Bryan 2007 Yearbook

"MYBRY comics and BC Stories have debuted with a Winner. This annual reflects the imagery and culture of a great alternative high school. Not to be missed l "

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BRYAN COMMUNIT'f' COMICS

I SPENT THIS PAST YEAR TAKING PHOTOS 6 NOTES THEN I PUT THEM INTO A BOOK -

A COMIC BOOK.

IT HAS THINGS AS I SAW THEM.

IT HAS ONE VIEWPOINT BUT I HOPE ff REPRESENTS WHAT WE ALL SEE AT BRYAN COMMUNITY ...

A PLACE TO LEARN IN OUR OWN WAY

A PLACE TO LEARN IN WAYS THAT ARE NEW

A PLACE TO MAKE MISTAKES WITHO/ff CONDEMNATION

A PLACE TO BE OURSELVES

I FEEL MORE CONNECTEO AT BRYAN BECAUSE I CAN REALLY SHOW MY TEACHERS WHO WE ARE. THEY CAN ALSO BE MORE THEMSELVES.

MINE IS JUST ...

I eOMMUNITY ... TED AN INTEREST G BRYAN AND WE UP AN INTERVIEW HOW ABOUT T

, AT MY LAST SCH UST A NUMBER, N ED IF I WAS THERE .I GUESS I WANT T KE I BELONG ....

EIS CARRI I'LL BE DOING VIEW WITH YO AD. I'LL BET NOTES. 0

THAT WOU WEDNESDA THANKS,,,

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I WENT IN FOR MY INTERVIEW AT BRYAN COMMLJNITY TOOA Y. THEY SA/0 ONE PARENT HAO TO COME WITH ME SO MYOAOMETME THERE. I THINK IT WENTWELL. I LIKEO THE WAY PEOPLE TREATEO ME THERE. I'M EXCITEO ANO YET FL/LL OP OREAO, THINKING ABOLJT 00/N0 BACK TO SCHOOL ANO BEING IN A NEW PLACE. BETTER THERE THAN ANY PLACE I HAVE BEEN SO PAR ...

Al/0/JST 27, 2006

I START BACK TO SCHOOL TOMORROW. WHAT WAS I THINKING? COMPARED TO OTHER YEARS, I AM MORE EXCITED TO 00 BACK TO SCHOOL BUT I AM STILL NOT SURE IF THIS IS A MISTAKE.

ANYWAYS--' I FIGURE, WHAT HAVE I GOT TO LO::,E. LAST YEAR, I WAS BARELY GOING TO SCHOOL. IT'S NOT THAT I DON'T WANT TO GRADUATE BUT IT'S TOUGH GOING TO SCHOOL EVERYDAY

THIS IS WHY I AM WRITING THIS MAYBE IF I PUT IT DOWN IN BLACK AND WHITE, I CAN STICK IT OUT THIS YEAR.

I WENT IN LAST WEEK TO GET MY SCHEDULE AND MEET SOME TEACHERS . I GOT TO MEET CAROL PACKARD (SHE MADE THE APPOINTMENT FOR MY INTERVIEW) ANDARDEU..A ANDERSON (SHE DOES ATTENDANCEBETTER BE NICE TO HER!) I ALSO MET THE PRINCIPAL, GARY CZAPLA. APPARENTLY HE IS NEW THIS YEAR BUT I GUESS HE USED TO TEACH AT BRYAN COMMUNITY A FEW YEARS BACK. SEEMS UKE A GOOD GLJY.

MY ENGUSH TEACHER, SARA

MEIER - SO FAR, SO 0000 I HAVE HER FOR MUSIC LYRICS WHICH OUGHT TO BE GREAT I THINK WE GET TO MAKE A Ml/SIC V/OEO WITH HER. I WAS GOING TO HAVE CREATIVE WRITING WITH HER BUT I NEEDEO TO MANY OTHER RE(¥U/REMENTS

OME EVERYONE! MY N RLJSTERMIER. THE PU RPO CLASS IS TO GET AU. OF TED WITH WHAT rT MEAN RS OF THE BRYAN COMM

WHAT I HAVE T GRADE I WO Y HAVE TOD ETER TOTTER" NGE COURSE" TO PASS THE

THE FIRST OAY WENT PRETTY WELL I GET THE FEELING SOME PEOPLE WILL TRY TO COAST THROUGH ANO I GUESS THAT'S POSSIBLE TO JUST "GET BY" BUT MAYBE THIS WILL BE MY CHANCE TO EXPLORE WHAT I AM CAPABLE OF WITHOUT All THE 0/STRACTIONS OF THE BIGGER HIGH SCHOOLS. I NEEO To PASS All THE a.ASSES UNOA PUT ME IN TO GRADUATE THIS YEAR.

I MET A LOT OF NEW PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY IN ORIENTATION a.ASS CATHY RUSTERMIER IS THE TEACHER SHE SEEMS TOUGH BUT FAIR ANO CARING. ACTUALLY, I KNOW A FEW PEOPLE HERE, AS WELL

IN ORIENTATION, CATHY MENTIONED THAT WE WILL 00 "TEAM BU/LO/NG ACTIVITIES" WHICH MEANS GETTING OUTS/OE ANO EVENTUAlL Y, GO TO A "UNL CHALLENGE ROPES COURSE" WHICH SOUNOS UKE A 0000 TIME

BEFORE THAT, THERE IS A TEETER TOTTER EXERCISE TO HELP US WORK TOGc7HER TO PROBLEM-SOLVE, GET TO KNOW ANO TRUST EACH OTHER ANO TO FOCUS ON THE GU/0/NG PRINCIPLES.

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO SLENOA Will.NERD AT LPSOO FOR DONATING $500 TO OUR FUND-A-NEED REGUEST. WE WERE ABLE TO BUY- LOTS OF NEW BOOKS FOR BRYAN REAOERS.

DANIELA AND ANN FROM TIME WARNER CABLE

PATIENCE GREGORY ANO TEAMMATE, RUTH GERBER

THIS YEAR, SEVERAL BRYAN STlJOENTS TRAINEO TO BE lJNL CHALLENGE COURSE LEADERS. NEXT YEAR, THESE STUOENTS WILL LEAD OTHER BRYAN COMMUNITY STUOENTS ON THESE COMMUNITY8UILJ)IN0 EXERCISES.

WRITER: JARROO MIYAMOTO

INKER: JENNIFER L. OEETS

COLORS: GARY M CZAPK

HEY GANG! I GOT THE VOODOO VAN AND I'M ABOUT TO GO ON A WACKY ADVENTURE TO GET SOME PIEROGIES!

MY DRAWING IS BLAND,GRAY, AN UNINSPIRED I THU FIWNG MY COLO FULL OF SADNES :-(

AFTER EATING , JEN FOUGHT THE WOLFMAN ANO HAO A WE OESERVEO NA

THE MACHINE TORTURES ME SO WITH IT'S COMPLEXITY AND MANY PROMPTS OF UNKNOWN ORIGINS!

KUDOS AND HUZZAH, NOW I CAN FILL MY MIND WITH THE ABUNDANT, USELESS, KNOWLEDGE THE SUPER HYPER COMPU-GLOBALNET PROVIDES!

IT STARTED WITH THE PRINCIPAL. . .HE WAS MAKING CRAZY TALX ABOUT HOW THINGS WERE GONNA BE BAS/CALLY THE SAME .EXCEPT FOR ONE THING

THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION [ACLU] FORMEO A PARTNERSHIP WITH BRYAN COMMUNITY BY WHICH STUOENTS LEARNEO ABOUT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. PART OF THIS CONNECTION INCLJJOEO FEATURING ANO AUCTIONING BRYAN COMMUNITY STUOENT'S ART PIECES TO BENEFIT THE ACLU THEY ALSO RECOGNIIZEO THEIR TOP 3 CHOICES WITH AN AWAROS CEREMONY,

TOOAY A BUNCH OF CLASSES GOT TOGETHER TO LEARN ABOUT THE CRISIS IN OARFLJR. THERE IS A GENOC/OE OF THE AFR/KAN PEOPLE OUE TO FACTORS INCLLJO/NG A WEAK ANO POSS/Bl Y BIASEO GOVERNMENT, OROUGHT WHICH HAS CAL/SEO STRESS BETWEEN OTHERWISE AMIABLE GROUPS AS THEY FIGHT OVER LANO ANO WATER RIGHTS, ANO FA/LEO ATTEMPTS BY THE UN/TEO NATIONS TO ACHIEVE A PEACE AGREEMENT. NO ONE IS IMMUNE FROM THE VIOLENCE INCLLJOING BABIES, CH/LOREN €J WOMEN ESPEC/ALJ_Y BRUTAL, RAPE HAS BECOME "WEAPON" USE BY JANJAW/0 ARMY .

JOHN GLOE SHARES A STORY OF HORRIBLE VIOLENCE EXPERIENCE() BY THE CHILDREN IN SUOAN. RANOOM ACTS OF TORTURE, RAPE, ANO Kill/NG ARE AN EVERYDAY FEAR FOR WOMEN, CH/LOREN ANO MEN AS THEY 00 OAILY TASKS OF GATHERING WATER OR WOOO ANO FOR CHILDREN AS THEY TRY TO PLAY. BRYAN GATHEREO AROUNO 60 SIGNATURES ON A PETITION TO CHINA'S GOVERNMENT, ASKING THEM TO STOP PROV/0/NG ARMS TO THE SUOAN Kill/NG TROOPS. STUOENTS ANO TEACHERS ALSO WROTE TO SENATORS 6 THE PRESIOENT TO ASK FOR THEM TO INTERVENE IN THE OARFUR CRISIS.

THE CREATION OF THE RAINFOREST WAS TO LEARN ABOUT THE ECOSYSTEM ANO IS PRECIOUS SPECIES, PLANTS ANO ANIMALS. THE OESTRUCTION OF THE RAIN-FOREST WAS TO 0ET AN EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS TO THE OESTRUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTS WORLO-WIOE.

STUOENTS LEARNED THAT THE WAY TO STOP THE OESTRUCTION IS TO 0ET INVOLVEO. EACH PERSON CAN MAKE A OIFFERENCE.

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5ineerely,

1y :Janda, Brandon rol.SoM, Cha.r,".s w,lliaP1.S, Ja6ar la.raP1ore, Callen Knic.J:e.rl,oc.J:er, Patie.nee Gre o , Pr .ston la.Pointe, Mi.stv Buchnan, t:l BlauVelt, Bra.ndon M Mill,'an, Claudia F<odr:quez, :Jared Cra.,,,,,1,, hlic.ia Castillo, J>an B:enJ:a, and

E.J. BLA/JVELT,t1 BRYCE BERRINGER Nor PICT/JREO:

BIENKA, MISTY BUCHANAN, t1 CULLEN KNICKERBOCKER.

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THEE00 'S SO WHERES 'ANOY? LATISHA

BRYAN COMMUNITY WAS ABLE TO WORK WITH THE 0A11.LJP OR0ANIZATIO THIS YEAR TO ADMINISTER THEIR ·sTREN0THS FINOERS 11 SURVEY. THIS PROGRAM ALLOWS STAFF ANO STUDENTS TO COMPLETE AN ONLJNE SURVEY WHICH ASKS 0UESTIONS TO OISCOVER AN INOIVIOUALS LEARNING ANO WORKlt PREFERENCES ANO PERSONALJTY.

FROM THE RESULTS, WE CAN FINO OUT HOW WE HANDLE SITUATIONS BE ,. ANO THEN ALLOWS TEACHERS TO WORK WITH OUR STRENGTHS. WE ALSO RECEIVED INFO ON CAREERS ANO WAYS TO WORK WHICH WOULD BE MOST BENEFICIAL TO US.

THANKS TO ANN ADAMS FOR THE INITIAL nFOOTWORK" ON THIS OPPORTUNITY.