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

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Ana' How o ay . ,Q . Lg I W A Mrs Mabel Clare Kmght English and Orbit Mrs Mary Vlrgmxa Beasley Englrsh and journalism J' lt aint what you say but how you say rt could cause a little controversy here as Buddy Powell and Dottie Young manipulate the CSS while Carole Klllam and jamze Edwards talk over the scnpt Daxly announcements and programs 1patxon nn the weekly Youth Speaks and other radlo programs, school plays and tournament competmon afforded practxcal applxcatxon of speech courses m basxc com mumcatxons d1ct1on pubhc speakmg debate lnterpretatlon actmg and production and radlo Mrs Elame Tucker Head of Speech Department Classen speech students have brought home many natxonal trophxes the most recent bemg a f1fSt place m humorous declamatxon won by john Guy Havmg won three na tlonal champronshlps Classens debate teams have an unequaled record m the natxon John Cox and DeV1er PISYSOD were awarded scholarshlps to Baylor Umverslty after wmnmg the mvltatxonal de bate tourney at Waco Texas 11 .42 Mrs Vnrgmla Chappelear At the end ot' the frrst semester Mrs Chappelear gave up jour nalrsm for a full schedule of English classes Mxss Hazel Sledge English and Creative Wrrtmg as Mr J D Hoover Debate and Speech s E - hi 'ff - I . 5 ' J ' ' 1 . ,f y 3, I 3 , over Classens Central Sound System, partic- ,V-1, . . . . I in

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0ur acuity Tau bf 0: Wfmf To ay Miss Ins M Baughman Head oi English Department Mxss Helen Bourke Mxss Luclle Tandy Mrs Anne Montague Mxss Sandee Hazelwood Mxss Helen Norrns Durlng our senior hlgh school years we elected to take commercxal subjects mdustrxal arts home economics or forelgn languages dependmg upon our specxal mterests or upon our plans for the future Enghsh however was a part of everyones program Essentlal m makmg these our best years were the courses ln Engllsh whlch gave us a foundatxon for correct oral and written ex pressxon and an apprecxatxon for literature Mrs Mabel Park Specxal mterests were developed an Creatwe Wrxtmg Speech Orbrt journalxsm Readmg Courses Combmatmon Engllsh and Hxstory classes and Busnness Enghsh For years Classen graduates have ranked h1gh on the Enghsh placement tests at the Unxverslty of Oklahoma with 85 per cent makmg average or above .ful 10 ,Q V ' .I fixxx t v N , f' ' , s . J if v hy .- 'A V ' 2- . nil f . -' g, e g Miss Della Link M ' Qi e 2 . V' . . y . I Y Y ' . Y ! 3 , . . ' l I l I Y 7 . Y 1 1 , . ' 1

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To Wafcfz 0ur Ffgu e hh. Mxss Grace Deupree who was head of the Math Department and had taught at Classen slnce 1924 dled March 20 1948 Servlces ln her memory were held ln the school audltorlum wlth represen tatlves from her advlsory and the Honor Math Club partlcrpatmg Mlss Berr ece Gordon Head of Math Department Mlss julxa Denny P il Miss Mary Prultt O Covmgton Mrs Reba Hodge Mrs Vxrgmxa Wlgley Solrd geometry has Arthur Swanson Betty Boone and Bob Law rence gomg m circles-or should we say trzanglesg In splte of the ever present homework ln Mathe I matics we recogmzed the value derlved from thls tralnlng Math llke Engllsh proved to be a fundamen tal essentlal 1n everyday hvmg as we used xt ln some form every day correlatlng It w1th other courses m the currlculum Some students took only the requxred Math wh11e others fthe brave soulsj contlnued wlth solld geometry trxgonometry and advanced algebra courses Those who had one year of mathematlcs ln the 9th grade were requxred to take at least one semester rn senlor hlgh school for graduatlon 12