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

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The Faculty - 1 ..,: 'I I W jf?-'If' - - EI. S:-:ref nie All A kkk 3 .. KATHERINE BRAGG MARIORIE BRAINARD HOWARD E. BROWN x' ' GERALDINE BUZBEE VERA LOUISE CAMPBELL MARY CANTRELL 6- MARY LOIS BOOROM HELEN M. BOURKE I GEORGE W. BRUCHER UNDINE BUTLER I ISALONA CARTER R. E. COFFEY LOTTIE A, CONLAN IULIA M. DENNY MARTHA T. DENNY CHESTER L. FRANCIS KATHERINE GIBSON IOHN GITTINGER GRACE DEUPREE LLOYD M. ESTES . x I BERNIECE GORDON BELLE GOUGH Page 10

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exam 5. warm ...VICE-PRINCIPAL F? Resembling a banana in its ability to bring everyone to a common level is the row of chairs in Mr. Charles S. Wallaceis office. Self-termed the principal vice , he has been dealing the same impartial judge- ment to each culprit, senior or sophomore, large or small, for eleven years. As sponsor of the proctors, he is the major domo of the discipline system and Solomon in all his glory never had to make the many decisions Mr. Wallace hands down in one day. He plays by the same rules during every game however, and that graceful handwriting decides the fate of the just and the unjust with the same Spencer- ian twirl. 'ive THE !-HSTOEV of 6'lf4SSE!V f-5' , The physical shape of Classen may have changed since September 1921 when the first student enrolled, but the spirit that Mr. Anton H. Classen, civic leader, established when he founded a junior high school has only grown deeper in the hearts of students and teachers. It continued to be a junior high school until 1924 when it became a junior and senior high combined. In 1925, it became solely a senior high school. The original building extended from Mr. Charles Gra dy's room to Mr. A. M. Kincaid's and was three stories high. The cafeteria was in the rooms now used for typing on the third Hoot and the library was in -the classroom now occupied by Miss Lucille Willoughby. At this time, the present girls' gym was used as an auditorium. A Because of an increasing number of students, the section containing the present auditorium was annexed. Dur- ing the years the various graduating classes have given curtains for the windows and stage and also the decorations on the walls. The stage included the present band and orchestra room and all the basketball games were played in the auditorium with the stage as a court. 1 Then the cafeteria was changed from the third Hoot' to the space it now occupies and a little later the south wing containing the science department was added. In recent years, the addition of the boys' gym and a girls' locker room has been made. The class of '41 presented a retaining wall for the front lawn. , The first senior class graduated in 1926 with 62 members. The next year the membership was boosted to 225. Last year 648 seniors graduated. Also with a few minor alterations several teachers have remained since the junior high school days. These are Mrs. Edna B. Stevenson, Miss julia Denny, Miss Mary Lawson, Mrs. Anne Nlontague, Mrs. Edna Hedges, Mr. A. M. Kincaid, Miss Della Link, Miss Emma Meneely. Miss Blanche Paul and Miss Bess Snell. Miss Katherine Bragg, Mr. Leo I-Iigbie, Mr. Carroll Smelser and Miss Isalona Carter graduated from Classen and now are instructing in the school of their 'teens. Page 9

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- f f f- 1- f , . 2 C. E. GRADY EDNA L. HEDGES .IKE I MILDRED HOLLAND ,i P Q K MARY F. LAWSON es? W x -1 ...X . fb I PM Q NELL GUTHRIE K HK I 5 f. . .W BESSIE HERRIN RETI-IA WAVE HULET GERTRUDE IONES DELLA LINK FRANK E. McKEE MIRIAM HARPER T. A. HAYWOOD SAIDEE HAZELWOOD LEO K. HIGBIE MYRA B. HILL BLANCHE HOLLAND LESLIE KELLY A. M. KINCAID CLARA MEYER ANNE MONTAGUE ZONA MOORE HELEN A. NORRIS MABEL PARK BLANCHE I. PAUL LELIA PICKARD A Page Il