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

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The Emblem of Proud Knighthood Table of Contents FACULTY BRINGS CURRICULUM TO LIFE 14-43 NORTHWEST CLASSEN LIVES IN ITS STUDENTS 44-69 EVERYBODY LIKES TO BELONG 70-101 MUSIC INSPIRES CREATIVITY 102-109 PEP CLUBS IGNITE SPIRIT 110-131 SPORTSMEN DEVELOP SELF-EXPRESSION 132-165 - 0 I Z (5 zf y ' 7UP CLASS LOYALTY SPARKS COMPETITION 166-258 UJi:LL - lf l U Dde f ' Y, Z ' ? 5NDEX . 259-272 I ' l L ' ? S — NT 273-2S8 }BL to oeL Ou c A)iuo. mop ive y ' - - ±1 - y

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Foreword . . . The game is over. The team may not have won, but se eral thousand fans shout their support from the stands. Suddenly the noise of the crowd fades, and Knights rise for the proud, solemn singing of the Alma Mater: ... Our love will be your glory . . . . . . It ' s 3:30. Three thousand students are suddenly in a hurry as they flash-flood out the main doors. Nearing the exits, the mass abraptly parts, carefully sidestepping the marble-tiled Knight ' s Head in the center of the floor . . . . . . Class is over. Students hastily shuffle books and purses and look expectantly at the teacher. She nods, and they file out. No bell rings . . . As the new school atmosphere dissolves. Northwest Classen settles into a regular pattern. We now cherish the traditions established in our earlier years, and in these traditions we find the unifying force which gives NWC its character. We now have a past, and while it would be pushing the point to speak of defending the honor of our forefathers, we do sense our obligation to those who have gone before us, blazing the trail, to ever wear with dignity The Enihlein of Proud Knighthood . . . November 22, when President Kennedy was .nssassinated, Kni,yhts joined their fellow Americans in a .tliirty-day mourning period. Northwest Classen ' s flag was lowered to half mast on that tragic, fateful day.

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The long-awaited $281,989 addition makes the htjutitiil N.W.C. campus even more impressive. Beauty of Northwest ' s Campus Inspires A crate-shaped bulk of concrete and steel stands void, unmoving. Rows of identical bricks stacked purpose- lessly enclose expanses of impersonal stone corridors. The building is a lifeless vacuum. Without her people Northwest Classen has no charac- ter, no personalit} ' , but each person who comes in contact with the school contributes a part of himself to her identity: . . . The swaggering senior boy with polished Cor- dovans and a slouch to his walk. . . . The frosted-haired cheerleader, always in the glare of the spotlight, smiling, cheering, setting examples. . . . The quiet, unnoticed girl in your English class who never speaks, but occasionally glances shyly at you. . . . The state legislator who is a guest at Student Council meeting, and speaks in a thick Okie accent of Seen from across the patio, tlic new wing seems already a customary part of the school. The building juts out in swe-eping starkness alonj » ■! ' iMT MFBffiPi TTT