Stratford High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Learning the value of advertising, junior Steve Rippy and sophomores Brigid Bonner and Bruce Wilson watch television commercials in journalism. Hanging a newspaper on the wall, Sophomore Brad Todes studies the layouts of the newspaper. Brad commented, I like journalism because it gives me a chance to be creative, Reading the paper, Sophomore Cathy Hudspeth and junior Mike Swanson observe the different types of headlines used during the unit on headlines, said Mike. During a journalism workshop at San lacinto College, Senior Marc Ostrofsky and Sophomore Robin Morris look through a Clear lens cap. 70 journalism 13991111

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0' senting a mythology report, Fresh- Pat Rafferty discusses the Greek dess Aphrodite. Pat said that he oyed the reports on various gods ause they took up a lot of class time. ring around the corner into Mrs. thia Ritter's third period English s, Sophomore Richie Dodds checks n classmate lim Branum while read- Flowers for Algernon. A fellow stu- it, jeff Busch, sophomore, said, I y the class. Mrs. Ritter is a very out- g and open teacher.

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etting a taste of the power of the press journalism l students were out interviewing oraiding staffers in identifying students ie students wanted us to be sure spell their names right, said nore Peter Baker, and some want their names used at all. experience at interviewing at the same time learning editorial Gwlrrmowlliw Vi writing without an outline writing, Ms. Peggy Schneider's journalism I Ull class covered topics ranging from smoking in the bathroom to health foods in the school cafeteria to school vandalism. Students worked in groups to gather information for editorial writing practice. l didnft realize people had so much to say about the cafeteria, said Susan Green, sophomore, Comments ranged from We don't need that much junk -lac-2-f .L--I food to If they took the coke machine out, l'd have a fit. Most people were eager to talk about detention hall, said Senior Mike lorgenson. Those interviewed echoed lohn Middleton's opinion, Detention is a threat and it works. Interviewing and editorial writing were just a small part ofll. Students learned about all aspects of newspaper training. Producing their own ll Oracle gave students a chance to try out their skills. lt was like on-the-job training, said Ms. Schneider. ,1s4 ,?'5 s- M 'S lf 'II if ' u Snipping the strings offthe bundles of papers, Sophomore Brad Todes opens the Oracle as Sophomore Peter Baker assists. The Oracle always arrived during third period on publication day and the ll's helped carry them up to the staff room. said Ms. Peggy Schneider. Looking through a paper, Senior Shelly Shipman and Sophomore Brigid Bonner attempt to find editorials because we were learning how to write them, said Shelly. journalism 71