Springdale High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Springdale, AR)

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The buck stops here lt's that old 511 that's got Mr. Sprague down. The 5'X: that gives in to impulses like the donut shop, Beaver Lake in the spring, a vague description of running errands or going to the doctor nine times in one month. As SHS attendance officer, Mr. Sprague has the prerogative of handing over a pen to sign the checkout book or saying Stay put. With an average of 50 to 75 checkouts a day, he stays occupied with a finger on the dial and a receiver to his ear, verifying students' excuses with parents. The only thing he really dislikes about his job, he says, is the impersonalness of it. The only students he really gets to know are the students who reappear in his office frequently-the same old 5'Xs. Mr. Moore had a new and time-consuming job this year in the adult education program utilizing SHS classrooms. He believes many adults who never graduated from high school have a sudden interest in earning a diploma due to the economic pinch. As for high school students, Mr. Moore spends a flattering amount of time with them on his mind too. He stresses seIf-im- provement coupled with the realization that high school is not the only place to learn, but it is one of the easiest. His life outside the high school building is non-stop. Mr. Moore says he could live three lifetimes and still not get it all done because there are very few things he couldn't become interested in. His extra- curricular activities encompass refinishing antiques, clock collecting, renovating old houses and the sports of fishing, hunting, camping and golfing. Seeing Mr. Moore in a suit and tie five days a week, it's hard to imagine him dressed in anything else. But maybe some students might stumble across Mr. Moore on a weekend, in an old shirt with overalls, a baseball cap, with an un- shaven face and half a cigar in his mouth. Seeing is believing, and it might prove true that principals are people too. 1. Overwhelming problems of at- tendance are tackled by Mr. Sprague. 2. Mr. Moore's concern is the key to SHS success. 22lThe System

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is K-an dl' we ' 'ws ...N-v-'- ...,.--wk ,., - Jas' v ,,3,,,M,..,frse wmww Meeting only once a month, the Springdale School Board faces lengthy agendas concerning all school projects and problems, the most controversial being the two-mile busing limit. High school departments were up- dated by allowing each to choose their own grading scale. Complaints from city residents about egging and disciplinary problems from students during homecoming week brought about a feeling that stu- dents were too immature to consider granting open campus. All educational and pleasure trips by clubs and organizations had to receive a positive answer from the board. Proving themselves flexible and lenient, approvals were granted for trips as near as Fayetteville and Little Rock and as distant as St. Louis, Hawaii and lVlexico. 1. Determining policies to adopt is a difficult task for the school board. 2. Concerned parents sup- port Unity trip to Hawaii. 3. Pres- ident Pat Singletary presides over a meeting. 3 The Systeml21

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Class and club officers often head to IVlr. Stamp's office hoping for approval of activities or funds. His frequent answer of, Let me think about this, leaves many wondering and sometimes searching for another project. Junior and senior attendance and disci- pline brings lVlr. Stamps closer to the student body. lt's ironic that his goal is to keep students in school, yet his only disciplinary threat is to kick them out. Nlr. Stamps explains he does his best to reason with students before suspending or expelling them. Commenting on students quitting school to work, Nlr. Stamps feels that such action if forgetting the future, and looking only for short-term success. 1. Trapped behind tons of book vvork, one of the many obligations of Nlr. Nloore. 2. Enforcing rules and regulations is a task for Mr. Stamps. 3. No matter how hard you try, he's always there. 2 The System!23