Northwest Classen High School - Round Table Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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An informed public is a nation's first line af defense. CUBS undertaking the business and advertising depart- ment are, left to right, Joanne Stevens, Kay Bainbridge, Polly Allen, Jim Pitts, Lloyd Chiles, Pete Bravler, Judy Busch and Glenda Belk. Verbarians, Kirk Hagan and Joe Leake, work feverishly at garbling the latest sport releases from The Oklahoman and Times. Both active in sports, catching deadlines frequently required effort, but they came through, howbeit, Looking happy and uninitiated the first year journalists line up at the horseshoe to get their pictur tuk. Left to right, Keltan, senior, ca-editor, Slater, reporter, McMains, managing editor, Enders, re- porter, Shields, news, Hinshaw, bookkeeper, Nelson, news, Mims, features, Rogers, page 2, Anderson, page 3. THE CUBS are largely freshmen. lf they show they can carry journalism, and their required subjects, they may continue journalism four years. Such able staffers are recognized for their leadership and achievement in the senior awards assembly. Sure, budding journalists acquire too many English credits. So, what? This year's batch of cubs with 'larnin' from three textbooks under their belts, were a production staff at the end of the first semester and published alter- nate issues of THE SHIELD. Three little maids that we lost at the end of the first semester, Loretta Lester, Julie Stephens and Lynn Hrbacek, work in- tently at such techniques as letter per- fect , and it fits to a T. Lynn edited page three. 18 Good ole 'Moneybags' Johnson managed bills so blithely we'd plan another issue. Reve-noorer Harback schemed and dreamed and was generally Our Girl Fri- day. When Jonnie and Jud took over things moved.

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Miss Lucille Willoughby Mr. V. E. Caldwell Miss Henrietta Von Latin German-Spanish Tungeln Spanish No man knows his own language unless he knows another. Goethe. Learning how others live is a basic aim of the foreign language department at Northwest Classen. The cur- riculum offers a well balanced variety of courses for learning to speak the language and for appreciating the culture, ideas and customs of other peoples. French is under the direction of Miss Lelia Pickard, Latin, Miss Lucille Willoughby and Spanish under Miss Henrietta Von Tungeln and Mr. V. E, Caldwell. Mr. Caldwell also teaches German. HONOR LANGUAGE recognizes students enrolled in the sixth semester of the same foreign language with a 3.5 average in the first five semesters. Row 'l: lLeft to rightl Chamberlain, Dykes, Cutchall, Clark, Hudson. Row 2: Whelihan, Green, Giacomo, Hulme. Row 3: Chase, Merkle, Kostka, Cline. Row 4: Turner, Brand, Harris, Ellsworth. Row 5: Kutz, Miss Henrietta Von Tungeln, Countryman, Fulk. . . l Another club formed of a foreign language is the GERMAN CLUB. Membership is automatic on enrollment in a German class and holds as long as a student remains in school, Mr. Virgil E. Caldwell is sponsor. Row 1: Cleft to right? Davis, Shelton, Blackwood, Kamp, Tanner, Lynch, Foster, Waldrop, Pendley, Campbell, Mr. V. E. Caldwell, Sponsor. Row 2: T, Robinson, Carter, Long, Coffey, Brandes, J. Finkelstein, Cowgill, Owen, Robinson, Leech, Lanier, Cunningham, Everett. Row 3: Aleshire, Kramer, Hayes, Stauffer, Porta, Countryman, Matthews, R. Allen. I7

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The Shield When it was established in '55 that students at North- west Classen were to be Knights and Ladies it became immediately evident they'd need a shield to herald their triumphs, interpret their traditions and defend their honor. With this cause in mind the student news- paper chose its banner and launched its career. THE SHIELD is an independent public relations agent supported by subscription and sale of advertis- ing space. In its third year it proudly displays quite an array of top awards. Under pencil-pushin', pistol-packin', Pickens, Knights of the Press perpetrated the prescribed amount of succulent, savory string this year. Black- wood's parsimonious news coverage kept reader sus- pense at an all time high. Hagan, and the other two horsemen, kept up a grave and leaky page. Marlin's concern for the lovelorn and the salvation of our souls added savor to our stew. Safdi's impious edit- orial page crusaded with ardor and sufferance. Shellshocked often left us stunned, but throughout furor scribendi was ever present. A Florida breeze dumped a newcomer-Ted Chambers, into our cauldron, Brooklyn brogue and all. His innocence, along with a capacity for hard- work and detail, landed him the managing editor's job. Thereafter battles over deadlines only smoul- dered, the printer's panic subdued and we finished with a balance. Hey, Sarge, where are the keys? We want to hang these '58 awards. lf there's any doubt about the industry required to produce al- most 8,000 words of perfect copy every other week, this pic- ture should dispel it. There's also the item of raising some S300 a month. Nancy Pickens, editor, Linda Blackwood, news, Shelley Safdi, page 2, and Jonnie Johnson work toward a dead- line. Pride in a job that demands their best gives a staff se- curity and maturity not found in other school activities. Linda Marlin, makeup editor, insisted that Larry Lusk, take pictures that fit. An' they gotta be clean, tool Larry pro- tested. Well, film don't come out ofa faucet. Bill Stewart and Rink Graves tried hard to beat deadlines by refuting the seven day week. Abrupt though it is, it took more than mute calendar promptings to bludgeon copy out of them. Proud as Puck of our department library, knuckle-rappin', George Bucklin, librar ian,, sees that we keep that way. Files af- ford a ready research record. An ex- change index is checked daily l9 Ted Chambers, our patient but persistent, managing editor, installed his own proc- ess of procedures and made every last one of us pull up by our own bootstraps. It was hard. But we done it! Now we're glad.