Haltom High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Haltom City, TX)

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Juniors and sophomores must have felt a little left out during May which was definitely a senior month, but they all knew their day would come, and they hated to see us go. I can ' t say my heart didn ' t ache a little when I thought of leaving them. The outstanding among us moved on stage all jittery and scared; they didn ' t seem so stuck-up or goody-goody anymore. Everyone kept telling us graduation was only the beginning of life, but standing there gazing over my classmates for the last time while we sang Memories, I felt certain my life was ending. Many scholarships were awarded that night including a $1250 one to Janet Smith as valedictorian. Emotions ran high as seniors gath- ered for the last time at graduation on June 1, 1972. Student Life 27

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Our May ar-nved too soon. Although our entire school career had been spent work- ing toward that May, when it arrived, we weren ' t ready. We weren ' t ready to say good-bye to routines and patterns established over the years. We weren ' t ready to leave the halls we ' d walked through - with others and very alone. We didn ' t want to say good- bye to our friends - new ones we ' d met within the month or year, or old ones we ' d built sand castles with while we were only watching others go to schools we weren ' t yet in. After an emotion filled message by John Creecy, he and Mark Buckner presented a Haltom High flag to the school in hopes that Seniors ' 72 would never be forgotten. In the Recognition Day Assembly on May 25, their last together, seniors marched resplendent in caps and gowns into the auditorium to receive hono rs for their achievements. 6 r

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Easy livin ' came in on fhe hot breafh of June 1 . Empty lockers, tired teachers, and fidgety students sounded the death knell for another school year. We were all tired and irritable and counting down the last few minutes of the school year. We were taking our final tests in subjects we had enjoyed but grown tired of and thinking of Twin Points and Burger ' s Lake barely able to push the pen forward across the exam pages. Yet we were all just a little sad to say good-bye to friends we ' d grown close to over the year knowing that classes would be different next year. So with tears of joy and sadness we kissed another year good-bye. With the end of the school year came the beginning of Reconstruction of the cafeteria. Students gone, chairs and tables back, the cafeteria awaited its facelifters. Finding relief after turning in the final page of work and book, Shelia Hogue happily tore paper and awaited the final bell of the school year with hundreds of other classmates. Many strong boys were utilized in the removal of checked- in books during the last hectic days of school. Charles Cotton, like so many other boys, would rather have been doing something else. 28 Student Life