Norman High School - Trail Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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llnuiiu' mb (Entnritontal By Martha Meacham I: is the only woman who ever received a degree in manual training from the University of Oklahoma. — She attended Alva High School, where her happy carefree days were far from dull. She belonged to a Satur- day Night Club, which had its own private meeting place in a corner of a room in the high school. She was the presi- dent of her club, Sigma Sigma Sigma. She walked away with many scholastic honors in addition to being beauty and popularity queens. She was also the tall lanky center on the state champion basketball team. Nothing really serious happened to—you guessed it— Mac until she entered the University of Oklahoma, where she met Hugh McDermott, whom she married in 1922. Upon graduation she received her degree in music, and taught music in Norman High until 1926. In 1929 she re-entered O. U. and received her B.A. degree. For the average person this would have been enough schooling, hut not for Mac. In 1939 she won her third degree. This time in Industrial Educa- tion—Shop to us. In addition to her job she managers her home and fam- ily. including two children. She returned to teaching in Norman High school in 1940. and as far as we are concerned we hope she remains until Doom's Day. The other members of our Industrial Education depart- ment arc Mr. Frederick Murphy and Mr. Deryl A. McRae, who alternate as mechanical drawing teachers. Cooperation between these two men is nothing new, as they have been working together for a considerable part of their lives. They were born in Texas. 1 hey attended and graduated from Fast Texas Teachers College at the same time, having taken the same courses and received the same degree. For a while their paths separated, when they taught in separate towns, but the separation was only temporary. With- out the knowledge of the other each went to Chicago to take the technical training course offered by the navy. Neither expected to find anyone he knew in this work, but when classes started, sixteen men from Texas showed up. many of them old acquaintances. These two were again together as they had been in college, following a common course to a common goal. When their training at Chicago was finished, both were assigned to teach at NATTC here in Norman. By more of their accustomed cooperation they were able to • pool their spare time, and together fill the place of mechanical drawing teacher at N. H. S.

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MR. FORD MICHAEL played a violin in the Tonkawa Junior College orches- tra. His majors were physics and education and his minor was math. His hobby is working with radios. Our other science teacher is Mr. Shelton, who is a graduate of the Central State Normal School at Ed- mond, Oklahoma. He was very interested in medicine and had planned to be a doctor, but instead he became a science teacher. In order to achieve his goal, he at- tended the University of Oklahoma and the Uni- versity of Chicago. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Oklahoma and was a member of the Kappa Delta Pi. an educational fraternity, and the Alpha Kappa Kappa. His college career was interrupted by the First Work! War and he server! with the 90th Division, and attended the Central Infantry Officers’ Training School (CIOTS). His chief hobby is growing things in the rich earth. He has his own ranch in Western Oklahoma where he raises wheat mostly. With such people as these on our faculty, how can we help learning a little bit at least? ahr iHptmj of thr Hnluunmt By Ji nnii Vi i: Mi;a s W physics. cover. .iat is the mystery of the deep, dark un- known? What is this secret? This mystery in our old N. H. S. is merely science and which the students are supposed to dis- These students arc very lucky though, because they have two scientists. Mr. lord Michael and Mr. Gordon Shelton, who offer them able assistance. Mr. Michael is a graduate of Tonkawa University Preparatory School where he attended high school and junior college. He has attended the Tonkawa Junior College, the University of Oklahoma, anti the University of Illinois. A Bachelor of Science anti Master of F.ducation were lx stowed on him at the University of Oklahoma. He worked as an under- graduate assistant in the physics department anti was a member of the Oklahoma Acdemv of Science. He was a member of the Fergusonian Literary Club and MR GORDON SHELTON

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MR FRANK FOREMAN The F. F. A. Boys in Their Recreational Center. A (inr-iRan hnut By Bin. Jacobs k. F. F. Foreman, the son of a Panhandle farmer, attended Guymon High School from 1921 to 1925. He later went to Pan- handle A. and M. College from 1925 to 1929 and re- ceived his B.S. Degree in Agriculture. Still later, he entered Oklahoma A. and M. College and received his M.S. Degree in Vocational Agriculture. He still boasts of his record of attending school for sixteen years without being absent or tardy and thinks that all young people could do the same. Mr. Foreman was the greatest athlete that Guy- mon High has ever produced. He was a twenty- point winner in every meet and still holds some rec- ords there. He also lettered two years in baseball. When he entered college, his track and field ability didn't stop, but he forged ahead, and won many more honors. He was best in the hi-jump, broad- jump. shot-put, high hurdles, discus, and pole vault. Here is one of the many clippings telling of his athletic honors: FRANK FOREMAN, A ONE MAN TRACK TEAM Fronk Foremon, formerly of Guymon and now enrolled in Ponhondle A. £r M. College, hod o frock and field doy here of Goodwell Field. Foremon wos high point man with a grand totol of 28 Vi points. He wos first in the high hurdles, discus, shot, brood jump, ond tied for first in the pole vault, ond high hurdles. He won second in the jovelin. Mr. Foreman’s teaching career in Norman started in 1935. During this short time he has produced forty state champion teams in poultry, dairy crops, agricul- ture and entomology. To top this almost unbelievable record, his F.F.A. group was awarded the honor of being the best chapter in the whole nation in 1941. Now he is a prominent figure in Norman and is president of the Rotary Club. President of Vocational Agriculture Teacher Association, member of Chamber of Commerce, and holds the degree of American Farmer, the highest honor in Vocational Agriculture. All Norman should lx- proud of the record our Agri- culture teacher has established for himself. [22]