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

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011. h t FIRsT Row: George Iennings, Charlotte Wrinkle, Phyllis Dale, Helen Cunningham, Connie Archer, Fredda B. Davis, Pat Neibarger, C 93 ,fa Louise Bean. SECOND Row: Iearme Crowe, Frank Kellert, Phyllis Hilgenburg, Fay France: Hermann, Auri Lee Ferguson, Ruth Drisko, Mary Dillon, lack Heidbrink Leland Harrison, Mary Anne Raymer, Alta Clay Davis. THIRD Row: Shirley How, Aleene Knick, Cleo Sapp, C. W. Camp, Hal Gibson, Sanford Plant, Virginia Walker, Don Pickrell, Alfred Rubins, Dick Drisko, Vance Iennings, Buddy Walker, Alvin Pendleton, Patricia Tolar, Gene Scoggins, Patsy Hawk, Robert Glasgow. FOURTH Row: lack Hubbell, Maurice Morton, Buddy Berkey, Henrietta Iones, Fred Hatcher, Neal Smith, Stanley Brown, Iohn Woolery, Kenneth Osburn, Dick Hunt, Harry Schmidt, Kendall Patterson. CJ FIRST Row: Dick Drisko, Vance Iennings, Leonard Silver, Bobby Keely, Virgil Brown. Warren Walkley, Richard Williamson, COWCEW Band Leland Harrison, lack Heidbrink, Bob Gambrell, Auri Lee Ferguson, Ruth Drisko, Mary Dillon, Iessalyn Pullen. SECOND ROW: Alfred Rubins, Bob lrwin, Evelyn Stapp, Guy Gray, Dick Morton, George Kelly, Harrell Iohnson, Fred Iackson, Melvin Lee, Iimmy Koger, Hal Gibson, Virginia Walker, Don Pickrell, Irl Miller, Bill Laws, Ted Bond, Betty Ray Webb, Alvin Pendleton, Buddy Walker. THIRD Row: William Bruce Edwards, Richard Neiswonger, Wanace Witten, Bob Baker, Amelia Wilson, David Harper, lack Nixon, George Murphy, Iames Freeman, Ned Black, Stanley Brown, Neal Smith, Don Gore, Iohn Woolery, Dick Hunt, George Whitten, 'lim Nash, Ralph Smith, Gene Pulley, Ioe McMakin. FOURTH Row: Charles Thomas, Barney Medlinger, Bill Baker, Don Curtis, Cene Howard, Mason IvIcLain, Bill Hall, Harold Levett, Wendell Burke, Iames Tracey, Robert Turner, Gene Smith, Robert Schreiber, Charles McGowan, Ierry McCoy, Bob Bieber, Tom Cox, Kenneth Osburn, Harry Schmidt, lack Vickers, Bill Martin, Richard Kirchner, George Collins, Chester Amend, Tom Harrah. FIFTH ROW: Ianelle Liebolt, lack Hubbell, Bob Gibson, Maurice Morton, Buddy Berkey. Henrietta Iones, Iames Iacobs. Page 26

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l?ocal lllusa: The National Broadcasting Company's program, Music of American Youth has been in existence nine years. During this year, twenty4nine schools were featured and of this number twenty per cent were colleges and universities. No other choir but ours has received the honor of appearing twice on the pro- gram, once in 1938 and once February 22,0f this year. Each semester the vocal department as a whole gives a full concert and assembly. The fall concert festival, in which 225 took part, presented theuiMikadof'i The fall assembly was the 'iBallad for Americans. This spring 240 singers took part in a festival emphasizing the patriotic theme. Their second as- sembly of the year was the Easter assembly. The program was composed entirely of Easter music with 120 taking part. The Class A vocal contests are closed for the duration, but in four years of entries, we have won top honors for seventeen out of eighteen entries to the state contest and fourteen out of seventeen entries to the nationals. However the department did attend the .state festival at Stillwater this year, directed by George l-lowerton of Northyvesternp Outside of regular school activities, this year the A Cap- pella choir has sung in many assemblies in junior high schools, at Oklahoma University, Oklahoma A. and M., and Edmond State Teachers' College. Also they appeared with the Okla- homa Federal Symphony Orchestrain our own assembly and for the soldiers at Will Rogers Air Base. A great help in the bettering of the music is vocal director Chester Francis' radio recording machine and public address system. Classen is believed to be the only senior high school in the state which owns one. This year about ago students are enrolled in the music department as compared with the 75 enrolled when Mr. Chester Francis, director, first came here. Right above, Ramona Yergler, is accompanist for the girls' glee club and the A Cappella choir. Lower right, the girls' quartet, reading clockwise from the top: Elaine Rader, Pauline Todd, Shirley Akers and Vivian Fleming. Q fl Qappella Qlioiif FIRST ROW: Iune Clark, Shirley Akers, Billye Sue Wigley, Elizabeth Stewart, Harriet Freeman, Doris Stagg, Iune Carlock, Mary Katherine Peterman, Virginia Fletcher, Betty Io Brown Carolyn West, Sis Carter, Nora Lou Baber, Pat Malone, Ioan Arnold, Doris Tippin. SECOND Row: Betty Marshel, Kathryn Wahlgren, Annabelle Myers, Margxierite Walde, Mary Margaret Newby, Lucille Peer, Betty Cain, Betty Meador, Vivian Fleming, Louise Hoefle, Lucille Sneed, Geraldine Gwaltney, Elaine Rader, Esther Hall, Kathryn Felix, Ann Alan, Mr. Francis, director. THIRD Row: Margaret Peoples, Rhea Russell, Thelma Henderson, Clovis Putney, Ioe Ragsdale, Gayle Farmer, Ed Trout, Dwain Timmons, Clint Morrison, Neal McGee, Tom Harter, Robert Scott, Ben Prince, Melvin Pierce, Margaret Field, Nancy Graves, Ramona Yergler, accompanist. FOURTH Row: Kenneth De Groar, lack Roach, Carl Hudspeth, Tom Garrett, Ed Zimmerman, Rodney Keinlen, Wesley Warlick, lack Roberts, Phil Robertson, Leonard Silver, Kelly West, Ted Lindeman, Ray Biggerstaff, Bob Opp, Roy Cope, Gene Pulley, Richard Kirchner, ii girls, glee 6911417 FIRST Row: Patty Stevenson, Wanda Middick, Betty Lou Taylor, Rhea Russell, Bobbie lean Vineyard, Elizabeth Stewart, Iune Carlock, Connie Deming, Betty Io Brown, Betty Cheadle, Mary Elizabeth Cooper, Ruth Arnold, lean McCormick, Esther Hall, Nora Lou Baber, Katherine Felix, Shirley Antene, Ioan Ladinsky. SECOND Row: Mr. Chester Francis, Mary Montgomery, Lucille Peer Qaccompanistj, Helen Iohnson, Bette Eastland, Virginia Anderson, Maxine Tholen, Betty Meador, Barbara Wickberg, Charlotte Wolover, Dorothy Means, Phyllis Hitgenberg, Phyllis Hartnell, Doris Stagg, Doris Tippin, Ioan Arnold, Billie Perkinson, Barbara Brown, Helen Withington, Virginia Fletcher. THIRD Row: Betty Lou Porter, Shirley Fletcher, Yvonne Raines, Bobbie Hawkins, Dorothy Snare, Linda Loftin, Iackie Brewer, Donna Alexander, Nancy Graves, Louise Gentry, Iesse Iones, Betty Io Hoover, Ann Allen, Mary Sypert, Thelma Burger, Margery Caudill, Mary Kathryn Ptuet. FOURTH Row: Imogene Van Dyke, Harrierte Freeman, Dondeline Solomon, Billie Neville,.Geroldine Gwaldney, Billie Clay, Norma Rader, Roberta Crow, Peggy Ford, Betty Walter, Marjorie Field, Pauline Butler, Wanda Haywood, Iulaine Willard, Mary Katherine Peterman, Mary Fakas, Peggy Rogers, La Verne Koontz, Cecile Coon. ,,,,B FIRST Row: Shirley Akers, Billye Sue Wigley, Marguerite Walde, Elizabeth Stewart, Lucille Peer, Iudy Maguire, Pat Sinopoulo, Nola Mae Phillips, Annabelle Myers, Betty Reese, Patsey Davis, Henrietta Iones, Sis Carter, Iackye Lou Hunter, Lucille Sneed, Ramona Yergler, accompamsrg Pat Malone. SECOND Row: Betty Marshall, Kathryn Wahlgren, Thelma Henderson, Mary Margaret Newby, Iune Clark, Bonnie Iean Austin, Ruth lane Long, lean Canon, Dorothy Myers, Doris Dolman, Dolores Cooper, Margie Beth Lester, Mariam Reneau, Marilyn Tankersley, Mary Wage, Margery Dunn. THIRD Row: Betty Lou Taylor, Lieselotte Schwab, lane lay, Carolyn West, Donna McClain, Zeralda Kerr, Louise Hoelle, Margaret Peoples, Elaine Murphy, Geraldine 'Moncrief, Opal Cole, Billie Pearce, Ruth Kir patrick, Ioan Irwin, Mary Wilbanks, Murel Parnell, Bette Eastland. FOURTH Row: Mr. Chester Francis, directorg Rhea Russell, Nora Lou Baber. Doris Tippin, Hali lean Wells, Patsy Kraft, Thelma loslyn, Phyllis New, Vivian Fleming, Elaine Rader, Marjorie Field, Betty Cain, Peggy Walker, Carolyn Bloom, Io Zinn, Betty Ross, Billie Neville. Q Boys, glee Gini: FIRST ROW: loc Ragsdale, Ed Trout, Gayle Farmer, Carl Hudspeth, Ray Biggerstali, Bob Opp, Clint Morrison, Neal McGee, Tom Harter, Melvin Pierce, Tom Garrett, lack Barber, Norverta White, accompanist. SECOND Row: Iack Roberts, Dwain Timmons, Clovis Putney, Rodney Kienlen, Wes ey aric , 1 o 1 Pulley. Richard Kirchner, Bill Hargrove THIRD Row: Kenneth DeGroat, lack Roadi, Roy Cope, Ed Zimmerman, C. F. Foster, Wayne Segars, Kelly West, Charles McPherren, Ted Lindeman, Dick Morton, Lee Iackson, Wendall Burke, Ted Bond, Mr. Chester Francis, director. l W l' k Ph'l R b'nson, Bill Snare, Leonard Silner, Robert Scott, Ben Prince, Bill DeMand, Gene

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IN FRONT: Leonard Silver, Leland Harrison, directors. SECOND ROW: Tom Harrah, Gene Pulley, Dick Drisko, Bill Edwards, Virgil Brown, Vance Iennings, Eloise lmel. THIRD Row: Fred Iackson. Melvin Lee. Iimmy Koger. ,lim Nash, George Whitten, Kenneth Osburn, Iames Freeman, Stanley Brown, Don Gore, Iohn Woolery. FOURTH ROW: Kendall Patterson, Iames Iacobs, Maurice Morton, Buddy Berkey, lack Hubbell, Buddy Walker. If' . lnshfmfnental Wlusu: The Classen Orchestra has made first division for the last five years. This year, the contest was cancelled because of the war situ- ation. The instrumental music department has won the grand cham- pion award offered alternately at A. and M. and O. U. during the entire time Mr. Oakley Pittman has been director here. The Classen Concert Band was selected at the state clinic in Stillwater as the outstanding state band. Combined with the orches- tra, it has won the state sweepstakes the past Hve years. The Pep Band is frequehtly called upon, both for school occa- sions and for civic groups, to exucle peppery inspiration. Perhaps their most important activity this year has been to play for trains of departing soldiers. Page 27 Leland Harrison, handsome red-haired drum major of the band, shakes a wicked shake. The above picture WAS taken 'with mirrors, those in the Plaza theater. MJ