Walter Johnson High School - Windup Yearbook (Bethesda, MD)

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Publi h ,pw-if '19 v Future Thoreau , Poes . qi, A ' V . 2 .K 'T L .awe 5 5 3. 514- l Creative Writing Club: bottom row: M. Fourt, G. Eikerg off in poems, essays, and short stories for Spectator and the second: B. Diebold, S. Jones, J. Hottle made imagination pay Scholastic Magazine Writing Contest. 'ri Scott and Julia Wan oint out a syntactical error Majo e g p they? correct before publishing a Spectator essay turned in by a senior. uum1 f W iimieffe. l 11 School journalist Jill Karro turns out her reports for the high school page of the Montgomery County Sentinel. Activities 123

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'Spectator' Staff Reviews Copg The nine member Spectator Staff, chosen at the beginning of the year by the sponsor, Miss Donna Fitz- gerald, received manuscripts for pub- lication in WJ 's annual literary mag- azine. The staff read, commented, and discussed papers with regard to originality, creative idea, and fresh- ness of expression. Spreading news of the school's activities to the outside world were Mimi Kahal and Jill Karro. These students, selected by Mrs. Evelyn Wittman, Pitch sponsor, contributed weekly to the two local newspapers, the Bethesda Tribune and the Mont- gomery County Sentinel. Students with creative propensi- ties gathered to expand their literary horizons in the Creative Writing Club, sponsored by Mrs. Jean Phifer. Members read short stories, poems, 7 ..,i rife? ' its .J A - 01' plays 310ud- to the group, which Local Columnists: bottom row: E. Schwartzman, J. Karro second: M. Kahal discussed them. The best of these raced to meet deadlines with live news for a column. were submitted to the junior maga- zine, Steelers, and published by it. Spectator: bottom row: M. Axilrod, M. Graham, L. Rubinstein: the volumes of Addison before selecting work for Steeles. second: J. Wang, J. Varnon, M. Sheldon gave their nights to wi? Na

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PA Announcers Broadcastg Repeat Audio-Visual: J. W e s t, B. Pyle, Mr. Bennett, W. Story frantically juggled 4 pro- jectors, 2 opaque projectors and 9 screens to pro- vide teachers With the audio- visual materials they needed. One of the AV staffs biggest problems was the periodic b r e a k d own of e q u i p m e n t at times of maxi- mum d e m a n dg I' e c o r d players, slide projectors and loudspeakers all contribut- ed their part to create headaches. Absorbed in the intricacies of their task, Randy Doyle and J o h n Whittier attempt to repair an af- flicted projector. Randy, fixing the lamp, sheds light on J o h n W h 0 copes with a re- calcitrant sound system. After long and arduous labors, the boys succeeded in re- storing the pro- jector to useful- ness, t h u s im- measurably e n - r i c h i n g some teacher's mater- ials of instruc- tion. PA Announcers: bottom row: J. King, G. Longg second: P. Shank- man, D. Gray, B. Earl, E. Cutler strove to read the h e n tracks a n d paw prints of the dubiously literate who Wrote the an- nouncements. Es- pecially difficult to unravel Were five and six syll- able n a m e s of miscreants W h o W e r e summoned to do penance. The PA announ- cers also devised 1 4 6 apparently different speeds a t W h i c h t h e pledge of allegi- ance to the flag may be read.