El Reno High School - Boomer Yearbook (El Reno, OK)

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Message To Graduating Class of 1949 Thousands of pages could be written on what takes place daily inside the El Reno High School. There would be the daily devotionals, the classes in session, the club meetings, the assemblies, the corridor chatter; there would be teaching and learning in the fine arts and the practical arts, in the sciences and the humanities; there would be an account of character and personality growth and expansion for each of the students in school; there would be a recitation of the thousands of little comedies and tragedies for each one that, combined, make a day; there would be instances, hourly, of young people learning of The bliss of growth, The glory of action, The splendor of beauty, of hard lessons mastered, successes recorded, with here and there a false step recovered, a prom- ise redeemed, of young people learning to live happily togther, to believe in goodness and truth, to have higher hopes, nobler aspirations, wider horizons — thus, a typical day inside the El Reno High School would be made up of so many thousands of parts and there would be so much to re- cord that is not easily observed by the casual onlooker that the story could never be fully told. As the joys and triumphs you have known in school far outweigh the tragedies and disap- pointments, making it all a glorious experience, even so may be your life in all its phases. You have learned to take the bitter with the sweet. You know, now, that you cannot expect all of life to be perpetual sunshine, because no day in high school was ever without its moments of vexation. You have become graduating seniors, though, in spite of difficulties large and small, and this is a golden season for you. Many rich blessings will be yours as the years come and go because of the lessons in self-knowledge, self-control and self-denial you have learned as a student inside the El Reno High School. Let me urge you to dare to observe them constantly. To those who will, the gates of achievement are ever wide. Paul R. Taylor, Superintendent

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MRS. JEANNETTE MITCHELL MR. M. A. MITCHELL, Jr. MRS. MARIE MOORE MR. CECIL W. MOORE MISS WILLA DEAN NICHOLSON B.A. English B.S. High School and College Registrar B.A. Girls’ Physical Education B.S., M.S. High School and Col- lege Commerce, and College Economics and Geography B.S. Vocational Home- making MR. MELBERN W. NIXON MISS DOVIE ANNA NOBLE MR. CHARLES W. OVERTON MRS. HAZEL PORTERFIELD MR. M. J. ROBERTSON B.F.A., M.M. Band and Ensembles B.S., A.B., M.C.E. High School and Col- lege Commerce B.S. High School and Col- lege Speech and Drama B.A., M.A. High School and College Art B.S. Vocational Agri- culture MISS MAY SHANKLIN MR. J. E. SIMMONS MR. ROY K. SMITH MRS. JOSEPHINE TAYLOR MISS HOPE WOOD B.S.. M.A. Head of Social Science Department and Col- lege Social Science B.S. Director of Athletics and Physical Educa- tion B.A. Mathematics and Coach of College Athletics A.B., M.S. Head of Natural Science Depart- ment B.S. Vocational Home- making

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