Polytechnic High School - Parrot Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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Renovated Council As laughter bounced and echoed throughout the halls, students began school talking about the myriad of things that happened during the short- est summer ever. Though these significant events would be relived many times, these things were of the past and a new page of history had begun. Pupils ' lives, an ever present source of move- ment, altered in many ways as they changed from a listener to a participator and from an absorbed stu- dent to one of action. Our outstanding student lead- ership brought programs of quality and worth to the student body to encourage a variety of inter- ests in subjects within each person. Our unity of spirit was evident in the newly revived student council, formed to give the student body organized representation. Poly rendered one a time of exuberance to turn his pent-up emotions into victory cries for the fight- ing Parrots. It possessed some interest and oppor- tunity for each one that passed through its fields of learning. With each new sea of eager faces there were new projects, new ideas, and new disappoint- ments; but the Poly spirit draws it all together to give it the coherence that sent Poly to the soaring heights of success. Enthusiasm always makes it a better game. Students cheer Coach Weldon Moody as the basketball game resumes. Sophomore, junior, and senior students congregate with Mr. Gerald Ward to discuss plans and possibilities for the rebirth of a student council at Poly which elected officers for the first time this spring.

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New Constructions Renovate Poly Loud machines, constant confusion, and falling bricks kept Poly students aware of the much need- ed face-lifting in progress. The central office was completely remodeled, and additional office area was secured. Individual counseling space equipped the school advisors to serve the needs of the students. The library literally split at the seams and engulfed an adjoining room to accommodate its wealth of books. The campus took on a new apjiearance as plans for additional vocational facilities became a real- ity. A building containing the necessary cosmetol- ogy equipment was erected just back of the remod- eled shop quarters, and a garage for auto mechan- ics was laboriously constructed on newly acquired property across from the main building. As educational methods have advanced with new discoveries, so has Poly ' s accessible facilities im- proved. But it is not the building that makes a school year worthy of recording; It is the men and women, boys and girls so poured in and out all day that give the building a soul of dreams and thoughts and memories. Carl Sandburg The old cliche, I just can ' t do a thing with ray hair! will soon be out of date at Poly as the vocational courses to be offered attempt to meet immediate student needs. A view of the early stage developments of the cosmetology department is an example of continuing progress. From the inside looking out, it ' s a big world to face. Ray Aus- tin pauses with others, lost in thought and unaware of the pres- ence of Mr. Barney Cole, history teacher.

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Unites Students Lingering students ascend the stairway to their class. CONTENTS Administration 8 Student Life 18 Organizations 60 Personalities 114 Athletics 136 Classes 168 Index 254