Baird High School - Headlight Yearbook (Baird, TX)

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IAHDBMH 3 'PF X' fix. 1 Members of the Class of 1929 who attended the homecoming in September were Willard Kelton, Lucibel Mitchell Manion, Glenn McGowen Wylie, Edith Hammons Hunt, Donna McGowen Leon, Thelma Boatwright Smith, Leotis Bennett Meadows, R. L. Elliott, Ir., Harry Dunlap, Curtis Sutphen, Beatrice Green Deal, Bill Wright, Fonda Hughes Brown, Stephen Warren, Dr. Weldon Varner, Vermon Iohnson, and, not pictured, Dorothy Barnhill Parsons. The custom of publishing a year- book for Baird Schools began fifty years ago. The first staff in 1928-29 headed by Vermon Iohnson, editor, and Weldon Varner, business man- ager, hoped to establish an unbro- ken chain. However, there were no yearbooks published during the depression and war years of 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, and 1943. THE HEADLIGHT was selected as the name of the annual in honor of the railroad, the city's former great- est asset and builder. The Texas and Pacific Railway selected Baird as one of the railway's division ter- minals, which led to the establish- ment of Baird as the county seat of Callahan County. In 1929, THE HEADLIGHT was dedicated to Mrs. W. C. White, a teacher of history for many years in the Baird Schools, and to Miss Win- ifred Camp, teacher of English and the first sponsor of THE HEAD- LIGHT. The 1979 HEADLIGHT staff salutes the Class of 1929 on this fifti- eth anniversary. l Above: Maude McGowen Cunningham, Class of '29, looks approvingly at her grandaughter, Lydia Hardwick, Class of '79 and a cheer- leader at Baird High School. Left: Principal Gerald Iennings accepts a copy of the 1929 annual from Vermon Iohnson, edi- tor of the first yearbook. Looking on is Ben Stephenson, 1978 president of the Exes' Asso- ciation. Opening Section 3

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Faculty and Classes . . .... 18 Favorites .... .... 4 2 Sports ....54 Involvement .... .... 8 0 Elementary. . . . . .106 A' Advertising.. . . . .139 . 'V The present high school building was constructed in 1955. Built in 1928, the old higl school building shown below was demolished to make room for the present structure. Lower left: Riding in the 1978 homecoming parade were Coming Home Queen Mrs. Katy Lea Ivey, former Baird teacher, and Coming Home King Olaf G. South, former Baird super- intendent. Lower right: Addressing the exes, and speak- ing especially to the Class of 1929, was Mrs. Maurine Ivison Nichols, a teacher for 37 years who began her career in Baird with the Class of 1928-29. 2 Opening Section

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Band members proudly wear new uniforms . . . Iodi White and Steve Defosses, one of top seven Most Beautiful and Handsome . . . Mem- bers of the drill team, a newly organ- ized group at BHS . . . Carla Deel with a cake for the football Player of the Week . . . Iunior and senior girls display new disco look of '79, 4 Opening Section