Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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English Club Co Sponsors Literary Anthology A new addiTion To Memorial's rosTer of clubs, The English Honors SocieTy was creaTed Trom members of advanced English classes To promoTe creaTive com- posiTion. lTs members, recommended by Their Teachers, have been encouraged To bring in Their original essays, shorT sTories, poeTry, and exposiTion Tor analysis by oThers oT The club. LecTures by proTessional wriTers, criTics, and Teachers served as parT oT The i,mpeTus To The creaTive urge. ln The spring The club ioined wiTh Quill and Scroll in The publicaTion of a magazine composed oT sTudenT liTerary and arTisTic eTTorTs. l ThoughT we were going To read James Joyce. Members waiT Tor meefing To begin. . Q , ,. Q l .ala W Sponsor MargareT Browne and Dr. George Williams, proTessor of CreaTive WriTing aT Rice, waiT Tor The club pro- ceedings To begin. .41

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Enhances English Curriculum . is T diff. ' A ffflfi s f-I , ,A,V' , Diane MCCUfleY- Lila McGraw. Lana McWilliams. Marcia Moore Lois Powell, FFGSWUGVW- S0Pl'1Ol'T1Ofe Sophomore Sophomore Senior Sophomore ' - . Elaine Rummel, Jere Ann Sally Ward, 5Pe'Ql'1.+ Susan Qualfrough, Senior Waggener, Junior W'll'am50n Junior Freshman Freshman Alfhough fhe shades of Silas Marner and Billy Budd sfill haunf Memorial English sfudenfs. new influences now dominafe fhe curriculum. The mosf useful and inferesfing of fhese, according fo deparfmenf chairman Mrs. Janef Afsinger, is closed-circuif felevision. This medium, plus overhead proiecfors and color fransparencies, has im- measuraloly widened subiecf areas and has provided sfudenfs wifh maferial formerly nof accessible for class sessions. The deparfmenf has confinually endeavored fo arouse Memorialifes fo analyze fheir environmenf and fo record fheir impressions clearly and concisely. This year fwelve courses concerning differenf aspecfs of English were offered af fhe four grade levels. XX Mrs. Lewis passes anofher novel fhrouqh fhe room. N X

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Rapid Reading Raises Rates The essence ot improvement is concentration. or so it seems. The most usetul course you can take ac- cording to counselors, is the rapid reading pro- gram ottered by Mrs. Belva Mettner. The course employed several types ot equipment in an et- tort to increase reading speed and comprehen- sion. Use ot controlled readers, shadowscopes, rateometers, the SRA reading labs, and a variety ot paperbacks and other texts doubled the read- ing rate ot most students taking the course. No student tailed to increase his speed less than IOO words per minute. However, said Mrs. Mettner, Every reader must .establish a tlexible reading speed to suit his purpose and material. Belva Mettner, Reading weeks. Mrs. Mettner keeps the reading lab organized and ready to go tor the change ot students every nine 1 D mlb--f Jin Creativity Urged for Art Students By allowing each class to pursue its own course, the art depart- ment has endeavored to provide adequate outlets tor the creativity ot every student. Work with watercolor, oil, tempera, printing blocks. clay and wire sculpture, and polymer has produced varied and dis- tinctly individual results. Several classes, employing paper mache, made costume iewelry similar to that sold in many department V Altharetta w i Yeargin fa Art . ..., ..,.,.. Q it Marcia Moore, Q. it c . Art students have been encouraged to invent new techniques and media through combination, in addition to using standard m stores. To toster originality in areas other than subiect matter, artistic aterials. What? This stutt is edible? Art students work with polymer.