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

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,W-, C ly k 1--'xv MQ' 5 W' '41 . 4-5. W sa T-'T' CiHARIl2Y GIITFIN is the man hehiml the iiinkwiip- time slips . . . As cliaiirmziii of tht- Proetoi' lmard, Giffin is what Clussen students scare themselves into eating their spinach with . . . Charley lust semester was sports editor IRENE KATHLEE: ALEXANDIEIQ Nl.-'KNNXNG GENE CHARLES CUNNINGHAM GIFFIN IACK GORDEN BAKER PEEL GliRAI,DlNlf ELAINE HARRILL RHODES IUNE losEi-HINE DAvxs FRENCH RAYBURN GEORGE RUBIgR'l'9 IIENNINGS NVILLARIJ N. W. BAKER lViCCAR'IAY ELIZABETH h1,EANoR RITTENHOUQE b'rALLARu VIRGINIA IOSEPHINE SULL1VAN KILPATRICK Eu N. BERT IONES SMITH IOE FRED W1sE MCMILLAN SUE MARGARET MTNTER MATTHEWS on the Clusscn Life . . . Clzxssen discipline got worse incl he had to give it more time . . . Charlcy's also Zl Blue jacket hot shot . . . secretary in fact , . . Gif will bt one of those people you iii -. forget.

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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.

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