Northwest Classen High School - Round Table Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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ABOVE: SYMBOLIC of the responsibilities of Student Council president is the passing of the gavel by last year's president, Frank Marwood, to his successor, Scott Rayburn. RIGHT: FIRST-DAY confusion mounts as frosh Randy Collins searches for his class which was scheduled in the annex. BELOW: YOU'RE FLAT, boys! Director John Platt tells his Cry-slurs as they browse in a curio shop during their June concert tour in Mexico. is sMHsxwazSSxs

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Suspense, action. drama-this is the gear '70 Milestones in mankind's history marked 1969-70 as a banner year for all Americans. lt all started July 20 with the most fantastic television show of the ages. Nlore than half a billion people around the world watched and lis- tened in anxious fascination as Neil Armstrong and Colonel Edwin Aldrin planted an American flag on the moon's chalky surface. Other dreams as old as history were fulfilled when a national com- mitment to provide equal education for all culminated in the integration THWES use OV' han ABOVE: A SOLEMN Judy Blanton, now at- tending Northeast High School, joins Knights in posting a spirit sign in the front hall. RIGHT: NOT Rowan and Mar- tin's Laugh-ln, Gregg lt's Northwest's Class-en, says Lynn Burton to Greg Wright during a pep assembly skit. 16 o Special Activities plan effected at Northwest. Attention was focused on this school when national magazines and television covered the racial dis- turbances which occurred here the first day of school. Security forces were on duty for two weeks, and the turmoil quickly subsided. Because of decreased enrollment, it was necessary for teachers to transfer. This factor and other cir- cumstances necessitated the chang- ing of schedules of more than 1,000 students. Switching rooms and teach- ers kept everyone busy for weeks. The sports world, too, was filled with shockers last fall. The New York Mets, a Cinderella team, gave hope to all the world's losers when they won baseball's World Series. And OSU had its first good season in years under Big Eight Coach of the Year, Floyd Gass. Another underdog, Kansas State's grid squad, broke a 35-year losing streak to the University of Oklahoma by smashing the Big Red 59 to 21, in the worst defeat suffered in the university's 75-year history. 2 Q r Q

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--:- sys-..,,. - A fwiw . -. WHIZZING PAST each other on Lake Annecy are French teacher, Mr. Leonard Marcotte his wife and Martha Butler and Steve Flynn 'Qfudg travel' groups four Europe view tribal We had a baII! was the con- sensus of the estimated 100 North- west students and teachers who agreed that going to Europe was the in thing last summer. Three official school delegations took separate tours of the European continent. On a 25-day whirlwind trip of eight countries were eight students ac- companied by sponsor, Mr. Dennis Simpson, science teacher. Lost suitcases, passports and people were our biggest problem, laughed Mr. Simpson, but the French Riviera made up for it aII! The Lido in Paris, flamenco dances in Madrid and the Alps in Switzer- land were only a few of the trip's highlights. Meanwhile, back in France 19 Northwest advanced French students toured the country by train with Mr. Leonard Marcotte, French instructor. This group had sponsored money raising activities all the previous year to finance their trip. 18 o Special Activities Staying away from tourist traps, students often pitched tents in camping municipaIs set up for the purpose. A combination of school and sight- seeing was implemented by six Span- ish students in their trip to Spain. Accompanied by Mrs. S a I I y Brooks, Spanish teacher, they attend- ed the University of Madrid. Highlight of the trip was taking a break from the campus and going on a three-day trip to the south where they visited Barcelona, Sevilla and Cordoba. Of the 170 students attending this summer session, senior Prissy Stew- art was named class valedictorian. During the Christmas holidays senior Liz Tatum spent two weeks visiting Wycliffe Bible Translators' Jungle Training Camp in Chippas, Mexico. I wanted to find out how mis- sionaries are trained, explained Liz, because l'm considering work in some area of this fieId.