science students who went on a canoe trip with Mr. Lamar Brandt in late May had more trouble spell- ing the river then paddling up it. The trip started on the Mattaponi River and ended up on the York River with an overnight compout near Lightfoot. The group was led by Mr. Bill Portlock, a field worker for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Most of the stu- dents had been on a canoe trip in the fall and were pret- ty adept at manuvering the boats. It was when everyone got out of the canoes that the problems started. At one point when the group beached their canoes on an island in mid-channel, the is- land turned out to be a man- eater. Every footstep was questionable. Would they sink or would the ground be solid enough to hold their weight. Mr. Portlock used this experience to show why 22 River Trip ducks have webbed feet. Nets were cast to collect specimens. At one point casting turned up a non-poi- sonous water snake which was used to point out the markings that distingush poi- sionous snakes from non- poisonous ones. As the students ap- proached the end of their trip at the York River they were attacked by flies, mos- quitoes and sand fleas that lived in the cord grass along the river. They were de- fenseless to swat the insects away since they had to con- centrate on paddling. Mr. Portlock led them to the open river, a stay which was cut short by a storm. Escaping the storm, the group finished up their trip in a shelter as Portlock re- capped the trip in a journal. The recapping was cut short by a fierce hail storm, a sort of grand finale put on for the students by nature. Surprises The students never knew what the casting net would turn up. Once it yielded a snake. ae Steering Hispassenger seems non- plussed by this student’s method of balancing the canoe.

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Keeler’s Cuties Robin Johnson takes part to help the soccer team during the Soccer Variety Show. 2 parts pancake part syrup Mr. Jur- gens watches with interest as Mrs. Gizzard mixes pancakes. 4 Our next contestant is ... Leslie Henry and Venson Wallin host the first Dating Game. Once Upon a Thon “If you got the money honey I’ve got the time.” Some of the money prob- lems at Meadowbrook were captured by many different fund raisers. Some of which included the Cart Wheel-a- Thon for the gymnastics team, the pancake supper for the Senior Scholarship fund, the ‘Dating Game” put on by the junior class for the prom, the Gong Show for the Sen- iors, the Soccer Variety show, and the list goes on and on. There are several different kinds of fund raisers that any- one can use but the most popular one, for both the or- 24 Once-upon-a-thon ganization and the students were the notorious candy sales. The candy sales were far more profitable than most. The History Club used movies to raise money. This year they brought the Bea- tles’ movie “The Yellow Sub- marine” to M.B.K. The facul- ty used the fashion show to help build up the Faulty Sen- ior Scholarship fund. The need for money never stops here, but neither do the fund raisers. Super Chief Mr. Binns makes use of a secret talent, pancake flipping.