Sapulpa High School - Sapulphan Yearbook (Sapulpa, OK)

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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

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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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PRINCIPAL Mr. Ransbarger is a pioneer Oklahoman, having been born in Canadian County, Oklahoma, in 1901. When he graduated from high school he was offered a job as teacher in a rural, two-room school in Grady County. He thought he would like to be a teacher so he accepted the position for a year. He was offered the job again the next year but, wishing to get a higher education, he refused and went to Phillips University at Enid for four years, graduating in 1923. He majored in arts, science, and education; receiving his B. A. degree. Then he held the position of principal of the high school and superintendent of schools at Lahoma, Oklahoma, for six years. Wishing further education, he took summer work at the University of California at Berkeley, and Colorado State College at Greeley, Colorado. The next two years he held a Carl a. Ransbarger position as graduate assistant instructor at Oklahoma University while he was studying for his M. A. degree. 1 here he majored in mathematics. Then, in 1932, he came from Oklahoma University to Sapulpa to be the first dean of Sapulpa Junior College. He served in that capacity three years, becoming principal of the high school in 1934. Friendship is one of life’s most valuable possessions and attainments. Few things offer such a stimulus as a wide circle of friends. Each one has his particular charm. Each does something toward building one’s intellectual, social, and spiritual stature. Perhaps most important of all, true friendship requires that one think not only of getting, but also of giving—giving of one’s time, good will, kindliness, encouragement. Each of us has seen in his own experience this principal working out to the mutual benefit of all. For many happy associations, for faithful services rendered, for kind words and deeds, for acquaintances and friendships, I express my sincere appreciation to the students of Sapulpa High School. —Carl A. Ransbarger. Page Fifteen