Westlake High School - El Paisano Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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CATCHING SOME ZZZZZ Showing her excitement about English, sophomore Martha Doyle sleeps in class. Students commonly found ways to es- cape the reality of class through dreaming STUDENT TEACHER Standing ln front of her US history class, junior Christie Tiemann gives an oral report on the space race with the Soviet Union. Projects were a favorite teaching and daydreaming--with eyes opened or tool of teachers of academic classes. closed. iPhoto by Flandy Bellslel fPhoto by Sean Baumannl , ...sb-i' KNOW WHO'S WHO A Martha Adams: English 212. fm 1 W, 'lin Eva Lou Apel: Chemistry l, ZH. 1 f 7 ' fx -j' 412 Maurine Atwood: English 4, 4H, 1 -' 1 ' Literature. it 7 , 5 .Y 5 if , ' W Pax K Dale Baker: Art 2, 3. Ted Bartley: Stage Band 1. Elsa Benck: Spanish 1, 2. l : Ho Er Tm KNOW WHICH IS WHICH Martha Adams lived on a small farm in the middle of Flollingwood on which she and her husband grew all of the vegetables they ate. Maurlne Atwood collected giraffes 'because l've always admired people who stick their necks out and take risks. 'ln high school, I raised registered Duroc pigs for livestock shows. I made enough money to pay for college' -Eva Lou Apel l l 11 KNOW WHA rs WHAT

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cademucs o . Annsrk Fume For FIRE Adding a last touch of color, freshman Melissa Mosley enhances her fireplace prop. Technical Theatre classes produced the props for choir and drama performances. iPhoto by Staffj A, , ,f iz ' , + Avy? run! x , f 409' ff- MA Eve ON Science A needed diversion, senior Michael Ponton takesa break from a lab for a little experi- menting of his ovxm. Biology classes used microscopes often for close observation. iPhoto by Jennifer Caryl

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G N G 7 Academics: all in the eyes o of the student beholders No Matter Who' Quietly contemplating the incredible dullness of the Role of the Chorus in Oedipus the King, the back row of the English class sat drifting, with their cheeks to their desks as the front row diligently filled their notebooks and the discussion with bold new insight into the human condition. Personal interests and talents determined for most students what courses they regarded as exciting and insightful and those they would write off as bo-o-orring. English has always been my favorite because I love the challenge of writing a good paper, senior Mary Drew said. Writing literary papers teaches you how to interpret others' ideas and formulate your own. Besides simply taking an interest H, in the subject matter of classes, 8092: of students surveyed said they had taken and enjoyed a class solely because of the particular style of the teacher. I've always hated any type of social studies, but Dr. Woods' govern- ment class has been really exciting because of the way he teaches, senior Chris Byrne said. The more tangibly-minded, who preferred the always correct facts of the science classrooom to the abstract thought of English and social studies classes, found the same clarity in their math courses. Math and science have always been easy for me because they deal with things you know are right, like formulas and diagrams, rather than things you only think are right, like ideas and social commentary, senior Mike O'Connor said. Despite occasional boredom and the ever-pressing urge to ask Why are we here?, students who showed an interest in the class at hand chose seats in the front instead of the back in their academic classes. RED EYED FLY Staring intently at his fruit flies, iunior Glenn Cox works on his Biology Il lab. Bl- ology students mated fruitflies, counted their offspring and mated the flies again, looking for specific traits such as eye color and wlng type. iPhoto By Jase Aubyl PLOP PLOP FIZZ FIZZ Protected against injury with his safety goggles, junior Les Brooks Intently puts drops of iodine into a test tube. Observ- ing what they comprehended in class, student chemists spent one to two hours a week in lab. iPhoto by Randy Belislel CORE COURSES Edited By: Jose Auby