Choctaw High School - Faces of the Future Yearbook (Choctaw, OK)

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BO RDI B ILDER UILDING and enlarging CHS was ihe school board's worlc for +his pas+ year. Afler beginning wifh ideas, having 'rhem worked in+o blueprin+s, buying land, and +hen giving +he go-ahead signal for con- s'l'ruc+ion, fhe board 'buill' an ll-room junior high +o house +he seven+h and eighlh graders of Choc+aw. Funds from 'lhe de-annexa+ion of Duniee School and a bond issue helped provide +he revenue for fhe school fhe board someday hopes will be fhe highschool. The board's only holdup occurred when a bond issue broughl' before +he vo'l'e of 'I'he people which would have provided Sl98,000 for 'rhe building of addi+ional classrooms for +he new school lacked only a few vo+es having fhe necessary 6070 of 'rhe vo+es for passage. However, +he board made use of federal funds by having +hree por+able classrooms cons+ruc+ed for fhe Nicoma Park grade schools. Mr, Floyd Calvert board president leads discussion on blueprinfs of fuiure building proiec+s. E15 'H

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HEY were our leaders +he facul+y and admmls lrafors They worlced and planned for a be++er more equipped school +o malce a loeHer place for us +o learn They faughl no+ only whal a 'rexfboolc had +o offer bul' a way of life They relaxed parhcupahng and enloylng many of +he same achvlhes we drd They shared 'rhe good days and +he bad days l::u+ mosl of all 'rhe happy days The parhcupahon of +eachers and s+u den+s rn a small or large prolec+ or ac+1vu+y broughf abou+ a be++er relahonshlp be+ween +he +wo and even helped one undersland fhe o+her 1 I H M M M ,M s - r ' 1 f 2 ... 2 . . . N . W . , . . . +hey planned For a be++er place for us fo learn. . . . leacher pariicipafion induced a befler relafion ship wilh +he sludenfs.

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Dr. Wesffall explains fhe addifion of fhe iunior high school fo fhe feachers af a meefing. Ls Dr. Weslfall found liflle fime fo relax a few min- ufes and few chances fo fake life easy, Discussing lhe possibili- fy of sending fhree or four coaches fo a clinic af Tulsa is fhe school board of Irvin Rhodes, vice presidenfq J. E. Whisenenf, member: W. W. Tarkingfon, member: Floyd Calverf, presi- denf: and Phil Ogee, clerk. ' One of Dr. Wesffall's many weekly acfivifies was swimming af lhe YMCA in his spare fime. DR. WESTFALL ALWAYS N GO LWAYS on fhe go wifh innumerable fhings fo do and places fo be, Dr. L. W. Wesffall along wifh Mr. Draper and fwo board members wenl' 'ro Aflanfic Cify, New Jersey, for fhe I967 Annual Convenfion of fhe American Associafion of School Adminisfrafors. For five days fhey heard speeches and had loads of paperwork. Besides Dr. Wes+fall's regular office dufies he fraveled fo fhe slafe colleges 'lo find 'leachers for fhe coming school year and also led fhe drive for a building bond issue and mill levies. When he is nol' in his office, 'rhe Oklahoma Sfafe Universify graduafe can be found checking around fhe campus or in fhe bus garage, visifing wifh feachers, or possibly af home gardening.