Sapulpa High School - Sapulphan Yearbook (Sapulpa, OK)

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E. O. Shaw Superintenedent of City Schools I wish to take advantage of this opportunity to extend to the senior class my appreciation for the loyal spirit in which they have conducted themselves under the present abnormal conditions. We believe that you will forever uphold the cherished traditions of your high school, namely: loyalty to its purposes; high standards of scholarship; honesty; morality; and a never-dying respect for those who have made it possible for you to have the opportunity of a high school education. With unlimited confidence our community looks to you as citizens of ‘ the new deal who will soon assume the full responsibility of community, state, and national leaders in all the fields of human endeavor. No disappointment is anticipated for we believe you would sooner let the bright sun for its last time, sink to rest, sooner let the starry hosts be torn from their setting, than permit one word of reproach to be spoken against your school, your state, your nation, and the honored brave who have sacrificed their lives on our Country’s bleeding altar that you may have that freedom which they won and have maintained for you. E. O. Shaw. Page 10

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Member THE first class to graduate from the school after it was moved, consisted of two pupils. After this the high school classes were discontinued because they were not well enough attended to be self-supporting. Washington school was next added to the system. The high school work was resumed and classes were held on the second floor of the new building. Work in the ninth grade was offered in 1903. In 1904 the sophomore year was added and a grade was added each year until there were four years of high school. The first senior class consisting of four members, two boys and two girls, graduated in 1907. The commencement exercises were held in the opera house on West Dewey because the high school had no auditorium. Other buildings were added, one by one, until now we have one of the best and most modern school systems in the state. Our own high school was built in 1919. The enrollment is now about three thousand. The Sapuipa school system consists of seven ward schools, the High School, and the Booker T. Washington School which is for colored children. The Sapuipa schools are under the control of the Board of Education whose members are responsible to the community. This board, which spends many hours planning the education of the boys and girls of this community consists of six members, one elected from each ward. The students appre.'iate Sapulpa’s excellent school system and try to show their gratitude by assuming the responsibilities of good citizens. Lucile Witte. Page 9 }•

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 Carl A. Ransbarger Principal of High School During the past year 1 have been deeply impressed by the close co-operation of students and faculty in the promotion of all worthy school enterprises. Both have given willingly and unselfishly of their time and ability. I express m grateful appreciation to the members of the Senior Class of 1935 for their spirit of loyalty and for the valuable services they have rendered through all the various school activities. I congratulate the seniors who have worked so faithfully to achieve their most cherished class project—the yearbook. I sincerely hope, that in the years ahead, it may enable them to live again, in part at least, their high school days here in Sapulpa High School. Carl A. Ransbarger. Page 11 )•