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

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UIL ai Q Chris Wharton, David Campbell, Cary Stegall, Andrea Renfro, BJ. Thatcher sing at PTA meeting. jeff Curry picks up his cap and gown in room 51. Neal Quimby models a newly created pair of foil glasses in the journalism room. 's sz VA Sandy Eastwood practices with his trombone in the blind room, which helped him make state in UII. compe- tition. 49

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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.

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DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS .I ,gl ,gAr..x Anthony Maturo accepts the Superior Cadet Award from Brigadier General Lynn Yeatts. Assembly honors 8 Alexander, Trimble, Hiehl, Watkins ot top Come on down! You're the next award winner at the Recognition Assembly, Many studehts received awards and other hon- ors at the Recognition Assembly at Wiley G, Thomas Coliseum on May 25. Some were sur- prised and others expecting. but all were honored to shake Principal Leon Hagmanns hand and acquire their award. The award for citizenship went to Barbara Alexander and Wayne Trimble. The activities award went to Terri Riehl and Roger Watkins. Twenty awards were given in the field of liberal arts, Creative Writing went to jeff Curry and Alli- son Groschcup. Iinglish to Carol Chapman and Laura Greenfield. and Speech to Vicki Iiviston. French was given to Lisa Rolader. German to Mary Trimble, and Spanish to Dennis Ortiz, The journalism award went to Cary Stegall and Wayne Trimble won the yearbook award. Psychology was awarded to jane Iidwards and sociology to Tracy Taylor. Kelly Brown won the economics award and government to Allen Payne. The crafts award went to Lane Schwartz. wood shop to Tommy Townsend. metal shop tojimmy Don Carpenter, and outdoor education to Yvonne Ott and Gene Parrish. History was given to two juniors, Allen Boyer and Debbie McGee and the awards for Develop- mental Reading, health and free enterprise were not awarded. There were five awarded in the sciences with biology going to Don Derryberry and Rose Casil- las, chemistry to junior Neal Quimby. math to Paul Place, Oceanography to Mike Waller and physics to Darrell Anderson. The sports category had 13 awards with only the golf award not given. Athletics was given to Gene Hensarling and sophomorejoanna Hooker. baseball to joey Galvari, boys' basketball to Dar- ren Hooker, and girls' basketball to Carol Porter and Debbie Barnes. Football went tojohn McPherson. gymnastics tojames Campbell and Terri Riehl, track to Tony l.andry and Teresa Nabors, cross country to joanne Richardson, tennis to Ann Forrer and Ronnie Cope. and volleyball to Tena Brand, The award for physical education went to Renauda McMahon and Scott Bills. and ROTC to Tony Maturo and Connie Crouch. In fine arts band went to I.aVon Iloward and Doug Renfro. art to White and Denese McGee. and drama to Mark Iloop. The drill team went to Deborah Finstad, Musical Productions to Cyndi King and Way'rie Stringfellow, and the choir award was not presented. Out of the I7 vocational awards five were not awarded, giving it the highest percentage of awards not given. Auto Mechanics. CVAIf Lab, Vocational Office Education l.ab and Vocational Agriculture remained unawarded.. Auto Body was given to William Markey and james Mason. CVAL Coop to jerry Parsely, and Cosmetology to Nancy Robertson, Richard Greer and Bobby Thrash won the Distributive Iiduca- tion award, Kelly Green the Ilome Economics Cooperative Iiducation award and Pre-Employw ment Laboratory Education to Marcy Moran. Ilomemaking was won by Tammy Ilogue and Becky Kelly. Vocational Iiealth Occupations Iiducation by Sharon IIall and Tammy Cure and Vocational Iiducation by Debbie Proctor. First year Industrial Cooperative Training went to Allen McKee and second year to Mike Oldham, Vocational drafting went tojoe Le and Kenton Rowe and Industrial Arts drafting to Charles Scott Daily. Awards for business classes included Account- ing to Lennie LaRoux and Marla Hunter, Busi- ness Law to Cheryl Cothran, Typing I to DeeDee Griggers and Typing II to Melody Boyer. The award for Shorthand I went to Carol Iivans and Shorthand II to Cheryl Wise. with none going to Business Communications and Business Office Practice. A S .sw-new Yvonne Ott checks over senior invitations in room 31. S 3 g . 5 t 0 f. l l l as