Altus Senior High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Altus, OK)

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Typing I and II classes meet daily. Basic prin- ciples of typing, as well as the correct forms to use in writing letters, are taught. Approximate- ly 40 percent of the student body takes typing each year. English IV is a senior course that includes many facets of study. English literature, especially Shakespeare’s plays, is studied extensively. Theme writing and English 3200 are used for college preparation. JACK BECKER carefully counts spaces on a term paper cover assignment. Precision typing like this is a part of second term work. Shorthand provides valuable note-taking ability for those going to college. It gives students an opportunity for; summer jobs, for well-paid part time jobs while attending college, and may lead to full time employment following high school graduation if sufficiently proficient. Available light picture, bottom left, shows students in Miss Glade Clemons seventh hour shorthand class taking dictation at approxi- mately 125 words per minute. COLLEEN MOORE, Ann Gragg and Wallace Castle write a literary interpretation of Robert Burns’ poems from today’s standpoint. World history widens the student’s outlook about other nations. It increases his esteem of the culture of others, at the same time building appreciation for the values of his own country. World history is the basis for many other sub- jects both in high school and college, and often is taken during the final year by seniors who realize this in time. SHARON JONES and Sam Aboussie check textbook material as Mr. Anton Edmonson, not shown, empha- sizes data to be studied carefully. 4

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AUDITORIUM BUILDING for the use of high school students was completed in 1962. Its capacity is approximately 1500. Modern stage lighting, splendid sound facilities, year-round air-conditioning make this building with its padded seats, carpeted runways, and floating scenery, one of the region’s out- standing. Air-conditioning ducts were installed at the time the building was constructed, and re- frigerated air-conditioning install- ed during the summer of 1963. Special features include a sound system, piped into the lobby, pro- viding perfect sound transmission from the stage when standing room only audiences require that over- flow crowds remain outside the auditorium proper. AUDITORIUM Schools, Community, Region Use Building Altus High auditorium also is used by other schools and community groups. However high school events are given priority, and a careful calen- dar is kept of events schedul- ed. Numerous important meet- ings are attracted to Altus as a result of this building, us- able the year-round with every area comfortably cooled or heated. Seniors from a half-dozen counties assemble here for ACT test briefing, and even more return in May for Altus Junior College Sen- ior Day. Nationally known, the Junior High Boys’ Vocal Music Festival is held here. SUSAN BATES, as Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Myra Pitts as Emily Kimbrough, prove their abilities without costumes or staging as they read their lines during an early rehearsal of “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay.” DRAMATICALLY EMPHASIZING the splendid scope of the AHS auditorium stage, and the arrangement of the theatre type padded seats, this photograph was “shot” with available lighting from a raised vantage point near the rear. 3

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ACADEMICS Class Rooms Mirror Many Facets Of A.H.S TRAFFIC situations are enacted in miniature with magnetic models by Ann Winsett and Ann DiCindio in Mr. Arthur Young’s Driver Safety class. REVIEWING for a test in Latin, James Duke, Larry Yee, Steve Doughty, Mike Zeaman and Jeff Miller take advantage of flexible desk arrangements in modern classroom of the new language wing. THAT ISN'T A NOTE Steve Green is receiving, it's a paper on geometry being passed to the front in Mr. Cortis Martin’s class. The mathematics laboratory desk- tables and explanatory devices at the front of the room are a part of Altus' new equipment for teaching modem mathematics on space age levels. LOGARITHMS OF real numbers is discussed by Mr. Bill Tipton with Karen Pollock in algebra class. College bound students have an opportunity to take Algebra I and II, Plane and Solid Geometry, trigonometry, analy- tics, computer programming, calculus and business math while in school here. WHO SAYS boys don’t like poetry. Mrs. Frank Smart, lower right, commands rapt attention as she reads excerpts from favorite pieces of literature to her students. English III teachers also emphasize reading lists for students recommended by college admissions officers, helping students prepare for placement.