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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or-cheeslra On the average, I'd say I practice between two and three hours every day. Roxy Schafranek, a senior, plays a 200 year old violin named Plantagenet. It's a name from English royalty and I think he's worth it. Roxy made all-state orchestra four years in a row, and got the chance to rehearse and perform with the best student musicians in the state. Roxy wants to perform in a major symphony orchestra. An even higher goal is to belong to a small ensemble and perform chamber music. I love per- forming with others. Wx. . . mi music Iheorg It was really interesting to learn about the basics of music that nobody' knows about. julie Mann decided to take Music Theory to further her already acquired knowledge of music after being involved with band and chorale. lt was a neat class because the only people that took it were the ones who were really interested and that made it a lot of fun. julie, a senior, wrote her own chorales and said that she could notice now in music some of the things she learned in the class. Now when I sing with the radio, I can sing with the background voices and and have it sound good! 102 honors E hand Music to me was kind of a habit I didn't want to break, My main goal was to just try and keep doing better than I had done before. Leah Hipple, senior, made the all-state band for her third year and commented, I was just so amazed at how good the people were. Some of them were so serious about music, it was an experience just to sit and listen to them taIk! Now I can really appreciate all the different kinds of music, even though lots of people think I'm strange when I listen to classi- cal music or find a few of those records in my room. Leah does not plan to major in music, but I know I would really miss it if I just quit. I'm always going to stay involved in music, in one way or another. choir xfa ' K