Norman High School - Trail Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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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'

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