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

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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

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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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of-Margie De Grushj, The Queen's Husbandf' ooth of Bill Shakespearels Comet premieres. There probably a lot more I could list but time and space v me on in my search for the Holy Wail, the Senior ss. lt case the Breen testimonial has sounded more like a press agent's press sheet than a recital of facts, let me say here and now I am not Richard's poor relation and I will positively not take a cent for these kind words. Well, not over a dollar, anyway! The rest of the Crichton cast-the male part, any- way-included all old standbys who have trod the auditor- ium boards at least once before. Even if I can't remem- ber the part or the play they must have been in either Midsummer Night's Dream or Taming of the Shrew, for who wasn't? As for the feminine section of the cast they included such luscious honeys as almost made me forget there ever was a senior class. Peg Weir was one, and Sarah Douglas was another. Douggle-buggle, as even her intimates don't call her, is practically a Paragon of what a gal should be by not being catty nor too sweet, dumb nor too bright, slouchy nor too artificial,-and on, on, into the night. When a girl can get an Orbit staff member even crazier than usual she must have something, is it an asset or a liability? No one has yet called a staff member an asset, so-. Still a lot of people have gotten pretty close to that word without exactly hitting it. I hate to lump the rest of Crichton's femmes to- gether, but I've got to do it. Everyone knows them any- way. While I was prowling backstage at the play I ran into another searcher after the light, Miss Margaret Lind- say. The lady had practically given her all one Saturday for the senior class and she wanted to see what she'd sac- rificed her time and energy for. It seems that Miss Lindsay spent all of one day and every bit of ten dollars getting grass hay for the South Sea island hut in the senior play. One of the W. P. A. work- ers offered to build the hut for the production, but since he was from the Philippines where the drama took place, he had to be authentic. To be authentic required a cer- tain kind of hay that grew in only one spot in Oklahoma. It took Lindsay two taxicabs, a fresh pair of hose, an original postal regulation, a fire hazard exemption, and a new set of nerves to get the stuff here, but the show had to go on, and on it went! QAnd on and on, said one spectator-the one who paid cash to see the thingy Miss Lindsay gave me her phone number and ad- dress and as soon as I find a senior class or a spare eve- ning, I'm to give her a ring. I hope she meant on the phone! With the play, my search for the little beastie tem- porarily ended. I hear its going to leave the school some- thing, following an old precedent. It'll probably be a Ieep or a sacred white elephant. The only hope I've left is the junior-senior prom to be held at the Skitvin Tower. Maybe if I close my eyes and make a dash out on the dance floor I might, just might mind you, cut in on the senior class. I doubt it. Itlll probably be some hundred and sixty pound cutie who wants to sit the evening out. Thatls my fatal fascination C159 -I always attract dogs, children, and heavy-weights, but I seem to practically repel money, sub-debs and senior classes! So that haggard wide-eyed individual you'll find in some cloistered corner at the prom mumbling to himself is merely another Light that Failed. just look what Nancy Marsh and an Orbit assignment did to me! SPOTLIGHTING TI-IE SENIOR CLASS This issue, only for your entertainment and edifica- tion, the Orbit borrows an old Vassar tradition . . . Having carefully combed the senior class we not-so-proudly pre- sent these missing links for the Senior Daisy Chain. I-IERMAN Rusci-1 is the first to dance out upon the stage . . . I-Ie's looking divine in a little pink wisp of a thing . . . And his daisies are showing only too well . . . Poor Speed . . . Such a way to end up . . . End man on a Daisy Chain! . . . And after having been practically every- thing, too . . . In school, we mean. He's president of the Courtesy Club now . . . Has al- ways been a big Hi-Y man during highschool . . . Held almost all the officers in the club . . . Is also business man- ager for the Orbit . . . Selling yearbooks to impressionable females on his personality and a faint promise of a date. DICK BREEN gets the marshmallow toothbrush for be- ing the most active of Classen students . . . Practically an institution in himself, Dick writes, orates, extemps, acts, does practically everything but eat and sleep . . . He must do that too, but we can't see how he gets it in. He won a National Championship this spring for Extemporaneous Speaking . . . He is President of Little Theatre . . . Is in almost all Classen plays . . . Usually with the lead . . . I-Ie edits the Classen Life . . . He writes two columns . . . Is on the yearbook staff . . . Even the thought of so much activity makes us want to take a long rest. GARNETT CORBIN is another Daisy Chambermaid . . . When you say basketball at Classen you say Garnett Gor- bin . . . He's captain of the team . . . He's city high point man . . . He's all-city . . . He's all mid-state . . . He's all you could ask for . . . At least he's all Mary Yetman asks for. Mary and movies are his two favorite pastimes . . . Only he doesn't hold hands with the movie. To inject a touch of femininity into the proceedings we give you NANCY MARSH . . . Another junior high school girl that made good in the big school . . . She was Presi- dent at Taft . . . But she's even more popular at Classen. Her grade cards prove she's kept looking beautiful without being dumb . . . Classen subdebs take notice! . . . She's been active in Student Council in the days when there was a Student Council . . . She's been a pillar of the Classen Life . . . Wrote the scandal section last se- mester . . . Society column this year . . . And now she's editor of the Yearbook . .. You're telling us! . . . With our twenty page assignments! Remember Edward Everett Hale, The Man Without A Country? . . . Meet TOM MILEY, The Man Without A Student Council . . . Any S. C. President has a hard time . . . It's especially difficult when you can't find any- thing to preside over . . . When they make up their minds what to do about the thing, Tom wants them to let him know.