Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Karen Griffith l PWT ArT is The mosT imporTanT Thing To Karen, who has been inTeresTed in iT since second grade. AlThough she Hdabbles in everyThing, her favoriTe medium is waTer color. She was chosen To design and painT The disc of Big Red in The gym. As a second year sTudenT she placed in The NaTional ArT ConTesT. Karen's spare Time is Tilled wiTh reading, slceTching, lcniTTing, and wriTing. Hoping To aTTend arT schools in The UniTed STaTes Tor Two years and Then To conTinue her sTudies abroad, she will enTer The Tield oT eiTher commercial arT or Tashion design. Jeff Goodman Speech JeTT Goodman is presenTly Treasurer oT The NaTional l-lonor SocieTy, Key Club, and English l-lonor SocieTy. l-le received second place in The STaTe American Legion 0raTori- cal ConTesT, won a Commercial Award as a Junior and was Junior RoTarian Tor The monTh of January This year. l-le has won numerous awards in debaTe and exTemporaneous speak- ing, and has aTTended various speech insTiTuTes. l-le parTic- ularly lilces hunTing and swimming, as well as Tennis, and has aTTained The ranlr oT Eagle ScouT. As Tor college, JeTT is sTill undecided, buT plans To maior in clinical psychology. l-le Teels ThaT everyone's curriculum should include some courses relaTed To speech because Those wiTh experience in This area usually are more adepT in all areas OT endeavor.

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Nancy who has been worlclng on school papers since lunior high and describes her lnferesf as sfill growing IS co edlfor of fhe Anvil for fhe second semesfer She says fhe fifle ednfor has been a sorl' of dream for fhe lasf fwo or fhree years, and fhaf if is fhe greafesl feeling in fhe world fo look af a paper and be able fo say fhal s mine'. Proof of Nancys deferminafion and excepfional abillfies is fhe facf fhaf she won fhe ediforship fhough she lusf moved fo Housfon 'rhns year, from Paschal High School in Ff Worfh Being awarded fursf place recogniflon in liferary confesfs for her edlforials and polished wrifings has become a regular occurrence for Nancy She was an American Field Service flnallsf and is a member of fhe Quill and Scroll Sociefy fhe English Honor Sociefy and Sigma Gamma ln her spare fume she enloys reading, coolc- ing swimming 'lennis and playing lhe piano. Nancy will affencl fhe Universlfy of Texas and sfudy iournal- ism and governmenf and hopes in a few years, fo Ted Siff Speech An unusual inferesf in fhe fields of speech and govern- menf characferizes Ted, who has falaen parf in fhespian acfivifies since his firsf year in high school. His mosl' re- warding course, he says, is speech, which provides op- porfunifies fo fravel, meef new people, and learn how differ- enf high schools operafe. Ted's main inferesfs oufside school include swimming and club acfivifies, in his case a wicle area. Ted has served as vice-presidenf of fhe Nafional Honor Sociefy, pre-sidenf of fhe Nafional Forensic League, and Mu Alpha Thefa, and senior direcfor of fhe Key Club. Appreciafive of his oufslanding qualifies of leadership, his classmafes have elecfed him class presidenf in his iunior and senior years. As for his college plans, Ted hopes fo be accepfed af eifher Sfanford, Harvard, or Johns Hopkins. He plans fo major in polifical science af one of fhese schools. Nancy Peterson Journalism w

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Steve Nagle Drama A devoTed parTicipanT oT drama and drama-relaTed acTiviTies, STeve was chosen lvlosT Promising AcTor his Junior year. He has been in The casT oT Tive plays aT Memorial and has worked in Ten plays ouTside oT school, doing much oT his acTing in The HousTon TheaTre CenTer and aT The UniversiTy oT HousTon. STeve enioys hunT- ing and likes To wriTe, especially poeTry. He is presenTly in The middle oT a novel, is working on a one-acT play. and is having one oT his poems published in a naTionally circulaTed magazine. STeve also enioys guiTar playing and Tolk singing. He received a LeTTer oT CommendaTion Tor his score on The NaTional MeriT -l'esT and was awarded TirsT place in The Junior division oT The Anvil l.iTerary Con- TesT. STeve plans To aTTend Wesleyan UniversiTy or The UniversiTy oT Virginia, where he will major in eiTher English or drama. He says ThaT man s+iIl lacks The abiliTy To Tell his Tellow man whaT he Teels in his hearT and says he wanTs To improve This Through his wriTing and acTing. f Ci Ll . fbififfe' i sl , xllalg Umgxl . vi W ' Y.......z Polly Plaza English Scholarship Polly may TrequenTly be seen unconsciously Tlipping her long. blond hair ouT oT The way as she busies herself aT her work as as- sociaTe ediTor oT The ReaTa or in preparing her class work. FascinaTed by any opporTuniTy To learn, she sTaTes ThaT alThough learning doesn'T open all doors, iT does give a glimpse oT The world. Polly is The recipienT of The NaTional Honor SocieTy senior ring, a Na- Tional lv1eriT FinalisT, a member oT The ScienTiTic and Philosophical SocieTy, Mu Alpha TheTa. Spanish Club, Quill and Scroll SocieTy and Sigma Gamma. EurTher recogniTion of her abiliTies included receipT oT deparTmenTal awards in English, Spanish, and chemisTry, and Top honors in disTricT and regional UniversiTy lnTerscholasTic League ConTesTs Tor her essays. The combinaTion oT These aTTribuTes have won her The English and Scholarship awards. Polly, an accom- plished pianisT, also enioys singing in her church choir, reading, cook- ing. and horseback riding. She will aTTend AnTioch College and will maior in eiTher hisTory or English.