Meadowbrook High School - Sceptre Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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TOUCHING THE IDEAL Students reached for perfection in-all pur- sults. ichard Bach once said,” the most impor- tant thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do ... This year the stu- dents,.as well as teachers and. administrators, reached for that perfec- tion in the classroom and in ties. : The Advanced P.E, class- eS, taught by Mrs. Lee, took many field trips Palat-,! 6 ane ‘ing to the activities they BOO: DE were doing in the class- — foom, After theiplesson on The Library Media class- es also thought they had learned much this year. The library students spent the first few months of school putting the library back together after the -construction was complet- ed, The media students spent their school year producing their own five minute videos ranging from original raps to Pink Floyd's - “The Wall.” These videos gave..the students ar chance to, express their thoughts by creating their wown topics. Two of these videos were sent to a state ct mpetition. The stu- - rapelling, they visited the, pan i James River Park to put ¢ their Knowledge to use. They also visited the Robius Golf courses. The class had scheduled a three day overnight field. trip’ were “they would tearn-more “about. canoeing, but due to inclement weather they were only able to stay for a day. Even with the short- ened time, the class still felt they had gained valuable knowledge about canoe- ing. . Night Out. Mark Lee, Tina Kidwell, Heather Seliger, and Dawn Kidwell enjoy an evening at the Swift Creek Mill Playhouse with their En- glish class. Feast of Friends. Drama students experimented with clown faces. 8 Classroom Activities ginia. Out o For the third. year. in a row, science students went to spend three days ata college for the Virginia li Junior Academy of Sci- of a pa- pers submitted, forty-one were chosen to go to the competition. Out of those forty-one, eighteen won “awards. This was a great honor for us since this was the largest number of — This year, along with the the. stu- awards won from any one schoo! in the state. Mr. Madison’s Honors chemistry class took a field trip’ to Phil- ip Morse to learn about aif- ferent careers in chemistry. Some of the biology class- es} went to’ MCY to tins crease their knowledge in biology. In the Foreign Language department, one of the most exciting things, to hap in Was the accep-, be of Héidi Hanser to” was the only student from MBK to be: accepted to, Ann Schmier also gave great honor by competing - in a: French, exam and cesta eventh in ‘the re- usual activities, dents participated in a game called International Pusuit, played very much some English classes went to the Swift Creek Mill. Playhouse, while the AP. e classes went to the Car- eo penter center to see BIG — RIVER. Many students en- tered the Write Now and Young Author's writing contests. This year we had maya students ory Find even a few PR awards in the regional lev- els and Neil Desai went on to place third in the state level competition. — Fine Arts had much to be proud of, too. Mike Steger -won a scholarship for his photographs from the. “Richmond Regional Art Awards and Scholarship Program. Many students sent some of their work To the Manchester Womenss.li club where they won vari- ous awards. The Drama Classes had elementary Oo! children come over. ng their. visit, the drama dents applied makeup to these students and also put on.a marionette show were among some of the | things found. Some of the | ninth eda Washingt to. |

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WV are you? What are | Why are you? The mind questions. The. mind reasons. The mind reaches conclusions and draws from those conclu- sions. The human mind has long been recognized as boundless. And out of the mind comes the myriad of ideas and concepts and responses to ideas and concepts that makes up the academic world. Out of our minds comes the scientific research paper or the award winning poem or short story. The dramatic performer creates the acclaimed perfor- mance from his own conception of what it should be. That con- ception is what sets it apart, makes it unique, special, better or worse than others before it. The search for excellence in studies, in life, in being, in gener- al, is what drives the mind and stimulates it to work and pro- duce little pieces of that work in whatever form. The mind can become all it desires to be- come, achieve all it desires to achieve, create all it desires to create. The first hand experience is perhaps what stimulates the mind the most. The learning of the trade, the practice of the trade for one’s own self-better- ment are integral parts of the mental development of the hu- man being. As part of learning, the individ- ual must place himself in the po- sition to learn. This sometimes means that risks must be taken and awkward situations faced. New challenges must be met in order to enhance the mind. Whether the challenge is travel- ing to a foreign country to learn about its culture and language or skillfully accomplishing a task that few are willing to under- take or making a necessary change in your surroundings in a creative or unorthodox way. Out of our minds springs the eternal growth, the learning and teaching experience which makes up the human conscious- ness. The mind is the most basic and fundamental unit of life as we know it. The human intelli- gence is the building block of our existence. Out of it, our po- tential is realized. ACADEMICS Out Of The Boundaries Out of the ordinary described the varied and different forms of the educational process that occurred.

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The Longest Monk. Scott Fields portrays Grigori Rasputin in European History. Trial or Error? David DePlato puzzles over a problem in Algebra ll. Tripping the Wall. Barry Poindexter cleverly rap- pels down the side of the school in Advanced P.E. Artisitc Expression. Bill Frye works on his latest masterpiece in art Class. Classroom Activities 9