Norman High School - Trail Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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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]

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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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SU'aittji attii Hraitta By Ernf.stini: Ward )1,1 Norman High School offices arc in the hands of two very capable ladies, Mrs. S. B. Spradling and Mrs. Pierre Delattre. Mrs. Spradling, Mrs. “Sprad.’ to you, is a Texas gal from down Vernon way. She attended Vernon High School, and also a business school in Texas. Then she got a job at the Vernon High School as clerk of the school hoard, which is the same job as she has now here at good ole N. H. S. She got married in 1930 and then she attended the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley. After her graduation she moved to Norman. She has two sons, S. B. and Charles. Lt. S. B. Spradling is now a prisoner of war in Germany. Mrs. Delattre. our high school registrar, is a lady who seems to do things by twos. She went to Northwestern High School in Detroit. Michigan, and then she went to Wayne University in De- troit. After two years at Wayne, she left school and got married. I-ater she went hack for two more years, and graduated. But in the meantime she had two sons. Roland and Pierre, and made two trips to France to visit her husband's parents who live there. Tile Dclattrcs came to Norman in 1941, and Mrs. Delattre says she likes Oklahoma very much. She even says she likes the climate. That’s one for Ripley! Upper group: Mrs Mory Jo Sprodlin os is. os high school queen. Lower group: Mrs. Ino Delattre of present; o high school dreamer; with her two little hclocrs. Sara Jeon Land- saw and Ora Strong.