Norman High School - Trail Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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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]

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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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Hr £tkr for By Ernestine Ward ks. F. W. Everts, our high school librarian, and also one of the Gingersnap sponsors, is a Norman girl. She is the sister of Jack Springer, who graduated from Norman High last year. Mrs. Evercts went to University High School and to the University of Oklahoma. After four years she graduated from college, hut she remained one more year to study in the school of library science. While in school she belonged to Pi Zeta Kappa, a religious fraternity, and to the Y.W.C.A. She also was a mem- ber of the Women’s Choral Club and the French club. She majored in English and minored in foreign languages, but her chief interest was always library work. Mrs. Everts met her husband. Mr. Frederick Wil- son Everts, while she was attending the university. She says that she spent so much time at his fraternity Like a Thin One? house that the house mother practically demanded that she pay room and board. After leaving school she moved to Pryor. Okla- homa. where she organized the Pryor Public Library. She has also worked on WPA libraries and has organized four county libraries. On October 3, 1940. she married Lieutenant Everts, the ceremony being performed in the First Baptist Church here in Norman. They soon moved to Ft. Sill. Oklahoma, and later to San Antonio. Texas, where their daughter. Sandra Gail, was born on March 12, 1942. Next they moved to I .a Cross. Wisconsin, but on September 29. 1943, Maj. Everts left to go over- seas. (Please note advance in rank.) Mrs. Everts now lives back home in Norman with her daughter “Sandcc.” She is very anxious for the war to be over and I guess you know why. [17]