Norman High School - Trail Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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 - ■ ' The Board of Education HE real foundation of a good and up-to-date school system is the Board of Educa- tion The Norman school system is no exception to this rule. We have on our school board five men taken from the business and professional world, whose whole hearts and souls are in the purpose of making the Norman school system second to none in the state To what extent they have succeeded we need only to say that they have built up in a town of but five thousand inhabitants, a school system having two ward build- ings and a high school employing a total of thirty-three teachers and in this respect surpassed by only such cities as Oklahoma City and I'ulsa. These five men with administrative and progressive abilities, arc not only quick to see every defect but to propose the remedy and carry the remedy to a successful conclusion. One year ago it was found that the East ward building was unfit for further use The School Board at once began to make plans for a new building: a bond measure was proposed and accepted, and at the beginning of the present school year the East ward children were able to enroll in a new. magnificent, and up-to-date building. This building was constructed on the unit plan, so that when addition became necessary it could be done without necessitating a new structure In order to make it possible for quick exit in ease of fire, the Board has also placed escapes on the High School and West ward buildings. They have taken much interest in our school life and have made it possible for us to hear many celebrated lectures A few years ago the Board of Education gave to the High School a silver loving cup to be presented to the class winning the inter-classic debating champion- ship. At the same time of the presentation of this cup. the Board gives its annual message to the student body. Also, they have encouraged athletics by their presence at our games and by their co-operation in making the football banquet a great success. In the way of school departments they have greatly helped our school. They have added many new improvements to the Domestic Science and Manual Training Departments. Again, they have made of our school what is known as a Normal Training School, placing in the curriculum certain subjects, after the mastering of which our graduates receive a two year certificate which enables them to teach anywhere in the state. In the Physics depart- ment. through the efforts of the Board, much new' and valuable apparatus has also been added. The Board of Education has laid dow'n some much-needed rules concerning social func- tions. which have been very readily obeyed by the student body. Our Board of Education is composed of. as we have said before, five men. Dr. Pendleton, our well-known dentist: Mr. E. A. Foster, manager of the Carey-Lombard Lumber Com- pany: Mr. M. B. Shives. who is connected with the State Sanitarium. Mr. Fred Reed, one of our most efficient druggists, and Prof. Shannon, a member of the faculty of the University All of these men arc recognized as educators and school-builders. Our city is to be con gratulatcd upon its possession of this efficient Board. No more need be said of these men yet we cannot stop without expressing our appreciation of their attention to our needs. We as the departing class From Norman High School, take this means of thanking you. the mem bers of the Board of Education, for the interest you have shown and the time you have given to our development. We realize the value of a good Board, and consider ourselves especially favored with the most excellent opportunities you have given us for our mental development We trust that when the class of Seventeen goes out into the struggle of life we will by our lives show that your kind help has not been in vain and that the present members of our school will show by earnest endeavors their appreciation of your services rendered. 10—

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c tT A -. xy 7 The Faculty ORMAN High School has been particularly favored through the selection of its faculty personnel. We have had during the past year a corps of teachers of which a much larger school should rightly be envious. Our good fortune is due perhaps however, to our proximity to the University, which must necessarily attract the more ambitious and those who arc also anxious to take advantage of its opportunities for high school training. This will. also, in a large degree, account for the general youthfulncss of our faculty, to which our attention was called by Mr. Edwards at the beginning of the school year. This feature in a general way promotes comradeship and understanding between student and teacher, which is so essential to the bringing about of the desired result. Again, that progressive spirit which always accompanies youth, insures modern methods of teaching, and a recent knowledge of the subject to be taught which cannot help but place that body far above the mediocre We arc proud of our faculty because of the type which they represent. Nevertheless, while we have here assembled the better element of teachcrdom. humanity is never perfect and here we have endeavored to record the chief characteristics by which each is marked. Mr. Edwards, by his all-conquering stare, his departing cranial thatch, and mania for mathematics and athletics. O Death' Where is thy sting, when I have to take Solid Geometry?'' Mr McMurtry. by his Irish sense of humor and the taking of plenty of time to do a thing.” The man with but one enemy, and he is about dead. Miss Eva Clifton by her wit. diminutive figure and marvelous store of jokes. She is also an authority on domestic relations and matrimony We understand •'he will be using this knowledge to an advantage in the near future Mr. Carpenter by his slow grin, perfect composure with the exception of an inadvertent reddening of the cars, and an always immaculate person. Miss Hurst by her ready smile and dcmurcncss of manner. We never saw her frown. Mr. Williams by his cowboy stunts and occasional strokes of acute peevishness. Also a dare-devil driver of a high-power Saxon Miss Davison by her formality and holclcss doughnuts. Mr. Turner by his erect little figure, ease of manner and pleasing personality. Now adrift on the matrimonial sea. He was such a promising young man—too bad' Mrs. E. Oatman Blachly by her suffrage propensities and introduction of Boston Baked English into N. H. S. She never saw such a bunch of ignorant infants in all her life. Mr. Lounsbury by his efforts in instilling pepper into a dormant Junior class, and the careful nurturing of future Oklahoma teachers. Mrs. Goode by her honest attempts at injecting algebra into Freshman heads. Also salvaging German note-books and general sophistication in the ways of the wayward student. Mr. Stevenson by his horror of being nibbled, his vitriolic sarcasm and rendition of chapel music. Never assigned over twenty pages for one Physics lesson. Mr. Collins by his suaveness, conversational oratory and combativeness. Miss Hamar by her efforts to attract masculine voices into the Glee Club. Never known to stay through an cntac chapel period. We don’t blame her. Mr. Miller by his lack of any particular peculiarity. Miss Vandiver by her graceful gestures and sorrow at our failure of imitation. For Heaven's sake don’t ever call her a school-marm. Mrs. Clifton by her sprightlincss and. of course, she is little too. as all Cliftons are Miss Scrucx;s by her aversion to having her picture taken, and just to think, she now has to teach some of those big old boys she used to go to school with. Horrors' Oh horrors'