Norman High School - Trail Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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r n Hi Norman High School Homcmaking I, II. III girls began this school year of 45 by sewing and cooking. They made new gar- ments, made over old ones, studied the decorating of homes, rooms, etc. These girls have a capable teacher. Miss Thelma Walker, who has been the home economics director for several years at Norman High School. Miss Walker is a graduate of Fairvicw High School at Fairvicw, Oklahoma. She was a member of the high school gless club at Fairvicw, but at- tended college at the University of Oklahoma and Colorado State College. Several degrees were be- stowed upon her such as a degree of Bachelor of Science, and a Master’s Degree in home economics. All of these girls have made individual clothes, studied art principles suited to each girl, good groom- ing. selection and care of textiles, and care of cloth- ing. They have made observations at the Children’s Center where talks and demonstrations were given bv the Health Department on child development and guidance. The girls arc doing a remarkable work with the aid of Miss Walker. [15]

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MRS. GEORGETTA LANDT Kates nf itujh fejjma By Ewbank and Bailey JN the late 1800’s a beautiful little girl was born to Sarah and George Shippy, in the windy city of Chicago in the state of Illinois. Many school years later, in the year of 1916, some lucky man, named Charles P. Lindt, entered Miss Shippy’s life by way of marriage. Since then we have known her as Mrs. Georgetta Lindt. After receiving her Bachelor of Philosophy de- gree from the University of Chicago, her home town college, she entered Oklahoma University to receive her Master’s Degree. After teaching in her home town, she came to Norman, the best little city in Oklahoma. She first started her Norman school teaching at Jefferson ward school, then she taught at McKinley, finally coming to our beloved high school where she now instructs the better students in the not- very-easy courses of Amer- ican history and geography. To us Mrs. Landt is a dear teacher and anyone under her instruction can They refused us their high school pictures so we used our imogino- tion. verify this statement. So here’s to Mrs. Landt, the best of them. Mrs. Mary Campbell, Mrs. Landt's co-worker, was originally a Southerner. She was born in Robert- son County. Tennessee. Her high school days were spent in a prep school. Martin College. From there she went on to college at Vanderbilt University. She majored in history and government. Here she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in 1927 and her Ph.D. in 1937. Before coming to Oklahoma Mrs. Campbell taught at a high school in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, and Maryville College. Tennessee. On June 14. 1930. she married another Southerner from Perry County. Tennessee. She met him at Van- derbilt University and married him at Cedar Hill. Her husband. Claude A. Campbell, is Associate Pro- fessor of Finance in the College of Business Admin- istration at the University of Oklahoma. Since coming to Norman High School Mrs. Camp- bell has given many of us food for thought. The be- lief that all Southerners have a decided accent is dis- proved in her speech. Regardless of that fact, students of Norman arc very happy to have a teacher who is sure to teach them something. May her three years in Norman High lengthen as time marches on. [14]

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fiatnma 0 Eapannl? By Martha Meacham Jt is usually supposed chat history is learned in a history class, numbers in a mathematics course, grammar in an English class, and songs in glee club, but anyone who has taken any foreign language knows that all of these fundamentals can be learned in a single course. Two years each of Latin and Spanish are taught here at Normn High under the instruction of Mrs. Elizabeth Culp and Mrs. Mary Brown. It is not hard to realize the many fields which one must reach while studying ami learning a foreign language. Titus it can be under- stood how very important it is to learn other languages as well as our own. Mrs. Culp was born in Tennessee near Chatta- nooga. When she was six her family took the Chattanooga Choo-Choo for Texas, ami later moved to Oklahoma. To add to her perfection she graduated from Norman High School. She attended the University of Oklahoma, where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a major in English and a minor in Latin. Soon after this she married John Culp, also a graduate of Norman High and the University and who is at present overseas with the English Air Force. MRS. ELIZABETH CULP MRS. MARY BROWN Mrs. Culp has been an instructor in Latin here for several years and recently has been teaching a mathematics class in junior high. It must not lx- for- gotten that she was quite attached to N. H. S. before her teaching career, for she was the first president of the Gingersnaps Pep Club. Mrs. Culp is popular for her frankness and Iter wonderful sense of humor. Many people prefer to learn a “living’ language —one that they can speak. Tints high school differs front grade school in the fact that secrets among high school students are told in Spanish instead of in pig Latin. With our Spanish neighbors to the South there is a great demand for the Spanish language and a bright future ahead for anyone who can speak it fluently. Knowing Mrs. Brown’s knowledge of the language, one might think she was a native Spaniard, but in- stead she is a native Oklahoman. Born in Greer County, she graduated from the county seat. Man- gum. Then she attended Stephen’s College, a girl’s school at Columbia. Missouri, for a year. Next she entered the University of Oklahoma where she re- ceived the Bachelor of Arts Degree with a major in English and a minor in Spanish. Mrs. Brown has taught in several schools and all of her teaching career has been in Oklahoma. She came to N. H. S. in 1942 and along with Spanish she teaches a course in English and has study hall one hour. During the second semester activity period she had a Spanish Practice” period which gave students a chance to speak the language. Mrs. Brown’s fair-mindedness and understanding have made her one of our popular instructors. [16]