1993 Ames High Spirit

264 Pages·1993·140.3 MB·

Spirit '93
Ames Senior High School
1921 Ames High Drive
Ames, Iowa 500 10 -5199
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Student Population: 1,377
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indsurfing in an indoor
swimming pool was not
your everyday physical
education activity. During Mary
Kautzky's canoe unit. students
could opt to learn how to balance
themselves on the windsurfing
board. Junior Matt Farrier watches
junior Bryan Warme as he
attempts to stay afloat on top of
the windsurfing board . (Photo by
Karen Hsu)
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aking up at 6:45a.m. Monday morning, we won
dered why we had to get ready for another week
of monotonous lectures, sleeping students, and
wearisome work. With that in mind, teachers liv
ened up the classrooms with a variety of activities: Kirk
Dad dow and Susie Petra sponsored a two-day trip for the AP
Western Civilization and art c lasses to the Art Institute of Chi
c ago to experience European Impressionist paintings instead
of staring at a page in a history book; students in Phil Johnson's
formal geometry class demonstrated their knowledge of
proofs and theorems by making visual displays for his class
room; juniors in sma ll groups learned how to teach and lead a
discussion in a full 43-minute period in LoAnn Campbell's
American Masterpieces.
Whether we argued in AP English
about if Shakespeare really did write his
masterpieces or if other playwrights col
laborated to make a fictional man fa
mous, practiced speaking French by play
ing The Love Connection instead of work
ing on tedious grammar examples, held a
mock presidential election with Ross Perot
as the winner during Summer Govern
ment, or brainstormed uses for parabolas
cience lobs didn't always
~· include Bunsen burners and
and hyperbolas in analytical geometry
test tubes. Juniors Matt
Ashburn, Tom Payne and Chris
class, we kept unleashing ideas.
Whitehead help teacher Mike
Petersen perform a motocycle lob
By Karen Hsu in the parking lot during physics class.
(Photo by Angie Davis)
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