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

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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.

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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!”

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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.