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

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HALFTIMES Halftimes spark game festivities By Don Derryherry Some memhers of the audience thought the foothall game was the only event of the evening. hut to others the halftime show was just as im' portant. With a llighstepper routine. music hy' the hand. and vell-leading lwy' the cheerleaders. halftime was an exciting event. 'lihe llighsteppers performed their routines with the accompaniment of the hand. They' used many' different props. such as discus, hand props, hand hoops, silver streamers, flash gloves and even a parachute. These added much more color and made the people appreciate the precision even more. On the field. these young ladies had to be v-swf.. Paul Place is laid back at the Sam Houston game. well-rehearsed and well-dressed. lhese things were accomplished. first of all, hy sacrificing many hours hefore and after school to get the routines at the peak of perfection. Secondly. hy' their satin-lilte uniforms. yyhich hrilhantly displayed the school colors. Game days were very husy for the llighstep- pets. 'l'he girls arrived at 'zill in the morning to practice with the hand. 'l'hen. after lweing dismiss- ed at 3:40. the girls had to return to school at ' p.m.. except for away games which moved the time up to 5:50, Another participant in the halftime festivities was the hand. With 100 strong in their marching ranks, the hand added their own special touch to the halftime ey ent. After accompany ing the llighsteppers, they started right into their porkion of the show. lt consisted of three numhers com- hined with marching into various formations. Another aspect of the band was the flag corps. lhey marched and performed enticing maneuvers yvith their flags. l.il4e the llighsteppers. the hand also sacrificed many hours in preparation for the halftime shows. lhe sophomores hegan practice four weeks he-fore school started and the upperclassmen a weelt later. 'lihey worked four hours a day' during that time. llowever, once school began, they used class time and an extra hour before and after school on liridavs. Cheerleaders Cindi McMullin, Annie Estill, Belinda Goodman and Pam Rodriguez make the halftime poster ready. Highstepper captain, Deborah Finstad, smiles while concentrating on her performance to White Shadow. Keith Hughes flips at the end of the Lamar show.

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SPIRIT SALES Sales boost spirit The year was 1980, the place was Haltom High School, a salesman's mystical paradise where each and every individual tried to seduce the other, to hypnotize their fellow students with emotional paraphenalia. They transformed their friends into massive orange and black hulks with assorted spirit raising devices hung in a menagerie upon their bod- ies. Students were thrown into a twilight zone where the sale of spirit was a major issue. A typical day passing down the hall might have sounded something like this, Pssst. Come over here. I'll tell ya' what I'm gonna' do. This is the one and only day that I'll sell va' a beat the Rebels spirit ribbon and a Buff spirit cup for only 554.49. Don't listen to him. Come over here and I'll sell ya' all of those plus a monogrammed candle and a Burn Dixie t-shirt for only 36.69 So it was, day in and day out. By mid- November the reverberating sounds of sales pitches were phenomenal. But to the salesman it was a different story. While wandering aimlessly about the lunchroom, one day, an eager salesman spied a girl that looked feeble and helpless enough to have no choice as to whether or not to buy his product. Forcefully he sidestepped his way over to her table and asked pleas- antly if she would like to buy a buffalo can- R 52153: 0 The spirit and vitality of Haltom High are expressed in this display of Buff memorabilia, namely, a Buff hat, pins, football ribbons, and a Homecoming mum. dle that was promised to light up her life. She promptly asked him to get out of her face. In a calm enough state he went on to ask the other girls at the table if they would like to buy one, when, out of the blue, the first girl flew out of her chair and attacked him. No severe damage was incurred, but some loss of pride resulted. Needless to say, spirit selling was a hazardous job. Spirit raising through sales helped the school a great deal. The act of selling moti- vated the students to become involved in school activities. Students like Steve Mylius, Student Council parliamentarian, and Terri Riehl, Student Council vice-president, spent a great deal oftime promoting the school for Student Council. They sold items such as pompons, cups, ribbons, and bumper stick- ers, the profits of which went to support the i i l . . there was nothing quite like twirling a spirit towel, or better yet, selling the spirit towels for people to twirl. production Power Play , to buy a Christmas tree, to support Polly Moffat, secretary, when her house tragically burned, etc. In summation, there was nothing quite like twirling a spirit towel, or better yet, sell- ing the spirit towels for people to twirl. X, Steve Mylius sells FBLA promotion leftovers in Trash and Treasures flea market. - l ' S' if .