Highland Park High School - Highlander Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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.uw ANTlClPATING THE NEXT Scol fcofball game. Todd l'lun+ fasles fhe lruil ol a well-earned viclory. Y HUMPH, BABY l feel good! exclairns Doug Garner and Beverly Seals while dancing To The music of The JAY FEE TELLS iuniors and seniors af a special as SacTium af 'rhe Lads and Lassies Picnic al While Rocks Flagpole Hill. sernbly abou? his personal relafionship wiih Christ I8 0 Sepfember

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ABOVE LEFT: ANN HERNDON and Sandy Nich- ols prepare To Beal . . .The Cardinals . . . a+ one of 'rhe spirired foolball pep rallies. r ABOVE RIGHT: PTA MOTHERS serve Cakes lo advisories wirh IOO percenl membership. LEFT: THE CLOSER you gel, fhe beller you look! exclaims Carolyn Clarlc To Mary Lu Jordan. LEFT: HI-LITE officers Mary Hunf, Cay Pryor, Ellen Washburn, Carolyn Johnsron, Befsy Slauqhfer, Palsy Powell, and Sally Sleele kick off The new year. Seprember 0 I7

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'in-X iw' NATIONAL MERIT Board gaThers TruiT Trom every Tree, laugh The NaTional lv1eriT SemiTinalisTs Sandy Snell, PeTer Carney, Tom LeConey, PaTTy Chandler, Robin Rees-Jones, Mary HunT, Bill Dolaway, Charlie Hempel, and Tom Daniel. NoT picTured: Paul Joiner. ...- ENCHQ IAIN OT- A girl s abiliTy in The pnysics IBD, yeTer Carney apprehensively waTches PaTTy Chan- ller's adIusTmenTs on The air vacuum, Ten Scholars'Named Semifinalists Rank in C0untry's Top Percentile Along wiTh l7,740 oTher scholasTically- minded high school seniors, Ten Highland Park sTudenTs ranked as NaTional lvleriT SemiTinalisTs. They consTiTuTed The Top one percenT oT The graduaTing secondary school seniors in The UniTed STaTes. The semiTinalisTs, chosen by The Na- Tional lvleriT Board lasT SepTember, in- cluded PeTer Carney, PaTricia Chandler, Tom Daniel, Bill Dolaway, Charles Hem- pel, Mary HunT, Paul Joiner, Tom l.eCo- ney, Robin Rees-Jones, and Sandra Snell. ReporTing To school on a SaTurday morning in February oT Their junior year, The now senior class Took The NaTional lVleriT Scholarship Qualiicying TesT, as did some 7I0,000 oTher sTudenTs across The naTion. The TesTs, covering areas oT science, maTh, English, social sTudies, and vocabulary skills, measured a sTudenT's abiliTy To apply previously learned TacTs. Highland Parkis Ten semiTinalisTs. among The naTion's oTher l5.000 appoinT- ed semiTinalisTs, compeTed Tor posiTions as TinalisTs in order To receive one oT The 3,000 scholarships. The NaTional lV1eriT Board based Their choice oT TinalisTs on school recommendaTions, personal achievemenTs and inTeresTs, and scores Trom a second TesT. The NaTional lvleriT Board also recog- nized oTher ouTsTanding seniors who ranked in The Top Two percenT oT The counTry. RecipienTs oT LeTTers oT Com- mendaTion included QuinT Barnes, Karen Crowder, Hal Davis, Tyler Dawson, Jane Gibbons, ElizabeTh Gray, Bobby Hager- man, Doug HunT, and Bill Kee. The Board also recognized PaTTi Lamn, HerberT Lea, PaTTy Phillips, RoberTa Rhea, Beverly Seals, Chris Sharp, James Simpson, D. D. Wigley, and Carol Ann Zeiss. NaTional lv1eriT o I9