McLain High School - Highlander Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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THERE IS ANGTHER WAY Sylvester Gibson, Principal Our schools preach a humanistic kind of philosophy, but they tend to practice something quite different. There's a certain amount of dof- fing of the hat to things like sharing and kindness and making choices. But these ideals, principles, values - whatever you want to call them don't really penetrate into the classroom. The students of today confronts many more choices than did the stu- dents of yesterday. I-Iefshe is surrounded by a bewildering array of altematives. Modern society has made himfher less provincial and more sophisticated, but the complexity of these times has made the act of choosing infinitely more difficult. Areas of confusion and conflicts abound: politics, religion, love, and sex, family, friends, drugs, materialism, race, work, death, leisure time, school, and health. Each area demands decisions that yesterday's students were rarely called upon to make. We make choices all the time, thereby indicating preferences of val- ues. I believe, the choices which the future will call for demand more than glib, whimsical, or conforming choices. Education must teach a process of choosing. Many people take the first choice or the first good choice that comes along. This is the way I was taught, so this is the way I teach . You mean there are altematives? What else is there to do? The future will offer us new altematives for our personal lives and for the society. Whether we embrace each altematives as it comes along, or whether we take our time and choose from several alternatives, could mean the the difference between enormous disappointment and waste or more effective decisions. Everyone wants hisfher children, when they grow up, to be able to gpide their lives as mature, responsible citizens. Yet at every turn of t eir lives, most young people's choices are so prescribed and limited that they never have the chance to learn to guide their lives until they are thrown in the water and told to swim. We need to create environ- ments in which young peo le can make choices - about their beliefs, about their behaviors, andpabout the course of their own educaion. There is no shortcut. 1 ..,p V, p,V:p t'et I ' . .Q K if

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Board of Education Left to right seated, Mrs. Mary Warner, Mrs. Helen L. McKenzie, Dr. Hobart C. Sanders, Mr. Peyton A. Breckinridge. On left arm of divan, Mr. Ray Conard, on right ann of divan, Mr. Eugene H. Harris fseatedj. DR. ZENKE'S MESSAGE Dear McLain Students: It is a real pleasure for me to be able to share some of my thoughts with the McLain students in your yearbook. It is my understanding that your theme at McLain is Unity , Not only is that an appropriate theme for McLain, it is also appropriate for the total school system, community and nation. Keeping in mind your unity theme, l am reminded of the motto of one of our Tulsa elementary schools which is To learn, To laugh, To love. I feel that that motto also describes very well that which we should be concerned about in our daily activities in school and also in our non-school activities. One must certainly learn in order to have a most satisfying future. Along with learning, however, one must recognize that laugh- ing and enjoying life is also of extreme importance in realizing the greatest satisfaction from one's existence. Thirdly, the capaa bility to and express concern for one's fellow man is criti- cal in seeking the reatest benefits for everyone from that which life has to offer. To develop one's abilities in each of these three areas should offer a strong guarantee of success and satisfaction from the exciting future which lies ahead for each one of ou. May ll extend my sincere best wishes to each of you as Mc- Lain students as you journey into what I would hope would be a very satisfying and exciting future. Sincerely, 'i if Larry L. Zenke Superintendent of Schools Dr. Larry L. Zenke - Superintendent of School

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