Woodward Academy - Phoenix Yearbook (College Park, GA)

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JEWELRY DESIGN The Jewelry Design class began in 1981, when Mr. Chris Greenway of the Visual Arts Department began teaching at Woodward. In this class, students design and create their own jewelry masterpiece whether it be a ring or other form. The students can work with various materials such as brass, copper, and sterling silver. The class is equipped with all materi- als and machinery needed so that each student has the opportunity to express his creativity. LAW For several years, students have had the opportunity to study Law at Woodward. Taught by Mr. Wal- ter Monti, students receive in- sight into the American court sys- tem untangling many of the legal questions surrounding court cases. The students learn about how a case is readied for court. They become familiar with briefs, depositions, interrogatories and judgments. The students then practice their legal knowledge by preparing and participating in several mock court cases.

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EXTRA AND ORDINARY CLASSES OCEANOGRAPHY In 1983, Woodward ' s Science De- partment offered a new course in Oceanography. Taught by Mr. Tom Hovyick, the class instructed land- locked students in the ageless questions of the oceans and to re- vere its beauty and serenity. Stu- dents were taught concepts of navi- gation and chart-reading. Field trips were offered to beach locations so that students could master and per- fect information learned in the class- room. The course provided another avenue of development of the stu- dent ' s ability to question, compre- hend and appreciate.

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TRIPS For the Lower School students, lessons can sometimes be very confusing. It is hard to understand information about places or to- pics when the student cannot visualize the concept. The student has a jumble of infor- mation and no way to straighten out the mess. It is like pieces of a puzzle. The student is better able to understand when he can see the actual place where an event happened or how something works. Field trips help the pieces of the educational puzzles fall into place and fit together bvery year many Woodward Academy Lower School students visit different parts of the country. This year in April, the fourth grade class visited several historical sites in Georgia including a tour of Savannah, first ,city of Georgia, the main attraction of the expedition. In Savannah, they were able to learn more about Savannah ' s defenses as they crawled in and over Ft. Pulaski on Cock- spur Island located in the middle of the Sa- vannah River. Also in April, the fifth grade visited Hunts- ville, Alabama, where they toured the Space Center rocket base and learned of the tech- nological advances made in the space field. They also went to Williamsburg, Virginia, where they watched actual colonial crafts being demonstrated, observed a military reinactment and walked through the Capital, home of the first Virginia House of Bur- gesses. They also toured colonial Jamestown, first permanent English settlement, and Busch Gardens. The sixth grade students visited Dahlon- ega, Georgia in September, where they were igiven the chance to pan for gold and explore the surroundings on nature walks. They also visited the nation ' s capital in March, where they toured all of the important attractions of the city. This included the White Flouse, Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial j and spent long hours touring the Smithson ian Institute. 1. John Sheffield and Stephen Faddock enjoy the rides at the space center in Huntsville. 2. Chuck Creen at- tempts to make friends with ; mule in Huntsville. Alabama. 3. Rob Sidey, Chris DeWeese and Matthew Perry enjoy the view from the top of Fort Pulaski in Savannah. 4. Sixth graders see many sights in Washing- ton, including the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 5. Brad Ward and Kevin Bene- field search diligently for insects in the stream at Dah- lonega. 6. Keith Johnston participated in a nature hike through the woods of Dahlonega, Georgia. 7. Previous Woodward sixth graders pose with Georgia Senator Sam Nunn in Washington, D.C. i) 11 1 V 20 TRIPS