Pflugerville High School - Panther Paw Yearbook (Pflugerville, TX)

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La Cercie Francaise The French Club consisted of 45 mem- bers, most of whom were freshmen and sophomores. This really young club pulled together and worked extra hard to make the whole year a success. During the course of the year, the club attended two French plays at the U.T. Performing Arts Center and on another occasion went out to eat at Chez Nous, a French restaurant near Sixth Street. The members had several fundraisers throughout the year that contributed to buying supplies for the French classes. When asked what she enjoyed most about being the club sponsor, Jill Mar- kert replied, I loved working with the students outside the classroom and get- ting to see the students' reactions to a different culture. The students in the French Club were very responsible and did a lot of work. To end a very prosperous year, the French Club joined with the other for- eign language clubs for an International Language Club Banquet. Club French 7 The year got off to a slow start but everyone pulled to- gether and we had a lot of fun, stated Rachel Hamp- shire. 1 Junior Gay Keilman and sophomore Van Le gathered at the foreign language club banquet which was held at the end of the school year. 2. 1985-80 French Club members: front row-Dawn Garcia, Gina Ruiz, Joy Chen, Stephen Bohls. Chris Graf. Greg Chlapek, Brian Davis; middle row-Jill Markert, sponsor, Tammy Young, Debra Mattews. Melissa Stubble- field, Laura Welch. Becky Shaffer. Briana Tolleson, Travis Reese, Nikki Tarno, Rachael Dotson. Monica Petty; back row Tiffany Leslie. Shelly Beaird, Lara Beare, Rachel Hampshire. Lori Reeder, Allison Williams, Van Le, Rachelle Cameron, Julie O dell. 3. Freshman Stephen Bohls took a moment to get a drink before he ate his dinner at the club banquet I Sophomores Tammy Young and Kate Ortiz and sponsor Jill Markert prepared the French table at the International Language Club Banquet.

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IEsl Class Gets 'The Basics To students at P.H.S., foreign lan- guage refers to French, Spanish, and Ger- | man. But for the ESL students, English becomes the second language. In a class of 10 students, the main goal was to learn survival vocabulary. The foreign stu- dents were encouraged to listen and try to reproduce the English language. A problem that commonly arose was that they may have understood the teacher but were not able to express themselves by answering. The whole class was very serious about their work, commented Elena Meister, ESL teacher. Outside of the classroom, the students went to one of the home football games and in November gathered to have a Thanksgiving dinner. To the students with a background in one of the Latin languages, learning English can be a much faster process. Listening to the students produce something taught in the class without any assistance was the biggest joy of all, stated Meister. 1. ESL students read along in their books as their teacher lectured. 2. Apolinar Espinosa studies the basic concepts of English in one of his textbooks. 3. ESL teacher Elena Meister waits for a student to respond to a question. 4. Mai Thi Chau, Apolinar Espinosa, Salvador Reyes, and Ameen Mohammad get drilled over the survival vocabulary. 5. Gor- don Jiu gives the photographer a sarcastic look as he is interrupted from studying.

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Hard Work Unprofitable Practice makes perfect. This statement holds true for the cast of the One Act Play. The only problem is that the hard work didn't pay off in contest. The cast begain working in March, and practices continued throughout spring break. The cast worked hard for the perfec- tion of the lines, costumes, scenery, and make-up. Their production, The Red Shoes, was performed one evening at the Middle School for a general audience and again during the day for the PMS students. The cast consisted of Thespian mem- bers, honorable mentions, Anna Chla- pek, Jason Morgan. All Star Cast, David Ragland, and Carmen Arendt. Other cast members were Roland Belmares and Lynda Dungan. Aside from the hard work of the Thes- pians, there were many things to learn in the classroom. Drama is usually the be- ginning of a production. Zenda Bates, director, said, 1 feel this is a class that helps develop a student's self-confidence and poise. 46 Drama