Elk City High School - Elk Yearbook (Elk City, OK)

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ra, WWQ ZQQ ZW - HIGH CHOOL HI TORY l lx Cllh had its beginning uuu territorial davs in the year 1900 when the luttle frontier town w as known bv the name of Bush fhus wm- soon changed to ls lk K utv un honor of Flk River an old and prominent and ut w as improved from tunue to time as the town organization grad ually became more and more firmly established 'nie original building was destrov ed by fire and the three now in use were immediate lv erected Emerson Building better known as Central was constructed un 1907 and t e two ward buildings Brvant nd longfellow the following year It u difficult to state at what time the hugh school had uts beginning sunce ut us of course an obuect of growth The records show that the first graduate f dwun C Davis received his diploma un I90D In keeping with the hugh ideals of our cutulerushup Elk Cutv Hugh School was among the furst un the state to be recognized bv Oklahoma University and its graduates given full admission to that unstututuon w uthout examination According to the tandards of the time the curriculum included a purely literary course English Hustorv the Abstract 5cuences Mathematics and foreign Languages atm German and Spanish ln fact the lumuted space available for the high school at Q entral Building permitted no room for laboratorv work ln response to the increasing en r llment and the demands for a modern course of studv the hugh school was transferred un September 191 J to Bryant Building and although that structure was orugunallv designed for ward school purposes a step w as taken tow ard bringing the course of study abreast v uth the tumes Practical 'Xuzruculture Domestc Science Domestic Art Manual Train rug and Teachers WI raining Couir es were added while a number of subjects of less um portance were either drorped or relegated to a secondarv posutuon Flhe hugh school has for five years occupied this ward structure. but at the opening of the ensuing school year it together with all the grade., v 'ill be moved into the new' building now' in process of construc- tion said by experts to be the most complete of its kind in the state. The standards of our schools have met every test to which they have ever been sub- iected. Pupils coming from larger systems of the state and nation have found our courses fully as difficult as the corresponding courses in the schools from which they came. while no one has ever been know'n to go elsewhere and fail to maintain the grade assigned to him here. Our graduates have invariably maintained a record in the higher institutions fully commensurate with that previously maintained in the Elk Ciity High School. In fact a count amon gthe freshmen condcted in the Lniversity of fxklahoma ha sshown that our graduates were making higher grades than those of any other school in the western half of he state. For the past five years our schools have participated in the Southwestern Inter- qcholastic District Meet at Yveatherford where the schools of thirteen counties of the district 25 'Qs 421, ,Q Q Www .W f f f f -ie .gs - f 4 V-.- s - ff.. is f EQ lndian chief of the Ciheryenne tribe. schoolvwas early established, Pxge Twelve

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if f W f W Wf 5 m o re gig I ntcr IIIIO COIIIPKIIIIOII for warlou lfaures ol cholarslnp und not one tlme have they been defeated Ihe one dozen lovrng cups shown ln the accompanymg engravmg fully attest 'Vo account of our school lrfe rs complete wrthout mentton of the actwe Interest taken n the welfare of the puptls by the eltlzenshrp of the town Since the year 1913 the Mar nn Medal offered by Mr C I Martm for the best ongmal oratory has stimulated ln lercst xmong the voung man un the forensic Art 0 elfectne has been the Interest m thls medal that fur the last tx o wear rt x Inner ha also been the wmner rn oratory ln the South Western Interscholastlc Meet referred to ahoxe The C ultus C lub has been the means of trmulatrng a higher degree of scholarshrp and effort among the senlor gurls by offenng a nedal each sesston for the one graduatmg wlth the hlghest year s record And the Anma haea C lub has been the means of lncreaslng Interest ln llterarv actlvxtnes by offenng to the ocletw of whlch there are four a srlwer cup to the one wmnmg the most pomts ln the an :ual try out for the Southwestern Interscholastrc Meet This cup rs retained for one year an dunttl the next annual monte t by the OCICIW maltlng the highest record ID such contest WININERS OF MARTIN MEDAL CEONII r IN ORIGINAL ORATION l9I 3 Chauncey Rice I9l-1 Guy Lmulle l9I5 Onan Standlfer I9I6- X lrgll Hull I9I 7 Henderson O Neal l9l8 Robert Young l9I9 Wllbum Bros n 1920 Paul Phelps NXIXNI R9 IN bOUIHXX FSIERNJ NTERSCHOLASIIC MEET I9I6 General EXhlbII m Manual Training Cneneral Exhlbrt In Home Economics Best Loaf of Bread Marletta Byerly Best Mechanrcal Dram mg Lawrence Wllltson 9I7 General Exhnblt tn Manual Trammg General Fxhlblt ln Cxrade Work Best brngle Prece of Manual Irarmng Thoma McDonald Best Single Piece of Eighth Grade Manual -I-ramlng Earl Bodurtha Art james Hulme Vorce Clarence Wllllams In the state contest followmg at Norman, james I-Iulme and Clarence WIIIISOII also toolt hrst honors ln their respectne lmes A39 99 D ee-Dee H QQ, P. Page Thxrt 7 f , A 442' , f ff f ff It f E' X C ff! 1, - f 2 If ' E - ,f . M f , ,f 1 f f- fy 'gp Q- 5 f, '-wx, A I lf' xxx li, , 1 C I E J.. - - -U -E E V as C- 5 M 2 : 'M Vw V i N- 'ee Jr., - : c - ' ' H ' I s ' . s' . IL, 1 ' ' 'fur success in these contests I I Q . . . . I , . . 1. A . A ' ' ' - t . V N' S E S s'4 S 'I h I - t . . . . . . 1 . . r. . , Q . I I' I ' . if ' 1 1-4 . 1 ' V . , fy , YT v f ' r ' v - '- I 4 A l I 1 V. M ' H ' ' .'- s .