Altus Senior High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Altus, OK)

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This delicate mechanism is a balance used in physics classes. During American Education Week students demonstrated its power to weigh a single pencil mark on a sheet of paper. It is part of the splendid equipment available to all science students through Title III match- ing funds. Sophomore Mike Allen looks with admiration at the Fisher Body regional trophy won by Paul McConnell, former soph- omore, who returned to Altus with his parents to receive it. Mike also is a Fisher winner, placing second as an eighth grader, third as a freshman in the state. Altus FFA students learn first hand ir- rigation practices in Altus-Lugert proj- ects, and botany and biology students study fauna in the nearby ditches. Who knows what a drawing board may bring forth? Marilynn Wright and Jimmy Little watch while William Shafer, engineering drawing instructor, shows how first drafts are made for a new highway. Many highschool students get summer time employment as draftsmen. Trumpeter Joe Berger- on plays taps as mem- bers of the American Legion Post place a wreath at the Jackson County World War Memorial on Veteran’s Day. The band partici- pation is a traditional part of the observance. 7

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Advanced science and math courses make sense to lucky Altus teens who see their principles applied in such space age feats as the Atlas missile. Convair Astronautics model of the Atlas and its silo was executed by frosh scientists, Peggy Rammc and Becky Spencer. Uene Moore and Roland Whiddon admire the exhibit which won first place at the Science Fair Space age engineering at work is shown above in one of the 12 Atlas missile sites under construction surround- ing Altus. Architects, engineers, and scientists share their knowledge with Altus students as guest speakers. Altus Air Force base arranges many field trips. To Opportunities of the Future Members of Key club, highschool service organization, are learning community service also. Don Hubbard, Larry Cham- bers, Tommy Hickerson, and Terry Grimes help Santa Claus remember un- fortunates. 6 Pep Club members such as Barbara Wiley, below, spend many hours after school preparing displays in promotion of student spirit.

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Entrance to Learning Supt. Clifford Peterson, making an early morning check of construction progress on the new auditorium, visualizes its entrance facing Park Avenue, matching in brick and architectural lines the Physical Education building shown below which it flanks. Campus vistas at left, recorded by student photographers, show Vocational Education, the northeast rear entrance where the new language wing will be built this summer; Altus Junior College entrance where many graduates and advanced seniors attend class, and two pre-schoolers wistfully surveying Main entrance . . . some day! 8