Randallstown High School - Horizon Yearbook (Randallstown, MD)

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Message from the 'clvor Tower Notice any changes in this year's book? Rather apparent, arenit they? 'We expanded the student life section. 'We added an academics sec- tion. 'There's more color. 'There's more copy. 'It looks like a magazine. This is the new HORIZON Gone are the mundane, drab surn- maries of the sports seasonsg the ho-hum, endless rows of student pictures in the People Sectiong the inconsistent, unstylized layouts- -now replaced with new, trendy yearbook techniques and ideas, learned by the staffcin aweek-long seminar at the University of Maryland, College Park. Although most readers are un- aware of layout changes, explains layout editor Randy Cochrell, the reader, this year's book is much more pleasant to look at. This year the copy gives a more complete coverage of RHS life, both inside and outside of school, says copy editor Byron Hapner. In response to organizational needs, Advisor Alta Campbell ap- pointed Mincly Franklin to a new editorial position, photography editor. Comments Mindy, We are now able to cover more events, produce pictures of better quality and maintain a more complete photographic record of the year. We felt that the action theme accurately portrayed the daily happenings at Randallstown. We wanted to explore all aspects of the lives of students and facultyg Ms. Duncan-Moretti's Scottish Country dancing, Mr. Snyder- man's world travels, summer jobs at Beth TiFiloh Day Camp, Mrs. Spiegel's plays, and outside of school organizations such as these alterations will visually aid 2 i X R i , X uw- -er- as . sf, ,. sf: 1 ' ' 'Lt A 2, ,H . s ., ' if S ' e- - N -2 ei? W' g , S is. Young Life. So you see, we've shed the ivory tower image with down-to-earth, grass roots coverage of Randall- stown. lt's a change whose time has come. Similarly, The Rams Horn, the school newspaper, underwent major changes this year--a new advisor, Kay Kershman, formerly of the Milford Mill Millwheelg 'a new layout forrnatg and a new ap- proach to copy writing. Editor-in- Chief Leah Hofkin states that the paper is exploring new story ideas- -shoplifting, teenage marriage and other student-related topics. Because of its strong news, fea- ture and editorial writing, The Rams Hom earned a first class rating from the Minnesota Uni- versity School of Journalism. Thus, both major school publi- cations have initiated sweeping changes this year-award winning changes that benefit you, the reader. 9 In spite of the final rush, Photography Editor Mindy Franklin goes Scottish Country Dancing. Actually, she is on as- signment covering a story about Mrs. Dun- can-Moretti. 'As yearbook deadlines approach there is no time for anything but work. Sports Edi- tor Rochelle Curland designs the cross country pages, organizing pictures and copy. Englishf53

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improve your verbal image Mrs. Koblin, a speech and drama major, states that the course allows one to know if he is communicating effectively. To do this, a student must know himself and how he af- fects others. She plans exercises in interperson- al communication. While conversing, participants look for feedback-fa- cial, verbal and physical responses- -from their listening partner. Mrs. Koblin explains, What your body says is more important than what your mouth says. Final exams are five-minute class demonstrations. Recently, one girl showed how to put on a pair of de- signer jeans two sizes too small. A boy with little culinary experience prepared fruit salad in a pineapple. Other demonstrations included changing a tire, macrame, making stained glass, baton twirling and yoga. Sophomores taking speech agree that the course helps them speak in front of groups. I was very nervous at first, states Jeffrey Berman, but my nervous- ness went down as I went along. The class shows you how to speak to peo- ple, how to use eye contact. It will help me with job interviews. Robin Oken wanted to learn how to speak in front of a class. It's easier now, I'm not as nervous. It's helped me with loguesf' my foreign language dia- Brian Friedman's brother recom- mended the course to him. After be- ing enrolled in speech for two months, he still feels a little ner- vous- but not as nervous as when he first spoke in front of the class. I had to discuss a personal experien- ce-I was caught illegally riding a motorcycle. Reciting speeches using hand ges- tures, mime, demonstrations- all these activities are part of Speech I. So the next time you feel that lump in your throat, remember-the Eng- lish Department can help you. 52fEnglish . Sophomore Scott Waterman begins to write a He must list three controls, and learn correct thesis statement for his literary term paper. research techniques.

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I , 54fMath W -R00 errorfSJ occurred during execution, 'H C-04 U , misplaced commas, M- 12 execution suppressed, 'H' F-R06 H, unintellegible coding, M-15 il- legal cartridge ID, abnormal EOJ, or-worst of all-is not in LET or FLET. This foreign language is called FORTRAN, it is the IBM 1130's native language and the language used in RHS's Computer Math Probability and Statistics class. FORTRAN is a good language to start with because skills are trans- ferrable to other computer lan- guages used in business and indus- try. Computer math is traditionally a neglected branch of math in high school. Teacher Bill Rust thinks that it is a valuable course because it gives students an ad- vantage if they are planning to major in computers or a related field. It helps students by teaching them logic and organization. There are 22 seniors at RHS taking computer math. They must learn FORTRAN to communicate with the computer at Loch Raven Senior High School. About 21 times during the year, CMPS stu- dents visit the computer at Loch Raven. They feed stacks of cards into the computer and impatient- ly await the verdict: normal EOJ tend of jobl or abnormal EOJ. Mr. Rust and Jack Mitchell, who runs the lab, help those frus- trated students whose programs do not work. C-errors are the least compli- cated to correct, the computer tells the student what and where the error is. F0O- errors are worse, the computer tells the student what it did wrong, but not where he did it. Is not in LET or FLET is not really as bad as it . sounds. Usually it occurs because a student filled in the wrong bub- ble on a computer card. The prob- lem is that it doesn't reveal the location of the error, so one must search through his entire pro- gram. Finally when all the errors are fixed, the program's debugged- in computer jargon--those glori- ous words appear at the bottom of the program: end of sucessful com- pilation, normal EOJ. Mr. Rust grades the finished program on a scale from one to ten. He gives an occasional eleven to students who have utilized a particularly original technique. I The students in the class have mixed reactions to their work. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, but most of all it's frus- trating! End of successful compilation. Normal EOJ. College algebra instructor Ron Medvetz teach- es logarithms. Fortunately, students may now use calculators in place of cumbersome tables. Completing his notes, Insuk Chin listens to instructions along with classmate Dimitri Karg- man. V Well, itis not LET or FLETY' At the Loch Raven lab, computer master Jack Mitchell de- bugs Barbara Caplan's program which predicts the winning numbers in the daily lottery. .l JNL5 1.1. L 't is X e MA TH AIDES Front row: Kelly DeSouza, Mrs. Bonnell, Kim Williams. To err is human things up takes rf