Sapulpa High School - Sapulphan Yearbook (Sapulpa, OK)

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 directs Sc loo j poll policy Mr. Prater, member of the Board of Education, came to Sapulpa in 1913. He is a locomotive engineer. He is a member of the B. of L. F. and E. Also a member of the Nazarene Church. His chief interest is in the Church and education. Ele has been a member of the Board for two years. Mr. Ben Terry, member of the Board of Education, came to Sapulpa in 1 898. He is employed as a railroad conductor. Ele is a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Secretary of National Defense Training Commission, Legionnaire, President of the Sapulpa-Tulsa Frisco Traffic Employees Club, and a member of the First Methodist Church. He is very much interested in the schools, and also likes fishing. He has been a member of the Board for one year. Mr. Hartman came to Sapulpa in 1917. Since that time he has been in the oil and gas business. He belongs to the K. P. and D. O. K. K. Lodges. Mr. Hartman is a member of the First Methodist Church. Mr. M. L. Murphy Mr. W. L. Prater Mr. Ben Terry Mr. Ray Weakley Mr. C. H. Hartman Page Thirteen

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BOARD OF EDUCATION, Mr. William Griess Mr. William Griess, President of the Board of Education, came to Sapulpa in 1917. He is owner of the Sapulpa Bus Station. Mr. Griess is a member of the Lutheran Church. He also belongs to the Sapulpa Lodge No. 170, A. F. and A. M., Cosmopolitan Club, and B. P. O. E. He has been a member of the board one year. Mr. Ray Weakley, member of the Board of Education, has lived in Oklahoma since 1904. He came to Sapulpa in 1918. He is in the real estate and insurance business. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Christian Church. His hobby is fishing. He has been a member of the board for one year. Mr. M. L. Murphy, member of the Board of Education, came to Sapulpa in 1925. He is an accountant for Mrs. J. H. (Cal) Wright Rettenmeyer’s interests. Mr. Murphy is a member of the Masonic Lodge and Baptist Church. His hobby is growing different kinds of youngberries. He has been a member of the Board for three years. Mr. Earle Powell Clerk Mr. G. W. Wills T rcasurer Page Twelve

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SUPERINTENDENT Mr. Prince went to high school and college at Kendall Academy, a private school. Perhaps you know this school better as Tulsa University. He cared little about further school education and became an electrician, being one of the two men who wired Sapulpa High for electricity in 1918. Being a ball player, he was interested in athletics, and was persuaded by a coach to attend college for the purpose of studying coaching. He graduated from Northeastern State Teachers College at Tahle-qua-h with his A. B. degree, and from Stillwater A. and M. with an M. A. degree, having majored in English, history, and education. He also did work as substitute teacher. After graduation he held positions at Wagoner and Nowata, teaching English, history, mathematics, and science; coaching in athletics, and being principal of the high school. Then he came to Sapulpa as Superintendent of Schools. Mr. Prince’s teaching career has filled eighteen years, eleven of which were spent in coaching. He would still like to coach athletics. James L. Prince The quality which distinguishes man from animal is the capacity for learning. The span of difference is measured by intellectual accomplishment. One man neglects to cultivate his mental powers and degenerates to bestiality. Lacking the guidance of an enlightened mind, he spends his life in darkness and sinks, at last, into oblivion without ever having tasted the true joy of living; without ever having really lived. Another man seeks to realize his full capacity for mental growth and attains the heights of human achievement. He walks through paths of glorious endeavor. He leads because he has vision to see the way. His productive ability blesses mankind and sustains the weak. He has capacity to appreciate, to feel, and to respond to life, so that his joy in living is complete and his life continues in the memory of his fellows long after his departure. —James L. Prince. Maxine DeLoe Secretary Page Fourteen