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

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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.

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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.

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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.