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

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I.XD OF DAY in early September sends new and returning Bulldogs to busses and student parking lot. EDITOR Eugena Cagle needed only this picture to finish contents page 0. What is any book but a mirror of the world in which wc live? Our purpose in writing the 1966 Bulldog has been to give a true image of life within Altus Senior High School—from space age science and tele-processing to carefree pep assemblies before sports events. In later years these pages will hold reflect- ed memories for each person who is now a part of AHS, and especially for us who have written the Bulldog. With an ordinary mirror, the image vanishes when the reflected object moves on; the 1965-66 school year, however, shall remain a permanent reflection in the pages of this Bulldog yearbook. Eugena F. Cagle Editor TABLE of CONTENTS Introduction Foreword Editor's Note Overview Dedication Faculty Classes Seniors Juniors Sophomores Activities Athletics Student Life Conclusion Summary . Summer Supplement Index ----00 ---- 0 — 1 ---- 17 18 30 ---- 32 ---- 59 ---- 68 78 118 132 ----154 ----155 ----167 STAFFERS Bonnie O’Malley. Arthur Lange. Madeleine Harbison, and Linda Southern prepare for January deadline of forty-two pages. 0

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VIEW NOT often seen in Southwestern Oklahoma is the AHS administration building and evergreens covered by snow. Doors of Altus High are seldom shut, even when weather conditions bring icy roads and zero temperatures so un- familiar to Southwestern Oklahomans. When area schools closed in mid-January during the heaviest snowstorm in many years, announcement was made that AHS would take up classes as usual. Bulldogs found a winter wonder- land on their campus and beauties many had never seen before. When skies cleared and sunlight broke through, its brightness was reflected indoors to students and teachers alike. It was a day which may not be repeated this decade. Altus Senior High School is an institution of learning. It is alive with young men and women who walk her halls five davs a week as thcv studv subjects as divergent as com- puter-related math, good salesmanship methods and home economics. Students’ faces reflect their enjoyment in learn- ing, in meeting other voung people with similar interests, in working on common ground with students, teachers, and administrators. These arc part of the all round education every student receives at AHS, and each is reflected in this edition of the Bulldog for the 1965-1966 school year. 1966 BULLDOG of Altus Senior High School, Altus, Oklahoma Volume XXXIII, published by the Bulldog Staff oo

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FACILITIES for an Aerospace Symposium that attracted national headlines were provided hy Altus Senior High for Altus Air Force Ease to begin the 1965-66 school year. Exhibits such as the Freedom 7 Mercury capsule and X-15, shown parked between Cletus Street Field House and the auditorium, were augmented by panels of famcit space scientists and educators. Education came of age in 1966, in the nation, the state and in Altus. For the first time former school teachers held the country’s two highest offices. More federal legis- lation was passed for education than at all previous periods ombined. Education attracted top attention in Oklahoma also, with laws passed making possible new advances in opportunity, and state voters approved a new law making greater local support possible through additional millagc. At the local level Altus patrons preserved a 73-year-old tradition, going back to the founding of the community. No schoof measure has ever failed to pass in an Altus election. Altus again led the state in approving even- school measure proposed. What can be accomplished when school and community work together with an alert board of education, administrative leaders,' and a student body that really cares, is reflected in the pages which follow. 1