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

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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.

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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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-nu.. . S 'I' - 1 . 1 -as '3f:9'1s21.frw3 iq n. .':,.. ,, y , or ioneering ulai J Un-his return, Mr. Rose called his men faculty mem- bers to work immediately erecting the new buildings. In three days school teacher-carpenters had the hutments ready for occupancy, with the exception of wiring the buildings and installing heating facilities. This work also was com- pleted 'in short order with the assistance of volunteer high school 'boys who remained after school each day to assist their teachers, E. Sutton, Ir., lack Clark, band director, and Oscar Bean, custodian. I lt was' about this same time that the Federal Govern- ment approved the 5180.000 permanent building project and construction was begun immediately. It was the pros- pects of this new building that kept studentsb and teachers' spirits high as they endured the cold, rain, and mud of that winter in the hutments. BUILDING COMPLETED On April 6, 1944, the happy day arrived-the new building was ready for occupancy. This was a day that no faculty member or pupil will ever forget, as each class started moving through the mud to their new home, books in hand and a big smile on every face. As a service to parents in war work, the school con- ducted a recreational program during the summer of I944 for all boys of school age living within the city limits. During the same time an accredited nine weeks' summer school was carried. An additional service for working parents is a day child-care center, where pre-school age children are cared for by experienced nursery workers. A complete care center for both Pre-school age children was maintained throughout the summer along with the recreational program.