Round Rock High School - Dragon Yearbook (Round Rock, TX)

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FBLA works for scholarship fund Future Business Leaders of America is a widely established business club. Very active on the local, state and national levels, it is designed to help students and strengthen business skills. All members must be current- ly enrolled in or have already taken a business course. The Round Rock Chapter was active in a variety of events this year. Students went to Colorado to a fall regional workshop, to Reagan High School in Austin for District Conference and to Houston in March for the State Conference. At the Conference in Houston, the students competed in business contests as individuals and as groups. Jen- nifer Wallin won third place in Accounting II and Steve Green was chosen for Who's Who. Local students also helped award a special scholarship honoring Glenda Mor- rison. Morrison sponsored FBLA at Round Rock for eight years and sponsored the state level as well. She was a tremendous person and everyone involved with FBLA was disappointed at her resignation, said Julie Perry. The scholarship awarded in her honor went to the first place winners of the Mr. and Miss FBLA contests. As the year drew to a close, FBLA held a bookfair April 25-27 as their final fund- raiser. The money went into the scholarship fund. Matt Abbett, sophomore, takes time out to glance at some of the books being sold in the book fair, Besides being a fundraiser, it was also a learning experience. 100 Organizations KM 4, Q A ti mlm ' Paige Prosise, junior, and Matt Leibel, senior, help the FBLA out by purchasing a book from the book fair, which is held annually. The money earned from the book fair goes toward funding trips, workshops an FBLA competitions on district, region, and state levels The earnings also provide a scholarship. in e FBLA members Lynette Brubaker, junior, and Clayton Pratt, senior, sell books to Debbie Spencer, junior, and Scott Carroll, junior. The money was used for a scholar- -QWHHMOV '-r P-rs-I ship fund set up to honor former sponsor Glenda Moi rison. The Morrison scholarships went to the State M1 and Miss FBLA winners. ,- FBLA: fFirst Row! Kim Ledbetter, Karen Moross, Glenda Hayes, Clint Tomlinson, Julie Perry, Jennifer Wallin, Brad Monasmith, Steve Greene, Bob Lampert fSecond Bowl Clayton Pratt, Craig Zschiesche, Brad Gilstrap, Shelley Kruemcke, Gary Bell, Bob Byars, Dean Taylor, Norma Alvarado, Shelli Ford fThird Rowj Stephanie Platzer, Kelly Johnson, Betty Brook: James Radl fFourth Rowl Teresa Kammer, Michae Hernandez, Carla Hornberger, Jennifer Gill, Lani Williams, Liz Swaverly, Sharon Cannady, Fran Magana fFifth Rowl Sharon Robertson, Robin Hari Jack Capps, Senthil Chennappan.

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Dominic DiGesualdo, sophomore, and Ronny Ballard, one of the four topics selected for this school year. sophomore, work with other team members to solve the Teams all over the United States concentrate on only 20 possible problems for video games. This was just the few selected topics for the year. ii lEach team of Future Problem Solvers has four people ger, and Trina Hunn. The group gathers together in the including a captain. Sophomore John Huffman's group corner of a room to discuss and write their potential consisted of sophomores Lee Gafford, Stephanie Dug- solutions. FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVERS: fFirst Rowj Joan Hall, sponsor, Rhonda Hanna, Carolyn Carey, Yvonne Howard, Laura Duke, Ken Pfeiffer, Ann Fierke, Matt Duncan, Stacy Sanders, sponsor fSecond Row! Chip Hadley, Melinda Orr, Becky Johnson, Sandra Hrna, Heather McDevitt, John Huffman, Renee Blair, Cfhird Rowj Dominic DiGesualdo, Trina Hunn, Stephanie Dugger, Lee Gafford, Rebecca Green, Christine Whitney, fFourth Row! Pam Joslin, David Wolff, Ron- ny Ballard, John Cobel, Stefan Knight, Steven Gandy. Problem Solvers new club to RRHS Sponsored by Joan Hall and Stacey Sanders the Future Problem Solving pro- gram is a relatively new club to RRHS, although many of the members have had past experience with the academically- oriented program in middle school. The objective of the Future Problem Solv- ing program is to enhance creativity and writing skills and to create an incentive to systematically solve everyday problems. The four topics the students worked on were lasers, prison systems, video games, and nuclear waste. The process of solving these problems given nationwide to participants begins with a fuzzy situation. The teams of four must critique the situation and find 20 possible problems. From these 20 problems, they must choose the most relevant problem and create 20 solutions. These solutions are judged according to creativity and elabora- tion. After evaluating the 10 best solutions in a criteria, the group members must choose their most promising solution and elaborate on it in essay form. Three local Future Problem Solving teams were invited to the State Bowl in Austin. The winner of the bowl competed in Iowa in a national competition. An offshoot of Future Problem Solving is Scenario Writing competition in which in- dividual students write a narrative based on one of the fuzzy situations. John Huffman, sophomore, won first place in the state com- petition and went on to Iowa for national competition. David Wolff, sophomore, and Brian Wheells, sophomore, were also a part of Dominic DiGesualdo's group. As a group their team would chose the best solutions for the problems of prison systems, video games, lasers and nuclear waste. Organizations 99

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The proud parents of Darrell Tesmer, sophomore, came to the ceremony to present him with his stoll and a handshake after he was escorted to the stage for induction. of X Senior Michelle Wilson, secretary f treasurer, announces the beginning of induction of the new NHS members for the 1984-85 school year. gr T! by ,C . V' X A After the NHS induction ceremony, new members and :heir parents were honored with a reception in the ibrary. Here, inductees John Huffman, sophomore, xml., , ' -AMF' . lohn Powell, senior, also an NHS member, listens atten- ively to his teacher as directions for an assignment are given. John earned the title of salutatorian for the 1984 enior class. and Ann Lesko, junior, get their food as other guests get acquainted. Both old and new members of NHS at- tended the reception. 6 NHS: KFirst Row! Cliff Sims, Dana Schneider, Michelle Wilson, Linda Wolf, Celia Dobias, Sharon Robertson, Mary Ellen Kiely, sponsor lSecond Rowj Todd Brown, Elizabeth Hur, Matt Duncan, Cathy Nolan, Gary Landry, Brad Monasmith, Tim Price QThird Bowl Steven Felux, Renee Ballehr, Jennifer Wallin, Julie Perry, Charles Dittman, Jessica Jacobson, Molly Sweatman, Margaret Parker, Kelly Woolf NHS initiates 47, awards scholars National Honor Society sponsors Mary Ellen Kiely and Lou Bryan, along with Dana Schneider, president, Michelle Wilson, secretaryftreasurer, and Celia Dobias and Tim Price, Student Council representatives worked all year long on attendance and membership. The programs were designed to make the club more educational and interesting. NHS went to the Trinity Lutheran Home Geriatric Center and also had a guest speaker from Balcones Research Center. At the NHS induction ceremony, 47 students were selected to be members of the club. Kiely said that the induction went more smoothly than it has in the past. Two scholarships were awarded to members of the club. Contributions were given to NHS by many sources along with the proceeds from an afghan raffle that took place during football season. Kiely felt most students had the wrong idea of what NHS is because A lot of peo- ple think it's just grades. The kids' grades are only one-fourth of it. Applicants to NHS are also judged on character, leadership and a written sum- mary of their services and achievements. fig jim r 1 S V ,... R . x.,,, W .f S jig: A , Sophomores Matt Abbett, Ronny Ballard, Tasha Baum, Dana Bonewitz and Shannon Carson light their candles during the National Honor Society induction ceremonies. fFourth Rowj Mike Bradley, Kim Salvati, Roger Leuckie, Michael Hernandez, Leslie Sansom, Lucie Simmons, John Watson, Brad Watson, Tiger Hanner KFifth Row, Tim Boyd, Lane Davis, John Powell, Heather Smith, Barbara Graham, Stephanie Ciscel, Jennifer Bostur, Krista Schooley, Kelly Drifmeyer, Charlene Land. Organizations 101