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

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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,

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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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UIL Difficult prose confuses judges First time in histor , the bond scored Sweepstakes By Rusty Biles Teachers selected top students with the most potential in specific areas of study and attended the District llniversity Interscholastic league con- test at l.amar llniversity in Arlington. An unfortunate circumstance prevented three girls. Carol livans. jill Curry. and julie Pickett frotn placing in the shorthand competition. All three were disqualified. because they sin- gle-spaced instead of double-spaced, Mrs. judy Griggers remarked. ln the typing division, the entries were: Deedee Griggers, Tracey Meier, Sandra Stults. Mary Trimble. and Cheri Green. but none placed in the competition. Kenney Oatman. jeff Curry. and Allison Groschup were entered in Ready Writing. but werent finalists either. They did outstanding, but they were so diffi- cult, technical, and controversial that the judges could not comprehend the magnitude of their original thoughts. difficult prose style and their redulant vocahulary. Mrs. Natalie Wlhitfield. linglish teachers. commented. Cathy Pufall and Sherri Riley were listed in the spelling competition but failed to qualify. We barely got beat. but they knew that Half tom had arrived, for we were strong competitors and will he stronger next year, Mrs. Whitfield said. Rohh White, Kay lford, and Steve Norton attended the speech competition, Rohls scored a four in the field of one to six. and Kay and Steve rated a six, A winner in the lTlI. competition was Clary Ste- gall. Ile won a first in news writing and alternate in editorial writing. Sharon Pelvel and Neal Quimby were also entered hut they didnt place. Cary attended regionals at North Texas State lini- versity. hut didnt make it into the top competia tion. Winning one out of three is good odds, and The drama department entered the lill. one-act play contests at Bowie lligh School. The cast didnt win a group award, hut Cyndi King was announced on the all-star cast. The symphonic and concert bands went to Trinity lligh School for their l'lL cotnpetition. The symphonic hand, in the first division of fixe divisions. became a sweepstakes band. - To make sweepstakes the hand has to receive a one in marching, a one in concert. and a one in sight reading, Ms, Miriam Duell added, lt was the first time in Ilaltom's history that the hand scored such high ratings. lt was also the first time the concert band went to l'lL. The concert hand made a two in concert, a three in sight reading. and this band tnade a higher rating than Richlands concert band, Ms. Duell said, Out of nine hands, the concert band .. ,-. next year were going to enter all the contests, said Mrs.jennifer Tomlinson. journalism teacher. Mark Hoop and Vicki Eviston compete in the UIL won fourth place. Sandy lfastwood. Keith Hughes, Mark Mur- phree. and Steve Norton received a one in the trombone quartet competition and went to Austin for state competition May So. Also. the choir visited Trinity and placed sec- ond in their division. They acquired two ll's and a one in second division rating. At the l ll. Solo and linsemhle Contests. the mixed ensemhle made a one on class one songs, which are the hardest to sing. David Thornburg, lieth lngrahain, julie Brown. Tammy Malone, Dawn Skelton, Becky Smith. and Cary Stegall went to the state contest in Austin on May 51. Cheryl Avery and james Miller also rated l's in the contest. hut since they were in the second division. they could not attend the state contest. ..--.. one Act may Contest' Rick Meisch, Paul Place and Neil Murphy play in UIL competition at UTA stadium.