Cushing High School - Oiler Yearbook (Cushing, OK)

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J3oard of education W. A GIORDA, Clerk E. A. GOULD L. C. COREY C. D SCHMELZEL, President W. D. CARR, Superintendent R. W. DAVIS REX H. HARGRAVES. Vice-President The Board of Education is comprised of the leading business and professional men of Cush ing. whose initial interests are to improve the Cushing public schools. We greatly appreciate their efforts and genuine interest.

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This PAGE tells the story of our first school building and our first school teacher. Our first school building was the upstairs of a general store, and due to this fact the tall boys had to sit in the middle of the room and the small children sat at the side of the room as the roof of the store was slanting. The books of this time were varied and of many types because they came from other states and as yet Oklahoma was not a state and there were no standard books. The tea- cher taught her students manners and courtesy but the people of the town did not approve of this. The first schoolteacher, the former Miss Jennie Robertson, now Mrs. Jennie Brown, attended school in Illinois and came to Oklahoma with her parents where she opened her own school in her father's store. Her first school had only 67 students, ranging from the first grade to the eighth. This school was also the first Sunday school. Mrs. Brown is still living in Cushing, where, as a young girl, she first taught school. 010201020000020100020002070108

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W. D. CARR Education is a service to the individual and to society. It is concerned, on the one hand, with the personal worth and dignity of the individual and. on the other hand, with the strengthening, the improving, and the unifying of the American way of life. In this balance lies the preservation of democracy and of free enterprise. Each of you has had the opportunity of adding another year to your educational and cultural growth. The Board of Education of the Cushing City Schools and I wish to commend you for the fine work you are doing in our High School and wish for you many years of useful citizenship in our great country. We shall always follow the progress and fortunes of our students with deep interest.