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

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SUMMER MADNESS Hy Rusty Biles, Wfayne Trimble. lfor those who are civilians to the world of journalism or never worked inside the color- ful pages of a yearbook, you may not know about the awful disease that often hits the hard working staff member, There must be something about room 54, the journalism room. that sets this disease aflame. Many tend to think it's a mixture of a few reasons like boredom. Mrs. Tomlinson. plain psy- chosis. and the tnoss growing inside the light fixture. But thanks to our good luck and the fact we had two extra pages to fill in this book, you will be learning more about this disease and the glorious outcome it had upon the common yearbook members. Regular school was days over, but the yearbook people were still there hard at work on their usual overdue deadlines. lf not for the rainy days instead of sunny, the disease might have already taken its toll against one of the precious few. but even still the staff was beginning to get bored with the year- book pages. and though they didnt realize it. they were nearing the stage of that dreadful disease. It had struck earlier, in the latter part of the school year. when the rootn had affected them so that they constructed the illournahsm 'liowerf' ilihis contraption con- sisted of four stools fone upon anotherl. seven different Buffalo yearbooks. a broom. X 1 r 45,1 Ron Chapman. the highest paid disc jockey in the Fort Worthfllallas area. congratulates Rusty Biles and the summer auxiliary ofthe yearbook staff for winning S50 in the Take Your Radio to Work daygvlune -1, If 335 I :LU 2 'W' With KVIL's Ron Chapman looking on, Rusty Biles talks to Larry Dickson on the radio. giving his reaction on winning the SSO, lt's going for a type-setting machine for next year. . . it costs l-1thou'. one of Mrs. 'l'omlinson's spider plants. about a half-mile of leftover typewriter ribbon, and all the trash that could be found in the room, Not an everyday type of construction. the disease had definitely' influenced their char- acter. Anyway. getting gack to the storyyjune -i started out another dreary day for those who were working so diligently. but something happened that was quite unsuspected. liven though it was early morning. that most horri- ble disease suddenly took control of one girl and set her to blabbering. Ya'll. today KVII.'s going to be coming to Ilaltom City and it's bring-your-radio-to- work day. XX'hat can we do. let's do some- thing and win SSO. She went on and on, until her bumblings had touched everyone and sent the disease into an epidemic of the whole staff. Year- book pages were left alone. as they ran around thinking of something to get KVII, to llaltom. Ya'll. get to work, screamed some lady nobody paid any attention toward. I got a great idea. a clever girl added. Soon Principal llagmann picked up the phone in his office to listen to a jabbering young girl. muttering something about KVII. and putting letters up on the marquee. Mr. llagmann. not exactly sure of what he had heard. agreed. So after gathering up some letters. they darted out the side doors towards the mar- quee. so excited they forgot a ladder. 'lhey rushed back into the building, tried to find Lou or Ray. before the KVII,-a-van passed them by. But a man in blue was nowhere in sightg so back to the journalism room they fled to grab a couple of stools.

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, S BASKETBALL NR ,,.. Hrsity --, Y .gm W sd K Ross, 2341, who scored 15 against Richland, watches as Manos, 1133, shoots a jumpshot. The Buffs lost 41-56. 1 42 fi Jaw, ,... 1 David Cassiday, 322, passes the ball to Hester, 310, against Bowie. The Buffs won 41-35. ttf wean 1 ,g jiri 1 1 W,Z, ,wu , Jw -Vr- With a look of anguish on his face, a Bell Raider wins the tip-off over Mark Schertz, 851, who averaged 3.6 points a game. The Buffs lost 48-68. jV BASKETBALL, district 3 wins, 9 losses HHS OPP. 40 Arlington 34 Sam Houston 51 Arlington Lamar 41 Arlington Bowie 40 Burleson 41 Richland 34 Arlington 46 Sam Houston 55 Arlington Lamar 49 Arlington Bowie 47 Burleson 35 Richland

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SUMMER MADNESS Disease infects room 34 i KVIL ME 7 'W-in-.1,.. IN RQHM LISTEN 2 U. .uri uh: if 'WK lj' '., I- Q. ll J M... ly ' 'F .fr . I 'NL al 'H' sf- L:-1 2 .H Ron Chapman pauses a moment with Rusty Biles. Katrina Lewis, Sheri Drysdale. Tara Schooler, Wendi Wright. Sharyl Spencer. and Steve Mylius in front ofthe sign on the Corner of Belknap and Carson St. caught his attention. I - 1..,3'!',,A im W 'ALI wg IJ' y ii gi, ss 1:1 915 ft' 0' Gia 9 0358410 -.1 19090 that 5 Cars passing hy. slowed to watch some fool on top of some stools hang letters on the marguee. while two others held the shaky ladder as steady' as possihle. After one of the stools cracked and the hrave soul on top fell to the ground. the letters adorned the mar- quee. not in a heautiful manner. hut in a way' that could he called creative. It read NKVII. IN ROOM ii. MIi I,IS'I'IiN 3 I '. After making their way' hack to journalism room. they werent satisfied with just the cre- ative sign. Iieing nagged on hy several staf- fers. Mrs. Iomlinson soon found herself on the phone to one of KVII,'s secretaries. who replied. Okay'. I'll relay the information. Then signs were hung around the school to help guide the man with the S50 to room 54. Thinking of nothing more to do. they faced the real world and hack to work on the yearhook they' went with their disease slightly' wearing off. The day' grew longer and the excitement drained with every hour. Every' once in a while a joking student would look DUI the door and say. iI,ook. here comes Ron Chapman? hut the disc jockey never came and the yearhook memhers were getting discouraged and ready' to leave. Guess what? Ron Chapmans herel' said the same joker as before and everyone looked up hut then looked away again, thinking he was just jesting again. Ihen sure enough Ron Chapman. the head hauncho of radio. walked into room ski. The staffers became ecstatic. most ran around the room screaming and shaking the dist jockeys hand. hut some just stood there with the look of amazement saying. I tan' helieve it. At first. Mr. Chapman just stood there try ing to figure out what in the world was wrong with these people. hut he was soon guided to the phone to call his radio station. IIey'. I,arry' Dieksonl Ron Chapman here, Heyy I found another winner. I crossed the horder of Ilaltom City. drove down a little hit and saw a sign hy' Iialtoni IIigh School, I thought the place would he all shut up. hut I ventured down the halls and found my way to room si and the annual staff was down here workingg so let's hear it for the annual staffli' XX'ell, what are you going to do with that SSO! I,arry' Dickson asked. Its going towards a type-setter for next years newspaper staff. It only tosts I-4 thou'. the excited staffer answered. XX'ell, I guess we can have a tax write-off on that. then. Dickson replied. Then Mr. Chapman hung up the phone. rewarded the staff with the 50 dollars. eon- gratulated them. and went on his way to Ifort XX orth to award some more listeners. After Ron Chapman departed and the excitement had died down. the sickness that had affected them earlier, seemed to he healed and they' packed up their work and went home. only' to return again tomorrow. The S50 hill receiyed from KVII. is displayed in front ofthe radio that brought the winnings. set on FM 105.'. Could that be the image of Ron Cfhap- man in the center?