Central High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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ommereial ubjeets Cover Wide Field The Business Education Department was essentially one of service - service to the community, service to the students, service to Central High, and service to fellow Work- ers, according to Mr. V. B. Hawes, chairman. Courses offered to all students were short- hand, transcription, typevvriting, bookkeep- ing, filing and indexing, business arithmetic, business machines, business lavv, office prac- tice, and clerical training. Cooperative office training, a course designed for seniors who had been approved by the coordinator, gave opportunity for enrollees to attend school one- half day. Credit was received for both class Work and job experience. These business education courses Will be of value not only to students Who are planning to take jobs upon graduation but also to those who are college bound. Mrs. Thelma Berggren helps Charlotte Maddux and Betty Fields to learn the techniques of filing and indexing. 23 Q Elizabeth Kirkman Robert Kite Laura Leitzsey Geneva Pitt ' 'ft f -6 4: K X 4, X Valdene Sands Mary Louise Stover

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Art Emphasizes Design Art, though thousands of years old, is essential to the modern World. People in all Walks of life use some basic fundamental of art in everyday living. The Art Department, with Miss Opel Thorpe as chairman, had as its goal the inspiring of students to realize the evidence of the art around them. To obtain this goal many aids Were used. Students were given an opportunity to Work With different materials such as pencil, char- coal, Water color, and pastel. Emphasis Was placed on teaching students appreciation of design in everything about them, in nature, architecture, commercial and industrial de- sign. They Were given an opportunity to apply their original designs to materials with the hope that through this study and application students will value more their art experiences. Ann McQuire, Leonne Love, judy Reynolds, Nathan Pollack and Miss Opel Thorpe show the puppets they made in class if Esther Clark Opel Thorpe Business Education Aids Students V 5 jf I , ' I Thelma Berggren Bessie S. Brown Charlotta Felible V. B. Hawes O l 22

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Mary lo Hoover, Nancy Hempel, IoAnn Sinclair, Midge Gold- berg, and Miss Gertrude Rector listen intently as George Willis sings 'Precious Lord' in fourth hour English class. f, f V fi-pi W , i ' 2 n L ',,, , ,',' 'X ff? 'ff' f f ' aifyfsyi . ,f 'rn ' , fly! of - , I ,. '40, is W Thelma Alexander R216 Bl21Ckbl1fI1 in Bottenfield Nlary Ellen Bridges E241 Everyone Takes English Seniors, juniors, and sophomores were re- quired to include some form of English in their schedules. Each class stressed the im- portance of grammar, spelling, outlining, oral and written composition, book reports, and literature. Sophomores began their year with a unit on orientation. They also studied American lit- erature, composition, and grammar. Juniors studied extensively about sentence structure and usage. They read English liter- ature, including Macbeth, Idylls of the King, and A Tale of Two Cities. Senior English was divided-one semester of composition in which the writing skills were practiced and one in which reading and dis- cussing masterpieces, such as Hamlet, were emphasized. At any grade level speech arts courses could be taken in addition to the required English.