Madill High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Madill, OK)

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Our eighth grade year must not have been very eventful, because at this point our minds go completely blank. Although we did have sev- eral favorite teachers: Miss Martha Carter, Mrs. Agnes Landram, Mrs. Irene Herrin, and Mrs. Judy Joins Rowland. Two new eighth graders we gained were Darlene Scott from Nida and Judy Hackler from Oakland. Those two years passed so quickly that we could hardly believe we were actually Freshmen in high school. Our new classmates included: Linda Carney Terry Hewitt Walter Bruce Bigger Mike Bean Cecil Shelton all transferring from Lebanon. John Perry came to us from Birmingham, Alabama; Albert Luttmer from Valley View, Texas; and Don O’Steen from Russett. This year was highlighted by an undefeated football season. We planned all year for our graduation and then for entering high school with the assistance of Mrs. Billye Herndon, Mr. Dyton Matthews, Miss Martha Carter, Mr. Leston Jacks, and Mrs. Dessie Hull. S-S-S O P H O-O-M ORE! SOPHO- MORE! SOPHOMORE! SOPHOMORE! SOPHOMORE! was our battle cry, and also, we might add, the cry that won us the spirit stick so many times. We had a big choice of subjects this year, but we couldn’t decide whether to en- roll in Spanish I, under Mrs. La Vanda McClure, Speech I, under Mrs. Lula Bolin, Typing I, under Mrs. Blanche Jewell, or Biology, under Mrs. Waurane Hodge. Of course, everyone was priv- iliged to study Julius Caesar under Mrs. Judy Rowland and Mrs. Ruthie Kunkle. Our only ad- dition this year was Majorie Willmond from Los Angeles, California. Our hearts were grieved when John Perry took an “extended vacation” to Birmingham, but were relieved when he rejoined us later in the year. Our junior year we thought was the best so far. Never before have so many people worked so diligently to stage the most fabulous Junior- Senior banquet in the history of our school. The theme was “Three Coins in a Fountain,” at Lake Murray Lodge, and was one that no one will ever forget. This was the year of the Green Mountain Boys, the float burning, egg fights, WILD English classes, and other numerous unmentionables. Our curriculum included: Spanish II, Speech II, Al- gebra II, under Mrs. Billye Herndon, Home Ec- onomics under Mrs. Joyce Herndon, Vocal Music under Mrs. Linda Hutton, American History (or the Art of Notetaking) under Mrs. Chloe Sartin, and Band under a new director, Mr. Tom K. Jamison, who must not have liked us too well because he joined the army in March. Lana Ste- phens from Hobart, and Janet Pickens from Okla- homa City soon became our good friends and helped make our class just a little larger. August 28, 1967, was the beginning of the end for us. It was, and still is, hard for us to rational- ize that we had made it to the title of SENIORS. We counted the days as they passed, and also the memories we would not soon forget. Our football and basketball teams gave us honor with District Championships, and our track teams made the trophy case look better with their trophies. MHS was almost blessed with an olympic-size swimming pool when the band room was flooded over one weekend. Our new official name became the Senior Class Club, and we made big plans for our trip to Galveston in June. Not everyone at MHS shares our sympathy for our class motto—MAKE LOVE NOT WAR—but it is ours. Our class was not complete until the arrival last summer of Eija Bjorkman, our ex- change student from Jacobstad, Finland. Another realization was that our grades must be in tip-top shape for next year at college. Therefore, we wrote elaborate shorthand for Mrs. Jewell; failed the nine-weeks tests under Mrs. Bolin, not to mention the time spent on Macbeth and Animal Farm. We spent many a glorious hour as office workers, and trying to work Mr. Hinds’ physics problems, and Mrs. Herndon’s math problems. Even though our number decreased somewhat over the years, we are still the greatest Senior Class of all times, and we are proud of it. As graduation draws near, we reflect on the many past experiences we have shared and the close friendships we have developed. The road behind us seems long, but the path of life ahead is far greater than we realize now. To all our friends at MHS, the Senior Class of 1968 says farewell, and we hope that the years to come will be as good for you as they have been for us.

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