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

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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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VOCATIONAL BUILDING was built in 1957 to be used for agri- culture and industrial arts classes. Both departments are equipped with modern shop laboratories, use'ful also for pre-industrial and pre-engineering training. LIVESTOCK JUDGING team members observe their second place banner, won at the Wichita Falls. Texas, Junior Beef Show, one of the outstanding livestock shows of the country. Members are Mackey Carder. John Bates, Charlie Howard and Fred Schmidt. Hold- ing the award is the sponsor, Mr. Kent Metcalf. At this contest John Bates won first place individual honors in judging. Members of the team placed high in several con- tests during the year. DON McASKILL and Cecil McKinney built this pick-up rack for swine. All Aggie boys participate in projects such as these, building useful equip- ment and learning carpentry and metal work. Vocational agriculture at Altus High provides one of the state’s most outstanding departments for training in the many fields of modern agriculture. Located, as Altus is, in the center of both irri- gated and dry-land farms, boys have numerous opportunities to put “book” knowledge to practical use at once. Prize money earned in contests, and income from livestock and crop projects, often provides students with college money, or resources for entering farming following high school gradu- ation. Animal pens are provided at the “Aggie farm” for the use of boys living in town in order that they may participate actively in projects. CHARLIE HOW- ARD holds the heads of maize which won for him the second place award for dry land feed at the county fair. Charlie i s a member o f various judging teams of the Ag school. 2

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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