Guymon High School - El Tigre Yearbook (Guymon, OK)

Text from Pages 1 - 172 of the 1956 volume:

Plenty of punch, and plenty of steam, Plenty of courage, team on the beam! Please sign here, feLlows. Circle your name If you tallied a TD for '55 fame! (and you too, Coach.) V V) 1— 36 USfTTT SOtool SI AMs iaJ AY Mit m m President Vice-pres. Secretary Treasurer We can't all be famous. We can't be great, But if you're a Tigerladder, shake, mate! So here's a space for my special pals You Cub or Tiger guys and gals. My Tiger Taxi —---------------- My Study Ruddy___________________ My Loan Company________________ The 1956 EL TIGRE of GUYMON HIGH SCHOOL Guymon, Oklahoma Featuring Our Faculty Volume XI Edited by Gail Crowder CONTENTS Dedication 3 Administration 4 Classes 8 Seniors 10 Juniors 41 Sophomores 53 Ninth Grade 65 Eighth Grade 77 Seventh Grade 87 Sports .96 Football 98 Basketball 106 Activities 116 Advertising .143 Index 163 DEDICATION The 19 5 6 EL TIGRE salutes MRS. D. K. ADAMS who this spring completes her twentieth year of service in Guymon schools. Young in body, mind, and spirit, Bessie Adams’ zestful approach to classroom teaching offers a constant challenge to her pupils and her fellow teachers— “Live, Learn, Grow!” Our Superintendent For thirteen years Guymon schools have grown materially and educationally under the efficient guid- ance of George Washington Spenner, our progressive superintendent. During each year of his stay here, class- rooms and buildings have been added, improvements have been made in equipment, and the faculty has been expanded to meet the needs of the rapidly growing Guymon area. This material growth is an impressive thing, but Guymon citizens are proud that under Mr. Spenner’s superintendency the educational standards attained have expanded proportionally. Boys and girls from Guymon schools graduate well qualified to maintain their roles in the collegiate or business scene. The Guymon High School diploma is more than a scrap of paper; it is a record of achievement. George Washington Spenner is a native Oklaho- man born in Major County. As a boy, he attended schools in Ringwood and Cleo Springs. Later he went on to obtain an AB degree at Northwestern State Teachers College, Alva, and entered the teaching profession. As his desire to become an administrator matured, he worked out a Master’s degree at Phillips University, Enid, and has done additional hours of graduate work at the Uni- versity of Wyoming. After thirty years as a teacher and school adminis- trator, Mr. Spenner has never regretted his choice of a career. He feels that teaching, with its increasing public service opportunities, is a great profession, worthy of a man’s best efforts. For Guymon schools, Superintendent Spenner’s goal is continued progress, with the Accent on Youth!” DEFINITELY NOT DERELICT. Old High, now designated as the Administratioin Building, certainly was not vacated when the new Senior High was opened in 1953. Becoming more beautiful each year as inside improvements are made, the old building contains Superintendent Ceorge Spenner's suite of offices, the completely modernized speech and trades and industries departments, a Little Theatre in the process of renovation, the local state text book repository, and, on the second floor, the vocal music department. AN AMAZING BUILDING. Visitors to Senior High, now in its third year of occupancy, are always surprised and impressed with the unusual features of this super-modem school plant. The Auditorium on the southwest wing is acknowledged one of the finest in the Tri-State area. The large library-study room and the two ranks of classrooms, each with outside lighting and ventilation, have double level elevation. The Senior High circu- lating area, a veritable solarium, with its glass wall on the south, has become Tigerland's tribal gathering place, the spot for im- promptu assemblies, rehearsals, holiday carolling, and the spectacular Junior-Senior prom each spring. and new Principal Harold Burton Hunnicutt came to CHS as a science and mathematics teacher in 1954. With the resignation of C. S. Hacker effective this fall, Mr. Hunnicutt was named principal of Senior High and, as such, became one of the youngest principals of a Class A high school in Oklahoma. Supt. G. W. Spenner, speaking of the ap- pointment, said, It is very gratifying to us at Guymon to have among our classroom teachers a young man qualified in every way to fill the CHS principalship.’ Bom in our athletic rival town, Elk City, Mr. Hun- nicutt demonstrated that he was a dyed-in-the-wool Tigerlander as the Number One Guymon rooter when the Tigers met the Elks in the district football play-offs. His first years of school were spent in Arkansas, but the family returned to Elk City, where he graduated from high school. The University of Oklahoma was his alma mater, and he has both his BS and Master of Education degrees from that school. Although Mr. Hunnicutt at one time considered engineering as his life work, he has found his five years in the teaching profession absorbing and rewarding. Having taught two years of math and science at Clinton and two at Guymon before becoming principal here, he still retains one class of advanced algebra this year. He feels that classroom work is a good way for an administra- tor to keep his finger on the pulse of the school. An early steering of the boy and girl into their most fruitful life work is one of Mr. Hunnicutt’s educa- tional goals for Guymon. He plans to interview and counsel every sophomore and junior this year, to help the lower classmen make a proper individual choice of elective subjects. Centrals Mr. Alden Another native Oklahoman is Central Junior High’s principal, Mark Alden. A veteran schoolman with thirty-two years of teaching to his credit, Mr. Alden first came to Guymon in 1946 from a grade principalship in Cherokee. His ten years at Guymon have been a period of expansion and development in Central’s teaching staff, plant, and equipment, as well as a time of greatly in- creased enrollments. Mark Eugene Alden was bom in Glencoe, attended school at Chelsea and Fairview, and graduated from an Oklahoma City high school. Like a number of our faculty, Mr. Alden attended Northwestern State Teach- ers College at Alva, where he earned a BS degree. Work on his Master of Education degree was accomplished at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. In his many years as a schoolman, Central’s princi- pal has taught or coached at Tangier, Supply, Gage, Laveme, and Cherokee. A coach for fifteen years, Mr. Alden prefers administration, but he says, “If I weren’t a principal, I’d still want to be a teacher,” and his eyes twinkle as he admits to a sideline of his,baby sitting. The six grandchildren, three for each of his two daughters, provide him with ample training. No administrator in Guymon schools is more con- cerned with the well-rounded personality of his boys and girls than Mr. Alden. He believes in firmness with fairness as something the junior high teen-ager wants and needs. Tigerlanders who have attended Central all respect and admire Principal Alden, whose one aim is to make Guymon schools a moral, mental, and social train- ing unit in the best tradition of the American life. CUBS COME FROM HERE! Central Junior High, a comfort- able, handsome building, houses the seventh, eighth, and ninth grade classes in two long classroom wings on the north and south of Tigcrland's commodious gymnasium. In the two story west wing may be found the orchestra, art and science rooms, while at the front of the building are the long study room, the library, Mr. Alden’s offices, and the homemaking department, consisting of a parlor and kitchen-sewing room. Academy’s Mr. Carrier ACADEMY’S SHADE CALLS! Academy Elementary School with its big trees, its nodding spring tulips, its beautiful shrub- bery, and its gaily decorated windows, is one of the most at- tractive buildings on the campus. As wing after wing has been added, the building now forms a large U, fronting on Academy, Sixth, and James Streets and housing its majority share of the total grade enrollment of 704. At the left may be seen a typical classroom in the beautiful new Northeast School, first occupied this fall. Although Principal Frank Carrier’s offices are in Academy Elementary Building on the main campus, he belongs to all of Guymon’s grade schools—Salyer, Edison, and the new Northeast at Thirteenth and Crum- ley Streets. And a busy day he spends getting around to see what his grade people are doing and learning. Frank Orvil Carrier was born in Bloomington, Ill- inois. His grade school work, however, was done in Hardtner, Kansas, and high school diploma earned at Alva. Later he went on to obtain his Bachelor’s degree at Alva’s Northwestern and his Master’s at Oklahoma A and M, Stillwater. A member of the teaching profession for twenty- nine years, Mr. Carrier first started as a coach-teacher, at Vici and Arnett. Tigerlanders feel that he is the ideal grade school principal. His little Tiger Kittens all love him for his combination of kindness and patience. Mr. Carrier knows that fear should be no part of discipline with his little people, that children learn respect for authority only by being treated with dignity and respect. Mr. Carrier is very active in Guymon community life, for he has made Guymon his home town. He belongs to a number of civic clubs and fraternal organizations, all of which help him to a better understanding of Guy- mon children’s problems both at home and at school. The tremendous growth made in our grade enrollment in the past ten years does not dismay Mr. Carrier. Some- how he manages an uncrowded classroom and a com- petent teacher for every Guymon grade child. CLASSES AT THEIR BEST! Elected for their leadership, scholarship, character and service are 1956 National Honor Society members: seniors Lloyd Burton, Gail Crowder, Judy Noonan, Robert Northrup; juniors Gerald Barker, Bill Har- ris, Fannye Johnson,- and sophomore probationers Barbara Allen, Sandra Allen, Sue Hays, Carolyn Hull, and Glenda Hamilton. CLASSES Cute as a kitten, restful as a place by the fireside, interesting as your own high school annuals is Tigerland’s choice for yearbook honoree, pert Joy Dee Curtis Fulton. Our 1956 El Tigre Queen. Our wonderful 1956 seniors 9 This is a class who can take it on the chin and come up smiling. Although our sixty-seven seniors learned early in September that it was not going to be feasible to continue the annual trips, they quickly rallied and plunged into the activities of their last year in Tigerland. Here is a group above average in abilities. There are future scientists, doctors, lawyers, ministers, and teachers in the Class of ’56. And there are artists, musicians, singers, and actors of rare talents too. The class numbers among its predominantly male mem- bership of forty-five some of the leading future farmers of the area and some of the best athletes GHS has ever graduated. Senior energies have been directed into many channels in addition to the regular classroom work. A large percentage of the class have regular employment and arc already saving for next year’s college expenses. CHS sends more than fifty percent of her graduates to universities and colleges annually, and the Class of 56 will be no exception. Final activities of the year will include “The Petri- fied Forest,’’ their senior play, the Junior-Senior Ban- quet and Prom, the Baccalaureate, Senior Class Day, and, on May 24, Commencement. Senior officers, with an eye out for Pioneer Day mounts, posing at Guymon’s Livestock Arena are Cary Burkleo, vice-president; Percy Tomlinson, president; Judy Noonan, secretary,- and Cleva Melton, treasurer. PICK A QUEEN! Either Barbara Heard, Pat Tucker, Leona Peterson, or Margaret Ralstin might he the lucky girl to wear regal rohe and crown at Guymon’s Pioneer Parade, May 5. BOSTON BEGS BALLOTS! “Shall I write ‘Samples’ on these?” quips Gay Boston to senior queen candidate Gail Crowder, Jim Rogers, and Nancy Bunger at the School Carnival. THIS IS DUCKY! Live minutes until fourth hour chemistry class, and no spark! X'hy not grab a duck and fly in from the lake, Boh Denney, Jerry McVey, and Rex Howe? start out at Guymon’s Fair, WHAT’S THE WILDLIFE GIMMICK? Seniors Merlin Howell and Jim Pieratt figure there must be some unexplored angles to this wildlife exhibit at Guymon’s big September Fair. That’s Lou Adams, GHS ’54, plying the eager beavers with the facts. JEROME BEER Band 1,2,3,4; Choir 3,4; Glee Glee Club 2; Track 1,4; F.F.A. 1,2,3,4; Pep Club 3,4; Industrial Arts 4; Mikado 3; Gondoliers. DUANE BENNETT Choir 2,3,4; Glee Club 1,2,3; Junior Play Stage Helper 3; Basketball 1,2,4; Football 1,2; Track 1,2; Pep Club 1,2,3,4 ; Cheerleader 3; G. Club 1,2; Baseball 4; Gondoliers 4; Mikado 3; Usher 3,4. WAYNE BOOTH Mixed Chorus 4; Speech Play 4; Basketball 2; Football 1,2,; Track 1,2; F.F.A. 1,2,3; Teen Town 1; Pep Club 3,4; Drama 4; Gondo- liers 4. GAY BOSTON Band 1; Choir 1,2,3,4; Librarian in Choir 4; Choir Sweetheart Candidate 4; Glee Club 1,2,3,4; Junior Play Make Up 3; F.H.A. 2; Pep Club 3,4; Girl’s P.E. 1; Mikado 3; Gondoliers 4. gam BIG, BLACK, AND SO SECRET! The four seniors in the sizable somber sombreros are dashing Delmer Elliot, Dean Moore, Frank West, and Wayne Booth, charter members of that mystic fraternity, “The Black Hat.” Did they win the head pieces at the Carnival? Why the dazzling rhinestone decor? Can any male join? Must members wear levis? Wouldn’t you like to know? UP IN THE AIR! Why do girls squeal on the ferris wheel? Ask Bob Lee, who has pried him- self away from his prize beef exhibit long enough to take I.eona Peterson for a whirl in space. and Carnival —13— CAROUSEL AWAY YOUR CARES. Barbara Heard and Pat Campbell aren’t getting anywhere, but who cares! It’s all part of a half holiday in the bright Septem- ber sun at the Fair. BILL BROWN Football 2; Drama Speech Play 4. RAYMOND BUHL 3,4; Basketball 1,2,3,4; Football 1, 2,3,4; Co-Captain 4; All Dis- trict 4; Track 1,2,3; T. l. 4,- G. Club 1,2,3,4; Member Constitution Committee 3; Class Vice President 2. TIFRl.’S Tl 1AT RFCRUITER? Class of ’5b brains Pat Campbell, Merlin Howell, and Leonard Nicholas, would like a crack at col- lege before getting involved in bugle call, bean line, and but two three-four! Consider college, CORKY SWATS FOR USAFA. That Northrup boy, Corky, is leaving no pages unturned in bis all-out cram for the Air Force Academy exams. We’ll bet his address, come fall, is Colorado Springs! LET UNCLE FOOT THE BILL! No big college expenses here, men! The U. S. government picks up the tab if your training is in the services. It’s sooner or later, so why not right after graduation? That’s the big question Earl Hcust, Benny Wallis, Jim Picratt, Cene Shaffer, and Frank West will answer in the next few months. GARY BURKLEO Junior Play “Sid” 3,- Basket- ball 1,2; Oklahoma Honor Society 2; T. l. 4; Class Vice President 3,4; Audio-Vision Club 2,- Ushers Club 3. LLOYD BURTON Band 2; Orchestra 2,3,4; Jun- ior Publicity 3; Publications 3,4; Sports Editor 4; National Honor Society 4; Pep Club 3,4; Speech I, Drama 3; Library 1; String Quintet 3; Ushers Club 4. or Uncle Sammy NANCY BUNGER Band 1,2,3,4; Drum Major 4; Secretary 4; Choir 1; Glee Club 1; F.H.A. 3.4; Pep Club 3,4; Girl’s P.E. 1,2,3,4. —15— JERRY CALVERT Choir 2,3,4; Glee Club 3; Basketball I; Football 1,2; F. F.A. 1,2; Pep Club 3,4; Speech 2; Drama 4; Debate 4; Radio 3,4; Mikado 3; Gon- doliers “Duke of Plaza Toro” 4. PAT CAMPBELL Mixed Chorus 4,- Publications 1,2,3; Basketball 1; Track 1; National Honor Society 2,3,4; Pep Club 3,4; Speech 1; Choir Stage Manager 4; All- District Choir 4; Assistant Sports Editor 3; Usher 3; Drivers Training Team 2; The Gondolier’s “Grancesdo” 4; Audio-Vision Club 2. DUANE COOPER Band I; Basketball 1; Track 1,2,3,4; F.F.A. Sentinel 4; F.F.A. 1,2,3,4; Pep Club 3,4. JACK CORNELL Wichita, Kansas 1; Basket- ball 1,2; Track 1,2; T. I. 3; President Guymon Wood- workers Club 4; Basketball 4; Drivers Training Team 4. REAL JACKET WEATL1ER: For months Tiger football lettermen had been enduring admiring feminine glances and tropical Panhandle weather in their Arctic-weight leather “G” jackets. Then suddenly, just as spring peeped around the comer, the fickle High Plains mercury dipped toward zero. Pranking in Municipal Park’s ice-bound wonderland arc Tom Fulton, Rex Howe, Bob Denney, Jerry McVey, Percy Tomlinson, Raymond Buhl, and Fikc Morgan, more than 1,000 pounds of Tiger brawn. garner big G's” for Guymon, —16— Best Athletes . —17— Lithe, graceful Nancy Bunger, captain ot her class girls’ basketball team, wishes Tiger- land girls could participate in inter-school sports, like her classmate Tim Neas, who dazzled 1956 cage fans with his lightning- quick ball handling. In the insert, captain Neas, backed by admiring Guymon fans, receives the Tigers’ winning trophy at the Alva tourna- ment, March 18. ONE ‘K’ OR TWO IN ‘ARTIKLE’?” ASKS SIDDERS. Won’t some bosses get the surprise of their lives when their ne vly hired stenographers turn out to be Richard Sidders, Dewey Deane or Gene Shaffer. Now pretty Pat Tucker and Bobbie Sue Stewart seem more the type to type. can type a tidy letter, SHE TURNS OUT TOP TYPISTS GHS typing teacher, Miss Aleida Robinson, is another of our Guymon products, born here and a Tigerlander during her twelve years of grade and high school. She has been our high school typing teacher for four years, ever since completing her BA degree in our neighboring PAMC, at Goodwell. Miss Robinson has no gaps in her busy day. The typewriters in her beautifully kept classroom keep up a continual clickity-clack from early morn- ing until late evening. She has two sections of ad- vanced typing for juniors and seniors and four classes of beginners, all striving diligently to reach the high standards of perfection Miss Robinson expects and attains from her pupils. For the past two years Miss Robinson has served as a senior co-sponsor with her special re- sponsibility the class finances. This year when the school concession stand passed into the joint own- ership of the three classes, she became faculty business manager for that group too. At the noon lunch period, she is cashier at the Academy dining room. Miss Robinson, who loves her home and household duties, enjoys sewing and makes many of her attractive classroom clothes. She is a member of the Oklahoma Book Club and very active in the service of her Church of Christ. In the summers she finds her graduate courses at Oklahoma A and M very stimulating, but she says that she intends to devote her vacations very soon to a grand tour of the United States, which she hopes to extend into Canada. SOME: FFA PROJECT, NO DOUBT! Since El Tire’s photographer only takes pictures during the school day, it is obvious that these fine Future Farmers have permit slips to make fudge at home. Otherwise “fudging” is frowned on by the faculty. Better bring Mr. Hunnicutt a piece to he on the safe side, men. CAIL CROWDER Band 1,2,3; Majorette 1,2,3,- Orchestra 1,2,3; Junior Play 3; Publications 3,4; Associate Editor of Tiger Tales 3; Class Editor 3; El Tigre Editor 4; National Honor Society 4; Oklahoma Honor Society 2,3, 4; Pep Club 1,2,3,4; Cheer- leader 1,2,3,4; Drama 4; Girl’s P.E. 1,2; Drivers Train- ing Team 2,- Senior Football Queen Candidate 4,- Football Queen Attendant 1. BOBBY DENNEY Basketball 1,2; Football 1,2,3; Track 1,2,3; F.F.A. Okla- homa Wheat King 2; Na- tional Dairy Products Judging Team 2,- Pep Club 3; Speech 4; G. Club 3; Usher 3. on the DELMER ELLIOT Basketball 1; Track 1; F.F.A. 1,2,3,4; Guymon Woodwork ers Club. 4. faculty, or fudge DEWEY DEANE Speech Play 4; Publications 4; Track 1,2,3,- F.F.A. 1,2; Pep Club 3,4; Drama 4; Guy- mon Woodworkers Club 4. Year after year, when strong leadership was needed, the Class of ’56 has relied on the good judgment and foresightedness of this pair of class officers, Cleva Melton and Percy Tomlinson. Best all-around . . . —20— RAIL BIRDS. Popular spot for acquiring that first spring coat of tan and adding the vitamins needed to make those typical Class of ’56 super high grades is the south entrance rail. Senior sun seekers here are Audine Lewis, Rose Anna Pierce, Jerome Beer, Torn Hardiman, our two Duanes, Cooper and Bennett, Mary Jo Morgan, and Robbie Hale. VC AYNF FVANSON VC'oodward 1; Band 1; Choir 1,2,3; Basketball 1,2; Foot- ball 1,2; Track 1; Pep Club 3; Library 1,2,3; T. L 3,4. KAY FRENCH Band 1; Mixed Chorus 1,2,3, 4; Glee Club 1,2,3,4; Quartet 2,3; Junior Play Line Coach, Assistant 3; Publications 4; F.H.A. 2; Pep Club 3,4; Speech 1; Girl’s P.E. 1; Stu- dent Director Choir 4; Mikado 3; Gondoliers “Duch- ess” 4. JOY FULTON Band 1,2,3; Orchestra 1,2,3; Choir 1; Glee Club 1,- Junior Play 3; Pep Club 3,4; Presi- dent 3,4; Drama 2,3; Girl’s P.F. 1,2,3. TOMMY FULTON Junior Play Usher 3; Basket- ball 1,2,3,4; Football Co-Cap- tain and All District 4; Foot- ball 1,2,3,4; Track 1,2,3,4,-C. Club 1,2,3; Baseball 4; Class Secretary 1. seek the sun, —21— get caught, J. D. GRIDER Mixed Chorus 1, Junior Play Stage Manager 3; Basketball 1, Track I; Teen Town 1; Pep Club 3,4,- Speech 2; T. I. 3,4; T. I. President 4; Driv- ers Training Team 2. ROBBIE HAI.E Choir 1; F.H.A. 3,4; Pep Club 1,2,3,4; Cirl’s P.E. 1,2,3,- Kayette’s Garden City 4. TOMMY HARDIMAN Ames 1,2; Basketball 1,2; Pep Club 1,2,3,4,- Library 2; T. I. 4; Drivers Training Team 3; Baseball 1,2. ALBERTA HARRIS Pep Club 3,4; Girl’s P.E. 1; T. I. 4. HOW DID HE FIND OUT? Gail Crowder, Joy Fulton, and Barbara Heard will never know what devious Dick Tracy devices Principal Hunnicutt used to learn who wrote those congratulatory Halloween messages all over our south glass wall. Tim Neas and Raymond Buhl feel that the punishment fits the crime. LAKE SUNSET OR BUST! This limping, laminated no-tone conflirtihle wouldn't make it to Lake Murray anyway, but we could push it to—or into—Lake Sunset. The fender “skirts” arc Bobbie Sue Stewart and Betty Hawthorne. The radiator cap is Pat Tucker. The pilot, co-pilot and co-co-pilot are Dclmcr Elliot, Jerome Beer, and Jerry Calvert. BETTY HAWTHORNE W’ynncwood 1,2; Lcvelland 3; Choir 1,2; Glee Club 1,2; Junior Play 3; Golf 3; Pep Club, 1,2; Library 1,2; Girls’ PE. 1,2,3,4. BARBARA HEARD Band 1,2,3; Orchestra 1,2; Junior Play “Joan” 3,- Publi- cations Class Editor 3; Busi- ness Manager 4,- Pep Club 1,2,3,4; Cheerleader 1; Foot- ball Queen Attendant 1 ; Drivers Training Team 2; Drama 4; Girl’s P.E. 1,2. DIANNE HINDS Goodwcll 1,2,3; Band 1; Choir 1,- Glee Club 1; Junior Play 3; Publications 4; F.H. A. Secretary 3; Oklahoma Honor Society 4; Pep Club 1,2,3; Library 3,- Vice Presi- dent of Class 2,3,- Freshman Play; Homecoming Queen Candidate 2. REX HOW I Woodward 1.2,3,- Choir 1; Football 1,2,3,4,- Track 1,2,3, 4; Teen Town 3; Art Club 3,- Student Council 2; Letter- man's Club 2,3. plan our trip, take shorthand BUSINESS IS HIS BUSINESS. Another Oklahoman is our business teacher, Wayne Howland completing his second year in GHS this spring. Mr. Howland teaches shorthand, bookkeeping, and a combined civics-Oklahoma History course. He manages to keep his classes alert and busy, laying particular stress on the needs of the pupil when he is employed in office work after graduation. Mr. Howland is also one of three senior sponsors, giving his attentions particularly to the supervision of the senior interests in the con- cession stand. Wayne Lester Howland was born at Waukita and graduated from Gore High School, at Jeffer- son. After completing business courses at Ameri- can Business College, Wichita, Kansas, he earned a BS degree from Oklahoma A and M. He returned to Gore High School as an instructor and taught there four years before coming to Guymon. Mr. Howland and his wife, a surgical nurse at Guymon’s Municipal Hospital, have one small daughter, Frances Gail, born here last spring. The Howlands like travel and plan to see all of the United States at least when Frances Gail can enjoy the sights too. Mr. Howland’s hobby is photog- raphy, and he says. “If I ever make my first million, I m going to have all the photographic equipment I’d like to have now. “What is your ambition, Mr. Howland?” El Tigre’s faculty interviewer, Bobbie Sue Stewart, asked him. He flashed his very pleasant smile and replied, “I’d like to grow old gracefully!” MERLIN HOWELL Publications 4; Oklahoma Honor Society 2,3,4; Pep Club 3,4; Debate 2; N.F.L. 2; Con- cession Stand Committee Chair- man 4. JIMMY HUGHES Mixed Chorus 3; Glee Club 2, 3; Junior Play 3; Speech Play 2,4; Publications 4; Basketball 1; Track I; Teen Toxvn 1; Pep Club 3,4; Speech I; Drama 1,2, 3,4; Library 1; LIshers Club 3; Mikado 3. JERRY HULL Mixed Chorus 1; Junior Play 3; Publications Sports Editor 4; Basketball Manager 1,2; Foot- ball 1,2; Track 1, National Honor Society 2,3,4; Pep Club 3; T. l. Reporter 3; G. Club 2, 3; Drivers Training Team 2; Radio 4; Concession Stand Chairman 4; Ushers Club 3,4; Audio-Vision Club 2. JERRY JOHNSON Basketball Manager 1; Football 1,2; Track 1,2,3,4; T. L 4; C. Club 2,3,4; Baseball 4; Indus- trial Arts Club 4. ROBERT LEE Publications 4; F.F.A. 1,2,3,4; F.F.A. Treasurer 3,4; Crops Judging Team 2,3,4; State Champion Team 3; National Honor Society 2,3,4; Okla- homa Honor Society 1,2,3,4; Pep Club 3,4; Usher 3,4. AUDINF LEWIS Junior Play 3; Pep Club 3; Drama 3;Girls’ P.E. 1,2;T. I. 4; Football Queen Candidate 2. SHALL WE WORK OR TRY COLLEGE? Mrs. Martin counsels Bill Brown, Bennie Wallis, and Don Wilcox on their Kuder Preference and general aptitude tests, while Tim Neas and Jerry McVey await their turns, enjoying Mr. Hunni- cutt’s clever “Do We 1 lave One of These” cartoons. —25— or short cuts, STRICTLY BUSINESS! Carried away by the recent SEP coke ad, the busiest pair in the senior class, Gail Crowder and Robert Northrup, try out the idea for their El Tigre Boy-and-Girl-of-the-Year picture. “But we can’t be on the honors page; we’re on staff!’’ they both protested, when they learned that the Class of ’56 had named them as this year’s favorites. However, the rest of the staff felt that they had richly merited this honor, so in spite of their protests, here they are! Gail, who entered Guymon schools when she was a third grader, has been in the thick of things ever since. Band, orchestra, drama, pep club, and publications all have used her great leadership qualities. Consistently an honor and All-A student, she is a member of National 1 lonor Society and Oklahoma I lonor Society. Last year her efficiency and orig- inality as associate editor of Tiger Talcs earned for her the big job of editing Tigerland’s largest yearbook, the 1956 El Tigre, a task she has completed with unflurried ease. “Corky” Northrup has been just as efficient with his assignment as advertising manager for El Tigre. I le made short work of the thousand dollar campaign and immediately plunged into sales and circulation. Every' faculty member knows that if there is some liaison work between school and town. Corky is the man for it. Popular with all of Tigerland, Corky also belongs to NEIS, came up with high eligibility for the U. S. team up with Gail and Corky —26— BILL LEWIS Football 1,2,4; Track 1,2; Golf 1,2; F.F.A. 1; Pep Club 3; T. I. 3,4; Vice President 4,- Treasurer 3; G. Club 2; Class President 1. JERRY McVEY Band 1,2; Basketball 2; Foot- ball 1,2,3,4; Track 1,2,3,4; Pep Club 3; Speech 4; G. Club 2,3,- Usher 3. TOMMY MEDLEY Band 1,2,3,4; Orchestra 2,3; Junior Play 3; Speech Play 2; Debate 1,2,3,4; N.F.L. 2,3,4; Radio 2,3,4; 1st Boy’s Dalhart Debate Tournament 4. CLEVA MELTON Mixed Chorus 2,3,4; Glee Club 1,2,3,4; Junior Play “Martha” 3; Publications 4; Senior Class Editor 4; F.H.A 2; National Honor Society 3,4; Pep Club 2,3,4; Drama 3,4; Girl’s P.E. 2; Mikado 3; Gondoliers 4; Junior Class Secretary-Treasurer 3; Treas- urer 4; All District Choir 4; Who’s Who 2,- Football Queen 3. CRAM INTO JAM! Somehow this second semester cram session at Cay Boston’s seems to have slipped a cog. In the first place who ever saw such beautiful textbooks! The minute FI Tip re’s photoprapher leaves, these prade confident guests, Judy Noonan, Kay French. Mary Jo Morgan, Oneda Williams, Leona Peterson, and Margaret Ralstin. are going to head for Boston’s TV or record player. Everybody knows it’s daily work that counts anyway! —27— spend 40 years in Choir DEAN MOORE Choir 4; Basketball 1; Foot- ball 1; Track I; Speech 2; Drama 4; Debate 4; Speech Play 4; Gondoliers 4; Radio 3. . FIKE MORCAN Junior Play Stage Manager 3; Basketball 1; Football 1,2, 3,4,- Football Captain 4; Teen Town I; Pep Club 3,4; G. Club 2,3. MARY JO MORGAN Kinmundy, Illinois 3; Band 2,3; Glee Club 1,2; F.H.A. 1,2,- Pep Club 1,2,3,4; Cirl’s P. E. 1,2,3; Librarian 3. A LOT OF SINGING! The twelve seniors in this panel have an aggregate choir mem- bership of forty years! Ranged up and down the auditorium stage steps are Gay Boston, Oneda Williams, Margaret Ralstin, Leona Pet- erson, Bobbie Stewart, Pat Campbell, Duane Bennett, Wayne Booth, Jerry Calvert, Kay French, Judy Noonan, and Cleva Melton. Fresh from their triumphs in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Gondoliers” are our most versatile acting and singing duo, Kay French and Jerry Calvert, the Duchess and Duke of Plaza-Toro.” Our most talented . .. —29— WHAT SHENANIGANS ARE THESE? Is high school concession chairman Jerry Hull begging Supt. George Spcnner for an atomic popcorn popper, a larger senior financial cut, or is he just taking one more dramatic try for a renewal of the old-fashioned Senior Trip? We asked faithful stand helpers I.Ioyd Burton, Merlin Howell, Jack Cornell, and prankster Richard Siddcrs, but their lips were sealed. manage to make some money. . . ALICE MIISSMAN Band 1,2,3,4; Pep Cluli 3,4; Drama 4,- Girl’s P.E. 1,2,3,. TIM NEAS Basketball 1,2,3,4; Captain 3,4; Football 1,2; Track 1; Colf2, T. l. 4;C. Club 2,3; Baseball 4; Boy’s State 3; Audio-Vision Club 2; Who's Who 3; Regional Driving Meet 2. LEONARD NICHOLAS Basketball 1; Track 1,3; F.F. A. 1,2; F.F.A. Reporter 1; Oklahoma Honor Society 2,3, 4,- Honorary Escort at Com- mencement 3. JUDY NOONAN Choir 1,4; Secretary and Treasurer 4; Clee Club 1,3,4; Junior Play 3; F.H.A. 2; Na- tional Honor Society 4; Pep Club 3,4; Speech 1; Debate 3,4,- K. O. Conference Team Winner 4; N.F.L. 3,4,- Pan- handle A. M. Team Winner 4; Dalhart Team Winner 4; Girl’s P.E. I; Drivers Train- ing Team 3; Radio 2; Gon- doliers 4; Girl’s State 3. ROBERT NORTHRUP Publications 4; Business Manager 4; Basketball 2,- Manager 2; National Honor Society 4; Pep Club 3,4; Cap- tain of Roughnecks 4; G. Club 2,3; Usher’s Club 3,4. LEONA PETERSON Choir 1,2,3,4; Librarian 3,4; Glee Club 1,2,3,4; Publica- tions Senior Editor 4; F.H.A. 2; Pep Club 3,4; Girl’s P.E. 1,2,- Girl’s State 3; Mikado 3; Gondoliers 4,- Candidate for Choir Sweetheart 4; All District Choir 4. GLEN PHILLIPS Junior Play Stage Manager 3; Football 2; Track 1; F.F.A. 1,2,3,4; Sentinel 3; Vice Pres- ident 4; Pep Club 3,4; Okla- homa Wheat King Runner Up 2nd; National Dairy Pro- ducts Team placed 1st; Na- tional 2nd year. JACQUELYN PIERATT Hugoton 1,2,3; Band 1; Mixed Chorus 1,2; Glee Club 1,2,3,- Pep Club 1,2,3,4 ; Library 3; Girl’s P.E. 1; Radio 4. to spend for Senior Week, TIGERLAND’S LADY BANKER! GHS bursar, Miss Ethel Deakin, has been a member of the teaching profession since Oklahoma as a state was one year old in 1908. She has seen our schools grow from the one room-one teacher stage to the fine institutions one sees here in Guy- mon and elsewhere in the state. Born in Texas, Ora Ethel Deakin went to school in Iowa and Colorado before she came to Guymon where she finished her high school course. After some preliminary experience in teaching, she completed her BS at Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, and her MA at Colo- rado University, Boulder. For twenty-five years, Miss Deakin was head of the mathematics department at Spearman, Texas, High School. This year is Miss Deakin’s fourteenth in our system. From 1915-18 she taught in our elementary grades. In 1945 she returned to GHS as mathematics instructor and sponsor of Na- tional Honor Society. In recent years she has de- voted part time to the custodianship of our increas- ingly complex activity funds and this year is de- voting full-time to this very important phase of Tigerland’s life. Rest assured, Tigerland’s wheels would not turn so smoothly without Miss Deakin’s efficiency in her business office adjoining Mr. Spenner’s ad- ministrative suite. JIMMY PIERATT Football; Track; Pep Club 3, 4; Speech 2. ROSE ANNA PIERCE Choir 1,3; Glee Club I; Jun- ior Play Line Coach 3; Speech Play 1; Publications Index Editor 4; National Honor So- ciety 3,4; Oklahoma Honor Society 3,4; Pep Club 3,4; Speech 1,2; Drama 3. WE WON AGAIN! Rosie Rye calls long distance to her mother at Goodwell to tell her that Judy Noonan and she have added another big debate win to their long victory record. This time the Guymon seniors won honors at the important Denver Forensic Meet in February. act, debate, MARGARET RALSTIN Choir 1,2,3,4; Clee Club 1,2, 3,4; Mixed Quartet 2; Trio I; Junior Play 3; Publications 4; F.H.A. Parliamentarian 2; Pep Club 1,2,3,4; Speech 1; Girl’s P.0. 1,2,3; All District Choir 4; Mikado 3; Gondo- liers Guild 4. EARL REUST Junior Play 3; F.F.A. 1,2,3,4; Secretary 4; Crops Team 2,3, 4,- Speech 4; Debate 4; Dis- trict Soil Conservation Con- test Winner 4. OLD FACEFUL’S FURIOUS! You never know what will happen when you get a drink in English IV. Either Mrs. Martin or that funny faucet is sure to spout at you. dig and drown For their solid worth and reliability, for their fine American ideals, and for their community potential, the Class of ’56 honors Rose Anna Pierce and Leonard Nicholas. Our best citizens —34— ♦ ♦ ♦ salute Entre Nous’ Queens, NINR OF A KIND! All majesties for a month are these talented senior «iris selected by F.ntre Nous, local women’s club, to receive special recognition in the Cuymon newspapers for a designated school month. After being displayed in our C.HS trophy case, a beautiful framed gift photograph was presented each girl. Following are the queens throughout the year: September, Judy Noonan; October, Rose Anna Fierce; November, Kay French; December, Gail Crowder; January, Margaret Ralstin; February, Barbara Heard; March, Rosie Rye,- April, Cleva Melton; and May, Gay Boston. JIMMIE ROGERS Choir I; Basketball 1,2; Foot- ball I. VIVIAN ROWELL Choir 1,- Pep Club 3,4; Speech 4; Cirl’s P.E. 1,2,4; Art 3. ROSE MARIE RYE Choir 2,3,4,- Junior Play 3,- Speech Play 1,2,3,- Pep Club 2,3,4,- Speech 1,2,3,4; Drama 1,2,3,4; Debate 1,2,3,4; N.F. L. 1,2,3,4. GENE SHAFFER Coodwell 1,- Band !; Choir I ; Basketball 1,2,- Football 1,2 ,- Track 1; F.F.A. 2,3, Pep Club 3,4; Drama 4; President of Class 1,- Speech Play 4; Wood- workers Club 4. RICHARD SIDDERS Clioir 1,3,3,4; President 4; A1 State 4; Mixed Quartet 3 Glee Club 1,2; Quartet 2,3,4 Basketball 1,2; Football 1,2 Captain 1; Track 1,2,3; Pe| Club 3,4; Cheerleader 3; De bate 1,3; Baseball 4; Conces sion Co-Chairman 4. QUINTEN SMITH Basketball 1,2; Football 1; Track I; Pep Club 3. BOBBIE STEWART Choir 1,2,3,4; Glee Club 1,2, 3,4; Junior Play Gus” 3; Publications 4; F.H.A. 2; Pep Club 2,3,4; Speech 1,2,3,4; Drama 1,2,3,4; Girl’s P. E. 1, 2; Gondoliers “Tessa” 4; All State Choir 4; All District choir 4. PERCY TOMLINSON Basketball 1,2,3; Football 1, 2,3,4; Captain 4; All-District 4; F.F.A. 1,2,3,4; Reporter 2; Vice President 3; President 4; National Dairy Products Judging Team 2; National Honor Society 2,3,4; Okla- homa Honor Society 1,2,3,4; Speech 4; Library 1; G. Club 2,3,4; News Editor 3; Class President 2,3,4; Vice Presi- dent 1; Boys’ State 3; All Around Student 1; Who’s Who 2. DARN THOSE JUNIORS! “We gave those pesky juniors a real race for Football Queen and top Carnival money, but they out- numbered us and out-whitewashed us!” grumble Queen Candidate Gail Crowder's promoters, Leona Peterson and Percy Tomlinson. As for Bob Denney, he seems to be doing a little promoting for himself with Cleva Melton. campaign for our candidates, BENNY WALLIS Stratford, Texas I; Basket- ball 1,2,3; Football 2,- Track 1,2; Audio-Vision Club 1. BURTON, THE ALTITUDE BUSTER! Tall enough for a Texan is six feet five inch Lloyd Burton. Nearsighted little Jacquc Pieratt has to stand on the wastebasket to get a good squint at that altitude. We'll need a lot of graduation gown for that boy! grow short and tall, LIFT THOSE LOWER LOCKERS! Lower those higher lockers! Of course, six footer Vivian Rowell gets a squatty bottom locker, while Shorty Mussman comes up with a top story ladder job. As for Yvonne Webb, she seems to have lost her key again, so what does it matter? PATSY TUCKER Pep Club 1,3,4; Drama 3,4; Library I,- Girls’ P.E. 1,2,3- 1:1. TIGRE’S HERE! Teachers, both Cub and Tiger, grin and bear it the May day that El Tigre arrives from the printers. Every- thing else dims out until the big autograph ordeal is over. More time lost, more pens lost, more fun! I find a secluded prom spot BEHIND Tin: BARRIER! Jiggers, gang, better ge, hack ,o the Circulating Area! This auditorium entry is strictly-out. of hounds. Or don't you care about the liltinf- rhythms of that rock-and-roll “See You I.ater, Alligator, Judy Noonan, Ea Roust, Nancy Hunger, Jim Rogers, I.cona Peterson, and Robert Lee. DON WILCOX Mixed Chorus 1,2,3; Glee Club 1,2,3; Basketball I; F. F.A. 1,2; Teen Town 1; Pep Club 3,4; Speech 1,- T. l. 4; Driving Team 3, ONEDA WILLIAMS Choir 1,2,3,4; Mikado 3; Gondoliers 4; Glee Club 1,2, 3,- Junior Play 3; F.H.A. His- torian 2; Pep Club 3,4; Speech 1; Drama 3; Debate 4; Girl’s P.E. 1. GARY WINGARD Band 2; Mixed Chorus 2,3; Basketball 1,2,3; Track 1; Golf 1,2. ONCE IN A LIFETIME! Two surprised and happy Tigerlandirs are Robert Lee and Percy Tomlinson. Principal Harold Hun- nicutt sternly asked them to report to his office “on-the-double.” Once there, however, they learned that they have achieved the highest scholastic averages for the Class of ’56 and are the official valedictorian and salutatorian. DIPLOMA DAY, MAY 24! Our Day-of-Days was Thursday, May 24, when we paraded around in our white gowns and black tassled caps, practiced for the Last Mile,” posed for Mrs. LaMar’s This Is ’56” movie, and autographed El Tigres until our arms ached. But the big moment came when we marched one by one up to the stage, after a won- derful inspiring address by Dr. Roy H. Cantrell, president of Bethany Nazarene College, to receive the long awaited diploma. and actually get diplomas! Our Juniors aren 't drifting . . . Boasting an enrollment that hovers constantly around the one hundred mark, CHS juniors are stay- ing in school with less turnover and fewer dropouts than most upper classes. But after all, where is there more to do, or more fun to be had, than in Tigerland? Of course, you’ll find all of the Class of ’57, plus a few unfortunate seniors, in the old reliable do-or-die English and American history sections, but from there the juniors branch out to suit their inclinations—math, science, vocations, fine arts. Most juniors have their future plans rather well in mind, and they are going after their goals. Big social event of all Tigerland is the annual Junior-Senior Banquet and Prom, with the Class of ’57 footing the bill, so money-making is not the least of their activities. This year the Prom is to be opened to guests of the two classes, because our male population in CHS far exceeds our female, so the big event will be even more expensive. In 1956 the class received, in addition to their winner’s share of the school Carnival funds, a percentage of the school concession money for the first time. However, the biggest source of revenue is still the junior play, which grossed the ’57-ers around $500 in ’56. No use telling you who these jolly juniors to the left are, but just in case you don’t know their exact offices, here they are. Ted Miller, class president, is about to indulge in the forbidden sport of snowballing, if secretary Max Dearing doesn’t shovel up the precious stuff fast. Robert Hutchison, vice-president, plays cavalier, putting snow boots on giggling Grade Grider, class treasurer. NOT AGAIN! Poor Robert Hutchison feels his finances fleeing, but Carla Bentley loves those Ferris wheel rides at the Texas County Free Fair. PUBLICATIONS PEEKERS! Wonder what’s going on in there? Why does El Tigre have to be so horribly hush-hush? ’ complain Boh Boston and his louvre leerers. IT’S SNOW FUN! Only in the grades do little girls flee from snow balling little boys. In high school a man hasn’t a chance with tormenters like Carol Simmons and Kathryn Brune, put- ting John Sanders to mercy. f the Family NOSEY JOE-SY! As Henry Graybill, Joe Reese would just have to blunder into the Millers when Fred Miller has a weapon handy. That Bryan Wright swings a mean ukulele! ff IQ GOING UP! Stunned by the high flying Intelligence Quo tient of Larry Sturdivan as George the Brain” Miller, his class- mates, Jane, Betty Lou, Patty, and Alec—Betty Jean Trent, Carla Bentley, Betty Wall, and Bob Neville—gape open mouthed. It was Geraldine Tucker, as Miss Muller, the history teacher, who discovered our hero’s genius rating. FIRST ROW: Mickey Allerd, Max Baker, Gerald Barker. SECOND ROW: Loretta Bauer, Max Behne, Carla Bentley. THIRD ROW: Marcetas Berg, Glenda Birt, Lawrence Birt. ALL IN THE FAMILY! All Tigerland, from tiny kittens to old Tiger grads, roared with laughter at the sparkling three-act comedy Director James Roach and his talented junior cast presented Thursday, Jan. 26 in Senior High Auditorium. Based on an unusual plot situation, the story concerned the Miller family and what happened when their son George turned out to be a genius. Mr. Roach had his actors play their comedy roles straight, and the resulting seriousness was funnier than all the clowning in the world. El Tigre congratulates the Class of 57 on one of the funniest, most wholesome comedies ever per- formed in CHS. —42— our junior play THANKS TO THE CREW. “All in the Family” owed much of its success to our class sponsors, Mrs. Herbel, Miss Wright, and Mr. Kear, and to a very efficient production staff; student director Gracie Grider, stage managers Ira Bromlow and Bill Harris, make-up artist Tomie Delle Smith, publicity manager Shirley Yates, ticket manager John Deakin, and ushers Robert Hutchison, Jim Lee, Gerald Barker, Jim Claycomb, Jack Williams, Jack Moreland, and Dean Cribble. CHAMPION TICKET SELLERS. Four juniors who will reap a reward for outstanding ticket sales in the form of a trip to Oklahoma City to see the Atomic Energy Display in March are Bryan Wright, Shirley Talcott, Melinda Cowherd and Ira Bromlow. FIRST ROW: Frank Black, Bobby Boston, Betty Bromlow SECOND ROW: Ira Bromlow, Kathryn Brune, Bobby Burle- son. THIRD ROW: Don Carpenter, Ronald Chadick, Mara lee Chenoweth. MEET THE MILLERS PLUS BIFF. Don’t imagine this is an every night occurrence at the Millers. This blow-your-top game of Au- thors is the result of all the Millers staying home for a change. Daughter Doris, Virginia Sturdivan, would much rather be at a drive- in with brawny boy friend Biff, Wendell Williams. Fred Miller, Bryan Wright, finds the rules of the game rile him, while Larry Sturdivian and Melinda Cowherd as Genius George and his mother, Martha Miller, look on in amazement at their irate good pro- vider. FIRST ROW: Jim Claycomb, Wallace Cluck, Donnie Corbin, Melinda Cowherd, Dixie Cox, Ann Davison. SECOND ROW: John Deakin. THIRD ROW: Max Dearing. THERE’S LOTS TO THESE TWO! We juniors feel that we made a very solid selection when we named Lois Mouser and Ted Miller as our 1956 Girl and Boy of the Year. We like Lois for her clean cut good looks, her friendliness and her unflustered way of being in everything while still having time for a smile or visit with every Tigerlander. Lois came to us from Optima when she was a fourth grader. Although she always rates honor roll, she is a whiz at basketball and adores spectator sports. Her particular talent is music; she was a member of the junior high ensembles and is now active in our GHS choir. Outside of school, her hobby is playing the piano, which she does beautifully. We don’t have to tell you much about our Boy, Ted Miller. Only two years a Tigerlander, every- body knows him. You can’t be on the Tiger A football and basketball teams and a pitcher for the American Legion baseball team and keep your identity a secret. And besides, he’s our junior class prexy and a repeater for the Favorite honors in El Tigre this year. An Easterner from Pennsylvania, Ted dis- proves the theory that East and West can’t meet. “Nice guy!” we say of him, and we mean it. Clean morals, good looks, a well-adjusted personality! That's our Ted. FIRST ROW: Richard Dickerson, Clarence Eaton, Dorene Fisher, Dean Cribble, Cracie Grider. SECOND ROW: David Hale THIRD ROW: Bill Harris. VERY INTERESTING SPECIMENS! Care- fully camouflaged by the foyer fernery, Robert Hutchison and Melva Rice survey the new denizens of Tigerland and like what they see. “Should fit right in,” they whisper. “What tall boys! murmurs Melva. “What pretty girls! whistles Robert. NOT BAD! NOT BAD AT ALL! Seven new juniors size up Senior High after enrolling here this year. “It's big! It's different! It's sunny! It’s friendly! say former Tigerlanders John Sullivan and Tom Townsend, Bernita Hinds from California, Wanda Shelley and Granville Stark from Texas, Vance Ketcherside from Zurna Flat and Melinda Cowherd from Enid. welcome some newcomers, —45— WHAT A CAMPAIGN! November snows are blowing, and Bobby Pickard, Jim Moon, and Ronald Chadick are still trying to get back into Mr. Hunnicutt's good graces after that mammoth white wash Vote for Samples sign which somebody splashed on the front walk. It might have been Mrs. Herbel, or Mr. Kear. or even Miss Wright. Those sponsors certainly went all out on the Queen Pat Push last Carnival time. chalk up another Football Queen, PRETTY PAT POSES. Behind her ballot box at the outdoor Carnival junior queen candidate, Pat Samples, smiles at the counters who have just named her 1955 Football Queen. FIRST ROW: Don Henderson, John Hess, Ernest Might, Bernita Hinds. SECOND ROW: Eddie Hobson, Robert Flutchison, Ronald Johnson, Fannye Johnston, Wayne Keenan, Calvin Keith. FIRST ROW: Anna Jo Kenny, Vance Ketcherside, Cracie King, Don Krug, Jerry Kusch, Douglas Landcss. SECOND ROW: Jim Lee, Irene LeGrange, Tom LeMaster, Henry Martin. Do No + 10 Ft + HE WRONC WAY IS NOT THE WRIGHT WAY Tigcrland’s Driver Training instructor, Miss Margaret Wright, can handle a car with a neatness and precision that leaves CHS hot-rodders awed and respectful. Watch her weave in and out of the teed-up rubber balls, readying her DT teams for a contest, and you’ll agree. One of a very few feminine driver teachers in the state, Miss Wright has an enviable record of honors won in Oklahoma contests. Better yet is the safe driving record set by her many GHS students since leaving school. Margaret Wright, the daughter of the Paul Wrights of Optima, went to grade school there and graduated from Guy- mon High School in 1941. She was an honor student, active in school life, and a member of the senior play cast. She earned her BS degree at PAMC, Goodwell, and has graduate work at Oklahoma A and M, Stillwater. Miss Wright has taught eight years, all in Guymon’s junior and senior high school. At first she had some classes in Okla- homa history, but now that driver training is required for grad- uation in Oklahoma, she is busy every hour in Senior High. She sometimes extends her school hours to include some adult classes in the evenings. Miss Wright is a junior co-sponsor and has a special talent for staging the elaborate proms held in GHS in recent years. There is a wholesome outdoor quality about Miss Wright which appeals to Tigerlanders. She is an ardent sports follower, with a particular liking for the horses and baseball. Try switch- ing off her radio when a World Series game or a horse race at Hialeah is on, and we won’t vouch for your health. Her ambi- tion? To write a book I And she is just the Wright girl to do it! with Miss Wright helping, 47— MUST BE A TEXAN! Shirley Yates and Grade King aren't altogether sold on Clarence Eaton's tall talc about the time Texas annexed the United States. Mrs. Herbcl, a native Oklahoman, may have to straighten this out, or we’ll all be Yaller Roses. FIRST ROW: Reese Martin, Clarence McClan- ahan. SECOND ROW: Frank Miller,Ted Miller. THIRD ROW: Jim Moon, Jack Moreland. FOURTH ROW: Larry Morris, Lois Mouser. FIRST ROW: Jean Nelson, . ville. SECOND ROW: Joe Pe. Pickard. THIRD ROW: Tom ! Jim Quinn. FOURTH ROW Reese, Melva Rice. SHE PUTS A HEART IN HISTORY Mrs. R. J. Herbel, Senior High’s American history teacher, brings a touch of warmth and homey friendliness to her classroom and all her student contacts. She has been the confidante and school mother of her juniors ever since she first started teaching here in 1943. During most of this time, she has served as a junior sponsor. Mrs. Herbel was bom Alice Marr on a farm in Beaver County. She attended grades and high school in Laveme and Goodwell, where she remained to complete her AB degree at PAMC. A teacher for twenty-two years, she had taught in a num- ber of Panhandle schools before assuming her position at Guymon where “History” and “Herbel” have become synonyms. Alice Herbel’s home on Roosevelt is a Mecca for GHS students, past and present. Old grads are always dropping in for a chat; college students home for vacations still ask her advice about important decisions. Her juniors wouldn’t know what .to do with- out her classes, because much of the planning for our super ban- quets and proms is done in spare history moments. Mrs. Herbel says, “If I weren’t a teacher, I just wouldn’t want to be!” She says her pet peeve is bookkeeping, but she can manage a sure-win queen contest or promote the money campaign on a class play like a real financier. Church, school, or civic club—all know her talent for getting things done. Her husband, R. J., and her daughter, Zona Belle, now a school teacher and mother her- self, have had a busy wife and mother, but never a neglectful one. Mrs. Herbel’s home is just as delightful and well organized as she is. “Tiger,” her little bull-dog, knows what a great lady his mistress is! history with Herbel all out for classwork, Claycomb’s work p of us flunking,” FIRST ROW. Aurelia Roa. SECOND ROW: Pat Rodman. THIRD ROW: Marshall Rogers, Pat Samples, John Sanders, Wanda Shelly, Darlene Sidders. FOURTH ROW: Carol Simmons, Tomie Smith, Gran- ville Stark, Larry Sturdivan, Virginia Sturdivan. L-ADY IN DISTRESS! Oh, lack-a-day! Caught in the grip of one of the Panhandle's terrific three inch snowstorms, Carla Bentley just isn’t going to make it to Mr. DeMuth’s business arithme- tic. May we suggest that she subtract Donnie Corbin from the front bumper and add Wayne Keenan, plus Corbin, to the back bumper. Or better yet put one foot in front of the other for a half block. HE VARIES HIS VOCATIONS A big addition, in more ways than one, to our GHS faculty this year is towering F. A. DeMuth, mathematics instructor and coach of the Tiger “B” squad. He lives in the Hough community on his farm and drives one of our school buses each day too. A friendly giant of a man, he seems to have established himself in Tigerland as a very competent and dependable friend of both student and faculty. Francis Alvin DeMuth is a Kansan, born at Kiowa where he spent his grade and high school days. He graduated from North- western State Teachers College at Alva with a BS degee in science and education and a sports record that rivals that of most coaches in this area. He was picked for the Little All American team in his junior year at Alva and for the All State team two years. He was a three sports man, lettering in football, basketball, and track for NSTC. Mr. DeMuth has branched out a bit from teaching; he is a farmer and has frequently combined engineering with his other in- terests, during fifteen years of coaching and teaching. “I began as a coach at Ulysses,” he says, “and went from there to Ashland, Kansas. My next move was to Taos, New Mexico, where I taught math and science and learned to appreciate the gracious Latin culture of our New Mexican neighbors.” Last year Mr. DeMuth coached at Yarbrough, transferring his son Jan, a GHS student, to that school. But now Jan is a KU Jay- hawk, and Mr. DeMuth is a Tigerlander. The DeMuths, who have been married twenty years, have a little four year old daughter, who “quarterbacks our DeMuth team right now!” don't we, Mr. D., FIRST ROW: John Sullivan, Shirley Talcott, Mary TeBeest, Tom Townsend, Betty Trent, Geraldine Tucker. SECOND ROW: Bonnie Wall. THIRD ROW: Keith Watson WHAT'S THE PITCH? You’d expect to find upstanding juniors, Jack More- land, Max Hearing, and Bonnie Wall, engrossed in the educational exhibits at our County Fair. But somehow sophie Ronnie BurkJeo has enticed them to try their luck at a Carnival game of chance. Those sophies! NEXT YEAR MAYBE! Every junioi girl dreams of someday having her pic- ture in the CHS trophy case as Senior- Girl-of-thc-Month, the special distinc- tion award of Entre Nous, local women’s civic club. Alberta Nelson, Glenda Birt, and Margaret Welsh ad- mire the portrait of January’s senior, Margaret Ralstin. NO TERMITES! John Deakin, having conducted a personal wall-to-wall in- spection of the popcorn popper’s lower regions, reports it in top notch condi- tion for the ’57 concession stand. Pat Rodman, Dorcne Fisher, and Bill Harris frankly didn’t think he could fold up that small. (Read down and over) : Laura Wells, Mar garet Welsh, Priscilla West, Jackie Wil- liams, Wendell Williams, Marvella Wilson, Bryan Wright, Shirley Yates. and dream Our sophomores are solid . CHS sophomores numbering fifty boys and forty- three girls wasted no time in making themselves at home in senior high. They immediately channelled their energies and talents into every Tiger activity. Band, choir, and sports in particular were considerably bolstered in size a effectiveness by the former Centralites. “These sophomores fit in,” say their teachers, ana are they growing! You can almost see them sprouting inches month by month”. Coach Yates gets a gleam in his eye as he watches the fine bunch of first year men out for basket- ball, many of them already soaring toward that coveted rebound grabbing height. With English, geometry, biology, and world history as their required solid subjects, sophomores may be found in more than twenty-three different classes and activities. Nevertheless, this is a class who knows how to study, and as a result an unusual number of sophomore names appear on each six weeks’ honor roll. This year, for the first time in many years, sopho- mores have been given the privilege of adding to their treasury fund with a minority share in a 50-35-15 per cent division of concession stand money. Another courtesy ex- tended to this year’s sophies is the permission to attend the annual Spring Prom, if invited as a guest of individual jun- iors or seniors. In the large picture at the right, sophomore officers for '56 leave a Student Council planning session. Standing on the ramp are Sue Hays, treasurer, and Glenda Hamil- ton, secretary. Below them are Don Peck, vice-president, and Max Keenan, in his second term as class president. JUST GRAND! Sophies' trilling triolette—Glenda Hamilton, Sandra Allen, and Carolyn Hull—just couldn’t wait. When they heard that CHS’ new grand piano had been delivered, they round- ed up their accompanist, Sharon King, for a sneak try-out on the darkened stage. SOPH SPOT! Harry’s newly painted hall wastebaskets fascinate the sophie noon gang. Toss in anything but waste paper!” say Mike Belanger, Wesley Haines, and Kenneth Brinkley— any- thing in this case being Dale Cribble. NEW DEAL! Isn’t this something! We get” to work in the con- cession stand this year! Stay right with it, Judy Longbotham, Barbara Allen, and Pat Miller. You’ll make top hands when you’re seniors! Delighting Mr. Davy, FIRST ROW: Barbara Al- len, Sandra Allen, Gerald Beer, Jimmie Behne, Mike Belanger, Naomi Berg. SECOND ROW: Kenneth Blackburn, Raymond Boal- din, Gary Boland, Kenneth Brinkley, Carolyn Jo Brune, Carl Budd. 1 1 . MANY FACETED IS MR. DAVY Sophomore co-sponsor, Roger Hewson Davy, is as un- usual as his middle name, a teacher-scientist with a decided flair for fine arts and athletics. No wonder he is able to find a common ground of interests with almost any student in his biology and chemisty classes. Roger Davy is a native Kansan, bom at Atchison. Unlike most of our faculty, Mr. Davy can scarcely be called a small- town boy, since he attended grade school at Oklahoma City and highschool at Ponca City. As for college, he is one of Guymon schools’ many Aggie graduates, with his BS degree from Oklahoma A. and M. at Stillwater. A comparative newcomer to the teaching profession, Mr. Davy has been doing a very effective job here at Guy- mon for two years. He uses many of the approved new meth- ods in his classroom procedure, finding films and other audio- visual aids especially valuable in teaching. Mr. Davy says he prefers teaching and selected it as a career for that reason, but, like his wife who is also a science teacher in our junior high, he would enjoy research work also. Mr. Davy admits to a fondness for travel, probably ac- quired when he worked for a company for whom he travelled a great deal. In his leisure time, he does oil paintings, enjoys semi-classical music and sports. In the latter, he has been a very active particip. nt particularly in his high school days, lettering in both foot 'all and basketball. For sheer relaxation now, nothing pleases Mr. Davy better than a day of fishing or hunting, followed by one of his wife’s fine dinners, pre- pared with a foreign touch. —54— scintillating in science, FIRST ROW: Edwina Bunger, Ronnie Burkleo, George Campbell, Barbara Cole- man, Benny Cooper, Conita Coulter. WE RE BUGGY ABOUT BIOLOGY! Fol- lowing Mr. Davy's explicit instructions about how to bag their quarry, and com- plete with the approved equipment, Carolyn Joe Brune and Phyllis McRae are out to see what unusual biological specimens they can net on Tigerland's south lawn. THEY’RE DEEP! What's all this discus- sion about the dearth of scientists in the U.S.A.? Evidently the newspapers are una- ware that test-tube talent like Ronnie Burk- leo and Joe Wilkinson are always eager to brew up some new concoction. Funny what a dim view Mr. Davy takes of such unsuper- vised activity. Probably just jealous, or something. FIRST ROW: Melvin Cruzan, Mandy Davis, Sherry Deere, Judy Dickerson, Morrison Don- aghe, Eugene Dunkcrson. SEC- OND ROW: Delva Dunn, Jan- ice Gabcrdiel, Kenneth Giesel- mann, Wynona Greer. v CIRCULATING AREA-OLOGY! While neither of the two upper classes are entirely immune, our sophies certainly know how to make use of GHS’ beautiful main hall, draped over the chairs and divans, overflowing onto the classroom porches”, books piled high, feet dangling, tongues wagging. It’s Tigerland's favorite subject, area-ology, and here are some its star pupils—Joyce Scott, Loveda Reust, Barbara Coleman, Wanda Gardiner, Vancy Rice, Benny Cooper, and Dale Gribble. hanging out in the halls, —56— ♦ helping harassed Harry, Wl IY IN THE WORLD? With widc-mouthcd wastebaskets as thick as tight-lipped Tigers all over Senior High, nobody, just nobody—least of all custodian Harry Burgess—can understand why the favorite receptacle for wastepaper is under the area-way cushions. Surely Morris Lile and Edwin Johnson know nothing about it. They’re just aiding I larry with the overflow. FIRST ROW: Dale Gribblc, Max Gross- man, Wesley I laines, Glenda I lamilton. SECOND ROW: Sue Hays, Patricia Heard, Carolyn Hull, Edwin Johnson, Judy Johnson, Mary Jones. FIRST ROW: Max Keenan, Wynell Keith, Sheron King, Gale Koch, Gary Krug, Mary Lee. SECOND ROW: Eddie LeMaster, Morris Lile. WE’RE FOOLS FOR TOOLS! Sophies Kenneth Gicsclmann, Gary Krug, Gerald Beer, Eddie Rehard, and Melvin Rowell can hardly wait for shop class hour to roll around. The only complaint Mr. Kear’s boys have is that they just get to sawing, shaping, and polishing when that pesky bell rings. But, as Mortimer Snerd says, That's the way it goes!” PE. PING PONG PRECISIONISTS. The sophomore lassies who can corral the little celluloid spheres the most ef fectively are Pat Heard, Doris Lock- ett, and Judy Dickerson. Better think twice, men, before going to bat with these paddle pushers. Ping pong is their racket! enjoying every activity, —58— Electing Mary and Max, SOMETHING TO LOOK AT! Good-looking sophomore Girl and Boy of the Year, Mary Smith and Max Tomlinson, are here engaged in a rather unique pursuit for GHS. They are gallery gazers at Senior High’s first annual display of national photographic award winners, exhibited in the West Lounge during the week of December 2-8. When a sophomore says a fellow classmate is a “cute” girl, that’s a real Tiger- land compliment implying a lot of nice things. “Cute” and “pert” are descriptive words cropping up repeatedly in reference to popular Mary Smith. A Guymon girl, Mary takes part in everything, with a special emphasis on sports. She wishes GHS had competitive girls’ basketball, and, beyond the shadow of a doubt, would be on such a team, judging from her All-Star rating in that sport in junior high. A compe- tent student, Mary makes good grades, with history her favorite subject. Her teachers appreciate her quiet, respectful manner and the sudden sweetness of her smile. In fact, that old fashioned term, “a sweet girl”, seems to fit the Sophies' Girl for '56, Mary Smith. Honor roll sophomore Max Tomlinson is a real gentleman, according to his classmates and teachers. Max, who is an active athlete, played football this year and while in junior high was on both the football and basketball teams. Max has become increasingly busy with his favorite subject, vocational agriculture, where his proj- ects take up much of his time after school. He edits an FFA column in the local paper and serves the Future Farmers as their reporter. Another subject he finds great- ly to his liking is shop which fits in so well with his FFA work. The sophies admire Max’s democratic leadership, his universal friendliness, and his consistently pleasant attitude toward the ups and downs of high school life. Max is preparing himself to be a successful farmer, but his friends will tell you that Max is going to succeed at whatever he does. FIRST ROW: Raymond Linde, Doris Lockett. SECOND ROW: Judy Long botham. La Vonne Love, Leona Mas- ters, Joe Matzek, Phyllis McRae, Pat Miller. ing undo-able diagrams, DIG THIS DIAGRAM! It’s a long story— and a long diagram—but the sophies, in an all-out effort to find a sentence Mr. Allison couldn’t master, came up with this gillion word Old English mammoth from Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee”, replete with albeits” and “sooths”. Mr. Allison noncha lantly tossed it off on huge sheets of card- hoard, but it took Mikie Jones and Max Keenan and practically a whole blackboard to display the thing. English IV was burned up! Imagine those sophies stealing their thunder. FIRST ROW: Norma Mussman, Clark Nash, Don Peck, Artheta Peterson, Eddie Rchard, Kent Rcmmel. SECOND ROW: Lovcda Reust, Melton Reust, Vancy Rice, Birdie Ritter, Melvin Rowell, Joyce Scott. OUR PICK FOR A TEACHING OSCAR! Robert Allison, who emerges from his classroom at four o’clock well-groomed, debonair, and smiling, after wave upon wave of soph- omore English sections, is a teacher we’re proud to have on our faculty. He understands the sophies, sympathizes with their prob- lems, and sticks up for them in every faculty meeting. As their spon- sor-counselor, he is a real sophomore crusader. Born a Cornhusker in Omaha, Nebraska, he did not become an Oklahoman until after completing grade and high school work in Phoenix, Arizona, and Augusta, Kansas. He came to Oklahoma to attend Bethany Pcniel Nazarene College, where he earned his AB degree, and from there went on to complete his Master’s at Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas. Like the “Clerk” in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”, Mr. Alli- son likes nothing better than teaching, unless it is being a student himself. Clad would he learn and gladly would he teach” seems to be written of him. Bob Allison’s world is full of things he likes —sophomores, books, his wife’s cooking, music, mountains, pho- tography, art. He sponsored and arranged the fine display of na- tional photographic winners at the high school this year. Both the future Student Council and Teen Town organizations profited by his excellent guidance while they were in the planning stage. Both of the Allisons, Bob and his wife, a grade teacher here, are musicians. He plays the organ and may often be heard pinch-hitting for an absent trumpeteer in the Tiger band. Oratorios, operas, and symphonies are his special delight, as are the art centers and old world museums which he was privileged to visit while with the Army in Europe. Mr. Allison has promised himself a Doctor’s degree in philosophy and a grand tour of the world with his wife. We’ll bet he manages both before long. ISN'T SI IAKESPEARE JUST TOO DIVINE! We can't tell whether Morrison Donaghe and Eddie Le- Master are simply enthralled by Mr. Allison’s little we-did-it-ourselves Globe stage, or whether they are just pleased that Juliet came down off her bal- cony, or whether—but no, surely not! Sophomores love Shakespeare! He’s such fun! absolutely all Allison fans, —61— going on FIRST ROW: Jeannic Scroggins, Myrna Shields. SECOND ROW: Donna Shores, Dudley Simmons. girl-get-togethers, PATSY’S MOTHER SNAPPED THIS! Patsy Tyler, who is cast” in the role of an at-homer while recovering from an operation, is hostess at a Christmas holiday party honoring Glenda Hamilton, Sandra Allen, Delva Dunn, Judy Longbotham, Carolyn Hull, Sheron King, Joyce Sproles, and Janet Vaughan. Lucky Patsy, who docs her class work by inter-com, can just turn her speaker off and go to sleep if a teacher gets hewing. Not that she gets to sleep long! When that four o’clock bell rings, so does her door bell. It’s the sophies with gobs of gossip, and maybe an assignment or two. DON’T BOTHfiR US WITH DATES! As soon as wc have given the Band Hut Night Club” floor show a few minutes of our valuable time, we'll be out and among 'em at the Carnival «.oncourse, soliciting votes for l.eona Masters, our sophomore queen candidate for Homecoming. In the foreground Phyllis McRae, a Carnival doggie in her lap, sits on Leona's right, with Donita Coulter and Jeannic Scroggins on the other side. —62— majoring in majorettes, FIRST ROW: Mary Smith, Merritt Spencer, Robert Spoonemore, Joyce Sproles, Irma Stamps, Don Stewart. SECOND ROW: Max Tomlinson, SOPHIES SPARK OUR BAND! Mr. George Ryan, Tiger hand director, is very much pleased with the loyalty of the sophomores to the senior high organization. What other class in CHS can boast a sextette of majorettes as pretty and peppy as these? Magazine musing while they wait on a bus for an out-of-town parade trip are Edwina Bungcr, Delva Dunn, Mary Lee, Joyce Sproles, and Sheron King. —63— FIRST ROW: Vcrlc West, Joe Wilkinson, David Williams, Madeania Wilson, Sonia Winters, Harold Wood. SECOND ROW: Larry Woodworth, Paul Wright. WE SHOULD HAVE LOADED UP SOME COW CHIPS! Somehow we just didn't get that bonfire quite hot enough to roast those pesky Elk City Elks in the District football play-off here. Mr. f lunnicutt asked the sop s to gat er ue the big pre-game bonfire out by the stadium, but Melvin Cruzan, Robert Spoonemore, and Mandy Davis are finding wood mighty scarce in these parts. . -------- keeping GHS fires alight! Ninth grade is moving up � Ninth graders areTigerland’s largest junior- senior high class with an enrollment of one hun- dred seven, twenty-two of which are newcomers this year. But the ninth graders have one very unusual feature about their class; they have fifty- six girls and only fifty-one boys. In recent years Tigers have out-numbered Tigresses in every up- per class. From all faculty reports, CHS can expect great things when this ninth grade moves up next year. They are talented, ambitious, and energetic. “Still a little wiggly,” says one junior high facul- ty member, but we in Central are proud of the Class of ’59.” Ninth graders have a varied field of re- quired and elective subjects among which are English, algebra, composite math, history, and science. You will find their girls in home eco- nomics, their boys in vocational agriculture and shop. Sports, band, orchestra, radio, speech, chorus, and art are all activities improved by the ninth graders who have two years of Central training behind them this year. Polishing up art instructor Margaret Holl- and’s fine oil painting of the Orange and Black Guymon tiger above the Central Gym door are ninth grade president Jim Mans and vice-presi- dent Daryl Spragins. Reporter Diana Brown and secretary-treasurer Eddie Campbell are steady- ing the ladder. IT'S OUR TURN. Tigerland's trampolin, now a year old, is still as popular as the day it arrived. Gene Bryan, Rex Ralstin, Gary Sadler, and Eddie Campbell wheel the bounce-blanket out for a jump session. WHIRL-A-G1RL! Aren't you kids out of pocket , as Mr. Hacker used to say? Devon Gibler, David Cow- herd, and Marvin Miller are one too many for Wanda Prater and Patty Enns on Academy’s merry-go-round. ESCALATOR OUT OF ORDER! Lots of steps to climb in Central’s new arts and science wing, but those classes are worth it, decide LaVonne LaCrange, Joyce Watts, Jacque Reese, and Peggy Trotter. modeling mountains, HER SCIENCE IS NO FICTION A serious student and teacher of science, the subject so much stressed in today’s news, is the ninth grade’s Mrs. Davy, wife of Roger Davy, CHS science instructor. Mrs. Davy was born JoAnn Provine in Lawton where she completed her elementary and sec- ondary education. Very much interested in science, particularly laboratory research, she went on to earn a Master’s after having obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Oklahoma A and M at Stillwater. “My home and family—the Davys have two little girls— are my major interest right now”, says Mrs. Davy, who has been married for fifteen years. She is comparatively new to the teach- ing profession, having taught only five years, two of them in Guymon. A staunch Methodist, Mrs. Davy enjoys her church work, her garden club, and, like a great many scientists, delights in play- ing the piano. The Davys all enjoy travel. Last Christmas, a year ago, they made one of their cherished ambitions a fact by taking a wonderful holiday trip through Old Mexico. SCIENTISTS DESPERATELY NEEDED! David Bailey, if you are getting ready to drop an atom capsule into that miniature volcano crater, don’t do it. America needs all the scientists she can produce in the next decade, and Frances Remmel, Mary Key, Loretta Ralstin, and Dwayne Qucscnbury might be Curies or Einsteins. FIRST ROW: David Bailey, Jerry Barbee. SECOND ROW: Janet Beer, Dorothy Behne, Ronald Berg, Gary Birt, Lois Black, Darlene Black. mixing melodies, FIRST ROW: Charlene Boston, Cozette Bratton, Diana Brown. SECOND ROW: Eula Joyce Brown, Myrtle Brune, Eugene Bryan. THIRD ROW: Robert Buster, Eddie Campbell, Charles Cluck, Phillis Cook, Jerry Cooksey, Linda Cope- land. FOURTH ROW: Dorothy Cotton, David Cowherd, Jerry Don Davy, Doris Deere, Sandra Dow, Robert Dunkerson. TOGETHER! And Tigerland hopes the ninth grade Maids of Music will keep their same group when they graduate from Central this spring. Bonnie SiJsbee, Charlene Boston, Carole Neff, and Kay Krone, along with their accompanist Diana Brown, arc as charming and talented a group of entertainers as their director. Hoover Fisher, and CHS could hope to find. UNDERNEATH THE LIBRARY TREE! If you can take your eyes off pretty Donna Hughes and handsome Joe Haynes, ninth grade Girl and Boy of the year, you’ll see Central’s unique library tree, whose leaves bear the titles of books and the names of their junior high readers. Donna Hughes is one of the many popular Tiger- landers from Straight whom we have taken to our hearts. She was bom in Independence, Kansas, but moved to Straight in time to begin her grade school work there. She came to Central as a freshman this year, and the ninth graders immediately liked her as much as she likes all of them. Right now Donna would rather have a book or a basketball in her hands, and she seems to be a straight shooter with either grades or goals. Like any book lover, English and speech are the subjects she finds most to her taste. As for foods, she’s a typical American dessert lover, with ice cream and cake heading the list. We’ll tell you a secret about Joe Haynes, boys! You’d be surprised how many girls voted for him as their ideal boy. You fellows who don’t get along with the ladies might learn something from Joe. The ninth grade girls, and you boys too, like Joe’s easy, relaxed manner, his natural politeness, and the even level of his temper. And with him, “Joe” rhymes with “Go!” Joe was bom at Lubbock, Texas, but has been in Guymon schools since the sixth grade. He is a real athlete, rapidly gaining the size he needs to be a Tiger. Football is his hobby; he captained the Cubs this year. Joe’s not bad at classwork either, especially history and math which he especially likes. Joe wants a little more time to make up his mind on his future career, and while he’s thinking, you might hand him a plate of fried chicken! It’s Donna and Joe! FIRST ROW- Charles Dunn, Yvonne Eaton, Barbara Edens. SECOND ROW: Patricia Enns, Jacque Fields, Roberta Frantz, Ron Cass, Devon Gibler, Sam Grant. televising tales SHE'S NEW THIS YEAR Ninth graders are enjoying getting acquainted with their new young English teacher, Miss Ramona Faye Weir. Like most modem girls, Miss Weir aspires to be a house- wife, although she loves teaching and would not consider any other outside profession. Miss Weir says that it was her high school teachers with their enthusiasm and enjoy- ment of their work who awoke in her the desire to be a teacher. Miss Weir was bom in Cordell and went through school there and in Oklahoma City. But she decided on a Texas college, Abilene Christian, for her AB degree. While there she continued her interest in church and became af- filiated with two sororities. Travel, sports, music, and study are all part of Miss Weir’s plans for the future, but she makes no apologies about her real ambition in life—to be a typical American wife and mother. ALL SET FOR PETER PAN ! Ninth grade litera- ture leaps ahead when stories come to life on tele- vision. Counting the seconds until the Barrie classic flashes on the screen are Nelda Longbrake, Janet Beer, Kay Krone, and their hostess, Charlene Boston. As for little “Zero , he’d prefer a snappy “Bugs Bunny”. FIRST ROW: Joe Haigood, Ronnie Hart. Joe Haynes. SECOND ROW: Ancta Hess, Barbara Hines, Richard Houle, Donna Hughes, Jeannie Johnson, Tommy Johnson. FIRST ROW: Harrison Keith, Jimmie Kennedy, Mary Key, Sally Kippenbergcr, Kay Krone, Barbara Lay. SECOND ROW: Tommy Lee, La Vonne Le Grange, Robert Idle, Nelda Longbrake, Jimmy Mans, Charles McBratney. NOW T1 IIS IS SMOOTI I! There are lots of rough spots in freshman algebra, even in a pleasant place like Mr. Lindley’s math class- room, but this new business with the compasses is so satisfying—no loose ends, no x, y, z’s, just lazy circles, so simple, so—. Hey, somethings tells me this is not going to last! Did it, Sally Kippenbergcr, Robert Ule, Joe Haigood, Dorothy Behnc, Gayland Miller, Jo Ann Music, Yvonne Eaton, Ronnie Tabor, Buddy Walker, and Leon Stacy? going around in circles, FIRST ROW: Mary McDonald, J. C. McKittrick, Benny Medley, Cayland Miller, Marvin Miller, Jo Ann Music. SECOND ROW: Laura Neal, Barbara Neas, Carole Neff, Carl Nicholas, George Peterson, Shirley Pickard. HE'S A MAN'S MAN U. P. Lindley, Central’s algebra teacher, is the kind of person everybody likes, a masculine mixture of firmness and kindness in just the right degree. With his hobbies of golfing, hunting, and fishing, and his devotion to his family, this pop- ular teacher has rounded out fifteen happy and successful years in the public education field. Bom in Durant, Ullyses P. Lindley was the son of par- ents who were both teachers, so he always looked forward to his chosen profession. Young U. P. attended grade and high school at Blue and graduated from Durant’s Southeastern State Teachers College with a B.S. degree. Chemistry with its allied mathematics courses has always been Mr. Lindley's special interest. He says if he weren’t a teacher, he’d like being a chemist. But he spent seven years in another field in which he is very much interested because he likes boys. That is, he has that length of time as a coach, and Tigerland relies very strongly on his athletic know-how as a scout and score- keeper at all our games. Guymon has found U. P. Lindley a valuable and genial citizen. He belongs to the Masonic Lodge, Eastern Star, and Kiwanis, and is always ready to plunge into any civic promo- tional project. Unlike so many of our teachers, he turns thumbs down on travel. He likes to stay put—preferably with his hunting dog beside him and a plate of chicken and a piece of lemon pie within reach of his long right arm. FIRST ROW: Raymond Pierce, Ruth Pierce, Linda Pinklcy, Mary Jane Powell, Dwayne Quesenbury, Loretta Ralstin. SEC- OND ROW: Rex Ralstin, Ronald Reed, Jacque Reese, Francis Remmel. I THIS IS NO MIRAGE! It is water, real water, jind four of the brightest-eyed, best look- ing, thirstiest ninth graders you ever saw. Eddie Starkey, Bernita Webb, Mary McDon- ald, and Daryl Spragins pause at the drinking fountain as they leave a Cub pep assem- bly. yelling —72- CUB CAJOLERS! Who wouldn't yell their lungs out and their tonsils dry for such captivating cheer- leaders? Here Jacque Fields, Donna Hughes, and Carole Neff polish up on their piroueites on Cen- tral's north lawn, with Old High in the background. and blowing, _ IGNORE Tl IEM, GIRLS! A few unidentified high school characters who prefer to remain anonymous lurk in the background of this exclusively ninth grade picture. Sandra Dow, Dorothy Behnc, Roberta Frantz, Ancta 1 less, and Diana Brown are cour- teously allowing them to accompany the Tiger hand to Liberal, Kansas, for the annual Santa Claus parade. FIRST ROW: Alice Reust, Glenna Rice. SECOND ROW: Lila Rogers, Bonnie Rowell. THIRD ROW: Joe Rozell, Gary Sadler, Bill Shackel- ford, Mike Shaw, Bonnie Silsbee, Freddie Sledge. EXTRA CURRICULAR BUT EXCITING! Central’s halls were the first to take on the Yuletide look in Tigerland this year. With Thanksgiving still apparent on the bulletin board behind them, ninth graders Jeannie Johnson, Bonnie Hart, Linda Pinkley, Gary Bin, and Jerry Barbee gladly donate some spare moments to garnishing their Christmas tree. FIRST ROW: Larry Smith, Lyman Smith, Daryl Spragins, Leon Stacy, Eddie Starkey, Ronnie Tabor. FALL GUYS! You think Mike Shaw and I are suck- ers out here raking leaves! It was getting kinda stuffy in that study hall, and, boy, this October air is some- thing! Mike, how about you raking for awhile, so I can absorb some ozone? asks Tommy Lee. FIRST ROW: Wilma Town Trent, Peggy Trotter, Share j urncr, Ronda Tyson, Buddy Walker. getting involved in extras, THESE WILL DO TILL WE GET A MARK II! Charles Cluck and Jerry Don Davy with their gorgeous gas gulpers aren’t looking a bit happier than Charles Dunn, Jerry Cooksey, Jimmy Mans, and Raymond Pierce with their do-it-yourself Cub convertibles. We’d swear that this sextet was contemplating a two wheeled race if we didn't know that such goings-on are frowned upon in the heavy traffic areas around Central. .r . FROM SOUP TO NUTS! Most ninth grade girls have begun to fall heir to quite a number of home duties, and sometimes they fuss a bit about such things as dirty dishes. But here in Mrs. Hecht’s gleaming homemaking parlor the laying of a table, the planning, preparation, and serving of a perfect meal to guests of their own choice take on real glamor for Bonnie Silsbee, Mary Jane Powell, and Barbara Neas. FIRST ROW: Joyce Watts, Bernita Webb, Bob Weeks. SECOND ROW: Larry Wells, Danny Wilson, Luwana Winters. and putting on the I WASN’T INVITED? ‘ It seems to me, Yvonne Eaton and Jacque Fields, that you could at least spare me a bone. I didn’t ex- pect to sit at the table with your other home- making guests. Homemaking, indeed! It takes a dog like me to make a home,” growls poor unwelcome Bosco. dog! —76— Eighth graders are grownup Central's eighty eighth graders are a and half—that is, half boys and girls wh' ways gone to school in Guymon and hah nvany new families who have made their ho in recent years. As for the sexes, this cla usual: girls outnumber the boys 50-30. “These are very adult eighth graders,’ neir teachers report. While they approach all of their work with enthusiasm, they are a dignified and studious group in general. All are enrolled in the required courses of American history, mathematics, English, and health, but honor roll grades are the rule rather than the exception with a large per- centage of the class. Activity groups find the Class of 1960 well represented. Especially outstanding is their work in art, where more than half the entire eighth grade find relaxation and creative pleasure in leathercraft and ceramics. Speech is another favorite of these maturing boys and girls. Band, orchestra, chorus, and athletics all rely on the talents of this depend- able eighth grade. At the left, just finishing an inspection of one of our school buses, are the eighth grade officers: Richard Fitzgerald, in his second term as class pres- ident; Jerry Watkins, vice-president; and Ann Adams, secretary-treasurer. SEEING DOUBLE1 Something new in outdoor cage rules, no doubt, those two balls! Or perhaps there just aren’t enough backboards to take care of would-be sharp- shooters Dean Mussman, James Cotton, Douglas Place, and Gary Staves. NEWS AT NOON! Central eighth graders’ favorite news center is their little get-together-for-gab nook, the gym bleachers, where you are apt to find Bessie Click, Pat Pickard, Maline Long, David Newberry, Eugene Ivic, Jimmy Danner, and Stanley Miser. SLIDES, FILMS, AND PROJECTORS! Audio-visual aids delight the eighth graders, who, like Gerald Wilson, Billy Cox, and Sherry Ogden, enjoy all phases of the pic- tures—making them, showing them, or just watching and learning. FIRST ROW: Ann Adams, Joyce Adkins, Loyce Adkins, Jerry Albright, Loretta Alexander, Linda Allen. SECOND ROW: Ann Barker, Judy Beaman, f larold Bender, Leon Berg, Margaret Bragg, Regina Bridges. THE PRINCIPAL OF THE THING! How does it feel to sit in the “Big Chair” and write out admit slips? Looking very professional in his Sunday best, young Richard Purdum appears more amused than Mr. Alden would be at that old “car wouldn’t start” excuse his eighth grade classmates Delilah Carter and Margaret Bragg have just handed him. take adult responsibilities, —78— have a share in entertaining SUCH A SUNNY SEXTETTE! Aren’t these half-dozen or so smiles a treat? And so are the lilting melodies like Whis- pering” and Over the Rainbow” sung at assemblies by Sharon Wadley, Jinda Darden, Linda Allen, Kay Claycomb, Betty Wood, and Velta Peck, assisted by their accompanist, Nancy Nash. Vocal director Hoover Fisher enjoys working with junior high groups like this, for, in a year or so, these girls will become experienced performers in his fine high school ensembles. FIRST ROW: Barbara Bromlow, Janet Bromlow, Loretta Bryan, Barbara Carlton, Delilah Carter, Kay Claycomb. SECOND ROW: Bessie Click, RaSonya Colgin, Richard Costner, James Cotton, Nellie Cotton, Billy Cox. ENGLISH CAN BE PRACTICAL! Yes, sir! Our English classes wijh Mrs. Adams aren’t just a lot of split infinitives, indirect objects, and intransitive something-or-others. We learn how- important it is to say things simply and clearly, in good modern American form. That’s why we enjoyed our letter writing proj- ect so much. We really mailed our letters, as Brad Cray and Betty Wood are doing here. FIRST ROW: Jimmy Danner, Jinda Darden, James Deakin, Jerry Dickerson, John Dunkerson, Maxine Dunkerson. SECOND ROW: Kay Dunn, Tommyc Ferguson, Richard Fitzgerald. THIRD ROW: Lavon Foster, Don Gass, Lloyd Coodno. write letters —80— A REAL PANHANDLE PEDACOCIT Our own neighboring community of I larceSiy ' as the birthplace of Bessie Burton, who now as Mrs D. K. Adams has her days at Central well filled with eighth grade English classes. “I knew when I was a fourth grader that 1 wanted to be a school teacher just like the wonderful person who was my teacher that year,” says Mrs. Adams with the enthusiasm she puts into everything she docs. So with her future career in mind, after finishing high school at Tcxhoma, she earned an AB degree at PAMC, major- ing in speech and English. Along with her twenty-four years of teaching, Mrs. Adams and her husband, D. K., a former Guymon grade principal, have raised a son, Laddie Ray, Cl IS '49. Good Baptists all, they are very proud of his choice of a vocation, for he is just completing his theological training for the ministry. Bessie Adams has done outstanding work in dramatic productions for Guymon schools, but she finds her great- est satisfaction in everyday English class work. “How- ever, she says, I am becoming increasingly aware of the value of personal guidance in teaching. If I weren’t a teach- er, I'd like to be a trained counselor.” Like all of the musical Burtons, Mrs. Adams has a real talent both as a vocalist and pianist and is most gen- erous to church and community. As for pet peeves and secret urges, she admits one of each—she can't tolerate smart alecks, and she sometimes has an irresistable urge to spend some time in beautiful Washington state. HIRST ROW: Bradford Gray, Angela Greer, Keith 1 lardiman, Kendall I lardy, I.arry I lendritk, Larry I lill. SECOND ROW: Ronnie I lill, Linda I User, Ronald I luckins. THIRD ROW: Eugene Ivie, Douglas Johnston, Bert Jones. for Mrs. Adams, —81 — make merry FIRST ROW: Bobbie Kennedy, Jerry King, Bob- bye Kiser. SECOND ROW: Jenny LaFcvers, Stanley Landess, Ella Long, Maline Long, Rinda Mason, Patsy Masters. ♦ ♦ ♦ TIMES IIAVENT Cl IANGED! You former old grads, feminine gender, remember how you loved those giggle-ful,wonderful, slumber- less parties when you were in junior high? Pajamas may be a little shorter in 1956, but the night is still long and full of fun and frequent icebox raids for eighth graders Velta Peck, Angela Greer, RaSonya Colgin, Ann Adams, Jinda Darden, Loretta Alexander, Kay Dunn, and Patsy Masters. LIKE KITTENS IN THE CREAM! Class sponsors, Mrs.. D. K. Adams and the Coy Gibsons, get as excited as their eighth graders over the junior high's annual football queen race. Here are hundreds of votes for their Ann Adams, and she won, by golly! or money HOW MUCH IS WASTE PAPER PER POUND? You are all w rong! Jerry Dickerson and Bobbie Kennedy aren’t cleaning out their lockers. They arc considering a waste paper sale project to raise money for football queen votes. Shame on you for thinking that Jerry Watkins might be going to pitch in his English book for what it’s worth! He’s looking for that dime he used for a book mark. Ten votes, you know'! FIRST ROW: Daryl McVey, Barbara Moyer, Dean Mussman, Beverly Nelson, David Newberry, Sherry Ogden. SECOND ROW: Bill Oseletto, Velta Peck, Pat Pickard. —83— polish up sports trophies, FIRST ROW: Douglas Place, Richard Purdum, Mary Nell Quinn, Ray Reid, Janette Rhodes, Roy Rice. SECOND ROW: Mary Ritter, Elizabeth Rye, Carol Ann Simmons. LET’S WIN SOME MORE! Not content to rest their laurels on trophies from years gone by, eighth grade cheerleaders, Velta Click, Earlene Strickler, and Mary Nell Quinn, polish ’em up, move ’em over, and make room for more! SHE HAS NO END OF TALENTS One of Guymon’s outstanding woman citizens is Mrs. Elmer Shackelford, whose time and talents are frequently utilized for civic improvements. Mrs. Shackelford, a CHS English teacher before her marriage, has only recently returned to a full time teach- ing assignment with junior high speech classes, although she has done part time teaching in various classes for a number of years. While busy with her children, Bill and Janna, she was always ready to serve on civic committees, PTA, judge fine arts contests, coach plays, or substitute at school. Helen Ruth Crenshaw was bom near Harper, Kansas, where she attended school. She completed work on her AB degree at Northwestern of Alva, Oklahoma. As a young girl she had wanted to be a nurse or doctor, but her parents encouraged her to take up teaching, a career that was a happy choice because of her great versatility. Mrs. Shackleford has, in addition to her English, speech, and Spanish teaching, directed a band and played a flute in her college symphony orchestra. Mrs. Shackelford’s one ambition, since she has abandoned her secret longing to be a doctor, is to grow old gracefully. But with all her activities at the Church of Christ, her home, her school, and her town, her many friends wonder where she is going to find the time to grow old at all! —84— practice on speech plays, HERE’S ELMER”! Taking time out from last minute rehearsals for their November 15 night performance of the one act play, Elmer , are the cast, all members of Mrs. Shackelford's eighth grade speech classes. Seated in front arc Angela Greer, Ann Adams, Linda Allen, and Mary Nell Quinn. Standing arc Linda I liser, Velta Peck, Bradford Gray, Gary Staves, Mike Smith, Barbara Williams, and Bert Jones. NEVER A DULL MOMENT Any teacher who feels that her days are too hum-drum should take over some eighth grade speech work. She’ll quickly change her mind, for eighth graders take to speech like ducks to water. Mrs. Shackelford’s classes are typical. Following their first night appearance in the two one-act plays, “Elmer” and “Zelda”, on November 15, her classes immediately began readying a group of Thanksgiving plays for the joint Junior-Senior High Thanksgiving assembly. Then, with the stage hardly cleared, they flew into rehearsals for the Christmas choral readings. After that came the night performance in March, which had to be sandwiched in be- tween individual polishing on readings and interpretations for the spring contests. Don’t ask Mrs. Shackelford what she does wth her spare time. FIRST ROW: Mary Sloan, Mike Smith, Ruby Steinkuehlcr. SECOND ROW: Earlcne Strickler, Robert Sturdivan, Mona Thompson, Mary Townsend, Stanley Tyler, Sharon Wadley. .,ame Ann and Dick FIRST ROW: John Wall, Jerry Watkins, Arnold Wells. SECOND ROW: Donald Wells, Ronald Wells, Anita Will- iams, Barbara Williams, Gerald Wilson, Betty Ann Woods. WHEN WE LIKE ’EM, WE LIKE ’EM! Eighth graders have a good habit of voting for popu- lar Ann Adams and Richard Fitzgerald whenever they want their class well represented. Ann, their 1956 Girl of the Year, is the Cubs’ current Football Queen and secre- tary-treasurer of her class. This is Richard’s second election as president of his class and as Boy of the Year. Ann was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, went to grade school in Wakita, Oklahoma, and joined us in Central this year. An “A” student, she dotes on Mr. Lee’s American history class. In fact, Ann likes everything about school here—except our short lunch hour. And Ann’s new friends in Cubland like everything about Ann—her universal friendliness, her neatness, her excellence in classwork and sports alike. Ann says she is undecided about her future career but is considering being a primary teacher or a scientist. Ask any eighth grader why the class re-elected Rich- ard Fitzgerald to the 1956 presidency, and you’ll receive an amazed look. Why? Well, just because he’s the best man for the job, and proved it in 1955. Dick hasn’t always been a Guymonite. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has gone to school in Washington on the West Coast. He came to school here when he was a fourth grader and immediately was in the thick of things. Although English is his favorite subject, he is highly regarded by all his teach- ers as an honor student. Dick is a sports enthusiast and plays on the basketball team. Here’s a boy who knows what he wants to do! He has already marked the profession of dentistry as his very own. our ’56 pick! Seventh graders 100 strong Eager beavers all are Central’s most ener- getic class, the fifty boys and fifty girls of the 1956 seventh grade. With only seven newcomers this year, more than half of this class started school in Cuymon as first graders in 1950. Seventh grade teachers can’t discuss their charges without going into superlatives. “The most unusual, the most capable, the most out- standing—and the noisiest seventh graders in Central’s history,’’ so say the junior high faculty. With English, geography, and mathematics as their academic subjects, seventh graders delight in a variety of activities. More than forty would- be artists crowd the junior high’s beginners’ art classes. Musical groups—band, orchestra, and choir—boast more seventh graders than any other junior high class. Making up in boundless energy what they lack in size, seventh grade boys, all fifty of them, give promise of great Tiger teams to come. No less enthusiastic are the forty-four girls enrolled in physical education. At their first meeting in the fall the class lost no time in selecting the capable officers you see ranged down the Central Gym steps on the left: Jack Perry, president; Nancy Nash, vice presi- dent; and Max Lile, secretary-treasurer. BOOKTOTING FOR A GIRL! Now, how did I ever get caught doing this, hut, gee, Lynn Matzck docs smile so sweetly,” admits Max Lile. THIS GADGET IS THE WRINKLE! Even the old familiar eraser cleaning job takes on a glamor with the electric vacuum doing the work for James Newberry, Larry Linde, Mike Myers, and Willie Donaghe. MAN THE MOPS; Mopmen Lee Holder and Donald Blackburn might let you in on the secret pleasures of pushing these monster mops. Seventh grade boys dote on it! Don't ask why! ♦ SHE'S PROUD OF HER PROFESSION There’s nothing I'd rather be than a teacher! says Della Spenner. And lucky the seventh graders are to have as their new English teacher this year the warm eyed, sunny lady who decided on her life’s work while she was still in high school. Mrs. Spenner loves to teach and discovered her fondness for classroom work when she taught a Sunday school before graduating from high school. Born in Cherokee, Oklahoma, she attended grades and high school at Driftwood and Alva. In preparation for her eighteen years of teaching in Alva and here at Guy- mon, she earned a degree in Elementary Education at Alva’s Northwestern State Teachers College. The wife of Supt. George Spenner, Della Spenner is the mother of two CHS alumnae, Georganna Spenner Size- love. ’50, and Clydella Spenner, ’53. “My hobby? Well, right now I have two—my grandchildren, Mark and Bev- erly Jan Sizelove,” states Mrs. Spenner with pride. Although school and home occupy most of Mrs. Spenner’s time, she is always ready to assist with the activi- ties of the Methodist Church. In summer she likes to take long trips with her family, and during the school year along with Mr. Spenner she is a rabid Tiger sports fan. FIRST ROW: Ladonna Bailey, Carry Baker. SECOND ROW: Ann Belanger, Sharon Birt. Tl I1RD ROW: Don Blackburn, Jerry Blair. FOURTH ROW: Barbara Jo Boren, Richard Brady, Darlene Barnum, Charles Bridges, Sandra Kay Bridwell, Colen Brown. RIGHT THROUGH THE SHELF! Seventh grad ers, like Kaye Rodman, John Cox, and Dick Couch, aren't content to read a book-or-so by their favorite authors. No, sir! They read everything in the fine junior high library, book by book, shelf by shelf. Ask Mrs Hamilton! are book boosters, FIRST ROW: Bobby Buford, Chester Bursell, Sonia Campbell, Sharon Carey, Billy Carter, I lenryetta Car- ter. SECOND ROW: Norleta Chcnowcth, Dick Couch, John Cox, Floyd Darnell, Willy Donaghe, Billy Dow. Tl IIRD ROW: Betty Jean Dye, Johnny Evans. WHO SAYS JOHNNY CANT READ? Here are a quintet from Mrs. Spenner’s literature class who can make those doubting magazine writers pull in their red ears. “You name it, and we’ll read it, say Jimmy Yancey, George Pauls, Bobby Gruebbel, Sandra Jo Hilty, and Cheryl Miller. THE WORLD AT THEIR FINGERTIPS The brief years of junior high, high school, and perhaps college, lying just ahead, offer wonderful opportunities to today s seventh graders. 1 wo members of the class who are taking advantage of every chance to progress are their Girl and Boy of the Year, Cheryl Miller and Dick Couch. Excellent students, both arc alert, responsive and dependable in school and out. FIRST ROW: Mike Evans, Byron Gibson. SECOND ROW: Bonnie Gloden, Bobby Cruebbel, Karen Haigood, Gerald 1 lamilton, Jimmy I larris, Janice I larris. Typical of most of her class, Cheryl has never gone to school any place but in her home town. Perhaps that is one of the reasons her classmates named her Girl of the Year . Cheryl is a very nice person who likes and is liked by everybody. She wants action all about her, so her leisure-time books must be mysteries. Better yet is swimming or dancing. Or best of all, Cheryl loves to watch the Tiger Cubs in a fast moving football game. So it is no surprise to learn that she plans a career as an on-the-go, world-cruising air hostess. Dick Couch, the class choice for Boy of the Year, enrolled in Guymon as a first grader but did most of his elemetary work at Texhoma. When he returned to Guymon as a sixth grader last year, he quickly re-established himself in the affection of his classmates. They look upon him as a leader in classroom discussions and as a sports authority. Dick wants to be a football player, so he is eating lots of his favorite spaghetti, to add inches and pounds, and collecting sports writeups. But that is all in the near future. Someday you’ll read a sign outside his office: “Dr. Richard Couch”. like Cheryl and Dick art addicts, FIRST ROW: Jo Ann Harris, Billy I laun, Carolyn Hester, Sandra Jo Hil- ly, Donna Sue Hinds, Paul Hitch. SECOND ROW: Byron Holder, Mike Holder, Cleo Hoover, Caroline Hus- key, Linda Israel, Tommy Jameson. THIRD ROW: Kent Johnston, Net- tie Jo Kuykendall. FOURTH ROW: Max File, Larry Linde, Dcana Lind- Icy, Joyce Lockett, Virginia Main, Jimmy Mallard. ATTENTION, SANTA CLAUS! How would you like to have nine helpers who know everything Mrs. Holland can teach them about beauti- ful leather and metal craft? If you are interested, contact Jimmy Mallard, Larry Melton, Gene Reed, Shirley Quesenbury, Jean Schooler, Charles Bridges, Floyd Darnell, Richard Brady, and Carol Pratt. FIRST ROW: Lynn Matzck, Mike MeMurry, Patsy Meigs, Larry Melton, Cheryl Miller, Robin Moon. SEC- OND ROW: Connie Moore, Mike Myers, Nancy Nash, Jimmy Newberry, George Pauls, Jack Perry. THIRD ROW: Sue Pickard. NOT TOO CITY-FIED! A good old fashioned Friday afternoon ciphering match, country school style, is right down our alley, if you’ll throw in a few fractions to liven things up. Who'll be the winner—Barbara Boren, Max Ralstin, Darlene Branum, Sandra Bridwell, Mike Smith, Carry Baker, or Mike Evans? nd can we add things up! FORMULAS HOLD NO FEAR FOR HER Like so many of our Cuymon teachers, Patricia Lee, seventh grade mathematics instructor, is a native Oklahoman. Born Patricia Gene Mathes in Lenora, Oklahoma, the future Mrs. Willard Lee had always wanted to teach school. But she had other decided in- terests too. “If I weren’t a teacher, I’d like to do research in physics; that sort of work fascinates me. Or 1 would enjoy missionary work,” says Mrs. Lee, whose genuine interest in young people permeates her entire personality. Patricia Lee’s AB degree came from Northwestern College at Alva, but during her grade and high school years she attended schools in Taloga, Tangier, Supply, and Dewey County. Along with her husband, Willard Lee, she has been in the Guymon public school system for the past seven years. This year she has taken over the painstaking job of keeping the junior high’s attend- ance records, a task which she does very efficiently and with great enjoyment. Mrs. Lee is devoted to the various organizations of the local Christian church and is proud of the growth made by that church here in recent years. Because of her active interest in religious work, she prefers choral music to all other and finds it a most agreeable background for her favorite handwork, embroidering. FIRST ROW: Ellen Pierce. SECOND ROWCarolyn Pot- ter, Carol Pratt, Shirley Qucsenbury, Max- Ralstin, Gene Reed, George Reust. THIRD ROW: Jackie Reust, Joan Rice, Raymond Rice, Glendon Roachelle, Ann Roberts, Kaye Rodman. ay Yeah! hFP! PEP! STEAM TEAM! Three atomic age dynamos when it comes to yell leading are these seventh grade Kit- tens, Mima Lou Sproles, Ann Belanger, and Sandra Bridwell. ARE WE IN TUNE? Of course we are! Mrs. Henderson secs to that, for she is very much pleased with this talented seventh grade segment of her String Choir—Front row': Nancy Nash, Mima Lou Sproles, Paul f litch, Jo Ann Harris. Back row: Sheila Sanders, Ann Roberts, Gaytand Sargent, Linda Tyler, anti Robin Moon. , if” HURRICANE YETTA OR ZELDA? Mr. l.ec's geography classes know more about the weather than NBC's Miss Monitor. Here Jo Ann Harris and Carolyn Hester help Glendon Roachcllc chart the path of an Atlantic storm. (By the way, does any other grade have more than three members, like these, who are ministers’ children?) Seventh Gr ue MR. TIGER MONEY MAN! fttlUtl Guymon sports fans have grown very used to seeing seventh grade social science instructor, Willard Lee, selling tickets to all Tiger games during his seven years here. In his extra-curricular job as treasurer of the athletic department, Mr. Lee is a pleasant and re- liable man to have on duty at the gate or door. Another of his responsibilities is in the newly-organized state text book repository which he manages for the entire local system. Willard Bryan Lee was bom a Hoosier in New Castle, Indiana, but attended grades and high school in Waynoka, Oklahoma, where his folks still live. He, like Mrs. Lee, has his AB from Northwestern at Alva and has also earned a Masters degree in education from Colorado State College at Greely. Mr. Lee, who belongs to the local Kiwanis Club and various Christian organizations, says, “If I weren’t a teacher, I’d like to be a salesman,” a line of work at which he has had some experience during the summers. Fond of all sports, especially fishing, Mr. Lee’s months in service gave him a taste for traveling. He has been in South America and Cuba. He and Mrs. Lee are planning a trip to Europe before too much more time elapses. 1 i FIRST ROW: Don Watson, J. C. Williams. SECOND ROW: Larry Williams, Linda Wilson, Marvin Wil- son, Jimmy Yancey. —95— An ' Jr r - ft ' ' ■ � . . x r,.. . .� 5 V T, v € . ■ ' ■ � r• •• .« ' V . • ? '! ' .' 7' i '.«T , j -7 • ’ '■T ! -t ,4S ' ' V •• . .•■• • jrt • •• ;:r -r ■ .: v f- r' V ' .A. ■'■•• v;..A , :;;v v;.- y r , :i 'v. -•rV.’i v - ; - ‘V .y, v v r ■! '• ■' ; • -• :• •____•________ -______;____________________ i . v ii NOBLEMEN LUCKY AT HOME Reversing their record of home game losses in the 1954 season, Coach Dick Noble’s Orange and Black Tlgers poured in a steady stream of four wins and one tie to delight the victory-hungry Guymon football fans in Memorial Stadium. The only home loss was the pulse- stopping 13-12 District Play-off with Elk City to close the season. Previously, at home, Boise City, Ulysses, Alva, a id Hays all fell before the relentless Tigers, who piled up an impressive 134 first downs to their opponents 119 in the eleven games played. The home game tie was a 13- all deadlock with the Beaver Dusters, out to avenge a 1954 Tigers break even walloping by the Tigers. On the road the Bengals were able to overcome only Woodward, and suffered three shut-outs at the hands of Dalhart, Liberal, and Perryton. The Orange and Black bowed out of the season with a 21-7 loss to Garden City, to make their over-all tally for the year, 5-5-1. f ■ a win 5, tie I, lose 5. 1955 TIGER LINE No. Player Weight Position 52 Bobby Pickard 165 Right End 88 Fikc Morgan 185 Right Tackle 82 Jerry McVey 190 Right Guard 24 Bill Lewis 160 Left Guard 64 Raymond Buhl 165 Center 72 Joe Reese 185 Left Tackle 60 Tommy LeMaster 140 Left End 22 Jimmy Lee 140 Left Guard 68 Don Peck 170 Left End 84 Rex Howe 180 Right Guard 74 Don Henderson 165 Left Tackle 54 Don Carpenter 165 Right End 86 Jim Behne 195 Left End 85 Wallace Cluck 175 Left Tackle 70 Wendell Williams 170 Right Tackle 65 Kenneth Brinkley 165 Center 75 Ira Bromlow 150 Right Tackle 62 Jackie Williams 140 Left Guard —99— MEET OUR MENTOR! t igerland s football coach, Dick Noble, completes his second year at Guymon this spring. He came to CHS in the fall of 1954 from Oklahoma City, where he had served as coach for John Marshall’s strong gridiron aggregation. Coach Noble found himself with a young Guymon team, made up largely of sophomores and juniors. He im- mediately set about building up a sturdy, well-trained team with worthy replacements for the future. The results of his long range program were very apparent in the 1955 season, when the Tigers lost only one horn. game, the 13-12 play-off with Elk City for the district champion- ship. Richard Delbert Noble was bom in DeWitt, Arkansas, and went through grades and high school at Nashville in the same state. His athletic prowess in high school brought him to the attention of Okla- homa City University, where he earned his BS degree while playing football on their varsity eleven. Following his graduation, he accepted the coaching assignment at Oklahoma City’s John Marshall High School, remaining there for three years. Mr. Noble likes young people and is a coach because sports in all forms are his major interest. If he weren’t a coach, he would prefer some other active career, such as working for an oil company. Hunting and fishing are naturally his idea of the pastimes supreme, and nothing pleases him better than a camp- ing trip with plenty of provisions including frozen steaks, black eyed peas, and com bread fixings, in case the game and fish are elusive. Realizing that high school sports must always remain games and not contests, Mr. Noble would still like to see Guymon’s teams worthy of recognition throughout the state, both for fine football and good sportsmanship. Tigers apt pupils TIGER BACKS Name Ted Miller Tom Fulton Percy Tomlinson Richard Dickerson Edwin Johnson Bobby Denney Dean Cribble Max Keenan 1955 Season Survey WINS SEPT. 9 GUYMON, 26—BOISE CITY, 7. A lightning- quick Tiger team ushered in the 1955 gridiron campaign with an easy win over the Wildcats. Boise City was able to score only once on a surprise pass and long run, while the Bengals, clicking in every department, racked up 4 TD’s. SEPT. 30. GUYMON, 20—WOODWARD, 19. Springing one of several 1955 surprises, an under-rated Bengal eleven closed the door on the big Boomers' hopes for a District 1A title, when in a dazzling air attack, they slipped by the conver- sion-poor WHS men in Woodward’s stadium. OCT. 14 GUYMON, 25—ULYSSES, 6. Out for revenge on any Kansas team setting foot on Guymon soil, the Tigers pounded out a relentless ground attack to crush previously undefeated Ulysses Tigers in four sustained touchdown drives. The baffled Kansans pushed over their counter in the final quarter. OCT. 21 GUYMON, 21—ALVA, 7. Coach Dick Noble's terrific Tigers gave the Memorial Stadium Homecoming crowd the welcome they like best, a smashing three to one touchdown win over the Alva Goldbugs. Tied 7-7 early in the game, the Tigers roared back to cinch the Northern District IA title for CHS. OCT. 28 GUYMON 7—HAYS, 0. Stung to fury by a long series of g'rid and cage losses to the consistently competent St. Joseph Cadets, the magnificent Tigers, in the role of David, downed the giant Hays aggregation in one mighty blow. Tiger prestige soared high with this unhoped-for upset of the highly rated Cadets before a frenzied home crowd. LOSSES SEPT. 16 DALHART, 12—GUYMON, 0. Offensive weak- ness cost the Tigers in their second outing of 1955 at Dalhart’s stadium. Only once did the Tigers come close to the double stripes, but they bogged down under a fierce defensive stand on the Wolves’ 17 yard line. The Texans, however, only managed to score twice in the hard fought fray. OCT. 7 LIBERAL, 32—GUYMON, 0. Liberal's rampaging Redskins romped over a cold Tiger team with a five touchdown shutout on the Skins’ field. The Tigers were never able to muster up the extra points needed to stop a quartet of speedy Kansas backs. NOV. 4 PERRYTON, 46—CU YMON, 0. Tiger fumbles and intercepted aerials accounted for their worst defeat of the '55 season at the hands of the terrible Texans at Perryton. The Rangers rushed ruthlessly down the field in complete control to post a 46 point shutout. NOV. 11 CARDEN CITY, 21—GUYMON, 7. Featuring a fast split-T offense which the Tigers were unable to fathom, Garden City’s charging Buffaloes held the Bengals to one touch- down, as the Buffs scored and converted three times in a colorful Veterans’ Day game at Garden City. NOV. 18 ELK CITY, 13—GUYMON, 12. Playing as if their very lives were at stake, the Tigers closed out the 1955 season by fighting the vaunted Elk City Elks to a standstill, before dropping the greatest battle in GHS football history, 13-12. In a spectacular finish that had every fan on his feet, the time clock dealt the death blows to GHS’ hopes for a District 1A title. TIE SEPT. 23 GUYMON, 13—BEAVER,13. With their offensive power at low ebb, the Tigers raged back to overcome their own bobbles and a 13-0 lead by the Beaver Dusters. Not until the third quarter did the Noblemen unleash the drives which brought the final 13-13 tie in Memorial Stadium. Weight Position 175 Right Halfback 155 Quarterback 160 Fullback 165 Left Halfback 140 Right Halfback 135 Quarterback 140 Fullback 160 Left Halfback TICERS MEET ELKS IN A BATTLE ROYAL! Easily the -most exciting game of the ’55-’56 campaign was the Big One, the District Play-off with Elk City. Ted Miller, Tiger hack, picks up much needed yardage against the power-laden Elk forward wall. Other Tigers in the picture are Richard Dick- erson, spectacular Bengal south-paw passer, plucky little Jackie Williams, and hefty Joe Reese, Tiger tackle. Time and the District championship both vanished when the whistle blew with the score board reading Elk City-13, Guymon-12. TWO PROUD TEAMS TANGLE! Fullbacks must be able to do something besides running power plays up the middle. Here big Number 20, Percy Tomlinson, hard-charging Tiger fullback, gives the Beaver Dusters a taste of their own element. The Tigers were held to a 13-13 tie by the powerful Dusters. TIGERS TAKE COMMAND OF CADETS! Spearheading one of the greatest upsets in the history of Tiger grid warfare, Tommy Fulton is the middle-man in a pigskin pile-up as the Bengals make the one touchdown in the game against the always formidable Hays, Kansas, Cadets. That 7-0 score won the Noblemen a top rating with Tiger fans. GOLDBUGS LOSE THEIR GLITTER! Ted Miller, Tiger backfield star, is on his way around the left end of the Alva Goldbug team. Miller made this trip count for 28 yards to set up the second Tiger touchdown, while the Orange and Black cinched the northern half of the District champion- ship, dropping Alva 21-7. BIG TIGERS PADDLE LITTLE TIGERS. “Pounding” Percy Tomlinson, Tiger fullback, looks a little disgruntled as he is stopped short of a touchdown by a few inches in the battle of the Guymon and Ulysses Tigers. But Guymon took complete command of this one to come out on top by a 25-6 score. Here was a Homecoming! A ROYAL AFFAIR! It was a gala night in Guymon, Friday, October 22, when 1956 Football Queen, Pat Samples, ’57, and her attendants, senior Gail Crowder and sophomore Leona Masters, brought good luck to the mighty 1956 Tiger grid warriors. The Orange and Black eleven rolled over the Alva Goldbugs for the first Homecoming game win since 1952. Queen Pat was crowned and soundly kissed by her escorts, Tiger co-captains, Percy Tomlinson and Tommy Fulton, at the half-time ceremonies. Raymond Buhl and Fike Morgan served as escorts for Gail and Leona, who had rahked second and third in the annual Queen Contest conducted by the classes. In the lower picture Carol Simmons and Lois Mouser pilot the royal convertible, giving the fans and grads a chance to admire Queen Pat and her lovely attendants. CUBS’ RECORD IS 4-2 IN 1955. Coach Coy Gibson’s fighting little junior high Cubs, carrying a two year old unbroken victory skein into the 1955 football season, dropped two games in the current campaign. Liberal’s little Redskins were first to mar the Cuhs’ clean sweep when, on October 13, they sent the Cihson men home trailing 16-13. The only other Cub upset was a bitter one, for Shattuck’s Papooses spoiled the Cubs’ queen crowning game with a spine-chilling 20-19 defeat. Earlier in two September games, the Cuhs defeated Boise City’s Wild Kitties there, 35-13, and shut out Liberal here, 16-0. On October 25, the little Tigers nosed out always-formidahlc Laveme 20-18, and wound up the season with a pile-driving rout of Boise City, 45-25, here on November 8. FRONT ROW: Manager Bobbie Kennedy, Daryl McVey, Doug Johnston, Marvin Miller, Leon Stacy, Ray Reid, Lloyd Goodno, Don Gass, Kendall Hardy, manager Bill Shackleford. SECOND ROW -. Jerry Watkins, Robert Lile, Jim Mans, Cayland Miller, Tommy Lee, Jim Kennedy, Ron Gass, Gary Stanes, Jerry Barbee, Stan Landess. IHIRD ROW: Laurance Wells, Ronnie Tabor, Robert Dunkerson, Joe Haynes, Larry Hill, Gary Birt, Charles Cluck, Ronnie Reed, Robert Buster, John Wall, Coach Coy Cibson. STANDING ON TOP OF THE WORLD! Despite chill winds and threatening clouds, Tiger Cubs and Guymon fans were a happy group, on the long end of a 13-7 lead when Queen Ann Adams was crowned at the half-time of the Shattuck game here, Thursday, November 3. Queen Ann, escorted by Charles Cluck, is flanked by her attendants Nancy Nash and Carol Neff with their escorts Ronnie Reed and Joe Haynes. Cubs crown Queen Ann. —105— TIM NEAS Senior guard. Team Cap- tain. Five feet six inches tall. Average points ffirjgame 12.6. Free throws 59 percent. Total points 356. TOM FULTON Senior guard. Five feet nine inches tall. Average points per game 2.5. Free throws 71 percent. Total points 75. MAX DEAR INC Junior forward. Six feet two inches tall. Team captain. Average points per game 16.8. Free throws 71 percent. Total points 455. Cagers boast 22-6 record 1956 TIGER SCOREBOARD Tigers Opponents TIM TAKES OFF.! Giant Bill Russell of the San Francisco Dons couldn’t have stopped air-home Tiger Tim Neas from building up his share of the 66-64 Guymon win over Clayton’s Yellowjackcts January L 52 W 51 W 55 W 59 W 72 L 54 W 85 W 71 W 78 L 41 V 60 W 67 W 66 W 80 W 62 W 66 W 66 W 83 W 87 W 69 W 70 W 79 L 50 L 43 W 88 W 64 W 53 L 52 1823 ......................Enid 70 ...................Laverne 34 ....................Hooker 40 ................. Ulysses 44 .................. Hugoton 61 ......................Enid 58 ................. Perryton 36 .............. Springfield 51 ...................Liberal 55 ..................... Hays 50 .................. Hugoton 41 ............... Boise City 42 .................. Clayton 64 ................. Perryton 33 .............. Garden City 42 ............... Scott City 49 .................. Ulysses 62 ................... Arnett 61 ................. Moreland 61 ................. Elk City 60 .................... Altus 50 ...................Liberal 53 ..................... Hays 53 ...............Garden City 45 ............... Boise City 46 .................. Clayton 58 ..................... Alva 47 ................ Blackwell 68 Totals 1372 HIS TEAMS ARE TERRIFIC! Tigerland’s basketball fortunes took a suck i turn for the better when towering Vernon Y cs arrived at GHS to coach the Tiger cage teans in 1950. Now after seven excellent years. Coach Yates has turned in his best season’s record, 22 wins to six losses in 1956. Never hesitating to take on tough Class A A competition, Mr. Yates’ overall record for his years here is 108 wins to 74 losses. Vernon Eugene Yates was born in Enid, went to school there, and played three stellar years with the Enid High School Plainsmen in AA basketball. A prize pupil of the great Henry Iba at Oklahoma A and M, Vernon Yates made the All Missouri Valley Conference team for three years, playing with the Aggies when they went into the National championship finals in 1949. Coach Yates first coaching-teaching assignment was at Guymon, where he immediately won the respect of his teams and his fellow faculty members by his workmanship as a coach. Mr. Yates is not a coach to rely on past experience. He makes constant use of the latest techniques in the game, building up a strong defensive and offensive unit, insisting on fast accurate work, perfection at the foul line, and not tolerating anyone but a hustler on his teams. for Coach Yates’ best year. DAVID HALE Junior center. Six feet five indies tall. Average points per game for 18 games, 19.9. Free throws 69 per- cent. Total points 357. RICHARD DICKERSON Junior for- ward. Six feet tall. Average points per game 7.4. Free throws 50 percent. Total points 207. TED MILLER Junior forward. Five feet 10 inches tall. Average points per game 5.8. Free throws 49 percent. Total points 163. DON PECK Sophomore center. Six feet three inches tall. Average points per game 3.6. Free throws 51 percent. Total points 103. GERALD BARKER Junior guard. Five feet eight inches tall. Average points per game 3.8. Free throws 60 percent. Total points 107. THREE HANDS AROUND! Tigers Rich- ard Dickerson and Max Dearing arc ready to take that rebound David Hale is tussling the two Redskins for in the 78-55 trouncing CHS gave Liberal, Kansas, cagers, February 7. Sophs, Juniors THAT’S FOR ME! Sophie center Don Peck shows the fight that almost finished Enid’s mighty Plains- men, winners of two of the Tigers’ season losses, this one hy a close 58-54 margin December 16. EARS SPROUT HANDS. Let Tiger 44, Richard Dickerson, worry about that bulls eye hall and take a good look at those hands growing out of junior Max Dearing’s cars at the Tigers’ 72-61 victory over Hugo- ton, Kansas, January 17. show promise! PECK POPS IN ONE. This goal by Don Peck ap- parently took the hefty Mays Cadets by surprise, hut the Kansans kept their record clean with a 50-41 victory over CHS, January 13. —109— KENNETH BRINKLEY Sophomore for- ward. Five feet eight inches tall. Average points per game .36. Free throws 60 per- cent. Total points 6. JIM CLAYCOMB Junior forward. Five feet eight inches tall. Average points per game .12. Free throws 55 percent. Total points 3. REV UP, BEES! Joe Wilkinson, Tiger Bee, bounds high to lay up a two pointer for the young Tigers in their clash with the Clay- ton, New Mexico, Yellowjacket’s B team here January 21 Kenneth Brinkley, 30, and Jim Lee, 44, arc alert for the rebound, but in spite of a battle royal, the Wasps won this one 54-51. TIGER BEES OUTPOINT OPPONENTS. Coach Vernon Yates' Tiger B roundball men with a 1956 record of seven wins to eight losses looked most impressive in the point department, scoring a 697-653 lead in their fifteen games. The Bees won two games each from Ulysses, 51-44 and 49-46; Uugoton, 47-40, and 61-20; Pcrryton, 66-33 and 65-18; and one win from Springfield, Colorado, 42-23. They dropped two games each to Liberal, Kansas, 38-51 and 31-43; Clayton, New Mexico, 51-54 and 53-71; Carden City, Kansas, 45-63 and 34-57; and I lays, Kansas, 30-55 and 34-35. BOT TOM ROW: Max Keenan, Joe Wilkinson, Robert Hutchinson, Jackie Moreland, Jack Williams. TOP ROW: Jim Lee, Clarence Eaton—manager, Melvin Rowell, Kenneth Brink- ley, Dean Cribble, Ronnie Burkleo, Morris Lile, Wesley I laines. Bees high pointers in '56. YOU CANT CLOBBER THE CUBS! 1955-56 was another big season for the Cibson ninth graders, who garnered 14 wins to one de- feat in this year's cage campaign. The Tiger Kittens' only loss was a 30-99 thriller at the Fairview Tournament. Totaling 716 points against their opponents' 546, the Cubs were victors over I looker 43-35, 37-24, Elkhart 59-40, 69-57; Okeene 40-30; Liberal 52-45, 45-38; La- verne 49-30; Beaver 39-36; Gate 55-39; Boise City 41-36, 46-18; and Hugoton 53-38, 63-47. Proudly surveying their team with Coach Coy Cibson arc Ron Gass and Gayland Miller, managers. Around the circle arc Joe Haynes, Jimmie Kennedy, Charles Cluck, David Bailey, Ronnie Reed, Jimmy Mans, Jerry Davy, Tom Lee, Eddie Starkey, and Robert Lilc. Gibson Cubs grab lucky 14! SOMETHING TO SMILE ABOUT You may be sure modest Coy Gibson’s smile is not ex- ultant here, but he has a remarkable Guymon coaching record in both football and basketball. In his six years here, from 1950-56, his football teams have a 25-8-2 record for a .71 percentage, while his cage teams show 103 wins to 18 losses for an .85 mark! Coy Gibson was born at Stonewall, where he completed his elementary and secondary schooling. He earned his AB degree at East Central State Teachers' College, Ada, lettering in basketball. An All District center on his high school foot- ball team, a broken leg prevented his playing college football. Mr. Gibson, who has the “Ivy League” look, might be taken for a young doctor or lawyer. Perhaps he comes by this professional air naturally, since he admits that law as a career has always appealed to him. A very literary-minded coach, up until last year he combined his athletics with English teaching. His former ninth graders, reaching senior status, compliment him by saying about some difficult grammer problem: “Oh, that’s easy! Coach Gibson taught us how to do that!” A teacher for seven years, Mr. Gibson feels quite at home in Guymon, particularly since his marriage two years ago. Af- fable and a good mixer, he enjoys the civic life here. He says Guymon is the alert, progressive type of community he likes, and that he wants to meet the needs of Guymon children by being a better teacher. Outside of school his interests arc- broad, but travel appeals most to him. He has been half way around the world, and before long he promises himself to polish off the other half. READY FOR THE SHIP TRIP. All the glamor girls on the ocean liners had better sit quietly in their deck chairs when shuffle board experts Lovcda Rcust, Wyncll Keith, Janice West and Kay Watkins take their first ocean cruise. These girls don’t fool with low' numbers. ORIENTAL ROPE TRICK! Nope! Look again! Seventh grader Jo Ann Harris is using a sky hook at least, and eighth grader RaSonya Colgin pro- vides the earth mooring, so there is nothing to this trick, if you can do it. MAKE IT, MIKIE! There's not a boy in the world who plays basket ball w'ith the frantic concentration of the girls. The fate of the nation might be at stake here as Referee Edwina Bungcr is primed to call a foul on Donita Coulter or a two pointer for Mikic Jones. Wy- nona Greer, Phyllis McRae, Mary Smith, and Jcannic Scroggins tensely aw'ait the outcome. LOOK TO THE LADIES! Even the Tiger let termen shy off our PE. ping pong experts. Here’s one sport where braw n doesn’t count, if the hand is as quick as the eye. You should sec how girls like Leona Masters, Judy Johnston, Marvella Wilson, Wanda Shelley, and Vivian Rowell can put the bong and bounce on that ball! SAMPLING THE TRAMPOLINE! There's not a girl in this P.E. class who isn’t drooling to be up in the air with Yvonne Eaton. Mrs; Gibson's year-old trampoline is still the most popular piece of gym equip- ment in the department. The only thing the girls would like better would be a swimming pool! Begin at the lower left hand corner and read around the trampoline; you’ll recognize the faces or backs of Aneta Hess, Lila Rogers, Carole Neff, Bonnie Silsbce, Jean Johnson, Sandra Dow, Joyce Watts, Alice Reust, Le Vonne Le Grange, Joann Music, Laura Neal, Doris Deere, Dorothy Cotten, Ruth Pierce, Wilma Townsend, Dora Llinds, Nelda Longbrake, Phyllis Cook, Loretta Ralston, Jackie Fields, Diane Brown, Charlene Boston, Janet Beer, Roberta Frantz, Lois Black, Myrtle Brune, Lillie Trent, Bonnie Hart, Ber- nita Webb, Donna Hughes, Sally Kippenburger, Mary Key, Patty Enns, and Francis Remmel. Tigerettes love P E ! —113- OUR LADY OF SPORTS Mrs. Coy Gibson, Tigcrland’s girls’ physical training director, came to Guymon schools four years ago as Miss Ardis Nasset. Two years ago she proved that school teaching can be a romantic profes- sion by marrying one of Guymon’s most eligible young bachelors, Coach Coy Gibson of the Tiger Cubs. Ardis Eileen Nasset was bom in Bagley, Minnesota, not so very long ago, and completed grades and high school there. She selected as her college the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks where she obtained her BS degree in Education. Mrs. Gibson’s kindness and quiet charm make her an ideal teacher, but she says that along with her desire to teach, she has always had a strong inclination to- ward a career in fashion designing. Mrs. Gibson has done much to activate the girls’ PE program here. While fond of active sports herself, particularly swimming, she believes that systematic planned exercise can do much for the poise and personality of the growing girl. Correct posture is almost a fetish with Mrs. Gibson. She insists on girls being feminine and shys away from any activity which builds brawn only. A typical Norse blonde, pretty Mrs. Gibson still bears the stamp of her Scandinavian ancestry, in vivid contrast to the dark good looks of her husband. She likes simplicity in dress and achieves real distinction with her careful grooming, a point she also stresses in her girls’ classes. Mrs. Gibson is enjoying the furnishing of her home and says that her ambition is the typically feminine one, to be a good wife and homemaker. TIGER G-U-Y IF YOU WANT TO BEAT CLAYTON, CLAP YOUR HANDS! By Ceorge! We did it! “George” in this case being Band Director George Ryan and his little Pep-Cats whose “Rock-and-Roll-Up-the-Score” music have helped the Torrid Tigers find that basket at every home game. IS EVERYBODY HAPPY? Well, yes! These Orange and Black clad Pcp-CIub-ers are simply vibrating with the new Tiger spirit! Senior Cheer Leader Gail Crowder is out in front, and around the curve the “G” girls are Myrna Shields, Judy Johnston, Tommie Delie Smith, Bonnie Wall, Shirley Yates, Vivian Rowell, Marcetas Berg, Anna Jo Kenny, Laura Wells, Dixie Cox, Doris Lockett, Pat Heard, and Janice West. M-O-N ! ECHO! PEP PLUS POM-POMS! Pep Club, English III, flower growing, club presidencies, spring house cleaning, Mrs. Grester LaMar goes at any job with an intensity and a perfection of detail that means success. Georgia LaMar doesn’t like half measures. Her sponsorship of GHS’s Pep Club has been outstanding; she directs the Peppers destiny as carefully as she corrects a theme. Students respect her efficiency and appreciate the learning opportunities they find in her excellent English classes. Mrs. LaMar was born a Hoosier, Georgia Ruth Criswell, in Salem, Indiana. Her family moved to the Panhandle, and she completed both her grade and high school work in Texhoma. She earned her AB at Oklahoma University, Norman, and has done graduate work at Colorado University, Boulder. The wife of Grester LaMar, local attorney, Mrs. LaMar has been a teacher or a housewife or both, for fifteen years. The LaMars have one grade school son, Robbie. Mrs. LaMar says of him, My life’s ambition is to see Robbie complete col- lege.” She came to GHS in 1953 as a junior English teacher and has consistently turned out students who are capable of college level work. President of the Panhandle English Teachers, Mrs. LaMar takes a great interest in English teaching in general. She was selected from our faculty to train PAMC practice English teachers the past semester. In her leisure, Mrs. LaMar has a won- derful talent for raising plants. She also enjoys antique collecting and needle-point, when she has time to spare from a very active participation in the life of her Presbyterian church. CHEERLEADERS ARE CHOICE! The job of chccrleading in CHS carries a weight of responsibility, for these girls repre- sent our school both at home and away. For their dependability, their energy, their loyalty, and their good looks, the classes elected senior Gail Crowder, sophomores Mikie Jones and Donita Coulter, and juniors Grade Grider and Kathryn Brune for 1055-56 yell leading honors. A pick of pretty Peppers! — 115— THIS IS A CHOIR! Vocal music Director Hoover Fisher beams with pride when he talks about his 1956 Choir. From their first big concert at American Education Week Open House in November through more than seventeen appearances including their annual Sweetheart Concert in March, the 1956 Choir has ranked as one of Tigerland’s outstanding musical units. CHOIR MEMBERSHIP—FIRST ROW: Gay Bos- ton, Kay French, Janice West, Marvella Wilson, Shirley Talcott, Wynona Greer, Leona Peterson, Shcron King, Judy Longbotham, Glenda Birt, Carolyn Brune, Tomie Smith, Sue Hays, Betty Brom- “THE GONDOLIERS” Gilbert and Sullivan’s lovely operetta was presented by Director Hoover Fisher and the entire Choir on February 27, 28, to enthralled audiences. Sandra Allen and Robert Ne- ville sang lead roles as Casilda de Plaza-Toro and Luiz, King of Barataria. —116— The Gondoliers climaxes YOUNG LOVERS. Joyce Sproles, Clark Nash, Larry Sturdivan, and Bobbie Sue Stewart supplied romance and humor as “The Gondoliers” newlyweds, Gianetta, Marco, Guiseppe, and Tessa. low, Margaret Welsh, Judy Noonan. SECOND ROW: Phyllis McRae, Donita Coulter, Cleva Mel- ton, Bohhie Stewart, Jean Scroggins, Oneda Wil- liams, Margaret Ralstin, Lois Mouscr, Dorene Fisher, Joyce Sproles, Kathryn Brune, Melva Rice, Janet Vaughn, Glenda Hamilton, Fannye Johnston. THIRD ROW: Eugene Dunkerson, Dudley Sim- mons, Richard Sidders, Gary Krug, Larry Sturdivan, Dean Moore, Jerry Calvert, Pat Campbell, Gerald Beer, Max Grossman, Gale Koch, Melton Reust. FOURTH ROW: Kent Remmel, Duane Bennett, Granville Stark, Joe Reese, Don Krug, Morris Lile, Raymond Linde, Pat Miller, Clark Nash, John Sanders, Bryan Wright, Bob Neville, Jerome Beer, Don Stewart, Jim Moon. our brilliant choral year. i hese are good will agents. I IE SERVES MUSICAL TREATS Most high school music directors feel that in their busy schedules operettas are too much of an undertaking, but not our Hoover Fisher! He has not only produced two mag- nificently performed operettas, but they have been Gilbert and Sullivan's immortal Mikado” and The Gondoliers.” Panhandle audiences, starved for musical comedy or grand opera, found the Fisher productions a happy and satisfying substitute. Hoover Page Fisher was born in Sand Springs and com- pleted his elementary and secondary schooling at Stillwater. Continuing on there at Oklahoma A and M, he earned his Bachelor’s degree in music and Master’s in education. Mr. Fisher has been a music teacher now for six years, one at Borger, Texas, and two at Bartlesville, and three here in Guy- mon, where he and his wife and children have established their home. For his musical work, he has a real enthusiasm, which his choruses and ensembles find contagious. He would like to have every Tigerlander in his groups and regrets that the choir must have some personnel limitations as to size and talents. Although teaching is his first choice as a profession, Mr. Fisher has a liking for physics and would be happy as a re- search physicist. He also has more than a passing interest in photography, having on several occasions assisted El Tigre with special on-the-spot camera studies. Tf IEY TOUR Tl IE I’ANI IANDI.E. Tiger vocal ensembles have appeared in special Get Ac- quainted with Cl IS assemblies all over the west- ern Oklahoma area GUYMON GUYS—lead John Sanders, tenor Jim .Moon, bass Richard Sid- ders, and baritone Joe Reese delight civic groups with their popular renditions of songs like Six- teen Tons. GUYMON GAI.S, a Beauty Shop Quartette, are lead Joyce Sproles, baritone land Vaughn, bass Fannyc Johnston, and tenor Kathryn Brune. GUYMONETTES, C.IIS girls’ trio, who have appeared principally at local func- tions, are accompanist Sheron King, with second soprano Glenda Hamilton, first soprano Sandra Allen, and alto Carolyn I lull — 118— Choir Sweetheart, Leona. ROYALTY FROM THE RANKS. This year the Choir very wisely chose as Sweetheart candidates three lovely ladies from their group who were not individual performers, but loyal, long-time members. Although final votes were very close, Leona Peter- son was the winner honored at the annual -Sweet- heart Concert, March 19. GAY BOSTON ON THE MARCH! Director George Ryan’s fine Tiger Band, re- splendent in their natty Orange and Black uni- forms, always send a thrill of pride through Guy- monites who gather to watch and hear this large musical group perform. They opened a busy per- formance schedule this year when they paraded at Hugoton, Kansas, on September 10, and two days later at Amarillo, Texas. In October the GHS Band appeared at the Morton County Fair, Elkhart, Kan- sas, and the next month, the group made two out- of-town appearances, at Garden City, Kansas, Veterans’ Day Parade, November 11, and at Lib- eral’s Christmas Parade, November 30. During the second semester, Director Ryan’s musicians were on hand to welcome Oklahoma’s Governor Raymond Gary to Guymon for an ad- dress on February 20. In addition to numerous ap- pearances in high school assemblies, the band participated in two major clinics in March, the Kansas-Oklahoma Clinic at Liberal and Garden City, March 12-13, and the special PAMC Clinic at Goodwell, March 28-30. A select group from the Tiger Band was chosen to play for the Panhandle District Teachers Meeting on March 30. Earlier in March, the Guymon band members entered all phases of instrumental music contests at PAMC’s Music Festival. The band concluded the season with the formal Spring Contest, which has become an annual treat for GL1S instrumental enthusiasts. Concert or march, you can’t —120— RAND MEMBERSHIP: FRONT ROW: Kay Krone, Charlene Boston, Anita Williams, Nancy Nash, Loretta Franz, Jim Quinn, Cary Boland, David Bailey, Clcnda Hamilton, Mary Key. SECOND ROW: Nancy Bungcr, Diana Brown, Alice Mussman, Jean Ann Quinn, Carolyn Hester, Deana l.indley, Roberta Bryan, Janet Beer, Ron Cass, Gayland Sargent, Ronnie Hill, Keith Watson, Jack Perry, Merritt Spencer, Robert Buster, David Williams. BACK ROW: Robert Sturdivan, Ronnie Chadick, Carole Neff, Harold Wood, Bonnie Silsbee, Harold Wood, Jacquc Fields, Bobby Boston, Sally Kippenbcrger, Donna Hughes, Shielah Sanders, Eddie LeMaster, and Director George Ryan. beat our 1956 Tiger Band! OUR BRASS HAS CLASS! Always popular with veteran hand members or beginners are the horns Director Ryan, himself a stellar brass performer, is proud of these reliable musicians: David Williams, Robert Buster, Merritt Spencer, Jack Perry, Keith Watson, Ronnie Hill, Eddie LeMaster, Robert Sturdivan, Ronald Chadick, Jim Quinn, Mary Key, Cilenda Hamilton, David Bailey, Janet Beer, Gary Boland, Ron Gass, Cayland Sargent, Ronnie Tabor, Bill Shackleford, Jerry Don Albright. TIGERLAND LOVES THE JUNGLE BEAT. You can't forget the stirring marches and pep songs, so rousingly accented by these percussionists: Jacque Fields, Bonnie Silsbee, Carole Neff, Harold Wood, Robert Boston, Sally Kippenberger, Shielah Sanders, Donna Hughes. OUR MAN-ON-THE-STAND! “If I weren’t a teacher, I’d want to be a professional musician,” says Director George Ryan of the Tiger Band. This is not just wishful thinking either. Mr. Ryan has ap- peared professionally on the stage, playing string bass in “Holiday on Ice,” Olsen and Johnson’s “Hellzapoppin’,” “Oklahoma,” and Kiss Me, Kate.” During the Second World War, he played in the U. S. Navy Band as Musician First Class. George Albert Ryan was bom and educated in Detroit, Michigan. However, he graduated from Oklahoma City University and is a Master candidate at the University of Oklahoma. A teacher for six years, Mr. Ryan came to CHS last year from Midwest City. Appreciating very much the appeal of good swing music, Mr. Ryan has made a hit in Tigerland with his popular selections for the band, although he does not neglect the organization’s classical training. Mr. Ryan, his wife, and three children have entered wholeheartedly into Guymon church and community life. Last year Mr. Ryan directed the Cowboy Band for Guymon’s Pioneer Days and helped to secure the Tex Beneke con- cert for our high school stage. Music is of course Mr. Ryan’s favorite pastime, with some gardening and carpentering thrown in. He recently moved next door to CHS English teacher, Robert Allison. Between the two they should come up with some prize lawns, a duplex doghouse, and some dandy duets. -122— NO DUST HERE! Sweet and clear as an April zephyr are the Tiger Band’s woodwinds. FRONT ROW: Kay Krone, Charlene Boston, Anita Williams, Nancy Nash, Roberta Franz. SECOND ROW: Nancy Bun- ger, Diana Brown, Alice Muss- man, Jean Ann Quinn, Carolyn Hester, Deana Lindley, Loretta Bryan. BACK ROW: Mary Lee, Edwina Bunger, Sandra Dow, Lila Rigers, Aneta Hess, Kathy Scott, Joyce Scott, Dorothy Behne. SPICE FOR THE HALF- TIME! Big added attraction at all home football games is this high stepping corps of majorettes — Donna Hughes, Sally Kippenherger, Mary Lee, Edwina Bunger, and Drum Major Nancy Bunger, who directs the hand’s dem- onstrations. We trill and twirl for GHSI -123— A MUSIC MISTRESS OF MERIT! Mrs. Keith Dole Henderson, Tigerland’s orches- tra director, lives just across the street from Central Junior High, where she has her orchestra practice rooms. Her charming home, which reflects her individ- uality so well, is. always open to her many friends who enjoy dropping in after school for cake and coffee, especially satisfying served in lovely cups from her demi-tasse collection. Mrs. Henderson, whose mother was also a teacher, says she was born wanting to teach. Plainville, Kansas, was the town of her birth, but she attended grade school in Salina and high school at Norton. Her BS in Music Education came from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia. For several years the director of Guymon’s in- strumental and vocal music, Mrs. Henderson took over the senior and junior high orchestral direction in 1954. Through her great attention to fine quality in perform- ance and her unstinted generosity with her talents, she has done much to improve Guymon’s musical culture. A member of the Presbyterian Church, Mrs. Hender- son has for a number of years directed that organiza- tion’s fine choir. Mrs. Henderson has many interests besides her music, although playing the piano, only one of her many instruments, is undoubtedly her favorite pastime. She is fond of opera, would love to be in New York during the drama season, collects antiques, and still recalls with nostalgic pleasure the Old World charms of a wonderful trip to New Orleans, one of many she has made throughout the United States with her hus- band, Herman Henderson, a Guymon business man. —124— BEST FOOT FORWARD! When Guymon civic clubs wish to impress visiting dignitaries with the fact that the Oklahoma Pan- handle no longer belongs to the Indians and the buffaloes, they call on Mrs. Henderson and her talented String Choir, CHS’ most accomplished instrumentalists. Among the out-of-town groups entertained this year by the senior high orchestra were the State Federated Women’s Club Convention on December 14, the Sigma Phi Club on January 26, and the Scottish Rite Masons on February 20. In addition to assembly appearances, the string group entertains at a formal tea each semester, honoring their parents and music loving guests. The members of the senior group are Sandra Allen—violin mistress, Sally Kippenburger, Lavon Love, Madeania Wilson, Dorenc Fischer, Yvonne Eaton, Carolyn Hull, Virginia Sturdivan, Lyman Smith, David Wil- liams, Lloyd Burton and Barbara Allen. A VANISHING INSTRUMENT? In this age of bebop and swing, Panhandle music devotees are delighted to find so many young people interested in classical music and its most poignant instrument, the violin. From the violin to the cello and bass, there is never a lack of Centralites ready to put tuneful hoy to string. Members of the junior high group are: First Row: Margaret Bragg, Joan Harris, Judy Bromlow, Mona Thompson, Anita Williams, Paul Hitch, Carolyn Sanders, Kathy Waldrop, Diane Davy. Second Row: Mima Sproles, Sue Shaw, Linda Tyler, Robin Moon, Ella Long, Lynda Wilson, Ruby Stienkuehler, Billy Talcott, Marilyn Kennedy, Dorothy Cruzan. Standing: Ann Belanger, Lynn Matzek, Jane Funk, Ramona Rubottom, Janice Stice, Cayland Sargent, Mrs. Henderson, Linda Israel. —125— DEBATERS ARE CHS ELITE. Tigcrlanders look on our superlative debate teams with awe Imagine being able to think, talk, and win like that! And James Roach's debaters have a habit of winning! Seated behind the trophies are seniors Judy Noonan and Rosie Rye, championship debaters, with a long record of wins, including the November PAMC Tournament, the December Dalhart Meet, and the January KO Conference. Other'excellent debaters and speakers who helped to pile up various sweepstakes points arc Larry Morris, Jim Quinn, Earl Rcust, Mike Belanger, Larry Sturdivan, Pat Heard, Carolyn Brunc, Mikic Jones, Judy Longbotham, Oneda Williams, and Lyman Smith. McVEY SHOWS THE WAY! Senior Jerry McVey demonstrates the effectiveness of gestures to a junior-senior speech class in their completely modernized new suite of rooms in Old High. Among the critical, but interested hearers are Yvonne Webb, Vivian Rowell, Priscilla Earnest, Jackie Williams, Melinda Cowherd, Bob Denney, Anna Jo Kenny, Bobbie Sue Stew-art, Loretta Bauer, Larry Irving, Percy Tomlinson, and Granville Stark. HOPE IS A THING WITH FEATHERS Director James Roach's poignant one act drama of the park bench partisans won first place at PAMC’s Invitational Speech Meet, November 17-19 entitling the all-boy cast to enter the play in the state contest at Norman this spring. Viewing the captive cat are Jimmy Hughes, I-arry Morris, Dewey Deane, Larry Irving, Gene Shaffer, Jerry Calvert, Bob Neville, Wayne Booth, and Dean Moore. —126— HIS RECORD SPEAKS FOR HIM The only way you’ll ever catch Jim Roach, Tigerland’s versatile speech teacher, is to equip yourself with a motor scooter. He’s always on the run—setting up a stage, looking for debate material, locating a student who needs extra help, lining up the next radio news cast! He covers Tigerland’s three block campus with the speed of a jet. And it is purposeful energy he pours out so unstintingly, as witness his unusually successful debate, speech, drama, and radio classes. James H. Roach was born in El Reno, where he completed his grade and high school work. Attracted to PAMC by the outstanding speech work done there, Mr. Roach completed his Bachelor of Arts at the Goodwell college. Before coming to Guymon in the fall of 1952, Mr. Roach taught his first year in Hooker High School. His debate work here has been spectacular; his teams have won the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference for the past four years. His record in other phases of speech work is a remarkable. Guymon speech students are known and respected for wins and sweepstake awards at PAMC, Waynoka, Shawnee, and various other meets. Mr. Roach will tell you that he prefers debate work to drama, but he is rapidly acquiring a reputation as a drama coach. His flair for casting and realism in production were noteworthy in his “superior” rated one act play, “Hope is a Thing With Feathers,” and his two fine class plays this year. Jim Roach is a man who puts his speech training to practical use. He is very much in demand as a master of ceremonies at civic affairs and is completely at ease in any kind of radio announcing for school or town. He is on the regular staff at Guymon’s KGYN when his school work permits on week-ends and in the summer months. His goal for his department? Why, to take the State speech meet sweep- stakes! 1 TICERLAND TAKES THE AIR! Every Thursday afternoon at 2:05 even rabid tele-viewers leave their screens for a pleasant and informative twenty minutes of CHS news and departmental programs, arranged and directed by the radio class. Here the two jolly Jerrys, Calvert and Hull, man the mikes, with Jacque Reese, Geraldine Tucker, Ann Davison, and Jacquelyn Picratt awaiting their cues. A SERIOUS AFFAIR! In this art class close-up, junior Ernest I light and senior Jimmy Hughes glaze their ceramics before a display board of symetric block pat- terns, On the shelves myriads of greenware objects await the artists' touch, while a troop of completed ART FOR EVERYBODY! Mrs. R. L. Holland, our art and handicrafts instructor in junior high and high school, never has to worry about the popularity of her courses. Tigerlanders fill every chair in her big western Central studio every hour in the day. And boys arc just as numerous as girls, or more so, perhaps because Mrs. Holland, who raised two boys of her own, understands them so well. Born in Harper Hill, Oklahoma, Margaret May Huckleberry attended grades and high school in our neighboring Goodwell. She completed her education after raising her boys, one of whom was killed in service in 1943 and the other who is a university student in Syracuse, New York. Mrs. Holland, in addition to obtaining her AB at PAMC, has done graduate work at Northwestern State College, Gunnison, Colorado, and San Jose College in California. Painting china is one of Mrs. Holland's many hobbies, along with making many beautiful bags and leather accessories. While at San Jose, she had the opportunity of seeing the fabulous art treasures Hitler had concealed in German underground vaults, among the priceless paintings, Velasquez’s exquisite “Infanta Maria Teresa.” Mrs. Holland has taught school for twelve years, 12 of them in Guymon. She has seen her department develop from a few pieces of individual student equipment to a fully stocked studio that would do credit to any college. Mrs. Holland wants everyone to share her enthusiasm for art and has done much to promote civic art interest by her bi-annual exhibits both of her classes’ work and of recognized art masterpieces. Tigerland throngs to Art! WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE? Practically every pupil in Guymon schools enjoyed the art feast in Senior High’s west lounge the second week in February, when Colonial Art Company of Oklahoma City loaned us an exhibit of more than 150 large pieces of classic and modern art. Here Mrs. Holland’s fifth hour class, who hung the exhibit, takes one last look before returning the pictures. Ranged around the room are Rex Howe, Fike Morgan, Jack Cornell, Reese Martin, Jimmy Don Hughes, Mrs. Holland, Marlec Chenoweth. Jerry Kusch, Bill Brown, and Robbie Hale. HEAT UP THE KILN! The big electric kiln is going to receive a load today! Ronald Reed, Rex Howe, and Bill Brown are cleaning greenware, readying it for painting, while Marcetas Berg, Loretta Bauer, and Maralee Chenoweth paint fish- shaped salad plates and a dainty lamp. BUSY AS ONE ARMED PAPERHANC- ERS! Art hour seems only three minutes long with all the fascinating things to do there. Vance Ketchersidc, in the fore- ground, laces a leather purse, as Fike Mor- gan stamps out another billfold. Other leathercrafters are Jerry Don Davy and Jack Cornell, can ing out intricate designs with an array of special tools. Against a line of original wall paper patterns, Robbie I lale sketches at her easel, while Dorothy Lance and Reese Martin glaze and paint ceramics. —129— GHS lifeline is the library. TEN THOUSAND BOOKS A SEMESTER With an average six weeks’ circulation of more than three thousand books, our GHS library certainly lives up to its requirements. Tigerland is reading more and more each year, as wonderful modern books and periodicals, covering all subjects, are made available. Mrs. Hamilton, our full-time librarian, feels that if a student can find a book he likes at his own reading level, he will extend his reading interests. When Mrs. Hamilton took over our Senior High library in 1951, her first move was to sort out the dross and catalogue the available good books. She says, “In 1956, few books on our shelves were here when I came. We now have in Senior High more than three thousand books cata- logued, and we subscribe to every current magazine of merit. In Junior High we need more books for our reading- hungry Cubs. We started from scratch there and at present have fewer than two thousand volumes catalogued. My goal in both libraries is to have at least ten books for every student enrolled from the seventh through the twelfth grade, and that goal is in sight!” NO FRIGATE LIKE A BOOK! GHS students may book-browse all they wish, but pretty Joyce Sproles, Sheron King, and Barbara Allen like the Con- tinental flavor from the foreign book section. Tiger- land has many translations to thrill volume voyagers. —130— BOOKS ARE HER BUSINESS Our school librarian, Mrs. M. C. Hamilton, took over the man- agement of the junior and senior high libraries in 1951. Before that time, library supervision had been done by willing but over-burdened English teachers, untrained in library science. Amazing things began to happen almost as soon as Mrs. Hamilton had surveyed our situa- tion. We needed more up-to-date materials in a wider field of in- terests, and we needed to weed out the dead weight on our shelves. Step into either of our modern libraries now and see what a superla- tive job Mrs. Hamilton has done. Dorothy Lucille Swank was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, but went to grades and high school first in Liberty, Missouri, and later in Lawrence, Kansas. She completed her BS degree at Oklahoma A. and M., Stillwater and her MS at Kansas State Teachers College, Hays, Kansas. Mrs. Hamilton, the wife of M. C. Hamilton, a former CHS superintendent, lives at Goodwell, where her husband is on the PAMC faculty. In spite of commuting the ten miles daily, few teachers sign our faculty In” list earlier. A veteran of twenty-six years in the profession, Mrs. Hamilton has previously taught on the high school faculties in Picher, Pawhuska, and Fairfax. A student never flounders in our libraries. Mrs. Hamilton has infinite patience with the slow reader or the child looking for obscure reference material. Every Tigerlander is taught to use the materials in our libraries as important learning tools. Outsiders never fail to com- ment on our artistic and striking library bulletin boards, a special talent of Dorothy Hamilton. EMPTY SHELVES! Cen- tral Junior High library shelves frequently yawn blank and empty, not be- cause this fine library has few volumes, but because the books are where they should be, in the hands of the students. Here Jimmy Mans searches for some week-end reading, while Joe Haynes and Eddie Campbell use reference books from reserve shelves. AROUND THE SCHOOL CLOCK! Willing workers gladly give an hour of their precious study time to serve as librarians at the circulation desk, checking books in and out, explaining the use of the card file, and assisting Mrs. Hamil- ton in any way possible. Seated at the table are Barbara Allen and Sue Hays, first and third hour helpers. With the book are the two assistants needed in the heavy seventh hour rush, Birdie Ritter and Irma Stamps. On the window ledge perch fifth and fourth hour helpers, Doris Lockett and Judy Dickerson. —131— Our biggest yearbook yet, 1-132— EL TICRE’S BOSS. Editor Gail Crowder grabbed El Tigre by the collar in September, jumped on his back, headed him down the highway, and rode him straight to the publishing company by the middle of March. She has kept your likes and dislikes very firmly in mind and hopes your big 1956 El Tigre will be a won- derful reminder of an important year in your life in Tigerland. WE FOUND HIM IN THE WASTEBASKET! A wadded up crayon sketch in a classroom wastebasket led artist-frantic El Tigre editors to Dewey Deane, our ’56 cartoonist. And I’ve still got one foot in the basket!” says Dewey, as he droodles an endshect doodle for admiring El Tigre feature editors Merlin f lowell, Jimmy Don Hughes, ami Bob Lee. TEACHING IS MY TRADE “I used to line up my dolls and teach them to read,” says Mrs. Victor Martin, El Tigre sponsor and English IV instructor. “The nicest thing about the dolls was that they didn’t make excuses and they never mispronounced.” Mrs. Martin says that she has taught practically every subject under the sun except math in her twenty-four years of teach- ing, but she prefers English, languages, or psychology. Mrs. Martin is Mary Love Hayes, a native of Guymon, a graduate of GHS, who has taught nineteen years in GHS, always with English classes filling most of her day. She has sponsored the school papers, Panhandler and Tiger Tales, and the yearbook, El Tigre, during most of this time and has served as a pep club director, play coach, and in recent years as senior co-sponsor. She has her AB from Southwestern Col- lege, Winfield, Kansas, and graduate work from Denver University, Denver, Colorado, and the University of Okla- homa. Norman. Following a ten year period as a teacher here, Mrs. Mar- tin taught English and Language Arts in Cherokee, Duncan, Sayre, and Woodward. But she returned to Guymon in 1948, where she says of the Tigerlanders, “No place else in Okla- homa are there boys and girls quite like these; I understand them and they understand me.” Mrs. Martin’s idea of a perfect pastime is a good non- fiction book, a hard apple to munch on, and no bells ringing. She likes dogs, desultory digging in the yard, baseball games, “Bob and Ray,” and ballet. She is allergic to educational double-talk, alibis, arguments, and TV. She says “My am- bition is to preserve my teeth and my sense of humor.” REAL RIVALRY HERE! El Tigre operates on the Class Editor Plan. Each of the six class editors tries to outdo the rest in originality and general effectiveness. And somebody gets to be next year’s editor-in-chief! Ranged variously around the table are Pat Rodman, Clcva Melton, Leona Peterson, Kay French, Margaret Ralstin, Gracie Grider, Pat Samples, Dianne Hinds, and Fannye Johnston. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ —133— the 1956 GHS EL TIGRE IS RIG BUSINESS! Loretta Bauer, our bookkeeper, had to buzz to keep her accounts up with business manager Barbara Heard and advertiser Corky Northrop below. That pair wound up their ad and sales campaign earlier than any finance team in El Tigre’s history, and we have had some jim dandies! LAYOUT LADIES! Faculty editor, Bobbie Stewart, was lucky. She did dignified interviews and write-ups of faculty members. But Rose Anna Pierce and Melinda Cowherd were El Tigre’s indexers, proof-snoopers, cut, paste, and typers. And could they lose pages! TIGER TAGGERS! Where the teams go, there goes Lloyd Burton, our veteran senior high sports reporter. He’s a verit- able encyclopedia of sports facts for the years 1954-36. Jerry Hull, who covered the Bee and Cub beat, had his hands so full of concession stand mat- ters that he had to do some of his stories by proxy. El JUST DON'T WEAR JEANS My pet peeve? Jeans!” says Mrs. Scotte Hecht, our junior and senior high homcmaking teacher. “I like to see girls looking like girls.” And anyone who has seen the stylish yet inexpensive creations her sewing classes keep turning out will not wonder why Louise Hecht dislikes the favorite faded Levis. Anita Louise Johnson was bom in Avard, Oklahoma. She particularly enjoyed her home economics classes while attending school there and made up her mind that would be her teaching field. Although all phases of the work appeal to her, she is most interested in clothing and textiles and stressed these interests in her courses at NWSC, Alva, where she earned her BS. Mrs. Hecht has been instrumental in the complete •modernization of her department and, in recent years, has vocationalized the work as well as sponsoring the FHA Club here. She and her girls are often gracious hostesses at faculty and civic events. An active member of the Christian church, Mrs. Hecht also manages to work several clubs into the full schedule of a vocational homemaking teacher. She and her teacher husband Scotte belong to Mr. and Mrs. Garden Club, and she is a member of Theta Kappa and General Federated Women’s Club. When asked what she would like to be if she weren’t a teacher, she gave El Tigre’s inter- viewer one of her lovely smiles and quipped, “A reception- ist! They sometimes sit!” FHA FOSTERS THE FULL LIFE. With a wonderful altruistic program centering around service rather than self, Tigerland’s FFIA participates in social and home betterment projects at the local, state, and national levels. Old people and shut-ins have been among the Cuymon groups who have enjoyed FHA's kind attention this year. Officers for 1956, working on the March-of-Dimcs campaign are Kay Krone, reporter; Mary Jane Powell, historian; Charene Boston, song leader; Mary Key, president; and Nelda Longbrake, secretary. Vice-president Sally Kippcnberger and parliamentarian Bernita Webb are not shown. BLOUSES IN THE BUD! Birdie Ritter and Irma Stamps “sit on a sofa to sew a fine seam on their style show blouses. — 134— It's a woman’s world!” I'M COING TO WASH THAT SAND RIGHT OUT OF MY IIAIR! Does this picture look super-size to you? It should, because hair washing and drying are major time-consumers for the ladies of dusty Tigerland. Phyllis Cook and Barbara Edens demonstrate the drippy phase of an important good grooming technique. POSTURE PERFECT! In did-it-ourselvcs costumes, homemaking models Kath- ryn Brune, Robbie Hale, and Gay Boston pose be- fore proud parents at the annual I lomemaking Style Show, Wednesday, Feb. 15. — 135— FFA shows profit for year. HE TEACHES FARMING WITHOUT FUMBLES Anyone who looks upon school teaching with amused toleration as a soft job for sissies should spend a day just keeping up with handsome Bob Meisner, our vocational agriculture instructor. Here is a busy, purposeful, successful young man who requires much of his Future Farmers and keeps everybody rooting for him while he gets a big job done very well. With a record of three National FFA Judging Teams, he considers his boys’ two year State Interscholastic Judging trophy wins as the club’s greatest achievement. Individual and team honors, cups, pins, ribbons, plaques, and cockades, won during his six years at CHS, would cover the walls of Tigerland’s unusually well-equipped vocational agriculture department. Robert Gene Meisner was born at Okeene, where he went through school, later graduating from Oklahoma A and M with a BS. He says, “If I weren’t teaching boys how to get the most pleasure and material satisfaction out of farming, I’d like to be a farmer myself.” One can imagine what an ideal spot Mr. Mcisner’s farm would be. As for a hobby, al- though he confesses a liking for Western music, Mr. Meisner is the type of teacher who enjoys spending his spare minutes getting ready to do a better job of teaching tomorrow. His pet peeve? “The boy who won’t try!” he says. But his classes will tell you that he is one teacher who has infinite patience with the boy who makes mistakes, trying to learn. WE RAISE MORE THAN WHEAT. With a total labor income of $19,454.03 for projects conducted by fifty hoys in 1955, vocational agriculture director, Robert Meisner, can truthfully say that FFA is not concentrating on the Panhandle's leading source of wealth, wheat. FFA projects included beef production, sheep, poultry, dairy cattle, barley, and equipment. Average labor income per student was $389.08, with students averaging 4.07 projects, and with a total farming investment of $40,449.70. Members of the Guymon Chapter of FFA dis- play their club emblem before the shop building adjoining their quarters. FIRST ROW: Hale Cribble, Daryl Spragins, Ralph Bryan, Charles Dunn. SECOND ROW: Rex Ralstin, Joe Matzek, Robert Lee, Clen Phillips, Percy Tomlinson, Earl Reust, Max Tomlinson, Duane Cooper, Devon Cibler, Carl Nicholas, Cerald Beer. THIRD ROW: Robert Meisner, Melton Reust, Dudley Simmons, Clarence Eaton, Max Behne, Bob Burleson, Tom Pierce, John I less, Wayne Keenan, Wayne Green, John Deakin, Robert I lutchison, Jerome Beer, Raymond Pierce, Dean Cribble. FOURTH ROW: Cary Krug, Robert Buster, Vance Ketcherside, Kenneth Blackburn, Kenneth Giesel- mann, Don Krug, Bryan Wright, Lawrence Birt, Paul Wright, Dclmcr Elliot. SliniP RAISING GAINS. Senior lari Roust poses with his Champion Shropshire lamb at the Junior Show. FFA members own 21 head of sheep, earning them $74 .I2 from the pro- duction of 1,1I4 pounds. FFA'S Queen K! SMI; S OUR SWFFTHFART! FFA’s president, Percy lomlinson, proudly invests junior Kathryn Brunc with her white satin FFA honor jacket, following her coronation at the Club’s annual FFA-FHA Box Supper, Monday, March 5. SW INI PRODUCTION HIGH. Clarence baton displays his beautiful Champion Hamp- shire Sow, Grand Champion of tlie show at the Texas County Fair in September. A total of 12 FFA swine projects yielded 27a pi s and 38,(NM) pounds of pork in 55. DAYBREAK TAXI FOR T I! Most Tigerlandcrs arc snug in their beds when Trades and Industries student workers start their long school-plus-work day at eight o’clock. Eastern shadows stretch dark and low, as partsman Joe Perry unloads his sleepy-eyed passengers: Don Henderson, mechanic; Junior McClanahan, tire repairman; Marshal Rogers, machine presser,- Frank Black, mechanic; and Ronald Johnson, partsman. STRAIGHT DOWN THE FAIRWAY! A straight shooter in the classroom or on the golf course is our Trades and Industries co-ordinator, R. P. Duke, a member of our faculty for the past seven years. I le and his wife and daughter, Raylcne, CHS, ’55, came to Guymon from Tahlequah, where Mr. Duke had served as high school diversified education director. Raymond Parley Duke was born and brought up in Ada and graduated from that city’s East Central Teachers College with an AB degree. He has an MA from Oklahoma Univer- sity and a special certificate from Oklahoma A and M in Diversified Education. Mr. Duke has made a remarkable link between Tiger- land and town. He gives very careful consideration to tin- type of trainee needed on off-campus jobs and, through a testing and observation system, has developed a knack for picking the right boy or girl for the right job. He has been instrumental in administering the U. S. Employment Tests, supervised by Oklahoma A and M, to every graduate of CHS in the last five years. These tests do much to assist the student in a wise choice of future career. An excellent golfer, Mr. Duke says that he wouldn’t mind being a golf professional if he weren’t teaching. Last summer he operated Guymon’s Municipal Golf Course most efficiently. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis, and the Masonic Lodge, he is one of our faculty’s most constructive civic workers. He is also a busy layman in the Methodist Church. In fact ’’busy” is the way Mr. Duke wants his life. “1 hope I never run out of something to do that is serviceable,” he said. GHS Trades and Industries —138— — t L WE BEAT YOU. If this aggregation of senior T I students heat R. P. Duke to school this morning, it’s the only time in history! At the east entrance of the Administration building, which houses the newly decorated T I rooms, stand Alberta I larris and Don Wilcox, dry goods dis- play specialists, flanking their fellow workers. Tom Hardiman, in the door, is a scrvi9c station attendant, while Raymond Buhl and Gary Burkleo are a produceman and a TV repairman. SO MANY TRADES! Glancing through the wealth of vocational guidance materials provided by the T I department are Doug I.andess, tire repairman; Tommy LeMaster, printer; Aurelia Roa, machine presser; Henry Martin, mechanic,- and Frank Miller, pro- duceman. BIG BOARD MEETING! T I's officers know what makes the wheels go around, if they could only figure some way of throwing a wrench into the machinery of that early morning alarm clock. “Let the dogbone thing run down! says machinist J. D. Grider, club president. ‘ I ll weld the hands together, suggests vice-president and welder Frank West. “Why not wear a blindfold so you can’t see it? laughs secretary-treasurer Audine Lewis, optometry receptionist. “Throw the clock out! decides sergeant-at-arms Wayne Evanson, a machine presser. tie Tigerland and town! — 139— A GENUINE CHS PRODUCT! Tigerland is always delighted when a Guymonite, a prod- uct of our schools, returns as a teacher. Such is Dean Rear, our manual arts and crafts instructor. He is a Guymon man, born here, educated here, and married to a Guymon girl. Small won- der he understands Guymon students and appreciates our whole school program. Floyd Dean Rear was born in Guymon the son of Floyd and Beulah Shields Rear, both CHS alumni. He graduated from GHS in 1949 with a notable leadership record. He was a four sports man, captain of the 1949 football team, and lettered in all major sports throughout his four years in high school. He was a member of the mixed choir and boys’ glee club in the junior and senior plays, and on El Tigre staff. He graduated from PAMC at Goodwell with the BS degree in 1953. The Rears moved to La Mar, Colorado, where he taught industrial arts and drawing for two years, but with the resigna- tion of Donald Ring here, Mr. Rear accepted the job of teaching shop and allied arts in his own home town. Remembering.his reliability and general handiness with the hammer, Mrs. R. J. Herbei and Miss Margaret Wright saw to it that he was named a junior class co-sponsor. The son and grandson of skilled carpenters and cabinet makers, Mr. Rear knows both the practical and technical side of shop work. He has assisted with the school building and re- modeling program and, with his father, has done much to beautify Guymon. In his job with us he is able to combine two of his favorite careers, teaching and building. He grins as he says, I intend to make a fortune teaching, to retire young, and to die hunting and fishing!” Do-it-yourself in Shop! SOMETHING ABOUT A SENIOR. Experts on lines—and curves— are these handsome senior draftsmen. Jerry Hull is doing the actual line work, while Don Wilcox and Corky Northrup come up with the new angles. EARLY AMERICAN OR MODERN’ Polishing a sturdy fireside bench, which might have upheld stout Miles Standish and the demure Priscilla, is junior Don Carpenter. For those who prefer the light, modern look, Jack Cornell rubs up the natural grain of an Atom Age end table. ... lata « «91 HOW TO MAKE A HOLE IN ONE! One board, one finger, or one head, it’s all the same to the shop drill press. Better pull that hand back, Max Crossman! Cautious Jerry Kusch draws back, as Vcrle West flips on the power. ACT I. CURTAIN GOING UP! “Places, girls!” ex- claims Mrs. E. W. Sullens. And the daily drama in Tiger- lands excellent lunchroom gets off to a flying start! Hungry students from all over the campus troop down Academy’s basement steps for the best hot meal anywhere, at the lowest price possible. ACT II. THERE’S A LULL! The rush is over, the tables are cleared, and the famished cooks demonstrate that the proof is in the pudding. That savory soup they’ve been ladeling out to Tigerlandcrs tastes even better to Mesdames Virgie Barker, J. R. Sanders, E. W. Sullens, Floyd Music, Tom Baker, and Henry Wilcox. PRELUDE TO ACT III. The Time 3:45. The Place: Central Teachers’ Lounge. “Will you pour, Harry?” asks Central’s veteran custodian, R. E. Yates, host to his fellow workers at a coffee break, just before the four o’clock clean-up action. Affable Sam Shores of the Administration Building and master repairman E. W. Sullens of Academy stand by with man-size mugs ready, while Harry E. Burgess, popular Senior High caretaker, does the honors. I Stars behind the scenes. —141— HOW CLOSE COULD YOU COME? Don Carpenter and Eddie LeMaster check Donny Corbin, driver trainee, as he tries to make Driver Training’s ’56 Dodge toe the mark. How to drive and stay alive. TRY THIS ONE WITH THE FAMILY JALOPY. Tee up two small rubber balls a tire's width apart as Pat Miller and Benny Cooper have just done. Then grasp the wheel firmly, step on the gas. and drive your heap with your left wheel threading between the still cntact rubber balls. Easy for Driver Training instructor, Miss Margaret Wright and Morris Lite, but somewhat of a feat for you, eh? LOOK WISTFUL, LADIES. Come, come, Delva Dunn and Wanda Gardner. That’s no way for pretty girls to change a tire, no matter what Miss Wright teaches about self-reliance. May we suggest a time hon- ored method? Just let Edwina Bunger and Mary Lee stand hopefully by the roadside. Help—big, muscular, mechanical, and male —won’t be long lacking. —142— HELP YOURSELF TO HEALTH AND BEAUTY. The new self help .sen-ice at JACKSON’S is a real time saver for busy customers at the Panhandle’s most beautiful drug store in the heart of downtown Guymon. Tiger All-Sports star Richard Dickerson, clerk, and sparkling CHS cheerleader Grade Grider, fountain girl, are standing by just in case you need some experienced assistance. JACKSON DRUG COMPANY Self Service GIFTS PRESCRIPTIONS PHOTO SUPPLIES COSMETICS TOILETRIES JEWELRY — 143— Byerley’s Cafe Highway 54 Phone 18 WHEN A MAN'S HUNGRY! There is no place in town more to a man's taste than BYERLEY’S when he wants a thick sizzling hot steak with a hearty side dish of french fries and fresh vege- tables. Or for that quick snack at noon, just try a tasty BYER- LEY'S sandwich and malt or some of their famous pie-a-la-mode, which is what Don Corbin and Ira Bromlow have just ordered. Kay-Perry Implement Co Parts TRACTORS Service Phone 61 121 W 6th A CASE FOR THE COUNTRY! Farm and town boys alike can- not resist the spell of a powerful tractor, particularly when it’s a handsome new duotonc CASE equipped with Butane for eco- nomical operation. Mr. Clyde Key of KEY PERRY IMPLEMENT CO. has only to say Go!” and Max Grossman, Eddie LcMaster, and Kenneth Brinkley would be putting this 1956 model power ftlow-horse through its paces. —144— Modern Food Market Telephone 810-J 1209 N. Main A FAMILY AFFAIR. A visit to I larry West’s MODERN FOOD MARKET is like a visit over the back yard fence. Harry and Mrs. West arc friendly folk there to help you select the finest in fresh and packaged foods. Tigerlander Donna Sue Shores really enjoys grocery shopping when her friends Priscilla and Janice West are at the check-stand. Guaranty Abstract § Title Co. WE PHOTOSTAT Birth Certificates Discharges Legal Documents of All Kinds GUYMON, OKLA. PHONE 16 A MATTER OF RECORD. More and more Guymonites arc having their legal papers photostat-ed at GUARANTY AB- STRACT TITLE COMPANY. Virginia Sturdivan, Naomi Berg, and Jean Ann Quinn examine the camera that makes this magic for moderns possible. I Western All-Weather Window Co. Custom-made Aluminum Awnings Humphrey “Tension Scaled Aluminum Dust Proof Windows and Storm Doors—Picture Window Insulation Aluminum Commercial Doors Phone 885 Guymon, Okie. DUST DODGERS! With that first hint of dust in the January air, Alberta Nelson and Sue I lays arc rushing to the Guymon firm who has all the answers to your Panhandle housekeeping problems. To keep cool in summer, warm in winter, and dust free always call on WESTERN ALL WEATHER WINDOW COMPANY The Flower Cart Our flowers or gifts . .. Always in perfect faste for every occasion. 514 N. Main Phone 71 WAY TO A WOMAN’S HEART! Framed by the delicate scroll- work of the “FLOWER CART”, which lends its name to Bob and Darlcen Jackson's fascinating flower and gift shop, are en- thralled seniors Leona Peterson and Margaret Ralstin. Like so many Guymon shop keepers, the Jacksons are still closely asso- ciated with Tigerland—Bob as a '44 graduate and Darlcen as a recent teacher. Fowler Oil Co. CHAMPLIN MOTOR OILS HI-VI Wholesale-Refail Farm Delivery 24 Hours Service 102E. 1st Telephone 252 Guymon ALL NEW AND NICE! Corky Northrup and Cary Wingard know how to keep that '50-ish Ford looking like a '56. They give it the best, and where else is the best to be found if not at Guy- mon s popular FOWLER CHAMPLIN SERVICE STATION, the new building on the old corner at Main and 1 lighway 54. Boston’s Furniture and Appliances Phone 51—Guymon, Okla. READY FOR TEA OF TV! Charlie Boston may be found most often in his favorite nook, BOSTON’S Sports Department, but here he takes a five minute break to chat with daughter Cay and her classmate Cleva Melton on a luxurious curved divan in their furniture display room. —145— 54 Motors Inc. INTERNATIONAL MOTOR TRUCKS DcSOTO PLYMOUTH Phone 74 Guymon Tl IE FORWARD LOOK FOR '56! Super Chrysler Corporation salesman Groucho Marx and 54 MOTORS’ Jack Alexander really enjoy showing Donita Coulter and Miss Guymon of 1955, Phyllis McRae, the car that Borrows from Tomorrow, the 1956 DeSoto with Pushbutton PowerFlite. The City National Bank Friendly Bonking Service Member F.D.I.C. YOU CAN BANK ON US! CITY NATIONAL’S Mr. George Gear is ever ready to discuss banking as a career, or banking methods and management with job aspirants like Dianne Hinds and Ann Davison. Tigerlanders, both students, faculty, and alumni, find CITY NATIONAL a courteous, friendly bank in the highest tradition. Gray’s Featuring . . The Right Clothes ot the Right Time IT’S A FACT! Mrs. Carrol Reese, with a junior high daughter of her own, knows exactly what high-teenagers like sophies Mary Lee and Delva Dunn want to see at GRAY’S—those just right sweaters in just right colors. Pierce’s I.G.A. Foods Main at 12th Street Open 8 a m. to 8 p.m. Home of U.S. Choice Meats WE’VE GOT VITAMINS! IGA clerks Raymond Buhl, All-Dis- trict gridster, and sharpshooting basketball ace Timmy Neas can tell George Campbell what gives them those steady nerves and that Orange and Black drive—lots of health packed fruit, vege- tables and meats from their own place of business, PIERCE’S IGA. — 146- Dairy Kreem FOOT-LONGS SUPER-BURGERS Fountain Service Malts and Shakes Highway 54 on Main Street WHAT A PI.ACE TO WORK! No, Judy Johnson and Betty Hawthorne aren't DAIRY KREEM counter girls. They just wish they were! Imagine having all those elegant edibles right at your finger tips. No wonder DAIRY KREEM is starred on Tigerland's map. Waldrop Cash and Carry Cleaners THE BEST IN CLEANING, TAILORING AND HAT BLOCKING 305 N. Main Guymon—300 DRESS FOR A DREAMBOAT! Neat, clean, and sweet, a formal fit for their favorite femme is the opinion of Robert Hutchinson and operetta star, Jackie Williams. That is Mrs. E. E. Waldrop displaying the immaculate work done by her husband’s cleaning plant. Lain Garrison YOUR MAGNOLIA DEALER Butane-Propane 10 Quinn Street MAN TO MAN! Big Mandy Wayne Davis, who returned to Tigerland this year from a sojourn at Balko, meets MAGNOLIA manager and former Guymon 1 ligh athlete, Bill Garrison. Bill helps his father, Lain Garrison, maintain that record for complete and efficient service which is a MAGNOLIA watchword. Stanfield Printing Company Royal Portable Typewriters ALL T! IIS AND COLORS TOO! Cl IS girls are all agog at the beautiful pastel Royal Portables at STANFIELD’S. Vancy Rice and Barbara Coleman are positive they could improve their typ- ing on one of these eye-catchers, but they are tom between that cool aqua, that luscious pink, that sunny yellow, or that sedate sage grey. — 147— TWO STAUNCH TIGER BOOSTERS! Mr. Homer Long, veteran president of Guymon’s progressive Board of Education, and his son-in-law, Slippery Rock enthu- siast Carl McKinnon, are two friends of Guynion schools upon whom you can rely. They welcome your insurance problems, but they are just as eager to give Tiger- landers like Mary Smith and Jeannic Scroggins the benefit of their counsel on anv civic or school matter. Long’s Agency CADILLAC—PONTIAC—GMC TRUCKS—JOHN DEERE Twenty-Four Years of Friendly Service Phones: 100, 597 524 Main Street Nash Brothers W- —148—, THE STUFF OF DREAMS! To CHS boys like Kent Remmel, Don Stewart, and Lloyd Burton, the Cadillac is a symbol of success, ambitions achieved, and gracious living. NASH BROTHERS salesman, Hershell Pritchard, proudly presents the fabulous 1956 Cadillac Coupe De Ville. Remember the Cad- owner need not be wealthy—just wise! NO APPETITE? TRY TRI-STATE! You just can’t get past those big glass doors at TRI-STATE without feeling hungry as a Tiger after the Perryton game. Here Bud Woods, whose dad, Harold Woods, is head meat cutter, gives Betty Trent and Barbara Allen a back stage preview of their Big Apple show. YOUR EL TIGRE PHOTOGRAPHER 409V2 N. Main Phone 590 APPOINTMENT AT QUALLS! Joy Dee and Tommy Fulton have too many pals. Their stacks of senior swap pictures are all gone, so it’s back to QUALLS for a re-order with receptionist Cracie Longbrakc, GHS ’54, assuring them prompt attention. Qualls Studio PLUMBING, HEATING, AND AIR CONDITIONING Phone 750 Highway 54 HE KNOWS WHAT MAKES US TICK. El Tigre editor Gail Crowder’s father, Mr. John A. Crowder, plumbing specialist, probably knows more on the subject, Inside CHS , than any man in Guymon. You see, the I A CROWDER COMPANY had the plumbing contract for our new Senior High. Here he explains the intricacies of a blue print pipe lay-out to Tiger Joe Wilkinson and senior Bill Brown. Harrison's Fashion Shop FEATURING NATIONALLY ADVERTISED LINES FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN “EXCLUSIVE BUT NOT EXPENSIVE ITS IN Till: BAG! Mrs lake Harrison, proprietor of FASHION SHOP, knows iust how to select the costume accessories to make Tiger lassies look like the lovely ladies they aspire to be Bobbie Sue Stewart and Patsy Tucker agree on a convenient clutch size purse in a dressy suede for church, dating, or dancing. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. “THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES 1307 N. Main Guymon—729 KING SIZE OR REGULAR7 King size, like towering Max Dear ing, basketball goal getter, or regular, like FFA award winner Bob Lee, CHS votes “yes” to the Pause That Refreshes —a cool, zesty bottle of COCA-COLA. Kenneth Dearing, CHS Jt, and brother Max are COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. employees who are proud to serve the Panhandle — 150— Allen Motors PLYMOUTH DODGE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CAR ON THE ROAD! ALLEN MOTORS' Francis Miller, CHS '38, doesn't have to sell Kay Watkins and Leona Masters on the great new Dodge for ’56; their judgment tells them— here's a car that must be wonderful to drive, to ride in, to be seen in. D % J Store CLOTHING FOR MEN AND BOYS MODERN CLEANING PLANT Phone 500 422 N. Main FOR THAT 1956 TOWN AND COUNTRY LOOK! “How about one of our cross-wale corduroy sports jackets? suggests the D J's Carl Hunt, CHS ’29. And Tiger sportsmen Don Peck, Pat Miller, Edwin Johnson, and Morris Lile need little urging. That D J label is like the sterling mark on silver—a mark of distinction. — 151— K G Y N BRINGING THE BEST TO THE GREAT SOUTHWEST T. M. Rayburn, Manager WHAT’S NEW ON WAX? Depend on KGYN's wonderful record library for the latest releases, just as you depend on the Panhandle's outstanding radio station for the up-to-the-minute coverage of news, views, and entertainment. That’s John Kraft of KCYN staff and CHS visitors, Peggy Boulware and Carla Bentley. American and Royal Theatres CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 1956! MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER! Tigerlanders Dean and Dale Cribble, Clarence Eaton, and Wavne Keenan join the thousands of theater goers who say, “Cinemascope is the most wonderful thing that ever happened to the movies”. Enjoy the marvels of wide screen entertainment at your friendly Funk AMERICAN AND ROYAL THEATRES. Denney’s Lunch Big Boy Burgers Fountain Service Highway 54 Phone 534 TWO MIGHTY MALTS FOR TWO MIGHTY MEN! Tiger football toters. Bob Denney, and Jerry McVey, know what sticks to a man’s ribs—a tall, rich DENNEY’S malt—no matter which side of the counter you’re on. And how about a thick slice of that Texas toast and a tender DENNEY’S steak? Uh huh! Big Jo Lumber Company BUILDING MATERIALS, POSTS, PAINT AND VARNISH, BUILDERS HARDWARE, FENCING FASCINATING FIXTURES! Everything in BIC JO’S distinctive new salesroom is appealing. Robert Spoonemore has just torn his eyes away from an arresting array of tools to look at the shining dis- play of cabinet and door hardware BIG JO’S Harold Ritter is discussing with Bonnie Wall. Knutson Elevators, Inc. U.S. Licensed and Bonded Warehouses 1,050,000 Bushel Capacity THERE’S A WAY TO WEIGH! Farmer Jerry Calvert, who’s no amateur elevator visitor, gets a kick out of seeing city slickers Quentin Smith and Dean Moore take a weighing-in lesson. That’s KNUTSON’S manager, Cuy Bennett, and son Duane pointing out the accuracy of the big scales at the Panhandle’s largest grain storage elevator. Esther’s DRESS SHOP BEAUTY PARLOR Phone 104 504 N. Main EVERYTHING’S ELEGANT AT ESTHER'S! Esther Houser stocks her shelves and dress racks with the young and the young-in-heart in mind. From sixteen to sixty, Guvmon girls get a lift from a lovely ESTHER’S exclusive, be it a coat, a formal, a sweater, or just one of her perfect hankies. Tiger lassies like Pat Heard, Anna Jo Kenny, and Mikie Jones like to have Esther wait on them,- she knows clothes! WE’RE JUST WINDOW SHOPPING! Mr. Merrill Kennedy knows that newcomer Larry Irving and his junior girl friends Carol Simmons and Lois Mouser aren’t quite ready to discuss real estate, investments or insurance today, but time passes quickly and these Tigerlanders are prospective customers. The Kennedy men—Walter, son Merrill, and grandson Max, have satisfied three generations of Panhandle patrons. Perkins Oil Company YOUR PHILLIPS JOBBER PHILLIPS PETROLEUM PRODUCTS GUYMON—88 YOU CANT FOOL. A FARM BOY. When it comes to de- pendable farm fuel service, it’s hard to beat PERKINS OIL jCOMPANY. That big white PHILLIPS truck is as near as your phone, always ready to serve the farms of boys like 4-H award winner, Jimmy Quinn, andEl Tigre's cartoonist, Dewey Deane. Western Auto Associate Store 520 N. Main Phone 80 THE TIDE HAS TURNED! Even men like Gene Shaffer .and Wendell Williams can turn out some washing magic with a few helpful hints from WESTERN AUTO’s Lon Trent. For a whiz of a wash it’s WESTERN'S Wizard Washer in the Master deluxe Model—and don’t forget to turn up the Tide. — 154— Guymon Safety Lane For Children's Soke Let Us Check Your Brakes Brake and Wheel Alignment Headquarters Phone 293 203 Sullivan BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY. Herman Ralstin, a Tiger grad himself back in '35, with a daughter, Margaret, graduating this year, likes to meet CHS boys just for a chat about sports or safe driving. SAFETY LANE feels a great responsibility for boys like Eddie Hobson, Bob Pickard, and Bob Boston. Let Herman help keep those cars safe for the road. boys. Master Cleaners 111 E. 1st Guymon, Oklahoma NO BLUE MONDAYS AT MASTER’S! Cleaning and press- ing aren't chores for Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Brown of MASTER CLEANERS—they make them a work of art! Joyce Scott and Bernita Hinds marvel at Mr. Brown’s dexterity as he finishes a fine piece of work in the MASTER'S manner. Don’t rely on ama- teurs—take your cleaning and pressing to MASTER’S! The Kitchen Mart Authorized Dealer FRIGIDAIRE—MAYTAG—SERVEL YOUNGSTOWN—TAPPAN—KITCHEN-AID Phone 272 414 N. Main YOU CANT KEEP HER OUT OF THE KITCHEN! You men who complain that you aren't getting home cooked meals should take your lady to KITCHEN MART, Guymon’s newest appli- ance center, featuring everything a woman's heart could desire in kitchen conveniences. Carolyn Brune, Clenda Birt, and Melva Rice could cook wonderful concoctions, if manager Al Fajen would just find them three husbands who want home cooking. Guymon Daily Herald EVERYBODY READS THE ONLY DAILY IN THE PANHANDLE EMPIRE Phones: 21, 866 Guymon, Okla. HOT OFF THE TICKER! To most of us, like Jim Claycomb, Jack Moreland, and Ted Miller, the Guymon Daily Flerald's tele- type seems magical, but to Editor Amon McKay it is a most ef- ficient servant enabling him, through United Press, to keep Herald readers abreast of the world’s news. Long’s 54 Drive In LIKE A VACATION WONDERLAND! Judy Dickerson and Myrna Shields arrive early at 54 DRIVE IN for a before-sunset supper from the Snack Bar to be followed by a Cinemascope screen adventure—so real they'll feel part of it. LONG’S colos- sal concrete screen brings DRIVE IN fans from the entire tri- state area. Glen Reck Drug Store PERFUMES—COSMETICS—DRUGS IT CANT HAPPEN AT RECKS! Wake up, Pat Samples! Jimmy Pieratt is about to vanish with your root beer, and Pat Rodman thinks it’s funny. Wait a minute! RECK’S isn’t like this. The two Pats and Jim are just clowing for Photographer Qualls. Actually these three Tigerlanders, like all of RECK’S efficient staff, arc trained to supply you with the best in fountain refreshment or drug sundries. — 155— Guymon Mobil-Mix MIX ANYWHERE ANYTIME Highway 54 Phone 673 BIG MIX UP! If it’s concrete you want mixed, any quantity from a dog house foundation to a football stadium, E. K. “Tiny Johnston is the man to call in the Guymon area. Daughter Fannye, El Tigre’s junior class editor, probably wants the big equipment to mix up a dozen cup cakes. The First National Bank Phone 151 ESTABLISHED 1906 Member F.D.I.C. VAULT FOR YOUR VALUABLES. FIRST NATIONAL’S safety deposit boxes are only one of a score of thoughtful services this pioneer Guymon hank provides for its customers. President T. F. Wright explains to Tiger Max Keenan and 4-H award winner Loretta Bauer the invulnerability of the little black boxes. 122 West 5th Carl Perry-Homer Dixon Phone 161 PERFORMANCE AT THE PEAK! Not long ago, back in late 1955, a hush-hush, camouflaged’56 CHEVROLET scorched the nerve-breaking road up Colorado’s Pikes Peak for a new National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing certified record. But now it can be told, so Tiger auto enthusiasts Gary Wingard and Max Tomlinson arc glad they waited for the car that beat the King of the Mounains, the 1956 CHEVROLET! 51 5 N. Main BETTER FOOD FOR LESS The Southwest's Shopping Center Phone 183 CAUGHT IN THE ACT! IDEAL’S John Saunders, GHS junior, has just intercepted Mary Jo Morgan and Alice Mussman pinching tomatoes! Of course, an IDEAL clerk is too courteous to object, but you senior girls should know that fresh foods in the big Main Street store are all really fresh. Try IDEAL and you’ll see! Fairyland MEET ME AT FAIRYLAND Good Things To Eat and Read 507 N. Main Phone 832 FAIRYLAND IS FUN! For good food like those famous Cau- dle charcoal burgers, you can’t beat it. No wonder FAIRY- LAND has become an off-the-campus Tigerland. After four you'll find all the gang—Proprietor Oliver Caudle, Mary Rye and Darlene Sidders serving; Jack Cornell, Leonard Nicholas, and ludy Longbotham lunching. For famous food with fun, it's FAIRYLAND! Langston Buick SALES AND SERVICE Call 35 223 W. 5th Guymon Tl IE BEST BUICK YET! And a lot of automobile for the money. To see the biggest, most beautiful bundle of high powered Buick senior prexy Percy Tomlinson and his classmates Duane Cooper and Delmer Elliot have made a bee-line to LANGSTON’S. Salesman Ralph Higgins is ready to seat the seniors at the wheel and score up another sale. Allen Tires TIRE REPAIRING TIRE RECAPPING —Wholesale and Retail— Telephone 295 Guymon, Okla. 1956—A GOOD YEAR FOR GOODYEAR! This is the year that the buying public is going to demand the best for their money and ALLEN TIRES has it! The new Goodyear tire has everything that GHS driver training classes have taught Jimmy Lee, Ronnie Burkleo, Doug Landess, Denver Houser, and Tommy Le- Master to ask from a tire: safety, long life, uniform quality, and fine appearance. Ask ALLEN'S. They know tires! Oliver’s Shoe Store Telephone 115 520 N. Main BEST FOOT FORWARD! A lot of credit for those well-groomed Tigerland feet should go to OLIVER'S, Guymon’s store for fine footware. You just don't see sloppy, run down boots or shoes in our halls any more. How docs that feel? shoe clerk Frosty Cooper asks sophie Kenneth Gieselman and his pal Melvin Rowell. Bradshaw’s Flowers Serving Guymon and Surrounding Areas 711 N. Main Phone 744 FLOWERS AND BRADSHAW'S ARE SYNONYMS! For years when Guymon people have needed flowers, they have called BRADSHAW’S. As Rose Anna Pierce and Laura Fern Wells know, they can be assured of lovely arrangements, prompt delivery, and long lasting bouquets or potted plants from BRADSHAW’S, an all CHS family. Zellers Jewelers Telephone 563 415 N. Main DREAM SHOP FOR CHS GIRLS! Most senior girls, like El Tigre’s editor Gail Crowder and business manager Barbara Heard, have already selected their sterling silver and china patterns at ZELLERS JEWEL- ERS. As Miss Thelma Zellers points out, individual gift pieces for birthdays, Christmases, and graduations soon grow into treasured lifetime services. Guymon T.V. COMMUNITY ANTENNA SYSTEM Better Television for Guymon 215 W. 5th Phone 166 WE COULDN'T BELIEVE OUR EYES! My, oh, my, what a difference that wonderful TV tower and cable have made to television enjoyment in the Guymon area. Rising five hundred feet in the air, the tower on the city section just south of town has cured all the distortions, snow storms”, and black-outs suffered by Guymon viewers. If you aren’t on the cable, you aren't really televiewing”, says Gary Burkleo to Barbara Heard. Guymon Upholstery Company FURNITURE UPHOLSTERING TAILOR-MADE SEAT COVERS See Our Complete Line of Fine Fabrics 713 North Main Phone 274 PRETTY AND SOFT! Popular and talented songstress Mary Rye and her equally versatile sister Rosie, champion debater and actress, are proud to appear seated in two of the chairs recently upholstered by their father, Ray Lawrence, proprietor of GUYMON UPHOLSTERY COMPANY. Note the beautiful fabric, the perfect fit, and suave appearance of these worked-over chairs. Ray Lawrence will be glad to consult with you on your furniture problems. You’ll be glad you called GUYMON UPHOLSTERY. Jo-Ti Snack Bar RANCHBURGERS FOUNTAIN SERVICE HOME MADE PIES MALTS Highway 64 Ellison Guymon, Okla. DRIVE UP AND HONK! Mrs. John Griggs of Guymon's new- est snack bar, JO-TI. has a special welcome out for all Tiger- landers, since her son, John, Jr. is a GHS graduate. For a full meal, a cooling curl cone, or just a root beer, JO-TI fills the bill with Tiger lads or lassies, like Vancy Rice and Wynona Greer. —too— Martin’s Service Station WASHING—LUBRICATION—GOODYEAR TIRES Phone 90 U.S. Highway No. 54 and Quinn TRUST THE LADIES! When it comes to selecting a service station to their satisfaction, don’t underestimate the fairer sex! Wanda Gardiner at the wheel drives straight to her favorite, MARTIN’S STATION, with her companion Robert Sturdivan seconding the motion. Oliver Martin knows what a man wants for his service station dollar too. Ethel’s Dress Shop Guymon's Exclusive Shop For Women AT ETHEL’S, GUYMON’S STYLE CENTER! Seniors Kay French, Judy Noonan, and Oneda Williams are getting a lot of attention at ET1 IEL’s from shop owner Ethel Fankhouser and clerk Velma Cribble. With an eye to the quality typical of all ladies’ wear at this exclusive shop, the girls are choosing cashmere sweaters and lacey lingerie to go into those college wardrobes next fall. Southwestern Public Service Company Phone 353 Guymon, Okie. BOY! IT’S BIG! Dwarfed by the huge electrical generator, which serves the Guymon area so efficiently, stand All-District football star Fike Morgan and his pals Glen Phillips and Max Grossman. Behind the boys is the switch board in the Guymon Plant of SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE CO. interconnected with nine other base load plants. Hotel Dale THE PANHANDLES CONVENTION CENTER 6th and Quinn Guymon—976 THE WELCOME MAT IS ALWAYS OUT! Young Bill Moore, manager of HOTEL DALE, has a way of making the weary guest feel at home the minute he registers in at the Panhandle's largest hotel. Melinda Cowherd of El Tigre staff and junior Gerry Tucker consult the register, while porter Harold Bostelwaite stands ready to be of service. Your Friendly Ford-Mercury Dealer FAIRLANE FORD—MORE THAN EVER THE STANDARD OF THE AMERICAN ROAD! LOW! LIVELY! LOVELY! Low in price! Lively with Thunderbird’s Y-8 engine! Lovely with Thunderbird inspired styling. Ralph Brown, GHS ’29, can’t find words enough to express TEXAS COUNTY MOTOR’S pride in the fine new Ford for '56. Edwina and Nancy Bunger are sold on the Fairlane’s sleek two-tone body-beautiful, but Jim Rogers likes what’s under the hood, that Y-8 motor with the “GO ’ that’s engineered for your safety! Thank You! for selecting SEMCO where quality is the standard SEMCO COLOR PRESS, INC. 129 N.W. Third Oklahoma City CEntral 2-7848 FOrest 5-4487 —162— INDEX —A— ACADEMY GRADE SCHOOL BLDG.. 7 ACTIVITIES SECTION. 96.142 Adams, Ann, 77,78.82.85.86.105. Adams, Bessie. 3,81,83. Adkins, Joyce. 78. Adkins. Loyce, 78. ADS. 143,162. Albright, Jerry, 78,122. Alden. E. M.. 6. Alexander. Loretta, 78. 82. Allen, Barbara, 8,53.54,62,125. 130,181,149. Allen. Linda, 78,79,85. Allen. Sandra. 53.54.116.118.124. Allcrd. Mickey, 42. Allison, Robert, 1,61. ART. 128,129. —B— Baker. Mrs. Tom, 141. Bailey. David. 66,111,121,122. Bailey. Ladonna, 88. Baker. G'arry, 88.92. Baker. Max. 42. BAND. 120-123. BASKETBALL. 106-111. Barbee, Jerry, 66,74,105. Barker, Ann, 78. Barker. Gerald. 8,42,108. Barker, Virgie. 141. BASKETBALL.Junior High. 111. Bauer. Loretta, 42.126,129,133, 156. Beaman. Judy, 78. Beer. Gerald. 54.58.117.136. Beer. Janet. 66.69.113.121,122. Beer. Jerome. 12.21.23.117.136. Behne, Dorothy. 66,70,73,123. Behne. Jimmie. 54.98. Behne. Max. 42.136. Belanger. Ann. 88.94.125. Belanger. Mike. 53.54,126. Bender. Harold. 78. Bennett. Duane. 12,21.28.116,153. Bentley. Carla. 41.42,51,151. Berg. Leon. 78. Berg. Marcetas. 42,114,129. Berg. Naomi. 54,144. Berg. Ronald. 66. Birt. Gary. 66,74.105. Birt, Glenda. 42,52.117.155. Birt. Lawrence. 42,136. Birt. Sharon. 88. Black. Frank. 43.138. Black. Lois. 66.113. Blackburn. Darlene. 66. Blackburn. Don, 87.88. Blackburn, Kenneth. 54.97,136. Blair. Jerry. 88. Boaldin. Raymond. 54. Boland. Gary. 54.97.121.122. Booth. Wayne. 12.13.28,126. Boren. Barbara. 88.92. Boston. Bobby. 43.121.122. Boeton, Charlene. 67.69.113,130. 132. 134. Boston. Gay. 11.12.27.28.35.38. 116.119.135.145. Brady. Richard. 88.91. Bragg. Margaret. 78.125. Branum. Nancy, 88.92. Bratton, Cozettc. 67. Bridges. Charles, 88,91. Bridges. Regina. 78. Bridwell. Sandra. 88.92.94. Brinkley. Kenneth. 53,54.98.109, 110.144. Bromlow. Barbara, 79. Browlow, Ira, 43. 99. Bromlow. Janet. 79.125. Brown. Bill. 14.25.129.150. Brown. Colen, 88. Brown. Diana. 65.67.73.113.123. Brown. Joyce. 67. Buhl. Raymond, 14.17.22.99.102. 104.139.146. Brune. Carolyn. 54.55.117,126, 155. Brune. Kathryn. 41,43,115.117. 118.135.137. Brune. Myrtle. 67.113. Bryan. Eugene. 65.67.136. Bryan. Loretta. 79.120.123. Budd. Carl. 54. Buford. Bobby. 89. Hunger, Edwina. 55.63,113.123. 142.162. Bunger, Nancy. 11.15,17,39.120. 123.162. Burgess. Harry. 57,141. Burkleo, Gary. 11,15.19.139.160. Burkleo, Ronnie, 52.55,110,158. Burleson, Bobby, 43.136. Bursell, Chester, 89. Burton. Lloyd. 8.15.17.30.37.124. 133,148. Buster. Robert, 67.105,121.122. 136. Calvert, Jerry. 16.23,28.29.116. 126,127.153. Campbell, Eddie. 65.67,131. Campbell, George, 55,146. Campbell. Pat. 9.13.14,28.117. Campbell, Sonja, 89. Carey. Sharon, 89. Carlton, Barbara, 79. Carpenter. Donald, 43,98,140, 142. Carrier. Frank. 7. Carter. Billy, 89. Carter. Delilah. 78,79. Carter. Henryetta. 89. CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH BLDG., 6. Chadick. Ronald. 43.46.120.122. Chenoweth. Maraiee. 43.129. Chenoweth, Norleta, 89. CHOIR. 116.119. CHOIR QUEEN. 119. CIRCULATING AREA. 5 CLASS DIVISION PAGES. 8.9. CLASSES. 8-95. Claycomb. Kay, 79. Claycomb. Jimmy. 44,50.109.155. Click. Bessie. 79. Cluck. Charles, 67.75.105,111. Cluck, Wallace. 44. 98. Coleman, Barbara. 55,56,147. Colgin. RaSonya, 79.82,112. Cook. Phillis. 67,113.135. COOKS. 141. Cooksey. Jerry, 67,75. Cooper. Benny. 55.56,96.142. Cooper. Duane. 16.21,136.158. Copeland. Linda. 67. Corbin. Donny. 44.51,142. Cornell. Jack, 16.30.33.38.129. 140,158. Costner. Richard. 79. Cotton, Dorothy. 67.113. Cotton, James. 77.79. Cotton. Nellie. 79. Couch. Dick. 89.90. Coulter. Donita. 55,62.112.115. 116.144. Cowherd, David. 65,67. Cowherd. Melinda. 42,44.45,126. 123.161. Cox. Billy. 77,79. Cox, Dixie. 44,114. Cox, John. 89. Crowder. Gail. 8.11.19.22.26.35. 36.104.115.117.132.159. Cruzan. Melvin. 56,64.97. CUSTODIANS. 141. Danner. Jimmy. 77.80. Darden. Jinda. 79.80.82. Darnell. Floyd. 89.91. Davis, Mandy, 56.64.147. Davison. Ann. 44.127.146. Davy, Jerry Don. 67.75.111.129. Davy. JoAnn. 66. Davy. Roger. 1.54. Dcakin. Ethel. 31. Donkin. James. 80. Dcakin. John Ross, 44.52.136. Deane. Dewey. 18.19.32.126.132. 154. Bearing. Max. 17.41.44,50.52.106. 108.109.150. DEBATE. 126. DEDICATION. 3. Deere. Doris. 67.113. Deere. Sherry. 56. DeMuth. Francis. 1.51.97. Denney. Robert. 11,17.19.36. 101.126.152. Dickerson. Jerry. 80.83.105. Dickerson. Judy. 56.58.131.155. Dickerson. Richard. 45.100,107. 108,109.143. Donaghe. Morrison, 56.61. Donaghe. Willie. 87.89. Dow. Billy. 89. Dow. Sandra. 67.73.113.123. DRAMA. 126. DRIVER TRAINING. 142. Duke. R. P.. 1,138. Dunkerson, Eugene. 56,96,116. Dunkerson, John. 80. Dunkerson, Maxine. 80. Dunkerson. Robert. 67.105. Dunn. Charles. 68,75.136. Dunn. Delva, 56.62,63.142.146. Dunn, Kay, 80.82. Dye. Betty Jean, 89. —E— Eaton, Clarence. 45.48.110.136. 187,152. Eaton. Yvonne. 68,70.76.113,125. Edens. Barbara. 68,135. EIGHTH GRADE. 77-86 EIGHTH GRADE CLASS OFFICERS. 77. Elliot. Delmer. 13.23,136,158. EL TIGRE QUEEN. 10. EL TIGRE STAFF. 132-133. Enns, Patricia, 65 68.113. Evans, Johnny. 89. Evans, Mike. 90.92. Evanson. Wayne, 139. —F— Fergeson, Tommye Lou. 80. FFA. 136-137. FHA. 134-135. Fields. Jacque, 68.72,76.113.120,- 122. Fisher. Doreno, 45.52.117,124. Fisher. Hoover. 1,118. Fitzgerald. Richard. 77,80.85. FOOTBALL. 98-105. FOOTBALL. JUNIOR HIGH. 105. FOOTBALL QUEEN. 104. Foeter, Lavon. 80. Frantz. Roberta. 68,73.113,121. 123. FRESHMAN CLASS. 65-76. FRESHMAN CLASS OFFICERS. 65. French. Kay. 27.28,29.35.116. 161.133. Fulton, Joy Dee. 10,17.22.149. Fulton. Tommy. 17,100.102.103, 104.106.149. Gabcrdiel, Janice, 56. Gardiner, Wanda. 56.142,161. Gass, Don, 80,105. Gass. Ron, 68.105.111.121.122. Gibler, Devon. 65.68,136. Gibson, Ardis. 1.82.113. Gibson, Byron, 90. Gibson. Coy. 83.105.111. Gieselmann. Kenneth. 56.58.136, 159. GIRLS PHYSICAL EDUCATION. 112.113. Gloden, Bonnie, 90. G'oodno, Lloyd. 80.105. Grant. Sam. 68. Gray. Bradford. 80.81,85. Green, Wayne. 48,136. Greer. Angela. 81.82.85. Greer. Wynona. 56. 112.116.160. Gribble, Dale. 53.56.57.96.136. 152. Gribble. Dean, 45.101.110.136. 152. Grider. Grace. 8.41.45,48.115. 133.143. Grider. J. D.. 22,139. Grossman. Max. 57,117.140.144. 161. G’ruebbyl, Bobby, 89,90. —H— Haigood, Karen. 90. Haigood. Joe. 69,70. Haines. Wesley. 53,57.97.110. Hale. David. 45.106.107.108. Hale. Robbie. 21.22.129.136. Hamilton. Dorothy. 131. Hamilton. Gerald. 90. Hamilton. Glenda. 8,53,57,62,117, 118.121.122. Hnrdiman, Keith, 81. Hardiman. Thomas. 21.22.139. Hardy. Kendall, si,105. Harris. Alberta. 22,139. Harris. Bill. 8,45,52. Harris. Jimmy. 90. Harris. Janice. 90. Harris. Jo Ann, 91,94,95,112, 125. Hart, Bonnie, 69,74.113. Haun, Billy, 91. Hawthorne, Betty. 23,147. Haynes. Joe. 68.69.105.111,181. Hays. Sue. 8.53.57,117,131.145. Heard. Barbara. 11,13,22,23.35, 38,133,159.160. Heard. Pat. 57.58.114.126.153. Hecht, Louise, 1,134. Henderson, Donald, 46,99.138. Henderson. Keith, 1,124,125. Hendrick, Larry. 81. Herbel. Alice, 1.49. Hess. Aneta, 69.73.113.123. Hess, John. 46,136. Hester. Carolyn. 91,95,120.128. Hight. Ernest. 46.128. Hill. Larry. 81.105. Hill. Ronnie. 81.121.122. Hilty. Sandra. 89.91. Hinds, Bernita. 45.46.154. Hinds, Dianne. 23.133.142.146. Hinds. Donna. 91. Hinds. Dora. 113. Hines. Barbara. 69. Hines. Stanley. 77. Hiser. Linda. 81,85. Hitch. Paul. 91.94.126. Hobson. Eddie. 46,154. Holder. Bryon, 87.91. Holland. Margaret. 128,129. Holland. Mike. 91. HOME MAKING. 134-135. Hoover. Cleo, 91. Houles. La Goures, 69. Howe. Rex. 11.16.23.99.129. Howell. Merlin, 12.14.24.30,132. Howland. Wayne. 1.24. Huckins. Ronald. 81. Hughes. Donna. 68.69.73.113. 121.122.123. Hughes. Jftnmy. 24.32.126.128. 132. Hull. Carolyn. 8.53.57.62.118.125. Hull. Jerry. 9.24.30.38.127.133. 140. Hunnicutt. Harold. 1,5. Huskey. Yvonne. 91. Hutchison. Robert. 41.45.46.96. 110.136.147. —I— Irving. Larry. 60.96.126.153. Isreal. Linda. 91.125. I vie. Eugene, 77,81. —J— Jameson. Tommy. 91. Johnson, Edwin, 57.101.151. Johnson. Jeannie. 69.74,113. Johnson, Jerry, 17.24. Johnson, Ronald. 46.138. Johnson. Tommy. 69.105. Johnston. Douglas. 81.105. Johnston. Fannye, 8,46,117.118, 133.156. Johnston. Kent. 91. Johnston. Judy. 57.112.114.147. Jones, Bert. 81.85. Jones. Mary. 57,60.112.115.126. 153. JUNIOR CLASS. 41-52. JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS. 35. JUNIOR PLAY. 42.43. —K— Kcar. Dean. 1.140. Keenan. Max. 53.58.60,101,110, 156. Keenan. Wayne. 46.51,136.152. Keith. Harrison, 70. Keith. Kalvin, 46. Keith. Wynell. 58.112. Kennedy. Bobbie. 82.83.84.105. Kennedy. Jimmie. 70.105,111. Kenny. Anna Jo. 47. 114, 126. 153. Ketchcrside. Vance. 45.47.129. 136. Key. Mary. 66.70.113.121.122. 134. King. Gracie, 47.48. King. Jerry. 82. King. Sheron. 53.58.62.63.116. 118.130. Kippenberger. Sally, 70.113.121. 122.123.124. Kiser. Bobbye, 82. — 163— INDEX Koch. Gale. 58.117. Krone. Kay. 67,69.70.120.123.134. Krug, Don. 47.96.116.136. Krug. Gary. 6.68.96.116.136. Kusch. Jerry. 47.129,140. Kuykendall, Nettie Jo. 91. —L— Lafevers. Jenny, 82. LaMar. Georgia. 1,115. Landeas. Douglas. 47.139,158. Landess. Stanley, 82,105. Lay. Barbara. 70. Lee. Bryan, 95. Lee, Jimmy, 8,47,98.110.158. Lee. Mary. 58.63,123.142.146. Lee. Patricia. 93. Lee. Robert. 9.13.19.25.39,40.132. 136,137.150. Lee. Tommy. 70,75.105,111. Le Grange, Irene. 47. Le Grange, La Vonne, 65.70,113. LeMaster. Eddie. 58.61.97.122. 142.144. LeMaster, Tommy, 47,99.139, 158. Lewis, Audine, 21.25.139. Lewis. William. 27.99. LIBRARY, 130-131. Lile. Max. 87.91. Lile, Morris. 57.58.96,110,116. 142.151. Lile. Robert. 70.106.111. Linde, Larry. 87.91. Linde, Raymond. 59,116. Lindley. Deana, 91,120,123. Lindley, U.P., 71. Lockett. Doris, 58,59,114.131. Lockett. Joyce. 91. Long. Ella. 82.125. Long. Maline. 77,82. Longbotham, Judy. 53,59,62,117, 126.158. Longbrake, Nelda. 69,70,113.134. Love, La Vonne, 59,124. —M— Main, Virginia. 91. Mallard. Jimmy. 91. Mans. Jimmy, 65,70,75,105,111, 130. Martin. Henry, 47,139. Martin. Mary, 1.25,132. Martin. Reese. 48.129. Mason. Rinda Kay. 82. Masters, Leona, 59,62,104,112, 151. Masters. Patsy, 82. Matzek, Joe, 59,136. Matzek. Lynn, 87,92. MECHANICAL DRAWING. 140. Medley. Benny. 71. Medley, Tom, 27. Meigs, Patsy. 92. Meisner, Robert. 136. Melton. Cleva. 9.11.20.27.28.35.36. 116,119.133.145. Melton. Larry. 91,92. Miller. Cheryl. 89,90.92. Miller. Frank. 48.139. Miller. Gayland. 70.71.105.111. Miller. Marvin. 71,105. Miller. Pat. 53.59,97.116.142.151. Miller. Ted. 17,41,44,48.100.102, 103.107.155. Moon, James, 46,48,96,117,118. Moon. Robin. 92,94,125. Moore. Connie, 92. Moore. Dean, 13.18.28.33,116,126. 153. Moreland. Jack. 48.50.52.96.110, 155. Morgan. Fike, 17.28,98.104.129. 161. Morgan. Mary Jo. 21.27,28.157. Morris. Larry, 48.126. Mouser, Lois. 44.48.104,153. Moyer. Barbara. 83. Music. Mrs. Floyd. 141. Music. Jo Ann. 70.71.113. Mussman, Alice. 30.37.120,123. 157. Mussman. Dean, 77.83. Mussman. Norma. 60.' Myers, Mike, 87,92. —Me— McBratney. Charles, 70. McClannahan, Clarence. 48.138. McDonald. Mary, 71,72. McKittrick. Jim. 71. McMurry, Mike, 92. McRae. Phyllis. 55,59.62,112,116. 146. McVey, Daryl. 83.105. McVoy, Jerry, 11.17.25,27.99.103, 152. —N— Nash, Clark. 60,97,117. Nash. Nancy, 79,87,92.94,105, 120.123. NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY. 8-9. Neal. Laura, 71,113. Neas, Barbara, 71,76. Neas. Tim. 17.22.25,30,106.146. Neff. Carole. 67.71.73.105.113. 120.122. Nelson. Beverly. 83. Nelson, Jean, 49,52.145. Neville. Bobby. 42.49,116.117, 126. Newberry, David, 77,83. Newberry. James, 87,92. Nicholas. Carl, 71,136. Nicholas, Leonard, 14,30,34,158. Noble, Dick, 1.100. Noonan. Judy, 8,11,27,28,30,32, 35,39,117,126,161. Northrup, Robert, 8,14,26,31,133, 140,145. Ogden, Sherry, 77,83. OLD HIGH SCHOOL, 4. OPERETTA, 116-117. ORCHESTRA. 124-125. Oseletto, Bill, 83. —P— Pauls, George, 89,92. Peck. Don. 63.50,98.108,109.151. Peck, Velta, 79.82,83,84,85. PEP BAND. 114. PEP CLUB. 114-115. Perry. Jack, 87,92,121.122. Perry, Joe. 49,138. Peterson, Artheta. 60. Peterson. George. 71. Peterson, Leona, 11.13,27,28,31, 36.39.116.119.133.145. Phillips. Glen. 19.31.136.161. Pickard. Bobby. 46,49,98.102.103, 154. Pickard. Pat. 77,83. Pickard. Shirley. 71. Pickard. Sue. 92. Pieratt, Jacquelyn, 31,37,127. Pieratt. Jimmy. 12,15,32,33,155. Pierce, Ellen, 93. Pierce, Raymond, 72,75,136. Pierce. Rose Anna, 9,21,32,34,35. 133,159. Pierce. Ruth, 72,113. Pierce, Tom. Pinkley. Linda. 72,74. Place. Douglas, 77.84. Potter. Carolyn, 93 Powell. Mary Jane. 72.76,134. Prater. Wanda. 65. Pratt. Carol. 91.93. PUBLICATIONS. 132-133. Purdum. Richard. 78,84,105. —Q— Quesenbury, Dwayne. 66,72. Quesenbury, Shirley. 91,93. Quinn, Jean Ann, 120. 123. Quinn. Jimmy, 8,49,121,122,126, 154. Quinn, Mary Nell, 84,85. —R— RADIO, 127. Ralstin, Loretta. 66.72.113. Ralstin. Margaret. 11,27,28,38, 38.116.133.145. Ralstin, Max. 92.93. Ralstin. Rex. 65.72, 136. Reed. Gene. 91,93. Reed. Ronald. 72.105.111.129. Reese. Jacque, 65.72.127. Reese. Joe. 42,49.99.103,116,118. Rehard, Eddie, 58,60. Reid, Ray, 84.105. Remmel, Frances. 66,72.113. Remmel, Kent. 60, 116.148. Roust. Alice. 73.113. Reust, Earl. 15.33,39,126.137. Reust, George, 93. Reust. Jackie. 93. Reust, Loveda, 56,60.112. Reust. Melton, 60,117,136. Rhodes. Janette. 84. Rico, Glenna, 73. Rice. Mcl' a Jean. 45,49,117,155 Rice. Joan, 93. Rice. Raymond. 93. Rice, Roy. 84. Rice. Vancy. 56,60.147,160. Ritter. Birdie. 60,131,134. Ritter. Mary. 84. Roa. Aurelia. 50.139. Roach. James, 1.127. Roachelle. Glendon. 93,95. Roberts. Ann. 93,94. Robinson, Aleida. 1.18. Rodman. Kaye. 89.93. Rodman. Pat, 50,52,155,133. Rogers. Jimmie. 11,33.35.39,162. Rogers. Lila. 53.113.123. Rogers, Marshall, 50.138. Rowell, Bonnie, 73. Rowell. Melvin. 58.60,96.110,159. Rowell. Vivian. 35.37,112,114, 126. Rozell. Joe, 73. Ryan. George. 1,121,122. Rye. Elizabeth. 84. Rye. Rosie. 32.35.126.160. Sadler. Gary, 65.73. Samples. Pat. 46.50.104,133.155. Sanders. John. 41.50,117,118.157. Sanders, Mrs. J. R.. 141. Sanders. Sheila. 94.121.122. Sargent. Gayland. 94,121.122,125. Schooler, Jean. 91,94. Scott, Joyce. 56.60,123,154. Scott, Kathy, 94.123. Scroggin. Jcannie. 62,112,116,148. SENIOR CLASS. 11-40. SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS. 87. SENIOR HIGH BLDG., 5. SEVENTH GRADE. 87-95. SEVENTH GRADE CLASS OFFICERS. 87. Shackelford. Bill. 73,122. Shackelford. 84. Shaffer. Gene. 15.32.35,126.154. Shaw. Fannie. 94. Shaw. Mike. 73,74. Shelly. Wanda. 45.50,112. Shields. Myrna. 62.114,155. SHOP. 140. Shores, Donna. 62,144. Shores. Sam. 141. Sidders. Darlene. 50,158. Sidders. Richard, 18,30,36,116, 118. Silsbee. Bonnie. 67,73,76,113.120. 122. Simmons, Carol. 41,50,104,153. Simmons, Carol Ann, 84. Simmons. Dudley. 62,97,116,136. Sledge. Freddie. 73. Sloan. Mary, 85. Smith. Barbara. 85. Smith. Bill. 92.94. Smith. Carol, 94. Smith. Larry. 74. Smith. Lyman. 74.126,135. Smith. M � ry. 59.63,112.148. Smith. Mike. 85. Smith. Quinten, 33, 36.153. Smith. Tomie Delle. 50.114.117. SOPHOMORE CLASS. 53-64. SOPHOMORE. CLASS OFFICERS. 53. SPEECH. 126.127. Spencer. Merritt. 63,97,121,122. Spenner. Della, 88. Spenner, George W.. 4.17. Spoonemore, Robert. 63,64,96,152. ACTIVITIES DIVISION PAGES. 96-97. SPORTS SECTION. 96-113. Spragins. Daryl. 65.72.74.136. Sproles, Joyce. 62.63.117.118,130. Sproles. Mima Lou. 94,125. Stacy. La von. 94. Stacy, Leon. 70.74.105. Stamps. Irma. 63.131,135. Stark. Granville. 45.50.116,126. Starkey. Eddie. 72.74.111. Staves. Gary. 77.85,105. Steinkuehler. Ruby. 85.125. Stewart. Bobbie. 18.23.28,32.36. 116,117.126.133.150. Stewart. Don. 63,117,148. Strickler. Earlene, 84,85. STUDY HALL. 138. Sturdivan, Larry. 43,50,116,117, 126. Sturdivan, Robert. 85.120,122. Sturdivan. Virginia. 42.50,125, 144. Sullens. E. W.. 141. Sullens. Mrs. E. W.. 141. Sullivan. John, 45,51. —T— TABLE OF CONTENTS. 2. Tabor, Ronrvie, 70,74,105,122. Talcott, Shirley. 43,51.116. TeBest. Mary. 51,158,160. Thompson, Mona Kay, 85,125. Thompson, Preston, 94. T I. 135-139. TITLE PAGE. 1. Tomlinson, Max, 59.63,97,167. Tomlinson, Percy. 9.11,17,20,36. 40.100.102.103.104.126.136. 137,168. Townsend, Mary. 85. Townsend, Tom. 45,51. Townsend, Wilma. 75,113. Trent. Betty. 42,51.149. Trent, Lillie. 75,113. Trotter, Peggy. 65,75. Tucker, Geraldine. 42.51,127.161. Tucker. Patsy. 11,18.23.32.37,38, 150. Turner, Sharon, 75. Tyler, Lynda. 94,126. Tyler, Stan, 85. Tyler, Patsy, 62,63. Tyson, Ronda, 75. —V— Vaughn. Janet, 62,63,117,118. —W— Wadley, Sharon, 79,85. Walker, Buddy, 75. Wall. Bonnie. 42.51.52.114.152. Wall. Dale. 63. Wall. Janice. 94. Wall. John, 86,105. Watkins. Jerry, 77,83.86,105. Wallis. Benny. 15,25,37. Watkins. Kay. 63.112,151. Watson, Don. 95.121. Watson. Keith. 51.122. Watts, Joyce, 65.76.113. Webb. Bernita. 72,76,113. Webb, Yvonne. 37,38,126. Weeks, Leslie, 76. Weir, Raymona Faye. 69. Wells, Arnold. 86. Wells, Donald. 86. Wells. Larry. 76.105. Wells, Laura Fern, 52,114,159. Wells, Ronald. 86. Welsh. Margaret. 52.117. West. Jnnice, 63,112.114,116,144. West. Frank. 13.15.38.139. West. Priscilla. 52.126.144. West. Verle, 60.64.140. Wilcox. Donald. 25.39.139,140. Wilcox. Mrs. Henry, 141. Wilkinson. Joe. 55.61.96.110.150. Williams. Anita, 86.120,123,125. Williams. Barbara, 86. Williams, David. 64.121.122.125. Williams. Jackie. 48.52.99,102. 103,110.126,147. Williams, J. C., 95. Williams, Larry. 95. Williams. Oneda. 27.28,39.116, 126,161. Williams. Wendell. 42.52,98,102, 154. Wilson. Danny, 76. Wilson. Gerald. 77,86. Wilson, Lindia, 95. Wilson. Madeania Jo, 64.124. Wilson. Marvella. 52.112.116. Wilson. Marvin. 95. Wingard. Gary. 39.145,157. Winter, Luwana. 76. Winters. Sonia. 64. Wood. Harold. 64.96.120.122.149. Woods. Betty. Ann, 79,80,86. Woodworth, Larry, 64. Wright. Bryan Lee. 42.52.117,136. Wright. Margaret. 1,47,142. Wright. Paul. 60,64.136. Yancey. Jimmy. 89,95. Yates, R. E.. 141. Yates, Shirley. 48.52,114. Yates, Vernon. 1,107. —164— Ever-so-often on the Tiger panorama. A class bursts out with a super-drama The juniors, the seniors, the speech classes toq So sign here, actors, this space is for you. Longhair, shorthair, what do you say? The G and S Gondoliers” was rery gay! Dig that canal on a Tigerland stage ! Come on, you warblers, sign this page! Tty £ !- %u 26 V® ' Close your books, take Where did '56 go? 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