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

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ALL DRESSED UP and some place to go was the lot of the high school auditorium and at programs in many areas. New Varsity Girls Glee Club as they performed on stage at the uniforms this year were Bulldog blue cotton A-line dresses. TWO DRUM MAJORS, Roger Pippin and Lynda Leavitt, led That Altus Band’. BARE FEET only were visible to Latin Club members welcoming plebes at their slave sale. Madeleine Harbison is auctioneer, plebe is Cathy Shupe.

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UNITED STATES SENATE Page Benny Byrd. sophomore, finished his second semester of school at the page s academy in the nation s capitol. Looking' over the route to Washington with him is Mr. Dennis Nor min, director of attendance. ART LINKLETTER BEWARE! When Sally Reagan and Lou- anna Law, speech II seniors, presented• Washington first graders Ran Williams. Barry Hicks. Paula Presley and Pamela Peyton in their final KWHW school radio news program, it was a smash hit, and drew record audiences. MERIT COMMENDATION AWARDEES Eugena Cagle, Joe Mason and Linda Southern are congratulated by Mr. Roy Williams, principal. All were in the top two percent of the nation on the National Merit Scholarship test given here. EDUCATION '66 Life has varying facets for all students at Altus All work and no play makes for school drop outs, but at Altus High work sometimes is as much fun as play. Students have opportunities to participate in “strictly for fun” events such as TWIRP (The Woman Is Requested to Pay) Week when boys and girls trade dating obliga- tions. Or they may enter such laboratory assignments as the school radio news program, publication of the school newspaper and yearbook, appearance with vocal and instru- mental groups, and participation in academic clubs. Great- est challenge of all comes at national levels when students receive awards through the Merit tests or arc chosen for particular honors in competition with those throughout the country. Altus High annually has its share of these. CANDY TREAT for Steve Green is purchased by Jama Smith as a part of the fall celebration of TWIRP week. Both are seniors. 14

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COMMUNITY COLLEGE Grads choose Altus junior college Approximately seven out of every ten Altus High graduates who go to college do a portion of their basic work at Altus Junior College. Estab- lished in 1923, becoming a fully accredited two-year college in 1926, thousands of graduates have gone from AJC to senior colleges and universities throughout the nation. AJC is one of the community colleges used as a model for other such institutions now being established in many states. For the graduates of the Class of 1966, Altus Junior College offers immediate opportunity to make up to nine hours in summer day classes, or six hours in night classes, while earning addi- tional money with a summer job. CLASS OF 1965 grqds Sbuckie Overton, Linda Wells and Roberta Clark dis- cuss the “Al intramural shirts. Roberta is admissions assistant at the college. IT COULD HAVE BEEN a corridor at AHS, upper right but it was Freshman Orientation Day at AJC as Lynn ‘White, left, and Paul Lanza, right center, toured with students from five surrounding counties. MRS. RAY VINYARD, registrar, dis- cusses ACT test score interpretations with Dean Ora Littlejohn in the deans office right center . AJC is a testing center for Southwestern Oklahoma. PARK-LIKE atmosphere of the new air- conditioned college building results from its location across from the city park. Stu- dents spend warm weather between-class hours studying or visiting under the trees or by the city swimming pool. 16