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

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CITIZENSHIP Cooperation, school pride new decade ingredients What is citizenship in the changing times of the seventies. For many it may be expressed rather than spoken in deeds of mutual assistance, ren- dered without desire for recognition. It may be concerned with the trivial or the momentous. Un- abashed school pride, unselfish work together characterized citizenship '70. As graphically shown by the two pictures on this page, the gesture may be spectacular, or merely a daily he also serves momento of loyalty. BECAUSE THE turret flag pole it above his classroom, Mr. Anton Edmonson exemplifies the loyalty he teaches in history classes by arriving an hour early each day to hoist the victory flag whenever a victory has been won. FOOTBALL FEVER at its highest carried over into art, and Gary Burrow, artist, left, did the lettering, Mr. Robert Killebrew, foregrond, and his vocational carpentry students the construction. Jerry Shaffer completes final installation.

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YEAR ROUND SCHOOL Summer session offers extra credit opportunities, transfer “catch up” aids This was the year new students arrived too late for the spring session, but in time for summer classes. They joined long time Altus students in getting extra classes to leave time for activity hours dur- ing the winter, or part-time work later. Most in- coming sophomore boys, too young for employ- ment, take driver education, science or history during their first senior high summer. PROJECT WICHITA FALLS, they called the final highway driving test for these summer driver ed students. Each morning for two weeks groups left at 7 a.m., DST, to make a round trip drive to Wichita Falls, Texas. Mr. Art Young, left, gives final instructions. EARLY FALL formal fashions are worn by Pat Orr and member, Carol Weaver. Each designed her outfit for the Future Homemakers sub-district September meeting. RIGHT BELOW: SUMMER BIOLOGY classes meet continuously all morning making it possible for complicated experiments to be completed in a single day. Mack McKeaver assembles equipment for one such project. 3

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INITIATION for Future Homemakers of America was conducted by Future Farmers of America officers. At far left is Pati Booker, FHA president, David Cole, FFA president is at far right. Cooperation between organizations character- ized the 1969-70 school year at AHS as students became active in cam- pus-wide events. COLOR CAMERA fans, particularly AHS alumni, had a field day at Christmas photographing Mr. Bulldog Santa at main entrance. He was the product of several departments. CAMPUS WIDE cooperation doesn't just happen. Seated around this table are elected planners, members of the Student Council with advisor (back to camera) Mr. Bill Starr, principal. Others, from left clockwise, Dwight Starr, president; Harrison Mock, Gayla Hill, Pam Bell, Linda LeClair, Bobby McMahan, Ben Bob Mahan, Patsy Plew, Kris Risinger, Craig Thomas, Sam Stauffer, Bimbo Herron. 5