Southeast High School - Spartan Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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I I Making His Own Kind Of Music I think I was about 7 when I first became interested in music, said Scott Stewart. My sister would teach me simple little songs on the piano when I was little. I started taking piano lessons from a private instructor when I was about 8 and continued with them fora year and a half. I started taking piano again at Webster Middle School in the oth grade, and I've kept on ever since. Scott has won several vocal solo awards at various contests and has won 3rd place at the National Team Talent Competition on the key- board. He has been offered several trips to Nashville and sang on Danny's Day. He plans to go to California to study music after graduation. 'IMusic has played a very impor- tant role in my life. lt's taught me discipline and the responsibility of practice, said Scott. In his own space, then, Scott Stewart is making music.

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TalenT: Devouring Sauare Marbles TalenT is one Thing we all have: some people have more Than oTh- ers, buT all of us have a measure of iT. IT may be TalenT in music, acTing, or aThleTics, Or maybe iT's a human relaTions TalenT, like making friends or making oTher people smile. Then There are TalenTed dancers and people wiTh more specialized Tal- enTs, like devouring square marbles while sTanding on one's head. Some people have masTered The arT of sTicking herds of Texas frogs To The ceiling wiTh ear wax, or geTTing Them all drunk and painTing Them blue and gluing brighT pink ping- pong balls all over Their bodies. So TaIenT varies, and iT indeed does Take all kinds of people To make The world go round. ,W W few- vga: f- W m fififlii . T BLOW POWER: Jamie Wilson pracTices playing The Trombone. HEADS UP: Janice Newton dem- onsTraTes a gymnasTic flip. GRANDADDY LONG LEGS: Shawn Reed demonsTraTes his skill aT KaraTe.

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Homer's Lliad, lvlilTon's Paradise Lost, and Shakespeare's Hamlet may be whaT Ms. Peggy Boyles' G-reaT Books class reads, however, mosT sTudenTs would exchange Grampa Homer, Uncle lvlilTy, and Willie Boy for a paperback copy of J.R.R. Tolkein's Hobbit, a special edi- Tion Superman comic book, or The laTesT ediTion of Mademoiselle. WhaTever sTudenTs read, They read iT in Their own space. Gayla Reading Book Tops Walker says ThaT inTerrupTions inTo The privaTe world of reading are aT firsT unnoTiced. lT's kind of a weird Thing, be- cause iT Takes a momenT To geT yourself ouT of The book and Talk To Them, she said. EducaTors have complained ThaT sTudenTs don'T read enough. ThaT's probably Ture since few sTudenTs do any ouTside reading. For mosT, There is liTTle Time lefT for reading afTer jobs, school' acTiviTies, and home- work. When we have a loT of Things To read in class, iT's hard To read whaT you really wanT To read said Walk- er. ln any case, wheTher iT's cereal box Tops or TolsToy's War and Peace, all sTudenTs read aT some poinT - in Their own space. HOBBIT LUNATIC: Russell Collier enjoys reading JRR. Tolkien's Hobbltf ouTside.