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

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46 COMPETITION Games people ple Debbie McGee Wins 'Senior Miss Texas' ot Corpus By Rusty Biles It starts in the beginning. when mom places you in those naked baby contests and it contends into old age. when racing wheelchairs around the old folks home is the primary' pastime. It's cornpe- tition. In school. not only the most popular corn- petition, such as football and volleyball. exist but also the rivalry of clubs. the choir, band and other academic groups. To start off with a good note, the choir received all I's and brought home two first-divi- sion trophies from the Sandy Lake Choral cornpe- tition. The band acquired a division II rating at the IIurst-Iiuless-Iiedford Marching Contest. besides all their competition in I'niy'ersity Interscholastic I.eague competition. Shooting right along, the junior Reserve Offi- cer Training Corps Buffalo Rifle Team attended six out-of-town rifle competitions and sponsored the Iiirdyille Invitational meet. The team won first place at MacArthur Iligh School at their Ififth Annual Metroplex Rifle and Drill Meet. They received three fourth place trophies at Abilene. the llniversity of Texas at Arlington Spring Inyi- tational, and at Texas ARSLM l'niversity. At the I'TA Ifall Invitational. they placed filth and at Wfichita Iialls they took sixth place. In the Twelfth Annual Iiirdville Invitational Drill and Rifle Com- petition. they finished seventh. Iior the second year the Future Business I,ead- ers of America took first place at the national IiIiI,A convention in Washington, DC. I,aura Shields. Terri Stewart. and I.ari Martin along with Mrs, Ila Osborne presented a slide show. featuring animals explaining the concepts of free enterprise. called Whats All This Noise About Ifree Iinter- prisef' At the District I0-11 Conference at Gran- bury High School. Marla Hunter and Carol Iivans won first place in Accounting I and Shorthand I. respectively. Kim Allen and Sondi Crawford took second in poster design. Tony Ilester placed fourth in business math and Cheryl Wise also acquired fourth place in Shorthand II. I,ennie I.aRoux placed fifth in accounting and Steve Myl- ius was elected lfISI,A District Il Vice President. Students winning in the ITSLA state competition were Carol Iivans and Lennie I,aRoux. Carol placed first in Shorthand I and I,ennie won fifth place in Accounting I. Vocational Ilealth Occupations Iiducation stu- dents attended the . state convention in Ilouston. Sharron Ilall accepted the blood pressure award. for most taken. from the American Ileart Associa- tion, Denise Wlenger won first place with her elec- trocardiogram prolect and Darla I.ytton also placed first on her respiratory project. Teresa johnson and Tarnmi Cure won fourth and fifth place on their notebooks. Students in Auto Body Mechanics attended the district conference in Wichita Falls. Kirby Stin- son. Scott Daniels and Ricky Newsome all won second place on their mechanics projects, Cosmetology students also went to Wichita Ifalls and Debbie Terrett and I,ynn Savilonis acquired first place in curling competition. Vocational Drafting attended their state com- petition in Dallas, Kenton Rowe placed first in the architectural speed and skill diyision. Ilratl Marshall and -Ioe I,e yvon first in industrial mechanics drawing. In gymnastics. the girls' group placed seyenth and the boys' team took ninth place in Marine Corps Physical Ifitness Contest at the Texas Stare I'air. Participating in the contest were Carrie Ilart. Teresa biabors. Kathy Sutton. Terri Riehl. Debbie Wlacle. Patricia Yanowski. Dayicl Rielil. Roger Ciill. Daryl Curtis. Robert Isbell, Kirk Iiollis. and Iames Campbell. Gymnastics also competed at I. D. Iiell Iligh School. Dayicl Riehl placed sixtlt in the flip flop competition and hc' and the rest ol the team had the chance to be on teleyision. but Games People Play was cancelled before the gy m- nasts telecast was aired. Seniors Iiobby Thrash and Tammy Keith yvere presented trophies at the Ilaltom Distributiyc' Cooperatiye Association employet-employee luncheon. Iiobby was named Student of the Year and Tammy was named Top Salesperson for her efforts in fund raising. 'lames Ripple and Tracy Anderson won Iiuture Iarmers Co-op awards on the area leyel. .lamc-s won for machinery' setup and Tracy won on agri- cultural product salesmanslnp. The Iirench Club competed in the language Iiiat at Paschal Iligh School. Students winning ribbons for excellence were Kenney Oatman. for spelling and grammar. I,isa Roladet for spelling. Sherri I,emaster for Iirench poetry. and Susan Res- ter andhloy Kirchdorfer for their Trench play: Cierman Club members constructed the IIeidi booth and entered it at the Noyemberfest and in the Texas Association of German Students Convention. The booth placed first at the Noyemberfest and third at TACJS. Art classes entered the Mule Alley Art Show. the Ilaltom Art Show. and the Iiirdyille Second- ary Art Show. Iiirst place winners at Mule Alley were Wayne Trimble and Dawn Skelton. At the Ilaltom Art Show. Iiest ol Show was awarded to Denese McGee for het design ol a unicorn. Iiest of Division winners were Denese Mcfiee - Print, Wayne Trimble - Design. Wayne Trimble '- Drawing. Denese McGee -- Mixed Media. and I,isa Greenfield 7 Crafts. Richland won three Best of Divisions and Ilaltom won three at the liirdville Art Show. Robin liolle won Mixed Media. Prints were taken by W'ay'ne Trimble. and Todd Parker came out with the winning Design. At the North Texas Industrial Arts Students Competition. Iialtom had eight winners. They were -lohnny Iloward. best in Diyision first year Sheet Metalg jimmy Carpenter first place. Iiench and Wfeldingg I,loyd Shelton first place. second year Sheet Metalg Tony Ilill lirst place. first year Sheet Metalgulimmy Carpenter second place. sec- ond year Sheet Metalg Robin Stewart third place. first year Sheet Metalg Ilryan l'nderhill placed third in two divisions of Drafting. Pressing on. the newspaper was rated All- Texas. the highest category possible. Sports editor Danny Iloweth won third place for his sports story on girls' basketball. Ifour made the 'Cream of the Crop. the category from which top win- ners are selected. W'ayne Trimble. 1981 yearbook editor. made finals with his series picture of Rae Tothefelder. Cary Stegall. editor of the Image. was awarded for his column and chosen as one of the Crop . Ileather Ilall. co-editor of the 1980 Image. won with her picture of Ilaltoin symbols that appeared in the 1980 Buffalo. Ileather also took first place with a color basketball photo- graph featured in the yearbook. Sheri Drysdale had a news story make the finals. National Scho- lastic Press Association rated the lotto Buffalo I'irst Class with two stars. one for copy and one for concept. At the Interscholastic I.eague Press Conference in Austin the yearbook was classified in the Award of Achievement category. which is next to the top category. Debbie Mciice went against 3.000 participants in Corpus Christi and won Senior Miss Texas of the NSI l'nited States Twirling Association. Deb- bie placed hrst in two out of four categories. the solo-straight one baton routine and the modeling competition. Senior Norman Tucker was yoted the IQXI Vocational Opportunities Clubs of Texas Parlia- mentarian of Area Z. Ile was one of the few stu- dents in the history of the school to win an office in this organiyation. - - fa-ea-W5 1- ' vs 7' ,, -'i-for ..r:' .. I fs .- . . ..., mu f ' f Norman Tucker, voted parliamentarian for Area 2.

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CAREER DAY Career Day squahhle 'It was more rewarding than I thaughtf ! Iv VL A1 I in rr T Another Student Council controversy involved the selection of t-shirts. Parliamentarian Steve Mylius explains the options oft-shirts and transfers. Sf' ., . , .X ...W , f .......,,n ' ,maxi it ki as R Ah we 4? s s 1 J ,E 'vu' Debbie Barnes hosts a speaker at Career Daynjerryjones and Craig Sanderson listen.

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LOMPETITION IT- bv 'Q' Heidi Haus W t i 4 gun. qvlnlllug 1-sua: uma any ' I ...it Eb vw, x' fi' ,AR Robert Brooks, Carrie Hart, Paula Carson, and The Gcrrnan cluh's hooth, Heidi Haus . at the Nowcrnherfest won firxt in the computition, TmiRiCh'1 ' D'BC f0'W'Gimm People Ijldyn' ,sf-hx I Debbie McGee twirls in front ofthe hand at the Sam Houston game during halftime,