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

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ABOVE: Karen Kaufman and Brenda Harper go to work at an ELECTRIC car wash to raise money for a local charity. if , ABOVE: loan Reed, Melinda lohnston, Carolyn' Howard, and Lynn Smiley provide entertain- ment at the Lads and Lassies picnic. Dallasites greet President Ford during fall visit Scots began the month of Sep- tember on a relaxed note as they took time off from school to enjoy the Labor Day holiday. Heading back to work, students found hallways crowded due to the enrollment of a large freshman class, which boosted the total number of students to 1,724 Interest clubs took up membership drives in their organizations for the new school year. Each group elected officers to coordinate their activities in bi-monthly meetings. Students had a chance to see Presi- dent Gerald Ford when he visited Dallas to attend the National Federa- tion of Republican Women's Con- vention September 13. Senior Cather- ine Gray took part in the convention, serving as a state page. Highlander photographer Mark Bryson was on hand to photograph President Ford's tour of SMU's Fine Arts Center. Fifty educators visited the High- land Park school district for three days, observing teachers, classes, and the curriculum of the school. This evaluation takes place every ten years, allowing Highland Park to con- tinue its accreditation in the South- ern Association of Colleges and Schools. The annual Howdy Dance Septem- ber 19 climaxed a week of search for the friendliest Scots of each grade. Late in September, the speech department sponsored its annual tournament, hosting 40 competing schools. Students offered their ser- vices to make the tournament a suc- cess. Members ofthe Distributive Education Club of America provided a DECA DELI to prevent tourna- ment participants from starving. The Highlander Band was honored with an invitation to perform at the half-time of the Dallas Cowboys-St. Louis Cardinals game September 28, and Texas Stadium provided the larg- est crowd ever to see the band march in formation, September 017

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ABOVE: National Merit Semifinalists Tom Bar- BELOW: . , . when they are checking home- tholow, David Claman, Tim Kelly, and Fred work answers with Paul Davison on the other Storey are hung up on the telephone . . . end ofthe line. -.a-......,.......f faxg la .s Merit scholars receive awards, recognition, New federal regulations stipulat- ing equal educational opportunities for both sexes were ignored by the five boys who gained semi-finalist rank in the National Merit Scholar- ship competition. Tom Bartholow, David Claman, Paul Davison, Tim Kelly, and Fred Storey qualified by scoring in the top one-half percent in the nation's grad- uating seniors onthe Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test combined with the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying test taken in the fall of theirjunior year. Finalists were eligible for one of the many scholarships offered by the National Merit Scholarship Board. Recommendations, achievements, and interests were taken into consid- eration bythe board members. Fourteen Scots earned Letters of Commendation from the board by scoring in the top one percent of the nation on the test. Gayle Braecklein, Cynthia Davidson, Hunter Farrell, Sandra Hardin, lay Heimburger, Rich- ard Lafitte, Sherrill Laprade, Margo Meek, David Rardin, lose Sainz, Roger Webster, and Katherine Zim- merman received Honorable Men- tion awards. National Merit 019