Midwest City High School - Bomber Yearbook (Midwest City, OK)

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THE SENIOR CLASS OE 1945 RESPECTEULLY DEDICATES THIS FIRST ANNUAL MMM: em, 41,44 scfmz TO WIV. C. Sutton, PRINCIPAL OE THE HIGH SCHOOL WI1'OSli UNEAILING GUIDANCE PATIENT UNDERSTANDING STRENGTH OF CHARACTER DEVOTION TO DUTY HIGH IDEALS AND UNFALTERING EXAMPLE HAVE INSPIRED EACH SENIOR TO FACE THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THE FUTURE VVITH COURAGE AND FAITH

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it 'A' W 'A' i un, - uvn.. ::: nf. ::s-.-.'L this 'finan- nn 'fiiv-mia qua iiiingg mn. un. 1 1 -iam? .f 4 This first Midwest City Annual, THE BOMBER, has been designed for your pleasure and to bring back all the happy memories that help make school worthwhile. As you turn these pages you will find :i record of many things great and small-all of them a part of the school as you remember it. The editors have tried to record every achievement and forward movement of our school so you may have a fully written record of this year in school. CONTENTS acuag Cfadded .xdcfiuifieln yea lured .Afkdficd .xdeluerfiziing

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moclern guifcbn ome Oklahoma's true pioneering spirit has been exhibited by the teachers and students of the Midwest City school, which has grown in the last two years from a muddy, barren hillside into one of the state's most modern systems, with a total enrolment of 1,396 students and 49 faculty members. The S18o,0oo ultra-modern red brick building that houses the school today is a far cry from the prefabricated barracks in which the first semester opened in the fall of 1943. Concrete walks now replace the muddy paths that connected the small wooden buildings, the entire campus has been sodded, a football field and basketball courts have been laid out, playground equipment has been installed, and last, but not least, workmen are rapidly completing a new 5I35,000 recreation building and gymnasium adjacent to the administration building. Oscar V. Rose, superintendent of schools, started organization of the school system in the summer of 1943. He secured a 310,000 grant from the Federal Works agency in Fort Worth to purchase the first prefabricated buildingsg by September 1 of that year, seventeen faculty members had signed contracts to teach in the Midwest City School system, and on September 20, school actually began with an enrolment of 476 students. EN ROLMENT GROWS During the first semester, as new families poured into the community, the enrolment almost doubled, and on December 1, Supt. Rose made another hurried trip to Fort Worth where he secured PWA funds to purchase five additional hutments, each being 165 by 16 feet.