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

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Washing a chemical reagant from her hands, iunior Joanie Johnson hurries to rejoin her lab partner. Working together enabled students to experience methods and procedures used in college labs. iPhoto by staffj i X l X Bill Martin: Humanities, English 4, Composition 4. Karen Mattison: Advanced Social Studies. Charlotte May: Pre Calculus H, Trigonometry, Elementary Analysis, Fundamentals of Math. I 4 -Q : .. at ,N . . .- K 't I ,W as it , Al- i n Ist , X K S K 01 Juanita Meier: Content Mastery N - . A r Center, World History Resource. - G F Marie Milliken: Accounting H, eff Y Q1 Typing A, B. Mary Lee Moeller: Ag If 5 hggk Typing A, Gffice Education Coopera- A A fi fx .ff K, X V tive l, Study Lab. A -'uf' Fred Mokry: Computer Math 1, 2H. . A. , i H Pat Mokry: Biology l, ZH, Physiol- if ogy!Anatomy, Lab Management. A ifff. W KZ? Susan Monow: Art 2. X I KNOW WHICH IS WHICH Susan Morrow danced for the New York City Ballet during high school. She had to commute each day from Connecticut to New York. Pat Mokry, once the Chief Technolo- gist of Special Chemistry at Breckenridge Hospital, worked in heart surgeries, performing blood gas level tests. 'Skiing and tennis are great recreational sports. They keep ffm. A me physically lit to teach math. it:- 'ia' -Charlotte May I .se ggggg gg gg l GROUP WORK Edited By: Eric Dreher -'Z

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Group work proves G exciting, beneficial You will lose A' A 'QIVV You dont Put QOYOO your goggles iigiiiffii on! Mrs. X Apel's voice v :ESE SCl'lOGd Who You throughout the See ls lab area. Lab What You Get .ii partners started 'iff:fzf513:325:327:3:3:313:3:55:51311:5:f:1:f:T:i:5:fzf:3:iii:':T:1:':i:f:3:'t-:-' on their hands-on lab due the next day. Someone complained that they had too much work to do, but another calmed him down saying, Would you rather do this alone? Labs are a major part of chemis- try. They give the students a hands- on-experience that helps them teach themselves, chemistry teacher Barbara Schumann said. In foreign language classes, speaking the language helped students use their skills in conversation with each other and many people preferred working together in order to finish quicker. Why in the world should we have to do a million problems when TAKE OFF Recounting his days as a pilot in the Vietnam War, speaker Major James Stur- gls explains the polltlcal aspect of the conflict to juniors Spencer Dreiling, Carol McGowan and Amy Reynolds during a microteaching unit. iPhoto by Brent Halll l 30 KNOW WHA rs WHAT we get the idea after the third one? It is much easier to work together and help each other, senior Daniel Cohen said. We can finish faster since the teachers are still going to give long assignments. While most group projects took only one class period to complete, other labs and projects required more preparation and hours. Projects in English, chemistry, and German classes called for much outside time to be spent on research and the practice of lines, which left many students questioning the ability of the projects to actually teach them anything. I think that doing the long projects is fun and since we are more mature, we should get to do more of them, and let the freshmen do the bookwork and stuff, junior Todd Wroblewski said. Whether or not students enjoyed labs and group projects, they seemed to learn faster and sometimes in a more enjoyable way as they prepared everything from chemical reactions in chemistry to group presentations in English. .131 'f 1 . eg X Astrlde senlor Chrls Parker's shoulders, lunlor Janet Hoffman holds together 11 others on top ofa 6x6x6 box. The exercise provided a lesson In teamwork, the key to success ot the Pedernales expedltlon. iPhoto by Reagan Williamsonl sie tm 5... - get 1

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BACK TO SQUARE ONE While planning his schedule, sophomore Danny Boukrls looks over the myriad of options with counselor Shirley Faske. A drops and adds system was Implemented this year to allow for students who changed their mlnds. iPhoto by staftj THE LINE-UP Late for class, students walt ln Ilne for their turn to get tardy sllps. A dally ritual, the disbursement of tardles kept atten- dance secretarles Mrs. Sharon Dickey and Mrs. Gall Lehr busy the first of every perlod. iPhoto by Brian Pedderj Marsha Nelson: Iunior Varsity Choir, Advanced Girls Choir, Chorale, Madrigals. Kay Orellz U.S. History H, Sociology. F' - - ' '- N fe x D' 4' '14, Sam Osbom: English 2, CLA 2, I i i Psychology. ' e Rebecca Parks: Economics Free ' I Enterprise H. J 5 Z I ,, ,Q ,Q David Patterson: Varsity Swim- gg Q9 ' ming, Sports Boys-9, Algebra 1. J t I 'V ' ' Van Ragsdale: Band 1, Applied ,, , Music 1, 2. :fffiiiiii KNOW WHICH IS WHICH Van Ragsdale, band director, superstitiously believed that the band played better when he gave his Gucci watch to his first chair llutist. Sam Osborne lived on actual sand on the beach in Port Aransas for two years after she graduated from Crockett High School. 'I would rather be playing tennisl' -Marsha Nelson I 32 KNOW WHA rs WHAT it WHAT NOW? Crammlng those last few minutes In the cafeteria, sophomores James Bennett, Andrew Christiansen and Bill Davenport prepare for a test In Spanish. With after- school practices, athletes used any spare minute to measure up to the no-pass, no- play rule. iPhoto by David Bennettl OFF LIMITS! Digging through his locker as quickly and quietly to find his homework, sopho- more Todd McGall risks getting caught in the halls, which were closed to students during lunch. iPhoto by staffi