Buffalo High School - Bison Yearbook (Buffalo, MO)

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GETTING THERE Do you remember getting out of bed, seeing o snoiu-covered ground outside the window ond hoping someone would coll off school? UUell. this was common in the win- ter of 1987-88. If school wos in session, just getting to school wos o major problem. Snow ond ice slowed down high school driv- ers, ond buses continually ron late. Several cars were put in the ditch, ond on very bod days, the parking lot wos more likely to be empty. I hoted the snow be- cause I couldn’t do anything ond my cor wouldn't start. €ven if it did, my parents wouldn't let me drive. senior, Julie Turner, soid. €ven Christmas vocation wos full of inconveniences because of foul weather, fl snow storm al- lowed students to hove 3 1 2 extra days of the week before Christmas contributing to on added week before gradua- tion. The Christmas concert hod to be cancelled due to conflicts in the snow-day scheduling. Dynamics ond Mixed Chorus member, Bobbi Beachler, ju- nior, remarked, It was un- troditionol.” Vet, some yeor-end festivi- ties did run according to sched- ule, Miss Merry Christmas, Stashi Mills, sophomore, wos chosen to reign over the com- munity Christmas parade with her attendants, Dana Rice, freshman, Deonno Percivol, ju- nior, ond Sandy Scrivener, se- nior. The Student Council, with help from the faculty, held its Getting to school Layout and story: Melody Hoyes annual Christmos assembly that wos enacted more like o talent show. Christmos lights were lit up around campus with decorations provided by Lon- nie Glor, ort instructor. The Student Council also spon- sored o Christmos donee ond put up o tree in the fieldhouse lobby. Bod weather took its toll again when fourteen of the surrounding counties were de- clared disaster areas after a severe ice-storm tore down power lines. The lock of elec- tricity, reported up to six days caused problems in the rural areas. The Notional Guard brought in generators to help local dairy formers. This meant the end of relaxtion for many students who live on forms. Senior, Kevin Jones, hod this to soy, UJe hod to milk by hand, then we borrowed o genera- tor. It wos terrible, one night, we hod to start ot 11:00 p.m. ond we didn't get done until 2:30 o.m. I hoted it, I couldn’t watch my soaps , soid Misty Bonks, sophomore. UJhether it wos getting to school or celebrating Christ- mos, this wos o winter most won't soon forget.

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A fomllior scene of friends eating and socializing together at lunch. GETTING THERE TT No More Snack Bor Photos: fi. Mulderink. Layout ond story: Cinnamon McMillan o more chips!” ULIill the do- nuts be gone, too? “UUe'll hove to give-up snack bar food for o uueek dur- ing the move?” LUho do we pay?” The questions ond the rumors flew prior to the snock bar- cafeteria merge. The Snock Bar hod been on institution ot BHS, ond it was also whot you could coll, unique. The smoky atmosphere was only o port of the old Snock Bor that we began to miss. The upperclassmen taking their tables from underclassmen, ond the cliques sitting in their original places began to dissappeor when we moved into the new cafeteria. The cliques were mixed up” in the cafeteria and nobody real- ly had a table they called theirs.” This year, the Snack Bar cooks had to learn how to cook school lunches for the very first time. The school lunches in the past were cooked at Mallory and bused over, and now. the lunches were cooked ot the high school. For many students, their last cafeteria lunch had not been eat- en since elementary school, find when the two merged, they had their first cafeteria lunch in years. Find to top it all off, we hod €levator Music for a couple of days, but instead of calming stu- dents down, it actually drove some of us crazy. It was reported by some junior high students that there was o fight in the cafeteria while the music was going on. I guess you could say it was a graceful fight!” But after oil of this, you could say Getting There was Half the Fun! Some students waiting In line ot the coke machines moved to the new cafeteria. The fohilllor scene of the Snock 8ar would soon be ]4 gone. Photo: M. Trent