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

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Steve Enders, NWC Senior, will vie for a first place prize of S6500 offered by the Oklahoma Bankers Association. His 300 word essay on Why I'm Proud to Be an Oklahomann was chosen by the English department as NWC's entry in the contest. State judging will be handled by the School of Jour- nalism of the University of Oklahoma. Steve gained encouragement and aid from Mrs. Hazel Livingston. Bourke Burton Gibson Livingston O k Oh t 'Theme Approach' Keynotes City 3 mar High School English Departments MISS HELEN BOURKE: Member, Scholarship and Awards committeeg Sponsor, Ir. Red Cross. MRS. MIRIAM BURTON: Member, OES, Delta Delta, OCTE, Kappa Kappa Iota. Professional, Great Books committees. MR. GORDON ERIKSEN: Member, Student Council, Planning, Arts and Decorations committeesg sponsor, Falcons. MISS KATHERINE GIBSON: Member, Scholarship and Awards, National Honor Society committeesg sponsor, National Honor Society. Miss Gibson traveled through eastern United States last summer. MRS. HAZEL LIVINGSTON: Member, Delta Kappa Gamma, NCTE. Last summer Mrs. Livingston attended a Newspaper workshop at University of lowa. MRS. MADGE MILLS: Member, Student Council, Library com- mittees, sponsor, YTK, National Honor Society. MRS. OLA MAE OAKES: Member, Activities, Student Council committeesg sponsor, Courtesy Club, junior class. MR. SIDNEY OHMART: Member, NCTE, OCTE, National Honor Society committee, sponsor, Lancers. Summer activities included graduate work at Central State College. Eriksen Mills

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BBBg Librarians Solve Problem i'Bring back Books was the slogan used by librarians when they launched the pro- gram to try to recover some 600 books which were missing from shelves at the be- ginning of school last fall. The plan did not bring in all books but did add some donations and lost books to our shelves. Some 139114 new books were added this summer. When Knights and Ladies re- turned to school last fall such new books as the best selling t'Hawaii and uAdvise and Consentw were on the shelves. Such reference books as the 54 volume set of Great Books of the Western Worldf' 6'Van Nostrand Chemistry Dictionaryf, Life Magazineas 4'World's Great Religions, Britannica World Language Dictionary, and 'lSmithsonian Treasury of Science were added to the shelves. Facilities of the library and services of the librarians are always available to students. Those on the library staff are ready to assist in any way they can-a student has only to ask for help. Resources of the library include more than 15,000 books of all kinds and subscriptions to more than 65 magazines. Doughty Gay MRS. ALMA G. DOUGHTY: Librar- iang Member, Delta Kappa Gamma, Library, Great Books, Student Council Committeesg Sponsor, Library Club. MRS. ETHEL GAY: Associate Librar- iang member, Okla. City Librarians, PEO, Great Books, Library Commit- teesg sponsor, OSLA, Library club. Keeping new magazines out on the rack and old ones on file is quite a task Here Donna Thomas and Margaret Duncan file old issues for future reference Magazines are kept on file from three to five years Memorial Room Holds Treasures Summer activities, trip through the City library may have its Charles France room, University of Oklahoma may have southern states and the Bahamas. its DeGolyer collection, but Northwest Classen has its Anton H and Ella D Classen memorial room. Here Mrs. Alma Doughty and Mrs Ethel Gay look over the Portrait Book of Presidents in the memorial room

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MRS. MABEL PARK: Member, AAUW, Womens Dinner Club, Reviewers Coterie Book Club, Scholarship and Awards committee. Summer activities included a trip to the 6'Smokies. MISS LINDA SKIDMORE: Member, Mortar Board, Kappa Delta Pi, Sigma Tau Delta, Phi Alpha Theta, OCTEQ sponsor, Coronets, freshman class. Miss Skidmore was playground director for Okla. City Park Department last summer. MISS DORIS TAYLOR: Member, Delta Kappa Gamma, Phi Mu, Study Clubg sponsor, Coronets, senior class. Summer activi- ties included a trip to the Grand Canyon. MRS. GEORGE TEETS: Member, OCTE, Professional commit- teeg sponsor, junior class. MRS. RUTH WARRAM: Member, National Honor Society com- mitteeg sponsor, JCL, FTA, sophomore class. Last summer Mrs. Warram traveled in California and Oregon. MISS ANN WHITEHEAD: Member, PEO, Delta Delta, sponsor, Court Jesters, sophomore class. Miss Whitehead taught at Central High School last summer. Park Skidmore Taylor Teets Warram Whitehead English Cultivates the Mind Convincing students that the skillful use of language is achieved through study and practice and improving their ability to think and communicate is a major concern of the English department. Headed by Miss Katherine Gibson, the English department is NWC's largest. Knights and Ladies cannot escape English-but who would want to with the courses offered at Northwest Classen. Besides regular English classes, students are offered business English, creative writing, Great Books and journalism. This year for the first time Northwest Classen equipped four English 'classrooms with an outstanding supply of fiction reading material and teachers are emphasizing the theme approach. This is different in two ways-students have reading material in the classroom, and the experience method is stressed by involving students in more writing. In English, time is given to the study of language mechanics, or grammar, including sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary. Literature occupies a great deal of a student's time. When a Knightlander graduates, he has a sound knowledge of authors including Scott, Poe, O'Henry, Dickens, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, and Eliot. Quality Education and a quality English department aid in establishing a quality curriculum. One of the pleasant after-hours chores that comes to teachers is checking in new books for the department. Miss Gibson, Mr. Ohmart, Mrs. Livingston, Miss Whitehead, and Mr. Eriksen are all smiles as they add volumes to the English department library. 3l