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

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NOSTALGIA fr Printipal Leon Hagmann receiws .1 gift from FBLA for the ycnr's serxiuc. Mr. Hagnmnn was xwll likt-ti equally by all orgzmimtions. Chemistrv II is tt rctcnt addition tu the School curriculum. Ilcrc, chemistrv II SIUdCIlISPCIL'liiiIIlLiI1LlI1killliit Brown perform an experiment. F ,fig , ,Hs ,W I ,y

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NOSTALGIA A look at the past 'The kids toda are having fung that's good because the 're learning toc By Wfayne Trimble The kids now look better and dress bet- ter than in the late sixties and early seventies. That's probably been the biggest change. Kids then thought the thing to do was to be sloppy as possible. I mean, I like cotnfortable jeans myself. but if those kids took their jeans off. they'd stand up by themselves. reminisced Principal I.eon Ilagmann about his ten years as principal of llaltom High School. On August 1 he was to assume the position of Director of Purchasing and Busi- ness at the Ad Building. The kids now are muclt easier to talk to. In the early seventies. they couldnt accept anything. They wouldnt trust adults, and always suspected they were lying. for some reason. I guess it was a hangover from the sixties. They wouldnt accept no for an answer, no matter what the reason. In the mid-to-late sixties. we saw a gen- eral resentment of the 'Iistablishmentf which was anyone in authority. whether it was teachers. police. or parents. We saw the 'God is dead' movement and the hippies selling flowers - just any sort of rebellion. Hllowever. Vietnam was not the cause. Rebellion was the cause. Vietnam just helped to trigger this rebellion. assistant 5119-f - The man most responsible for the band's high rat- ings is Dee Tucker. He gives the members last- minute instructions just prior to a football game. principal Iid Logan added. The kids refused to be involved in school functions. If you complied with society. and the 'Establishmentf you were thought of as a 'squared Mr. Ilagrnann said. Dances never seemed to work. It hasnt been until the last few years that we even made money on dances. Of course. we've had poor turnouts since then. but it was because of bad weather or that we lost the football game. lint other than that, they've been good here recently. Crowds at all the school functions are better today. liven the teachers are beginning to come to the pep rallies and games. Ilsed to. a teacher couldnt come without having to put up with abuse from students. But now it's different. Mr. Logan also added. It all finally began to change six years ago. It began easing up, and students began having fun at school. The kids today are having fun. and that's good. because they're learning too. And I dont think drugs are as prominent today as they were in the early seventies. especially the hard drugs. lt all has tapered off recently. Mr. Ilagmann said. Another big change has been in the cur- riculum. More vocational programs have cropped up lately. lt wasnt until recently that we had courses like Calculus and Chem- istry II. Students usually had to go to Rich- land to take those courses. This wasnt fair because Haltom needed these students. though they were few. The last few years we've seen high school become secondary in the life of a student. More kids are out on their own these days and they need their jobs to support them- selves. And they are turning to the vocational programs to help them out. Talking about his most memorable moments, he said, One of my tnost Out-- standing memories was beating Richlandj four years in a row in football. Another wasj receiving the hat, boots. and the coat for my! birthday last year from the student body. Il could've broken down and cried. The year before that the band got a I in marchingjthe first year Tucker was here. It was the first I in I5 years. Then this years graduation was a real high point. It was one of our best years, since 1974-75. There have been some good ones recently. but this was one of our better vears. The kids today are better dressed than those in the early seventies - Except when it's Cyndi King and Laura Greenfield on the day of the senior-faculty basketball game, where they make it as punk rock cheer- leaders.

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NOSTALGIA 72 The BUFFALO Covered Bringing the buffalo bool-t to the BUFFALO By Wayne Trimble Though anyone with a basic knowledge in biology might disagree, the process of evolu- tion has taken place over the past forty years in a species called the BUFFALO. This par- ticular species has survived for four decades, providing yearly coverage of the events of a school in Northeast Tarrant County once called Birdville. Originally called the BUF- FALO RECORD from 1941-43, it has evolved from a soft-back book of fifty pages or so, to a hard-back, 9x12 inch, 288 page yearbook called the BUFFALO. Since those early days of the BUFFALO, many changes have occurred. During the i -'S+ Buffalo calves are rather easy-going and friendly. early and mid-forties, the cover designs were kept very conservative, not because they lacked creativity, but because money was scarce during that time period, due to the second World War. The same dyes were used several times to save money. After the war years, the economy returned to normal, and the BUFFALO was allowed to expand, The first cover to take a turn from the traditional image of the buffalo was the 1948 edition. Then came the 50's, and the BUFFALO began reflecting the prosperous, peaceful life of that time. They bore crests, bold lines, and flowing ribbons. However, the 1956 cover was a radical twist from the ordinary, It utilized the theater-type mode. The 1958 cover, too, was different, but it does so well in reflecting the mood and feel of the fifties. The BUFFALO of the sixties became even more radical, with flaring lines, irregular shapes - and less of the buffalo image. 1962, '65, and '66 were the only exceptions. The cover was also beginning to evolve away from the puffy-textured backs, into hard and simple textures. The seventies brought new shapes and colors. The 1975 BUFFALO was brown, the '74 BUFFALO, green, the '75, red, green, and yellow, the '76, silver, and the '79, red, gray, and white. Then the 1980 BUFFALO debuted in nearly every color imaginable. From 1966 to 1976, it is interesting to note that there wasnt a buffalo image on the cover. And there hasnt been one since - until now. This being only the second one in fifteen years, the 1981 yearbook brings the buffalo back to the BUFFALO. A -e--M+4u6v-.' .. .---..Q--wr -N 'T' M, ...J -..Y f.. Q, I K 169. I i Late summer marks the molting season for the buffalo, where hair forms in large, light clumps. r 1 it 'T gy, 5 -sr' ,fe fiaw4g.,pi.gg at ., .l , 5: M, -. .. x ia akhitie W +1It,ww-muse fs Y ,wg ,,,,,.,,..,, .., s L -5 .rash llsltm' 4 i- . . ,eff i,,,X-isa. 9 -r , .-eai.ar'5.'xvFN? Q Q... ' A--.,.-fzailfisfrka. - - Ti' 1,1 ,se yr. The calves, as seen at International Wildlife Park, usually spend their days grazing the park grounds.