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

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Mouring-Pack 'Being new frightening, exciting Language, dress code different, breaking into 'in' crowd diffici Reprint from The Haltom Image, January 19, 1982. Hi, my name is Jill Luna, class of '82, Many people don't know me because I am fairly new at this school. Being a new student can be a scary ex- perience. Coming here has been hard for me to adjust. Most people don't think too much about moving 'cause they stay in one place most of their lives. Everyone must experience being new at one time or another in his or her lifetime. Moving has been pretty hard for me this time because as I mentioned before, I am a senior and I miss my class. By the way, I came from Ohio. Yes, I come from the northern part of the U.S. Things are very much different there. First of all, people talk with a southern accent, which I am starting to pick up. I came from a big city where most people talk slang such as What's up? or Straight up. When I talk, lots of people tell me to repeat myself because they can't understand what I am saying. Boy! I thought that everyone spoke the same kind of English, I guess not, 'cause I don't understand some of the Texas dialect either! Styles of clothes are different here also. In my school people dressed up a lot. Mostly high fashion or designer clothes. The girls wore clothes like in the fashion magazines such as 'LVogue,' or GIamour. Guys wore clothes that we would call GQ like dress shirts, skinny ties, Bogarts,'I pleated or baggy pants. Sure, people wore jeans, but they were either baggy jeans or designer jeans. Here not too many people care what kind of clothes they wear. Levi's are fine with me! I felt so funny when I came to school here with pointy toe shoes and skinny heels. The first place people would look at are my feet! Being accepted is really the hardest part. Everyone wants to be in the IN crowd. I find that many customs and fads have to be learned and changed in order to be accepted in the IN crowd. The best results are to be yourself. Being a new student has been a fun experience for me because I have learned about many new styles and actions about people my own age. I've learned things that I didn't know existed. In my lifetime, which has not been too long I've been to lots of places in the U.S. I have lived in New York, the big applef' Chicago, Hthe windy city, Puerto Rico, Utropical paradise. Can imagine 95 degrees on Christmas day? I e saw ole Santa in his red bermuda shorts. He great legs! As all can see, I have been a new person m a time. I could say I'm used to it, but I'm nc still freeze up at the thought of moving ag But, I love it. I wouldn't change any of it nothing in the world. Being new is frightening at first, but it's an citing and different experience each time. M. friends are to be met. Some are everlas' friendships. I still keep in touch with this gir New York that I've known since sixth grade. also fun to get letters from all those places th call home. I still get homesick, but eventually I over it. Oh, I forgot to mention one place I live Texas. Of course, I live here now and love ' plan to settle down here for awhile, but x knows, I may be on the moon some day or ma Mars, Jupiter, Saturn . . . people already tl' I'm from outer space anywayl Kathy Mouring Billy Murphy Neil Murphy Ronald Murrell Steve Mylius Teresa Nabors Sam Nance Mark Newman Ricky Newsome Carrie Nobles Kim Norris Lynnita North Melanie Nowell Chris Onley Dianna Orrick Dennis Ortiz Gary Osborn Sherri Osmon Derrik Overcash Tammy Pack 44 SENIORS

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Next door neighbor content Mr. Clyde Rotwiff witness to local and world changes Airmistice Signed . . . Prohibition New uv Depression Worsens Japan clares War on U.S. . . . Cold War Inten- es . , . Kennedy Shot . . . Nixon Resigns Reagan Landslide. These headlines summarized the hlights of the past decades, or the life in of Mr. Clyde Rotwiff. He lived in the all white frame house bounded by Haltom gh School, a parking lot and Birdville urch of Christ. And he has been witness the world and local changes that have .en place in much of this century. 'I remember back to Armistice Day in 18. I lived in Grapevine and was riding a 'se into town, and everybody took off m work and was celebrating, he xalled. 'We moved to Birdville in 1926 after I tduated from Grapevine High School. I nember playing football there. We played ghland Park once, and they really gave it us. The field was muddy and we didnlt Je those fancy things like ya'll.,' Second lunch drowned out Mr. Rotwiff's voice with the sound of engines and honking horns. We finally settled down here in '28 or so. There were ten or twelve houses on the street there lWalker Street, between the school and Mr. Rotwiff's homei, he con- tinued This one was the first built, and it's the only one left. 'LBirdviIle's businesses were all on Broad- way. There was a blacksmithls shop, and across from it was the Brooks' Brothers Garage. Birdville High School lHaltom Highl was just a little place, nothing like it is nowf' A car drove by with the sound of Journey's L'Who's Crying Now drifting through the open windows. The 75-year-old Mr. Rotwiff, who has never been married, gazed out the screendoor, I was eating lunch one day when I turned the radio on. Roosevelt was talking about the bombing on Pearl Harbor and all the damage done on the ships and that Japan had declared war on these United States of America. I never noticed the rationing, except for gas and tires. It wasn't too bad. When VJ Day came and everybody was celebrating again, I was working at American, making missiles for the Navy, that's how I lost these two fingers,'l he said showing the missing ends of his middle and index fingers. I've lived here for 50 some-odd years, and by and by the church and school have tried buying this place, Mr. Rotwiff said. He said he hardly notices the parking lot and the students don't bother him nor the many activities at the coliseum and schooll Bounded by a church and the school and facing Carson Street, Mr. Rotwiffs house is the sole single family residence on the block. The noise and activity at the school do not bother Mr. Clyde Rotwiff, who has lived next door for 50 years. nb. ,....,,.. SENIORS 243

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Partridge-Puma On Western Day sponsored by student coun- cil a kicker wears hrs hat to class with per- mission of the assistant principals. Daren Partridge Russell Patterson Donna Patton Gary Patton John Paulman Del Pentecost Lisa Perkins Kerry Phelps Larry Phifer Julie Pickett Wade Pierce Kelly Pollard Kennilyn Poole Carol Porter SENIORS Cindy Pemberton