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

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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

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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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32 Q 414 'ASarge calls the plays in the auxiliary class as students listen intently. New ideas and understanding enlarges their outlook as future journalists. Shirley Riley, Lynda Baumgarner, Ann Huckabay, John Garrison, and Chris Cabell, news writers, study the head schedule before writing headlines for their stories. If heads don't count, heads roll. ., Creg Eslinger watches sports editor, Sonny Childers draw up his page layout. Organization and Creativity Combined Those eager beavers often seen scurrying down the halls, pencil and paper in hand, are probably SHIELD staffers out for last minute stories to fill a hole gaping at them from page one. However, seeing students scan pages of the SHIELD is a re- ward in itself. Memories of those long, tedious hours are never forgot- ten. Journalists must possess a mountain of ambition, a ton of imagination, a keen sense of humor, a love of people, and plenty of stam- ina. Without the SHIELD, North- west Classen would be like a man without a voice. In state, national, and international competition, the Shield has received ten top awards in three years. Interested expressions appear on the faces of Joe Aker and Mike Nichols as they observe Larry Cheever, SHIELD cartoonist, at work.