Newkirk High School - Gold and Blue Yearbook (Newkirk, OK)

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 P riecuwid ' Vv HE really fine spirit of cooperation exemplified by our community of students in Newkirk High School during this year has taught me one great lesson. That lesson is simply this: our youth deserve an optimistic out- look into the future by all who plan and work for them. Our school is an institution seeking only a building in which it can be housed. Of course, we all look forward to the new building. It will do so many things for our school but it will not make the school. Only the students, community, and teaching staff can make the school the success we want it to be. And in this idea lies the challenge to all of us. We have the opportunity now to create a truly community-centered school system for all this richly fertile area of northern Kay County. In this area we find 276 square miles of the best part of our state and county. The town of Newkirk is simply a natural geographic center for the whole area. The school, if it is to become in reality the dynamic center for the area, must grow outwardly to reach every citizen within its influence. This school must develop vocational training for its boys and girls so that these boys and girls may find their places in the school community. Agriculture, home making, business training, mechanics, basic engineering are only a few of the jobs for which the school must lay the foundation in the minds and bodies of its pupils. The school can only do this great job through continuous cooperation of all the people for whom the school exists. To the 1951-52 student body of the Newkirk Schools, as your Super- intendent of Schools, let me offer this challenge to you. Go out to sell your school and its program to your parents and patrons of the school! Admit the weaknesses are problems we can all work on toward solution. Assure all our friends that efforts divided many different directions become fruitless but combined and directed toward a single goal will produce results beyond our fondest dreams. Tell our friends we must all set our goals high and strive to reach them for it is only through high ideals that sound philosophies develop. It has been only through struggle that our America has been built. It is only with all efforts directed toward a unity of purpose, with God's help, that we can build the school community our youth so richly deserve! Congratulations to you all on a most successful year! £ Vlt 'ftycUHOK

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14 5» ibtt'lh ecUcaCfo Dear Old Newkirk Highschool Building: The old must always give way to the new. Such is the way of life. It is too bad, and we are sorry that you had to give way as condemned . We should all have wanted it different. But that too is life, and perhaps you are happier this way. We are certain you will continue to serve all of us. But whot we want to say is that to you, Old Building, we, the students who have roamed your halls and mourn your passing, hereby dedicate this 1952 edition of the Gold and Blue to you and your long years of service to Newkirk youth. Your halls house a world of memories. May those memories never die but live on in spirit surrounding our parents, us, and our children. Sincerely Farewell, 1952 Staff THE GOLD AND BLUE

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(fattenfo SCHOOL BOARD PRINCIPAL AND FACULTY STUDENT COUNCIL CLASSROOM ACTIVITY ANNUAL STAFF PAPER STAFF Classes SENIORS HIGHSCHOOL GRADUATES '52 U. S. SENATE '82 JUNIORS SOPHOMORES FRESHMEN SNAPSHOTS Activities — i ! FOOTBALL ! BASKETBALL TRACK THE CAPTAINS FOOTBALL QUEEN ANNUAL KING AND QUEEN BAND QUEEN THE BAND F.F.A. AND F.H.A. PEP CLUB THE PLAYS LIBRARY AND HONOR SOCIETY JUNIOR HIGH ATHLETICS SNAPSHOTS vjradeschooL I EIGHTH GRADE SEVENTH GRADE SIXTH GRADE FIFTH GRADE FOURTH GRADE THIRD GRADE SECOND GRADE FIRST GRADE BAND SAFETY PATROL FOOTBALL PEP CLUB THE QUEENS