Classen High School - Orbit Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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year would be an impossibility. Arrangements ...ide for placing it on the agenda for next year, there- isuring the consideration of the board. Ar this point Nlrs. lVlarguerite Flood, who had up to thi., time considered herself a non-militarist, was elected Nlonday afternoon captain of the Battle of Rejected blo- tion. From then on everytime the council made a motion it was in a forward direction. Night life, insomnia, and strenuous study had by this time taken its toll. All of the council members were fatigued and were in dire need of sleep-so Harold Nlorgan came to the rescue. l-le wrote a constitution and read it before council . . . Everyone ratified it drowsily. The council woke up one morning and found that for the first time in history it had a constitution. After it had been explained to the sophomores that a constitution had nothing to do with the physical health state of an indi- vidual, it began to dawn on everybody that there were some rules to obey. This of course outraged the members until some enterprising gentleman called them The Fathers of the Constitution. Their vanity this pleased, obedience followed, and the administration had done two things in one year, which of course isnlt quite cricket. The quota of activity apparently being satisfied until ioqo, the council again blew the top off of convention by doing something else. It planned the homecoming pa- rade, and even went so far as to execute the same. It even forstalletl a rainy afternoon, which is no small accoznplish- STUDENT COUNCIL Toi' Row:-Iientley, Sawbill, Smith, Kilo, Cunningham, llflilarn, West, Ru.w'l1, lVlI.von, Carter, Holland, Hayden, Scott, Cook. Siicosin Row:-Strong, Griffy, lltt, Finley, lllelton, lVeir, Vllbite, Ifscalante, Lvtzns, Clay, Menifee, llf14rVVhorter. l:lRSl' ROW:-lolanson, Coggin, Bowen, Gill, Fox, Breen, ilf0Tg!l.I, Cli'.'7Y1lf'J, Caldwell, Davis, Gunter. ment when you look at it from the weather in.in's view- point. Sand being an appropriate place for Longfellow to keep time, the council decided that it was not for Classen, so it promoted the idea of installing a score clock in the new gymnasium. lt was installed and although it takes a mastermind to decipher the score, it's pretty and it cer- tainly fools the visitors. They all think it has something to do with technocracy, Einstein's theory, or something. It is shiny though and the opposition never knows whether it's behind or ahead. The latest of the council activities is the publishing of the VVednesday bulletin for stimulation of interest in school affairs. This 'lmimeograph miracle was conceived recently and further boomed the smelling salts business by turning out successfully. The cafeteria contest, the Orbit sales, the Fillies and the National Forensic League Tournament, were all pro- moted by this unique method. Such is the momentious history of the Boys of Bull Run. Easter Vacation, constitution, Homecoming events, time clock, and the promotion bulletin- all in one vear. So that's the Classen Student Council, ehP, questioned the old timer, the rowboat ship of state? Balderdash manl thatls no rowboat. That's the S. S. Rexf, A 1- 4 .A 4 Too Row:-Stoeletotz, Sawyer, Dennis, Earley, llloslzy, lllilzze, Harrison, Quinn, lVest, Smith, 1 ottelle. Suioism Row: -d Marsh, bdwards, Loudon, Kilpatrick, Ifox, Carlin, Hightower, Breen, Holloway. FIRST ROW:--Peoples, lennings, Gage, Miley, Porter, Utt, Milam, Rmcb, Hale. C135 l

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owboat to ex 'k The Story of the Comet Student Council. Amen!! by iek reen The Classen student council, the ship of state, and at times the rowboat of diplomacy, began its voyage this year above the waves. This of course amazed critics who had seen the great ship of state dwindle into a paddle propelled, dilapidated old crate with leaky side boards. ln fact it was a submarine by necessity and not by choice. Ostrich-like, it had its neck beneath the waves every time it wasn't doing anything, which, of course, was very close to one hundred and one per cent of the time. The old creature was hauled out of the mudg Tom Miley was elected captaing and they said, There she is. Sail her the best you can and we'll be on hand to catch you the third time you go down. They further attempt- ecl to aid the cause by electing a delightful little group of masterminds to help him. Well4at least it was a little group. Dick Breen, lWary lVlcVVhorter, and l-larry Cook were elected vice-president, secretary, and treasurer re- spectively. The treasurer's position was no temptation to Cook because the student council is not a very close second to the Continental Trust Company in total currency on hand. They collected a quarter in dues in 1929, but three picnics, a parade, and the depression reduced the stipend to eleven cents, which was later misplaced in the great lndian head penny campaign of 33 . At the beginning of the year somebody thought a brilliant thought, which surprised everyone because it later developed that it was a council member that thought the brilliant thought. Why not have an Easter vacation? The ingenuity ot the idea electrified everyone. A committee was appointed-more ingenuity. For the third time in a row people were surprisedg be- cause the committee functioned. This unlieralded, unheard of occurrence happened at the Board of Education meeting, at which time the com- mittee met with the superintendent, where it developed that because of a prearranged calendar vacation for the EXECUTIVE COUNCII Walters Cook .Milcy ZLIcW'horter Breen Cunningham White INTER-SCHOOL COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES White Gunter Excalante Miley Scot: C123

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Cub reporters can in- terview visiting hot- shots, metropolitan news- hawks may drop in for opening-night chats with leading stage stars, some- day Winchell or Gib- bons may even snare a few minutes' conversa- tion with the elusive Greta Garbo, but even joseph Pulit- zer would havc a tough assignment in trying to interview a senior class. The chief dif- ficulty of the chase lies in lo- cating the ani- mal. Iust what is a senior class? Few people have ever run up against one face to face and as far as the zoological re- cords show, not even Fra nk Buck brought one back alive. The little beasts are diffi- cult to manage, hard to train, and fight like fury when brought to bay. And here was a mere Orbit reporter armed only with pencil, notebook, and a press pass which proctors refused to recognize venturing into the wilds of darkest Classen in search of a senior class. DEE RIzPi.oGi.u A. V. PEOPLES Treasurer Vice-President Several times I thought I almost had him, but it al- ways turned out to be a sub-deb or a football player in- stead, and while s. d.s and f. b.s have a way about them, especially when together, they can't match up to a senior class. And still I didn't know what was a senior class. It,s not those things people step on in the halls- theyire sophomores. And it's not-anyway, I found lists and lists of things it wasn't, but darn few it was. For instance, it wasn't the sponsors. I know because I remember how disappointed I was after my long trek from the news room to 107 to find out that Miss Gladys Shepard, while she might be chairman of all the class spon- sors, wasnit a senior class. Neither were the other spon- sors: Miss Blanche Paul, Miss Iulia Denny, Miss Della Link, and Cpoor, lone, surrounded malej Mr. Leo I-Iigbie. But while none of them knew exactly where I could find a senior class they all had suggestions-and they were all different! I think it was Mr. I-Iigbie who suggested the old gag to me of imagining just where I'd hide if I were a senior class. Only he illustrated the suggestion with he Senior Class ir In Which Jabby Goes Big Game Hunting by Hansford Martin a fable about the man whose donkey ran away and how the man found it by putting himself in the place of the jackass. And I'm still wondering if Uncle Leo was being subtle. Anyway, if I were a senior class, I know I'd spend most my time hanging around Nancy Marsh. Beside be- ing editor of the yearbook QI-Ii ya, bosslj Nanls secretary of the senior class. Unfortunately she's not it. She sug- gested I try john Cunningham. Iohn's president of the thing and he ought to be able to find it for me if anyone could. Unfortunately he couldn't. I-Ie of- fered to tell me anything about Blue Iackets or Student Coun- cil I wanted to know, since he's a member of both organiza- tions but as , for the where- abouts of the senior class, he referred me to NANCY MARSH IOHN CUNNINGHAM Secretary President A. V. Peoples, class vice-president. A. V. passed the buck to D. Replogle. If D. held an office when he was a sophomore, he'll have held a class office every year in high school. The only trouble is he canit remember. But he's sure about last year when he was junior class treasurer and he must be this year's senior treasurer cause itys in print and if the Orbit prints it, it is bound to be true. CI-Iow's that for getting in the commercial?j Deeis a great golf man Che qualified for the National last year, but he couldn't even tell me where to tee off from to get to the senior class. I-Ie suggested I try the senior play. I did. At first I thought that solitary figure in the front row was my long sought objective. It turned out to be the audience. Since The Admirable Crichtonn was a senior class play, I thought of looking there for the critter, but I couldn't find it. Instead, I got Dick Breen. Besides being editor of the Classen Life for two sem- esters, which is in itself a large record and a small miracle, Dick is also an actor-and will the proof readers please not include any questions marks? This semester he is presi- dent of Little Theatre and is also ranking high in debate. It would really be easier to just read through the list of speech activities and insert Dick's name beside those that list all he's done. Some of his more memorable per- formances have been in K'White Collars, fwhich also in- troduced to Classen audiences a litle gal you may have C145