Norman High School - Trail Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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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]

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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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Left to right: MISS JEAN SUGDEN. MRS. H. V. THORNTON. MISS BERNICE VENABLE. A Stffmurp in §iun By Barbara Biz i t i. 0 t VVINC all new teachers has really kept things flopping in the math department. Miss Sug- V den an l Mrs. Thornton collaborate — the former taking the morning classes, and the latter afternoon classes. Mrs. Rose left in November and was replaced by Miss Bernice Venable, who has very capably taken over. Our algebra III, plane geometry, and trigonometry teacher. Miss Jean Sugden, came to Norman High after teaching in the University five years. Before that she taught at high schools in Independence. Weatherford, Ardmore, Oklahoma, and at Southwestern State Teachers' College. Don't think it’s been all work and no play though. Just ask her about “Six- teen Hi” Social Club. Speaking of social clubs, have you heard about the “Fx- cclsior? That's a club that Mrs. Tliornton organized in her high school days. She also belonged to the High School Liter- ary Society, again showing that work and play can be mixed. Norman High is the fourth school in which she has taught and we hope she’ll think it’s the best. Leaving “ole N. H. S. in favor of McAlister. Oklahoma. Mrs. Mary Ellen Rose also left us with an emptiness in our hearts. Her complete knowledge of math kept geometry and algebra from being dull to say nothing of geography and business arithmetic. She attended Northwestern, Eastern and Central State Teachers’ Colleges and Oklahoma University. The attractive Miss Venable came to our little insti- MRS MARY ELLEN ROSE tution late in November. Before that she was em- ployed as a radio engineer aide at Aircraft Radio Laboratories at Wright Field, Dayton. Ohio. Born in Geronimo, Oklahoma. Leah Bernice later moved to Norman and attended McKinley School. After that (though we hate to admit it) she went to University High School. She was a member of the glee club, girls' quartet and played a violin in the orchestra. Strangely enough, after graduating from O. U. she taught at McKinley where she formerly attended grade school. We hope that these new teachers will like Norman High enough to stay here a long time.