Sumner Academy of Arts and Science - Excalibur Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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juniors Figures spun Tammy Grimes is involved in the art of glassblowing or spin- ning. She became interested through her family and friends. Tammy has been involved in glassblowing for the past four years. The procedure for glass- blowing is to break up Pyrex glass rods. The oxygen and gas flame is approximately 30000, but at 180010 the rods begin to melt. From these can be made what- ever is desired. The glass can be painted after it has been blown. Tammy and her family make ev- erything from frogs to big ships and wishing wells. The smallest items are swans, one-half inch in size which cost 51.00. The largest accomplishment by her family is a 530000, four foot high ship. Tammy and her family can be seen working at Crown Center and malls during Mother's Day and the Christmas season. 1. Tammy Grimes, junior, works on her project. 2. Tammy and Debby Grimes with their creations. Craig New Felicia Nicholas LeNece Nichols Lemuel Norman Debra Norris Cynthia Ottens 0 'itil Beth Palcher Saundra Pearson Kathleen Phillips Keith Pittman Teri Plummer David Porter Vanessa Prather Derrick Reicheneker Patrick Roark Reid Roberts Karen Robinson Ronald Robinson 135

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Christy Lane Marcelle Lavine Ioyce Lindsey Barbara Logan Donalisa Maddox Chevonne Manlove Sonja Manning Linda Marquez Cheryl Mathia Gregory Maupins Marshall McDaniel Kara McKee Edwinna Mendez jeffrey Mercer Mary Michalski Ieri Miller Roberta Muse Micheal Neal he V? 'BN X ia

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Genealogy traced Laura Bullock, junior, whose hobby is genealogy, has traced her fami1y's ancestry on her mother's side clear back to the late fifteen hundreds and early sixteen hundreds. During this time, the Rippetoes' were Hugue- nots in France. The Saint Bartho1omew's Day Massacre in 1572, sent the Rippetoes' to Eng- land, where a Huguenot society had been formed. The earliest ancestor that Laura found of the Rippetoes' in the United States was during the 1740's. This ancestor was Laura's great-great-great-great-great grandfather, who settled in the southern portion of the United States. The Rippetoes' had a long history of farming until William Rippetoe Sr., Laura's great-great- great-great grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War to help the colonies gain their indepen- dence from England. After she found this out, Laura checked the Daughters of the Revolution which helps people trace their ancestry. From them, Laura found that in Virginia there is a Rippetoe Springs. It is named after her great-great-great-great grandfather, William Rippetoe Sr., who is buried in a cemetery close to the springs. Laura found most of the infor- mation when she and her family traveled in the summer months. She would look in the phone books and would call or write to people asking about their ances- tors with the name of Rippetoe. Most of the people Laura contact- ed were connected to the same lineage of Rippetoes.' Laura has found all of her in- formation during the past couple of years and plans to someday write a book on the Rippetoes.' 1. Laura Bullock, junior, explains her family tree to Ioyce Lindsey, junior. Z. Laura Bullock holds her genealogy chart. 136 f . g.,-ar -.f R' - J x-'ff' I 3 ,I L44 4.