Stratford High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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mmreel wilh m Pit I just feel that if you want to succeed in life, you've got to get a good educa- tion, explained English honor student Patti Walsh about working so hard in English IVK. I really wanted to do well this year since it was my last year in high school and I wanted to leave with a feeling of accomplishment. Patti, a senior, found it easy to read the books when they were assigned because I can sit down and read a book just like that. Commenting on how she felt about English, she never knew how anything she wrote would turn out. Really in English,you can never tell if it's good or bad. You've just got to wait for what the teacher thinks of it! l try my best and I believe I do try hard. Mark Mayo won the Freshman English honor award and commented, Since science and math were subjects that came naturally to me, English pre- sented a special challenge to me. It wasn't my easiest class, so I had to work a lot harder to obtain better grades. Going along with the assigned work, Mark read adventure books and histori- cal books to enrich his vocabulary and just for fun. 100 honors Q' -QQ.-v u e n 9 I i Il lt was challenging -I really worked hard this year. Laurie Mango definitely worked in junior English when she decided, on purpose, to pick an extremely hard topic for her research Eaper. I spent forever on that paper! I ad to read all the material about three times before I understood it enough to write on it. I mainly learned about phi- Iosophy for myself. It was really depress- ing. I was really glad when I got a good Erade on it! Laurie, junior English onor student, studied a lot more than she ever had before in any En Iish course, but she really ap reciateg the way her teacher, Mrs. Degorah Culver, the classwork so organized. 4 Sandra Wausen commented that worked definitely harder than last in sophomore English. It was a lot work! Some of the newer things was exposed to, such as the tion to the five paragraph paper, en't as hard as she thought. l really have problems putting my together, just with the punct Sandra particularly enjoyed the ' fiction section in which she did so Also, I enjoyed 'Iulius Caesar' ' we went over it so well. I wouldn't ever understood it without that!

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4 ichelle Ash j Combining good grades with I softball, swimming, and volleyball, chelle was successful in all she iertook. Michelle has applied for nerous scholarships including edictorian, Ladies Auxiliary and jets. 2 especially enjoyed math and plans majoring in engineering. ..,.-,gg -,gy ' M .TW X c if A 'TX ' 'S -' .e s 1 - M ' e Q - il ll . s' .art . .vflm All - eoff Spradley Interested in all kinds of music from classical to popular, Geoff icipated in band and orchestra. er Rice University or Stanford are his ices for college. Geoff has applied a National Merit and an engineering olarship. He attributed his success to motto, Don't worry about thing. achel Hill Involved in jets, Mu Alpha Theta, co-editing of the Oracle, playing volIey,Rachel was kept y. Being an editor was fun because t to yell at people and they couldn't on my case. Planning a career in mical engineering, she plans to nd Rice or Texas A 81 M. 'Q' ohn Bradshaw AIways apply yourself and keep a good attitude in every way. john is planning on going to Rice University because it is rated as the number one engineering school in the Southwest. He plans on majoring in Mechanical Engineering because I'm mechanically oriented through my aptitudes. x f ,V '1 ulie jordan Work to do your best and make your teachers happy. Living up to this advice, julie plans to go to Texas A 84 M. Particularly enjoying math and chemistry courses she took these past four years, julie is thinking about a career in Chemical Engineering and wants to work for a chemical or oil company. Ii Mark Cunningham Mark, an avid golfer, has applied for an Opportunity Award and a Physics scholarship at Texas A 84 M. l'm going to start in Physics, but l'm not real sure that's what I want to do. Some advice he gave was to fight the system from the inside. You won't get anything from being radical. Patti Walsh You have to discipline yourself and take time to study. Patti plans on using this philosophy when she attends either Northwestern State or Louisiana Tech. Enjoying junior English and chemistry, she plans on majoring in computer science and eventually setting up computers and their systems. top ten 99

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fig ff' ffff ' . 'a:. ,ffl ' tits. 3,5 5.55 f ng 'Iii' :' if, ,,, ,- A- , . a ,g s 2' .4 ,',. xx' ' If x' ' H' . f 5' 5:1 'KIA 5, wt' E,- f.,,'.-' an rf: ,',l, 45 xiii 5 :xx JA 1 I. 1,-rg: ,A 'wwffii if l. J l nemosgne most of the students on the rbook staff had taken journalism I, or Lynn Forthaus came in with no experience I learned every- I needed to know under pressured es Lynn enjoyed the relaxed of the class but sometimes was hard getting along with the wr e other people when they thought their ideas were better than yours. To the yearbook honor student the work was sometimes discouraging, but I felt I had to work as hard as I could. lt was really neat to be involved in the school, getting to meet so many people and knowing about everything going around the school. Qi ' ol-acl Ever since I was in journalism I, l thought it would have been neat to be editor. Senior Rachel Hill was editor for the Oracle and enjoyed it, but doing it for ten issues wasn't really as great as it sounded. At first, everything ran smoothly. Nobody missed dead- lines, but later in the year, around Easter vacation, everyone started slacking off. It was really fun working with the staff because there was such a loose atmos- phere, but the deadlines were a real hassle and I couldn't see my life being run by them. el bale Before Ieff Busch got into debate, I was convinced I would never be good in it. My dad finally talked me into try- ing it. Ieff, honor .student in debate, accumulated over 2000 notecards and four or five notebooks on information dealing with all aspects of energy. Ieff obtained most of these notes from a government book store and did not have to take a great deal of time researching. This year I was more con- fident because I felt I had just as good a chance to win as everyone else. I didn't feel inferior like I once had in the past, said the sophomore. honors 101