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

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CLETUS B. STREET Field House, one of western Oklahoma's largest physical education facilities, can seat more than 2,000- AGRICULTURE and industrial trades training share this building with classrooms at the front and laboratory wings at the rear. Physical fitness programs can be fun, as Altus High stu- dents well know. Cletus B. Street Field House is used not only for competitive bovs’ and girls’ basketball, but also for indoor workouts for football, baseball, wrestling and gymnastics varying from trampoline to folk dancing. 2 Located in the center ot a major diversified agricultural district, Altus vocational agriculture program constantly changes in step with the vast innovations in mechanization. Closely allied arc the industrial trades taught in the same building just across Bulldog Lane from the field house.

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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

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SPECIAL FACILITIES Auditorium, field house used by community also Alcus Senior High School buildings arc seldom dark. Calendars are kept months in advance for the auditorium, the cafeteria, the stadium, and the main high school build- ing. School events come first, but buildings may be used for any worthwhile community event at a rental based upon actual cost for utilities and maintenance. Concert troupes are amazed at the performing-arts facilities of the air-conditioned auditorium. Area-wide choral festivals and instrumental clinics are held in the music education build- ing, also air-conditioned for year round use, and in the adjoining auditorium. Inquiries already are arriving concerning convention booking of the new air-conditioned cafeteria facilities. More than 600 persons can be seated at a dinner in this room and ever)' person will have an unobstructed view of the speakers’ table. Circular design of the cafeteria makes possible a domed ceiling with no center supports. Archi- tectural detail, designed by W. A. Appleby, Jr., school architect, is shown on page 5. CAMERA FANS have approximately six days each year to snap this side entrance view of the auditorium. For sun and shadows to be exactly right it must be late afternoon with the sun at the equinox, as it was on September 21 this year. DISCUSSING BOOKING arrangements for the new cafeteria. Mr. Roy Williams, principal, and Mr. Clifford Peterson, super- intendent, pause beneath its exterior scaffolding to read the latest requests for information concerning future availability. MUSIC EDUCATION Building provides Oklahoma's finest facilities for vocal music instruction in its west wing, and for instrumental music in the east wing. 3