Richardson High School - Eagle Yearbook (Richardson, TX)

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2 Cellist Darlene Shipman prepares for the Sept. 24 orchestra concert. Mr. Scott Taylor, Mr. Dick Tenenberg, band drama X Jazz Band members Steve Street and Darren Johnson practice for their first public performance. , ,TW ' Sophomore Kim Peterson molds prepared clay into an interestingly shaped vase which will be fired, glazed and fired once more until it's a finished piece of art. Before rehearsal for The Night of Janua Sixteenth begins, James Palmer, Danielle Stevens, Kelly '79 Y Ream, Phil Etter, J. D. Tucker and Jennifer Lamm warm up. The Arts I

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I like to create, said senior Kevin Thomas when explaining why he took art. While Thomas creates by using clay and charcoal, other students in the arts interpret through music. Choir takes just as much talent as instrumental music but it isn't as well publicized, said soprano Wanda Alexander, a member of both the Madrigals and choir. While the choir traveled to Corpus Christi and the Madrigals to San An- tonio, the band went to Chicago. Before going to Vienna, Austria, in July, the orchestra also traveled to Corpus for the Buccaneer Music Festival. The orchestra has more maturity and greater depth this year, according to director Joe Frank. We know we're the best at what we do, stated violist Steve Graffeo. We see each other at our worst and our best, said violinist Katie Her- nandez. You don't get along all the time, but you work it out, added senior Nancy Tanner. Overall, the musical groups and the drama students share junior Becky Richardson's feelings, We're one big family. I think theater is exciting, stated teacher and director Dick Tenenberg. 1 6 The Arts Interpretation without 'I' HE I words proves possible I in music, art, drama The group of people in here is so interesting, agreed junior Kim Welch. The drama department summoned its audience to an evening in court, Nov. 17-21, for The Night of January X . 16th followed by You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in December. Spring performances included Arsenic and Old Lace and The Curious Savage. - Mary Brooks sit . , Mr. Wade Bennett, Mr. Joe Frank, Ms, Kathleen Panoff, Mrs. Kay Savay, Ms. iris Speckman, choir orchestra band ceramics art fl. Warming up for the fall concert of October 13, the first this year, are sophomore Eric Freeburg and juniors Mark Janes, Donnie Whitson, Laurie Aucoin and Mark Bosenblatt.

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SHOPS: Despite the desperate exactness, picky formalities, and ever present safety rules, many students elected to work with their hands not their gums, said woodshopfauto tune-up teacher Clarence Brown. These joined the woodshop, metal shop, auto tune- up, and drafting classes. Shop students, unlike students in almost any class, really would rather work than talk. lt's fun was all sophomore Scott Curl had to say while starting one of his assignments, a welding project. They come here on their own free will and tend to keep it in mind, said metal shopfauto tune-up teacher Charles Cheek. Auto tune-up is a popular class for popular reasons. You save money and know it's fcarmaintenancej done right, states Cheek. Second-year metal shop student junior Brian Jilek combined tree will and practicality to put a sun roof in his car, in what he described as a simple operation. I try to be flexible with the students, added Cheek. Picky formalities and exactness are the substance of drafting courses, but senior Darryl Showers feels, lt's a good course if you want to be an architect. 1 8 I Shops 'Many work with hands, not gums' to design, draft, construct projects With over 26 years of technical drawing, drafting teacher Max Mc- Clearin has developed a reputation for demanding perfection of his students. This is a good school for drafting, emphasized McClearin. The fact that RHS Industrial Arts students are con- sistent winners at state competitions every year supports his comment. We do very well with what we have, but not enough people want to do it, frowns McClearin. - Tim McDougall E IH - Q s.- Junior John Patterson works on an assignment about isometric designs in drafting. Mr. Clarence Brown, wood shop r- ' eng Mr. Chartes Cheek. auto tuna-un Mr- MSX MQCIGGHH- Junior Wendell Scott, senior Mark Duke and senior David Hill set the elec- d'a '9 trical timing on an engine, pan of a standard tune-up.