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

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FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA 3 'Z qw' -K , FFA members Tracy Anderson, james Ripple, Bobby Hill and Bart jackson take time to talk between workshops at the district convention. as ., K -- Area FFA at Coliseum V W., 9-A M mm ixii ,. whqw I Bobby Hill observes chap display on a Vocational Agriculture field trip at the Fat Stock Show. Theme building Future Farmers of America were seldom heard from during the year, but they did a few activities besides their regular farming duties. They hosted the area convention May 11. The local chapter was represented by james Ripple, Bobby Hill, Bart jackson, Tracy Anderson, Marc Saddlemire, Trey Blevins and joey Dorman. Six hundred and fifty FFA members from 115 schools attended the con- vention at Wiley G. Thomas Coliseum. Delegates elected area officers, a state officer, a state candidate, an area talent team and an area beauty queen to participate in the state FFA convention scheduled forjuly in Dallas. The Haltom voting delegate was Sheila Tillery. No students from Haltom ran for an area office, Building Tomorrow's Today was the theme for National FFA Week in February. During the week FFA distributed compli- mentary litter bags and bumper stickers. They set up a display in the showcase across from the main office showing that FFA included a variety of jobs and projects, such as conservation, A 9

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8 VOCATIONAL OFFICE EDUCATION Sl-fills and jobs for office Workers T ping essential Typing and filing may not appeal to some peo- ple, hut to others, they are essentials of a career after graduating. Througliout the year the students in Vocational Uffice liducation practiced and studied to work in office related professions by actual on-the-rob training. 'l'he girls in VOIQ worked in various husi' 1. nesses as llaltom City llall and llaltom City State 1' Bank doing jobs that ranged from secretarial work to computer programming. Requirements for hem' accepted into VOli include taking typing and or any business-related course. Students applying for the course must he seniors and they were interxiewed for acceptance in the spring of their junior year. VOIS Lalw was a pre-requisite for juniors to take. The girls work from X-12 or l-5 five dats a week. Mrs. l.a Dean Ciunter, VOIQ teacher. said. lt gives them an opportunity to make money while gaining xaluahle experience. livery spring the girls compete against other V012 students around the area, to see who is most skilled in office related procedures, Mrs. Gunter and Mrs. Marsha Nlurray coordi- nate the program. lfach year a student that does outstanding in VOli is awarded the departmental award. which was given to llehlvie Proctor. Most activities were planned hy the club offi- cers, and at the end of the year there was an empltryer-employee hanquet. Typing business letters for REHO Construction Company, Senior Debbie Proctor works from 1 p.m. to 5 p,m. tal, l iw., Q 9 .Q K xx nu--- ' Y qxf K ii.. w'i Receiving checks for the Haltom City Police Department, Seniorjeana Hamiltom keeps a rally. Filing for the city attorney Senior julie Roeder maintains a job at city hall.

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0 ELECTIONS Votes Cost on separate doys Council positions Competition stiff The presidental election in November electing Ronald Reagan was not the only important election. Instead of nine cheerleaders, twelve were elected for next year's squad, consisting of nine juniors and three sophomores. Accor- ding to Mrs. Bettye Wright, cheerleader sponsor, the reason is that cheerleaders will be at each sport, boys as well as girls, throughout the year. The girls will be divid- ed into teams, and a certain team will be responsible for a certain game. According to Mrs. Wright, the only time the cheerleaders will be all together is at the boy's varsity games. The cheerleader elections were the second week of April. Anita Edmonds, Deedee Griggers, janet Holt, janice Kossbiel, jill johnson, Sue McDade, Melinda White and Kim William- son were the prospects for the three junior positions. After performing one group cheer and two individual cheers, Melinda, janice and Sue came out victorious. These were all junior high cheerleaders, Melinda and janice at Haltomjunior and Sue at North Oaks. The competition for the senior positions was not quite as stiff. Nancy Booth, Carol Evans, Pam Faulkner, Karla Kittrell, Amy Krupka, Cindi McMullin, Marcy Moran, Melanie Nowell, Mary Ann Richardson, Pam Rodriguez and Tara Schooler all tried out for the nine senior positions. After going 7.--IN Seniors Allen Payne and Rusty Biles and sophomore Wendie Wright were a part of sophomore Diana McGill's skit for student council secretary. Dianas' whole campaign was centered around pickles and the Vlasic theme. through the same group cheer and the same two individual cheers, Nancy. Carol, Karla. Amy, Cindi, Melanie, Mary Ann, Pam Rodriguez, and Tara came out winners. Three girls tried out for mascot, Diana Standley, Cindy Pemberton and lfelisia johnson. These three girls were allowed to do skits instead of cheers. Felisia was elected. Later in the week after the cheerleader elections, the sophomores and juniors once again went to the auditorium for the student council elections. junior David Thornburg and junior Robb White ran for president of the student body with Robb coming out on top. Steve Mylius, who served as parliamen- tarian, was elected vice-president over Carol Porter. Debbie McGee defeated sophomore Diana McGill for the office of secretary. Katrina Lewis ran unopposed for the treasurer position. Barry Wright beat Sheri Drysdale for the position of parliamentarian. Instead of using the Tarrant County voting machines, the voting was done by in- dividual computer ballots. Iiach candidate was given a number. The numbers were plac- ed beside a bubble on a card and each stu- dent stated their preference by bubbling in the number. No names were on the ballot. The computer-like cards were then run through a machine which calculated the total in just minutes. Another change in the schedule for the elections was that the elections were on dif- ferent days. This was done to keep the students from becoming restless and bored in the assembly, according to Mrs. jan Ed- wards, SC sponsor. Later on during the first of May, the elec- tions were conducted for the junior and senior class officers. These were also done with the voting machine mentioned above, according to assistant principal Mrs. joAnn Kelley, Del Pentecost was elected president for the senior class, Mark Newman vice- president, Pam Rodriguez secretary, Ray Clark treasurer, Senior representatives elected were Deb- bie Barnes, Sandi Harris, Waylon llawkins, Ifelisia johnson, Kim Kinglsley, Danny Lewis, Cindy Pemberton, Pam Rodriguez and David Thornburg. Billy Kemp was named president of the junior class. Other officers elected were Kim Williamson secretary, Kim Bruskie treasurer. The nine junior representatives, one for every 50 members of the class, elected were Cindy Agostini, Kim Bruskie, Gayle Flatt, jill johnson, janice Kossbiel, Susan Lovelady, Tammi Shelton, Cindy Stegall and Kim Williamsoni, juniors Charles Garrett, Cindy Horbolla, Stew: Singleton, and Dede Sinku watch as junior Felisia johnson, one ofthree candidates for mascot. gets tluyt n. Felisia came our a winner oter Diana Standley and Cindy Pemberton.