Sprayberry High School - Echo Yearbook (Marietta, GA)

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GAYLE KENDRICKS Art De artment P Sponsors: NTL. Art Honor STY. Has been teaching 14 years Connecticut State College WAYNE KOONTZ English Department Has been teaching 11 years University ol North Carolina and University ol Georgia DEBORAH LANKFORD Social Studies Department Sponsors: Close-Up, Jr. Civitans. Has been teaching 6 years University ot Georgia MARJORIE LEVERETT Business Department Teacher ol the Year Has been teaching 18 years Georgia State University KAREN LOCKHART Social Studies Department Sponsors: V-Cheerleaders Has been teaching 7 years Florida State LISA LODEN Foreign Language Department Has been teaching 6 years Florida State SHARON LYNN Social Studies Department Sponsors: ECHO Has been leaching 4 years ED MACLEOD Math Department Has been teaching 16 years Catholic University and Emory DAN MARTIN Music Department Sponsors: Band, Guard Has been teaching 11 years University ol Georgia KIM MARTIN Math 8. Science Departments Sponsors: J.V. Cheerleaders, tennis. Has been teaching 5 years. West Georgia College 154 Below: Special Ed teacher Miguel Molina GXDYSSSSSH vlews to Cathy Miller. Mr. Molina is one of the sign languag teachers in the Special Education Department. 5 . ill 1 , V - L 'ag 37 S. S X -41 bv, . E I 'V r, ,A isdn! Above: Mr. Harrison watches Mrs. Brymbelowg Specm gkl ln slgn language as she communicates with student 1 Kirkpatrick.

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION Builds Brains And Bodies Left: THE BOYS in first period basketball play a game of sc ' . rummage Below: Lifting up the heavy weights in the weight room Chris Chenemy shows no strain at all. Below right: Senior Melanie Bradshaw shows she is no weakling by pressing 20 pounds during slimnastics. Right top: ALEX TUCKER AND MR. TUCKER take a break in the locker room after a tough day at work. Right bottom: Mike Watts gets ready to take his toss while Derek Ftich stands clear and observes, during recreational sports class. ng Sprayberry's Physical Education Department offers a break for the student body from their regular academic courses. The P.E. Department has a variety of sports. A few of the sports are tennis, track, volleyball, and gymnastics. A large percentage of Sprayberry students participate in P.E. Sprayberry has one of the best Physical Education Departments in the county. The department is very well organized by department head Jimmy Dorsey, other P.E. teachers include Joan Chandler, Whitey Tucker, Jim Frasier, Johnny Caldwel, John Paty, and Frank Keller. 153

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SPECIAL EDUCATION The Special Education program at Sprayberry High School is broken down into three basic parts: deaf education, accelerated learning, and learning disabilities. The special ed program consists of thirteen teachers, four aides and two hundred to two hundred thirty students. Throughout Cobb County the special ed program is steadily climbing to become even better in upcoming years. The deaf ed program includes a Left: CONCENTRATING on her work, Melissa Loy seems to be very involved ln her assignment. Melissa is one of Sprayberry's deaf students. Bottom: SPECIAL ED INTERPRETER Martha Grisson takes a break while Becky McDaniel finished up her assignment. Below: WHILE ACCELERATED learning teacher Tom Dechman assigns a lesson, Star Student Joe Fox takes a break before beginning. E M.. av f Lf QW variety of means of communications including sign language and lip reading. Sprayberry is the only school in Cobb County which teaches interpretation. During the deaf ed learning process, the teachers and students undergo many frustrations. Mrs. Brum- below says, the students have many inner stresses. Sometimes they become exhausted watching my hands six to seven hours a day. Mrs. Brumbelow gets to know her students more closely because she devotes many hours of her everyday life to teaching them respon- sibilities. She learns their traits and frustrations at school and at home and helps her students cope with them. Another asset to the special ed department is the accelerated learning program, taught by Tom Dechman. This program provides an outlet for gifted students to excel in areas which are not taught in other classrooms at Spray- berry. Students may qualify for this program in a number of ways. First, a 3.5 grade point average and teacher or counselor recommendation will qualify a student. Other means of getting into the program are a 95M score on the standardized test or an l.Q. of one and three fourths standard deviations above the mean. Some of the courses taught by Mr. Dechman include Ascent of Man, Roles and Relations, Concepts of Evil in Literature, and Social Dialects, for which students can receive English, Social studies or elective credit hours. The special aspect of these classes is that the students are taught the hows and whys and the science of the subjects to render them more interest- ing and profitable. Learning disabilities and behavior disorders are also a part of the special ed program. Learning disabilities con- sists of students who have an average intelligence, but have trouble under- standing academic material because of a unique learning style. according to Mrs. Sloan. Sprayberry High School is very proud of the Special Ed program. Sprayberry has one of the best pro- grams in Cobb County due to the dedicated Special Ed faculty. 155