Charles Page High School - Sandite Yearbook (Sand Springs, OK)

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HELLO, OPERATOR? - Tim Fisher steps out in the red hall to use the telephone as he talks to a prospective client about the necessities of buying an advertisementifor the next issue of Traffick Magazine. PERRIER BY THE DRINK - Rachel Guthridge and Alicia McCumber read the foreign labels on Perrier water bottles at the French Club's cheese tasting party. Language Arts 93

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Language Arts Classes Boast Diversity . . . Something For Everyone English classes again enjoyed learning literature through the full-length movie film program. Students viewed such pictures as Lost Horizon, Anne of a Thousand Days, and A Raisin in the Sun. Sophomores were treated with a fourth film, Julius Caesar, for which they also worked on a number of creative projects. My favorite roject was finding the pictures in the mag- azines to go witfiathe quotes from 'Julius Caesar, ' said Tyra Whitmore. I really found it quite challenging. Members of Mrs. Morgan's creative writing class again entered a number of contests and avera ed a high number of winners in them. One of her students, 'Ferrie I-Iellard, placed in three stalqte essay contests and was honored by Gov. Geor e Ni . Stfdentsgin Mrs. Marcia Ritter's class chose characters from Anne of a Thousand Days and gave a character presentation of them in front of the class. I thou ht that it was a very interesting way to study the movie fairer than learning about it in the usual way, commented junior Rex Thompson. Senior English students in Mr. Paul Huff's classes partici- pated in a unit on the Bible as literature. We had to explain a number of quotes from the Bible in everyday language as well as tell about the speaker in each case, said Machel Johnson. Q It was really hard to under- stand at times, but I found it very meaningful. Parlez-vous francais? je parle francais was the answer that some Sandites could state. Of course those who did not enroll in the French class would probably feel that is was Greek to them. Ma- dame Patterson moved from the small met-ropolis of Sand Springs to the reat city of Springfield, Missouri, leaving her French I and upcoming students to Miss Patty Dalton. Madamoiselle Dalton kept the French students on their toes and also sponsored the French Club. I enjoy French Club very much. Ms. Dalton requires a lot of time from her students to pass her class, stated Liz Woodward, president. Spanish class was taught by Senorita Davis and required many hours of preparation including studying lessons and keeping notebooks up-to-date and in order. The students in S anish Club have done as much work in half a year as the cliib last year did throughout the whole year. The students are going strong and have many more activities planned for the rest of the year, commented Miss Davis. The club also supported the athletic de artments with pep posters written in Spanish and put a Cfiristmas tree in the Spanish classroom. A raffle was held for Christmas pifiatas and the tickets were sold for ten cents apiece. This money was put in the club fund and allowed members to help the school and themselves. A new language was offered at Charles Page and many Sandites did not know about it until after the school year had started. The class was held on the sta e in the cafeteria and it was taught by Mrs. Paula Goree. TEe Latin class was added to the curriculum after a survey indicated an interest in the subject. The students participated in the dress-up day on Halloween by wearing togas. The Latin class did not sponsor a club this year but Mrs. Goree said she plans to have a club next year. Several of the students were taking two foreign lan uage classes during the same year and were shuffling theirIessons around to get them finished. I would like to see some of the students continue in Latin. Many of the students were shocked to find out how much work there is in the class but all of them kept up with the work, commented Mrs. Goree. Journalism held many challenges for students aspiring to become successful writers. The Traffick magazine, Sandton- ian newspaper, and yearbook-staffs worked diligently to produce material that the student body would enjoy. The staffs were composed of a lar er number of students this year than those of years before. This factor added to the confusion in the classroom. Students were still required to meet deadlines and this ut pressure u on man Sandites. Fourth hour was undaoubtedly the lloudest class I have ever had. I had laryngitis constantly but the kids were really enthusiastic, stated Mrs. Laura Schaub. 92 Language Arts OH CHRISTMAS TREE - Spanish class members gather round the Christ mas tree and decorate it with lovely ornaments while they learn how Spanish-speaking people celebrate the holiday and about the-customs they follow on Christmas day They also learned some tarols in Spanish

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0 From Vocalizing Thoughts To Singing Carols . . . Fine Arts Challenge Sandites To Win Oklahoma, every night my honey lamb and I, sit alone and talk, and watch a hawk making lazy circles in the sky, sang Brian Blackwell. The fine arts musical production was an excellent rendi- tion of Oklahoma. Many students participated in the play and new faces appeared on the stage. I think it was the best play I have ever seen at Charles Page. The actors were of much higher quality, commented Scott Isley. The Christmas production produced by the choir was based upon a completely new angle. The live Christmas tree was not seen by Sandites. The choir only used one song that they had sung before, Merry Christmas Past. The group had many more members this year with more talented soph- omores than had been in choir previously. Denise Luce took the place of Terry Mullins on the piano. Denise pllayed for Select Choir and her mother played' for Mixed Choir. I enjoyed choir this year and without Mr. McConnell the choir would not be where it is now, stated Kelly Hopper. The Charles Page High School marching band changed their style to drum corps. The band members learned new marching steps and changed their basic fundamentals. The BANDITES - The band performs their new routine to the song Let It Be Me during half time activities at a home game. Their performances were superb throughout the marching and concert seasons and as a result of their efforts they earned many awards. 94 Fine Arts old members had to forget everything that they had learned in the past about marching. The band's new style brought them first place Sweepstakes trophy in the fir parade com- petition in Tulsa and a first at the Hound Dawg Festival at Aurora, Missouri. I think the band had the most exciting show it has ever had in the history of this school and we definitely had one of the best bands in the state, commented Richard Fisher. As usual Mr. Holmes and Mr. Briscoe were guiding the speech and debate students to the winners' circle. The de- bate and speech teams won a first place Sweepstakes trophy in Tahlequah, which they did not receive last year. The debate teams were more efficient because there were fewer teams and more time was spent with each team. Another advantage for the debaters was that the teams were younger and plans were made for the future. The debate and speech students traveled more during the year than they did last year and attended many more out-of-state tournaments. I think we have a lot of potential and will go a long way this year, stated Chris Wood. DO-RE-ME-FA-SO-LA-TI-DO - Select choir practices singing Christmas carols in preparation for their annual Christmas Choir production present- ed on December 21. Many hours of practice were spent preparing for this program.