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

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The rbit of 1936 Published hy the 'senior class of Classen Highschool, Oklahoma City Foreword Q WITH the aim in mind of commemorating the joys, hopes, and aspirations of this graduating class, the ,36 Orbit presents a graphic account of a year at Classen. Q IT is our sincere desire that every graduate will derive a lasting pleasure and satisfaction from the memo- ries imbued in these pages. Q THE year of 1936 has left a colorful wake behind the Classen Comet. Athletics, Forensics, and Dramatics each has its own spot on the Orbit to flare briefly for a while and then dim as other events outshine its importance. Q AS sparks fly from the tail of the even-progress- ing Comet, so do little incidents of smiles and tears, pathos and humor, romance and friendship, cling to our thoughts in after years. Realizing this, our magazine at- tempts to portray not only the cultural benefits reaped from three years in this institution of secondary educa- tion, but also the more intangible side of our highschool careersg the things that can't be written about for lack of words, but can perhaps be caught in the fleeting snap of the camera. Q BUT really, you know, if you remember your stars, what we call the tail of a comet really points forward and precedes the main body in its travels through space. SO in Our Comet, we have told you what we could of the characters, the dispositions, the abilities, the nature their future careers, and give you an idea of what you may expect Of us. Q THE year 1936 has marked a successful climax for some five-hundred students at Classen. For many it is a finality-and we wish them the greatest success-in the fields they have chosen for their lives' work-for others is still an anti-climax, college, with still a greater road to travel-our wishes for final success are also with them. Q IT is with a sense of pride that we of the year book staff offer this journal for your approval. We have tried to conquer the commonplace in year book style and give you a truly informal slant on life at Classen High. Q THIS page poses as a Foreword. it really is a Back- word, for it is the last thing an Annual Editor ever writes, after all the experience and hard work is over and she has made her resolve that never in a thousand years would she edit another-and then two years later will be pulling strings to get on her college annual. Q MAYBE some of yoh will like it. Some of you certainly will not. Any number of you Could have got- ten out a darned sight better book myselff, If so, why didn't you help? Q But a lot of you did. This book is not the brain child of the editor alone or her staff, but of a lot of people who did help, with ideas and actual work. Q THIS is Our Book. Nancy Marsh, and the ideals of our Seniors as sparks that fly ahead of Editor. Contents FOREWORIJ CLASSEN ATHLETICS Nancy Marsh ,.,,., ....,.,.. P age 3 Vic Yarhorongh ..... tt.stt.., P age 40 O C Cl.ASSEN TRADITIONS YELL LEADERS Herbert Gage ana' Hansford Martin ,... Page 4 Laurie Lisle ...... ......,i.. P nge 48 O I I COVER THE FACULTY FRONT PEP Dick Breen ,,Y,e,A,,YYY,,,,,,o,,,Y,,,,v, ,,e,e-,,,, P age 8 Frances Blacleert .... .. ....,,,.. .Page 49 O I BOARD OF EDucATiON UP AND AT 'EM Laurie Lisle ,,,...,,,,.,,, ....,,.,,, P age ii Hansfora' Martin ,,,. .... .,........ P a ge 52 C C ROWBOAT TO REX SWEET Music Dick Breen v,,,, , ,,,, Page I2 Lillian Reddick ....... ..,,,... P age 60 I I SENIOR CLASS HONORS Hansford illartin . Y.,.. ....s..... P age I4 Nancy ilflarsh ,s......,. ...,...... P age 62 I C UNDERQRADS THOSE GLORIOUS DAYS lack Kilpatrick ,.,,,, ,,,,,,o,,,,,,,,,..,i.,,,,,,,.,.. P age 36 Dick Breen and Herbert Gage ..,.,..,.. Page 64 STAFF ASSTSTANTS-Pauline Gilalet, Virginia Miller, Virginia Hare, loan Ratliff. C35

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Classen renditions . . . Wim 3,t,,,,,,B91f9 p F X ax: VK. ' xxx . .K QW X X t by Herbert Gage and Hansford Martin 'K,4,f'L- AS a school, Classen is full of traditions. Along with its less pleasant side, such as grade cards, finals, and makeup time, one of the brighter aspects of school life is its past history. The most noticeable and the most important Classen personage is its principal. Call him lrate Ira, Papa Baker, or The Great White Father, and still everyone will know whom you mean. Whether Mr. Baker ever heard these nicknames or not, no one knows. Anyway heys in on the secret now, so we hasten to reassure the gentleman. Nicknames, at Classen, are usually pretty fair indica- tions of a teacherys popularity. As long as they're nickl names instead of just plain names tacked by the pupils, teachers can be called a success. Mr. Baker has a longer list of nicknames than any one else in the building. I-lis popularity with the students is based largely upon his willingness to see both sides of a situation. If he makes a mistake as he sometimes does, he will do his best to remedy it. It is this innate reasonableness that makes pupils tend to regard Mr. Baker as a human being. One of the highest tributes to his instinctive honesty lies in the fact that Mr. Baker has no more loyal sup- porters than the news staff, yet more than once have those twain tangled on school affairs. A man who can come out of a verbal battle with a dozen students and gain both the victory and their respect ITILISI be more than a figure head and have more than a stuffed shirt. Mr. Charles Wallace, vice-principal, is another man in a difficult position, who has managed to retain the admira- tion of the student body. As head of school discipline, it is Une' Charley who must call down any Classen student who steps out of bounds. Fair in all cases, Mr, Wallace treats a 10B with as much respect as a six-foot footballer, or, if the occasion demands it, as little. Miss Helen Nance and Miss Margot Gainor, those two furies that slap out the make up time slips to sullen students, have become as traditional to Classen as the guil- lotine to France. The chief difference lies in the fact that France has only one guillotine. While all of the faculty are more or less institutions, only a few have become traditions. Foremost of these is Mr. C. E. Grady whom everyone calls K'Pops', behind his back. Way behind. Mr. Grady's mania has to do with cigarettes. The smallest whiff of tobacco is enough to start a temperance lecture, and smoke from a paper match will set Pops' nose twitching like a jack rabbit's. Une of Classenls red letter days was the a. m. some sly prankster deposited a fag on Mr. Gradyys desk. Hold- ing his nose with one hand, and the nasty thing with two fingers of the other, Pops swept the room with a glance that would have withered a cactus, and in his best oratori- cal manner, impressively declared, I even hate to touch that filthy weedf, A former member of the faculty who has even in this short time become a legend is Ludwig Hebestreit. Hebe, as everyone called the tempermental band conductor, spent C45