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

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hy ical Education Department These girls from the physical eclucation class swing their partners and cut a mean rug, square dance style. And below, Mr. Higbie instructs his pigslcin proteges in the funclamentals of football. The physical education department attempts to give the students indiviflual training, this includes teaching games that they can play in their leisure time such as tennis, badminton, archery and table tennis. The boys' classes have swimming, touch football, baseball and golf. The girls also swim, dance and play shullleboartl. A class in football theory was offered for the first time this year. ff f,'3z,WsWVwW.MAM, FIRST ROW-RICHARD COFFEY: B. A. from U. of Tulsa, M. A. from O. C. U.: SECOND RON -RETHA WAVE HULET: B, S. from Mary- ville S. T. C., graduate work at O. U., A 66 M., U, of Cal.. M. A. from Columbia U.: HAROLD MILLER: B. A, frnm U. of Iowa: THIRD ROIV-GIERTRUDE IONES: B, A. and B, S, from E. CI. S. C., M. A. from Peabody College, graduate work at U. of S. CaI.3 LEO HIGBIE: B. S. from O. C. U. i- M. 1 A

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Department Zf 2 ln the circle are the members of girls' quartet: back row, left to right, Ramarion Walde, Pauline Todd, Mary Lee Thomas, and in front, Iune Black. In the other picture, left to right, are the orchestra's number one virtuoso Connie Archer, her shadow, and her violin. Classen is proud to have a music department which has won much national renown. The band and orchestra, under the able direction of Oakley Pittman, have taken first place in the state instrumental music contest for three consecutive years. The vocal music department, coached by Chester Franc1s,has retained the title of state champion for three years. Classen's orchestra and A Cappella choir distinguished themselves by being the only Oklahoma City organizations to appear on the nation-wide NBC American Youth broadcast. The music department received a letter from the Radio Corporation of New York City saying that the finest of their recordings of highschool music groups was the one of the Classen broadcast. The students enrolled in music courses learn to know and love fine music as well as to make it, for that is the part music will play in the later lives of most students. lt is the purpose of the music department to give each of its stu- dents an intimate acquaintance with and love of beautiful music, so that, though they never become orchestra leaders or opera stars, music will add happiness to their lives. OAKLEY PITTMAN: B. S. from Okla. A. 61 M., private student of George Rowe, Cleveland Symphony, Bernet Tuthill Ensemble: CHESTER FRANCIS: B. A. and B. S. from Phillips U., M. A. from Northwestern, graduate work at Kan. State.

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athematia '36 za 43 .Mx Department ang. I lHl'NIl fQ iii The math department sets its goal on the objectives put forth by the high school course of study in mathematics, Two of these objectives are: To teach the student to develop the habit of precise thought and lucid expression and to teach the student the mathe- matics of every day life. Courses in the math department are plane and solid geometry, elementary, advanced and college algebra, plane trigonometry, slide rule, senior arithmetic and elementary engineering. Al Currie, lean Porter, Bill Slesnick and Dick Dooley, officers of the Honor Mathematics Group, preside over an initiation meeting. FIRST ROW: UNDINE BUTLER: B, A. from O. U., graduate work at U, of S. Cal.: IULIA DFNNY: U. of Chi.. O. U., O. C. U., SILCOND ROVV: BFRNIECE GORDON: B. A, from O, U., graduate work at U. of Cal., U. of Wis., O. C. U.: GRACE DEUPREE: B. S. from Drake U., graduate work at U. of Chi., Columbia U., THIRD ROW: GERALDINE BUZBEE: B. A. and M. A. from O, U,, graduate work at Puget Sound Biological Sta- tiong MARTHA DENNY: U. of Chi., U. of Cal., Miss. S. T. C, .fsfs ,...,.,...,A,.,.,.,.,.,A..,A,A,-YA,-.-, ZG-