Putnam City High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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SCHOOL BOARD Members spearhead districtis administration Left to right: Mrs. Lee Mason, Messrs. George Dane, Bill Garis, Fred Gray, W. B. Morvvood, Don Greve, and Leo Mayfield. Aiding the superintendent in his administration of the vast Putnam City School district. the school board serves an important, though oft too -little publicized function. Consisting of six members, the board is elected from and by residents of the district. This is done on a staggered basis so that one new member takes a place on the board annually for a five year term. This board shares the responsibility of planning for the district and the management of the 12,000 students and 717 employees of Putnam City. Meeting the first Monday of each month, the board passes on such matters as plans and suggestions for building, financing and management of future expan- sion, the policy and precedure governing the entire system, and maintenance of a qualified and up-to-date personnel. The students and their parents as well owe much to members of the board for making Putnam City one of the outstanding school systems in Oklahoma. PONDERING the additional responsibilities of a new office is Superintendent Leo C. Mayfield.

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New and yet old to Putnam City High School this year is MY. Ralph Downs. Leaving Putnam after years as a teacher, counselor, and assistant principal, he returned in 1964 to serve as high school principal. This is not the first time Mr. Downs has served in the capacity of principal. After three years he left Por- tales, New Mexico, to assume his present position. He received his P-achelor's degree from Bethany Nazarene College and was granted his Master's from the University of Oklahoma. He has also done two ,summer's graduate work for his doctorate. While at Putnam he served as president of the Put- nam City Classroom Teacher's Association and the Put- nam City Chapter of Oklahoma Education Association. In Portales he was a member of the New Mexico Ac- tivities Association, president of the District Athletic Conference, and was on the executive board of the local education association. He was also president-elect of the Portales Kiwanis Club and secretary of his church board. Even though being principal of a school as large as Putnam City High School involves shouldering great responsibility, Mr. Downs is well suited to the task of fulfilling his obligations as principal. The students will see new opportunities emerge under the quality leader- ship of Mr. Ralph Downs. to odvcmce educotion MR. B. J. NICHOLS Assistant Principal MR. RALPH DOWNS PRINCIPAL In 1961 Mr. B. J. Nichols was promoted to the position of assistant principal at Putnam City High School. In this jump from science teacher to administrator, he as- sumed a whole new association with those who had theretofore been only faces in a classroom. His new duties involved Mr. Nichols in all phases of school life. He now helps with schedules, finds and hires substitute teachers, and renders decisions in discipline problems. In the absence of Mr. Downs, the cares of a principal fall on the shoulders of Mr. Nichols.. Well prepared for this career in education, Mr. Nichols was graduated from Central State College with a Bachelor of Science degree. In addition to his lVlaster's degree, he has completed 30 extra hours in City School Administration. . Although impressed with the high caliber of students found at Putnam City, Mr. Nichols feels that part of the credit is due to the surrounding community for its unfailing support of the school. APPOINTMENTS TO MAKE, appoints To keep! Parents, Teachers, admin- istration always keep Mr. Downs busy with the everyday clatter of school life. :VV . . .... v .... . .J K I. . . T tiiif T ...... c ..o.......... . K: it sss.. as if sirrii P... i.s. iiis 1 .I is A if , M' ii'i 'W i ii 1 ' ff? -. i ......, ,mm . K .. fm. .....,.,,.mm+--. . .V .... -5 I .2 M .H.f5a..Mieie . I K -. W-W. . I a

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COUNSELORS Guidance helps students to personal satisfaction Some students never consult a counselor in their entire four years of high school. Others frequent that office with annoying regularity. Only a few realize and exploit the true purpose of the guidance services: to clarify and crystalize the student's own aims into a sensible plan for the future. Each class is provided with its particular advisor trained in the field of guidance counseling. By virtue of its enormity, the sophomore class is endowed with two. Both new to Putnam City, they divide the 10th grade alphabetically to insure greater personal contact with those unfamiliar with the ways of high school. Miss Nona Cowan, herself a Putnam graduate, handles the problems of A through K. Inhabiting the adjoining cubicle is Mr. Charles Epperly, who super- vises the well-being of the remainder of the sophomores. Separated in location, but not in purpose, the counse- lors for the upper classes share the aims of their colleagues down the hall. Mr. Hugh Coonfield, better known as the Great White Father, prepares his charges for college or career, while juniors find Mrs. Kidd ever-ready with a bit of sage advice. ADDING another line to the miles written each year, sophomore counselor Mr. Charles Epperly fills in a class admit, ,-nl x .t....+'v JUNIOR Counselor Mrs. Juanita Kidd discovers new problems flow in as quickly as old ones are solved. HELPING to plan a senior s next few years, whether in college or career, is only a portion of a senior counselor's iob, as Mr. Hugh Coonfield well knows. PRACTICE makes perfect, thinks Miss Nona Cowan, one of the sophomore counselors, as she re-writes another schedule. mwtli- 7' N ravi' .EW