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

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oung rivers earn Sa Qty Q f XJYTIIHIHL the msiees r ll nnie llill Bar . Blevins hops into I e drivers' training car, 17 Wood Xlr Blevins Bobby Woods Isnden Vileoxson and Forest Bryant Squealmg, brakes sudden stops and a car that hops like 1 rlbbit beeause the elutch is let out too fast ire 1 few of the comie il phases of drix ers trun ing, As these students often sn good grades max be mee to have but their goal is a drivers license. As they are struggling, with stops and starts hand Signals parking and just plain driving these students may sometimes wonder if that all-important slip of gray paper will ever be theirs. Believe it or not they eventually learn to stop and start on a hill parallel park and do a turn-about. A typical driving lesson may beein with Mr. Gary Blevins the instructor at the wheel. After his driv- ing techniques have been observed by the pupils each of them is allowed to drive for awhile for practice. ln addition to practical experience a drivers training textbook 1nd the Oklahoma Driving Man- ual the students are visited by a Highway Patrol eoorelinator who explains various laws and gives them a color test and an eye examination.

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csilzop OQS As one approaches the shop de- partment, the calm air is suddenly shattered by the sharp vibrations of drills, power saws, and many other mechanical tools made avail- able to boys enrolled. With the ex- ception of an occasionally mangled hand or finger, the boys seem to agree that shop is about the jolliest place in FCHS. The three eighth grade classes and one highschool class are under the able guidance of Mr. Buddy Glass, pictured at the left. Farrell Butcher uses a yointer in his shop prolect Mr Glass has 56 boys enrolled in yunior high shop whieh is required The first semester project for these classes was Ieithercraft The boys were used hand tools The senior high boys had mechanical driving rhe first hllf ind woodwork with m ehines the second lssentx one ire enrolled in this senior high elective eourse . 4 'ln l instructed in woodwork the second semester. They Q' x Q , ' -Y r l . . V 1 - f . , . ' ' ' a- ' ' y s 1 ' . s - '-

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t.flgQl'.S' p88 ,.,,.! Learning tlie tricks of the trade are Theresa Nlcfforkle, Billy Green, Mary Alley, -Ioan Gentry, Pat Harrington, l.ou lluffman, and Whin- ila XY'illi.ims, I8 Sliortl1and isn't difficult, Miss Vfogmnn tells Mary Little Nancy Byler encourages Maxine Jencks and lvanette jones as they struggle with bookkeeping. Dizzy fingers make crazy words, debits just don't seem to equal credits, and the char- acters don't look like the ones in the books, complained the typing, bookkeeping, and shorthand students at the be- ginning of the term. But as the year continued, the strug- gling pupils, under the guid- ance of Miss Mildred Wog- mon, commerce instructor, learned to type and rake dic- tation rapidly, and to keep a simple set of books. The new commerce facilities include a typing room and bookkeep- ing room, and also a private office for Miss Wogmon.