Eufaula High School - Ironhead Yearbook (Eufaula, OK)

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ILPROVIAEITS FOR TWENTYfF1VE IEABQ -Q-1 As 1U ever OtfCl DStltUt1OF lH the world 1mprovements must ake place ln Eufaula school or they will go oackoard, not forward. lothlns can remalr statwonwrf and not detorlorate Eufqula schools Have kent up to date throush the lmUFOVPmPHtS addeo year after fear et us comoart our school sy lem Cs lt now 1S 1 th what lt was 25 ,ers ago in 1914 In 1914 the scho 1 system was composed of Jackson Lee, Dlxle and e son Davls Nine years later n 1925 the Eufaula Hlgh School llt We have h d one oth r DU1ldlUg since then and that 1 the 11 r h1eh wn1cn was flP1SW8 in 1957 and cost scout 350 OOO n of the oest gymnaslums ln the state and ws of full regula sae. This oulldlng was ouilt oy the school ooard and toe fed eral government and was a J the rooms of the Flgh school ummer. In the fall of 1915 the A new curtaln and two oac d tompany. BUSIHGSS houses nay the expense. P orogect Aoout everv two vears OUl1dlUV have oeen calclumised in the audltorum of the hvgh school as lmproved ops were nought from the Enld Scenery sufaula, advertislng on the curtaln, help In 1955 onl tso clas es ln general Home Ecconomlcs were offered vhile now every oerlod 1S -1 led Besides thls, all of the eighth, and nlnth Vrwdel girls from the Boarding School are ln a speclal vocatlon t we of Home Eceononics. Often these serve low cost meals to s llwlted numoer of tudents From nucleus of flV8 xefer nce oovks the Home Ecconomics llorarv seventh, enrolled groups a small has grown +o aoout 50 volumes lHClUdlWg some sets of up+to datesbooka. Magaz nes of palticular lnl rest to Home cconomlcs students are also eva lanle cuswment for the d oartmert, recentlv added, includes an electric the neat he lce oox, m1Lern caolnet tvoe slnh, two electric lrons of 1ulw1 tfre and four new sewing machlnes The department COmW6FCl0l Jenartment has oeen expanded from ten tfpewriters o 24 T oewrlters mo t of 10h are new A large filing caovnet has L n added to the room, and lso a memeograoh, speed o prlnt, mineos oo , and ll the PCCCSSOF1PS that go 11th lt 131 t 1 flr t t 16 ln fufaula Hlgh School a room has oeen set aslue for the Student Council and Student Body memoers. Thls room zas r decorated, the Iloors waxet, and clue Venetlan ollnds were our rlased fur the Jwrdows. It also has a radio, taoles and CH31FS r re 1 larse flass case contalnlng dev te, oasketoall and foot ca 1 ICPllGS ach dear tne s uat ns senlors contlloute a sum of mo e for smnrovement of tne counc l room Another orogect t1at has shown vast inorovement is the school llorary The numoer of cooks ha o en increased from a vert small numo r to aooroxlmateld l WO volumes ano is Opldf dded to yearly Be sntl tne cooks have oee scat loged and many of the older volumes h ve oeen repalreo The shelves have oeen reconstructed and made of adequate heigrt ts pf vent dest1uct1on of the larger oovks. A small stepladofr has Deen ourcnased to enaole the liorarlans to reach the higher shelves, and numo I of cook supoorts to leep the oooks stra Wlght Je reeliz that dr ltr all these 1mUWOVOmPWt0 we are far from our own ideal e hope for more departments, for a greater enroll ment, for an enriched currlculum and we, as a graduatlng class of seniors who wlll soon oecome a part of E H S alumni, will stand ready advance toward the goal we all set for it fakbv-QLVL1 37411311 0 Y ,J H: 1 I ' ' l - l 1 ' .- ' ' i T 1- ' s o - X -4 ' I ' - .1 . ' , U 1. 1 J 1 ' 4 , . ' 1 -- C. ..1 ' . , Q J C3 K . A - Q Q ,- ,. , . , , 1 - A ' ' A '11 ' 1 V - s 1 C ' .- -' ' 1, - . . . rw 1 - J, ,L 1 s, . YL 1 LL.. O I ,R . . . l -1 ,I S J V -ep V -1, K ' 3 f -1. . --1 - 1 0 1 .. , Q' X - . . Y A . . . 3 F QI' . - - L f 8. .1 1.1 1... 1 1 L S 1 H :I 'P' . , . 1 v 'K . , I.. . ' , 11 4.11- 11-13- ' ... , , 1 1 1. r , g I K s V V . h , . . A . . , .Lt.1, Q. C -- .1 .. 1 1 1 - ' - . t. . . . . . w --5 C- . 1 . 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UUCC SS OF GRADUATES Thls Lr duatlon class, much a any rladuating class St1lPS ln to the dsrknes of t e future attemptin, to discern xhat the fates hold ln store for J Each of us has a vague idea aoout greatnes or of merel flnclng his place 1D tht orld of work These Graduates llttle reallze the resnonsioilities of those who can work, for statistlcs shox that or the av r We out of every ten people who c1n work, four are too young, too old, or too feeole to take an active part ln the world Two more are en,sged 1U home dut ies, Nhlch, though nece ary, do not or ng ln ready cash One out of txt ten 1S unemployed at least part of tie t me 1F19 leav s three e ten Jho mus not o l support themselv out mu t earn enough the oth r even i sta vlng to death it seem unflttlng e 1 d ourselves of the ponslolllty of Tutuxe lea ership, with out flrst F81l1Zl1F tnat there are trsdltlons and he lt ges uo to vhlch we mu llve A challenge has netn left o HTWQ of former dates, and lt follows that ou must rlse to acc pt it eagerly standards o uccess, as evldenced oy the record oi ach evement former graduates 1S no mean one, and ve must carry formard thls grad These oann er, unlowered There are gra uate of Eufaula d1fh School represent ing it ln all chases ml life, throughout the natlon Our graduat s help govern the natlon and formulate state and local oollcles our graduates dlspense justic and, in fac exert a great lnfluence thr oughout this land of ours 1n manv ways To start at tre J6QlUHlHg, however, J vlll go oack to the flrst graduating class QUQFCGF of a century ago This cla s vas composed of three memoers, Florence Epps, now of Oklahoma City Laura Dell Sweeney, now Mrs Parry Parriss of Eufaula, whom YL all know very well and Q T out not least, Clarence Mllls, now of Oklahoma Clty Bec e ot the puolic F8SDOHSlDl1ltV of hls posltlon, we re concerned 1ly tr the last of these Clarence Wills, the first ooy grad H was graduated in the l9l4, att nded Arkansas Universlty oxgh n the World War for two years and e ght months, and e wwe tvs COllGg work, was graduated from the law school of C lar ht vers1ty In 1954 he was elected district judge and is now e n se ond term as such Only recently he has seen apnointed C Lean C Pnwllips to head the three man Tax Board of Review Ltother early graduate who deserves special mention is Otho Green local attorney who h s th distlnction of oeing the first graduate of a uc nvo h countv sctool to ootaln a college degree This degree wa at+aintd at Oklahoma Vnlverslty in 1918 Among the memoer of l t years graduating class was Rooert Green, son of Otho Green, who h d t e honor of ofung tae flrst son of the Eufaula hlgh graduate to IlW1Sh in the sane hool A l1rge nlmo of Lutsula high graduates have advanced themselves ln oolitlcs and goternment, most noted of whom are Jack Nichols, our wn congressman o the Unlted States Joe Whltaler, state senator ln klahoma leglsla 1 e, and A1rksey Nix, former deoater and orator of lfaula high school, now a representative in the Oklahoma legislature raduates of Eufauka high school who have achleved scholastic honors are Charles Follansoee, who was awarded a Harvard cholarshlp after nls senlor year at the Universlty of Oklahoma, Mary Dot Calhoun, now earying off hlgh honors in the field of bacteriology at the University at I ssouri, the former Hary Elizaoeth Simpson, professor of English at the Univers ty of Oklahoma who dld graduate work at Cambridge Un lvers ty, and Columoia Unlverslty at New York Clty W C Metcalfe's two sons, Tom and Melville, may also oe consid- erc outstanding, Tom oeing an electrical engineer statloned in Haifa, N- -1 T -J L, A I , . , -. -Q 'N 9 S , c c .. 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