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

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Mr. Oscar Rose met with area super- intendents in 1949 in Decatur, Illinois, l concerning federal impact aid. EEF: : gg g W f gf? 5 Lions sponsored community Weiner roast in 1951. Fairgrounds ' 2 booth boosted Midwest City, l949. Current fashions were created in home economics classes in 1950.

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Mr. Oscar Rose confers with Mr. Erick Landman in ss A-1... 1c1c,,cc rcccc .sm in Mr, and Mrs. Oscar Rose appeared in the tenth anniversary parade, 1953. VV0Sl'1lf QT0 '1 D-C-1 0b0Uf fedefal Old 70 l 1P0'C'eCl WSU- In 1930, Mr. Oscar Rose was superintendent and baseball coach at Bearden, in Okfuskee County. 1901 1921 1931 1943 1967 Almost 50 years after he began his teaching career at Quasada School in Okfuskee County in 1922, Mr. Oscar V. Rose is still busy trying to advance the educational needs of today's youth. During that time he has served as teacher, coach, principal and superintendent. Mr. Rose was born in Webb City, Mo., on Nov. 9, 1899. He attended schools in Comanche County, Oklahoma, and spent two years at Elgin High School. Leaving school, he worked at odd iobs before serving in the army until 1918. Af- ter working as a store manager and postmaster, he married Virginia Dayton in 1921 and returned to school to become a teacher. This he did at the preparatory school of Oklahoma Baptist University, and began teaching the following year. Mr. Rose did undergraduate work at OBU and East Central State College, where he received a B.S. Degree in 1932. He ob- tained his Master of Education Degree from OSU in 1958. In 1927, he was elected Superintendent of Schools at Bearden, where he was acclaimed an outstanding educator, coach, and A-H Club leader. In 1943, he became superintendent of the new Midwest City system and inherited two country schools, five teachers and 125 students. ln 25 years, the district's only superintendent has led the system to national acclaim through its rapid growth and educational program. E Mr. Oscar Rose, Miss Ruth Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. T.M. Townsend, and Mrs. Bertha Looper, business teacher at MCHS, admire silver coffee set presented to Mr. Townsend upon his retirement from school board in 1945. lt is for his efforts in behalf of a quarter of a century of school children in the Tinker Area that Midwest City High School pays special tribute to Mr. Oscar V. Rose on its twenty- fifth anniversary.

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i iss it ii., , . . Twenty-Five Years of Progress and Cooperation W MA f fir-:uf A- :fn ' rs.-f. ,gi-K 5 '14 Q y ,cz pf Q w.1':'f14N .4 ',' 77Z'ZfWesfI7Zgf cS1Pl7lUf:5' www pixma' ,'7.Q4ef wtf 5 X ' ' K - X Q 2 sf, abi l 'W ,,5,,,,, WM in -3?-:y,,qWV . ,Q ,. 4' imfffkr- 'ms sT214m--Mfr,e,f'.- r 1 N 0 55 rs. .t Q Isa. i Q, .. Q 445 ' . , L ir Q-t-ies' 4 . 4.-gm W4 ,foz f A f . fiwuy list Fourteen seniors comprised the first MCHS graduating Artist's drawing shows completed Vocational-Technical School. class, 1944. Midwest City has always been the 'Model City.' From its beginning in 1942, W. P. Bill Atkinson, developer, realized a need for a permanent community including schools, churches, and shopping centers in the vicinity of Tinker Air Force Base. With encouragement of Air Force officials, Atkinson conceived and planned a community which is now Oklahoma's fourth largest city. Master Plan has already provided for water and other utilities to serve a population of 125,000. All streets are paved and all major thoroughfares will soon be four-laned and white- way lighted. Because of planned' curvilinear streets, which earned the national award as 'America's Model City', Midwest City is one of the safest cities in the nation. ln 1967, Midwest City was among 15 Oklahoma cities to receive superior achieve- ment awards from Oklahoma Good Roads and Streets Associa- tion. With no slum areas, Midwest City, in the opinion of leaders, is an ideal community in which to live. ln the spring of 1943, Sooner School District knew how crowded their school was becoming, and they set out to find a man capable of realizing their need. The choice fell upon Mr. Oscar V. Rose. He started work immediately, planning a new school to begin in September. The school was to be built at the present Jarman Junior High School location. Both a secondary department and grade school were to be included. The number of students has increased to 18,784, the number of teachers from five to 743, the number of buildings is now 22, and the value of property is currently set at more than S40 million, compared to 530,000 in the beginning. Today Rose can point with pride to 14 elementary schools, four iunior high schools, two high schools, a combination junior-senior high school, and a new vocational-technical school, all striving to serve the educational needs of more than 18,000 students in the Midwest City-Del City area.