Sherman High School - Athenian Yearbook (Sherman, TX)

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Checking over a timed news article Kathy Gemeth practices for local contest. fppvwa Preparing the weekly Hi-Talk, Ann Claycomb and Jill Joiner complete page two paste-up. Journalism Reaches for Student Communication Future editors and Pulitzer Prize winners find themselves enrolled in Journalism 1. Then the struggle begins as they fight headlines, are forced to become opinionated, try to remem- ber copyreading svmbols, and train to become staff members of Hi-Talk, the newspaper, or Athenian, the yearbook. This year students worked on in-depth fea- ture articles ranging anywhere from the occult revival to the nostalgia boom among the young. Throughout the year, local journalists spoke on various topics and job opportunities. ,WIN :nag e--fi Tammie Greenway receives help in identifying a band picture from Mary McCullough and Cindy Huffman. Mike Wortham and Tricia Stone find it thought provoking by listing features and types of fea- tures. 23

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V dui...- K ' 4 it f' 'TEE' Miss Barbara Rader discusses test grades of Ginny Myers. Marty Helm and Joy Inman work on English poetry notebook-. Grammar Vital To English p Finding proper speech of vital importance, teachers drill grammar into the Freshman as well as instruc- tions on what exactly forms a com- plete sentence . Sophomores find themselves par- ticularly involved with the life and times of Julius Caesar. They are also encouraged to develop their reading techniques and habits. 22 L. ..---D., After correcting Janet Jenning's English paper, Mrs. Mary Blocker explains errors. First period students Susan Rollins, David McDaniel, Billy Beene, Damon Cathy, Kelly Brown, Robert Stine, and David Savage listen as Mrs. Hilda Ramsay discusses Hamlet. ,. . H K it-rf' During discussion of poetry, Mrs. Martha Aston gives pointers on metering to Ginny Garrard and Denise Clarkston.

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Dianne Cox and Misti Johnston interview Miss Margaret Schneider about the library's new books. Publications Become Reciliiy The task of producing a yearbook and newspaper becomes a reality after enrollment in Journalism ll. The staff frantically writes, rewrites, and writes again, with deadlines fast approaching . At the end of the year, staff members were rewarded with a field trip to Taylor Publishing Company in Dal- las. They saw the various steps required in yearbook processing and received a better idea of what happened to the layouts they had previously done. Later in the year several me rs of the Journalism classes under the direction of Mr Paula Morgan, com- peted in the U iversity Int sch stic Leagueki it 'J' 0 ,,, D fu 3' - F' 'g 3- ,O Q 5' 3 Cry U Hi-Talk reporters Carol Moss, Linda Wil- ' 'E liams, and Debbi ope interview mem? bers ofglir do J 11 .1 wfgijgc E3 U32 .-C660 .C moflfgq' '53 mfoeaanfa g f' V 9 7? N Wr,. . . Mary Weeks catches up on the reading of a novel before completing a journalism book review . FW if J i 'Q , f ig fif it at , i i Pondering over a lead Donna Freise begins the task of completing Future Farmers of America feature story.