Northwestern Oklahoma State University - Ranger Yearbook (Alva, OK)

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December Was Cheery Month Much of December’s activity was related to Christmas— a choir concert, numerous parties, a special musical assem- bly—and the spirit of the season prevailed. a steady diet. Basketball was “The Spider” was produced on the Herod Hall stage, and a number of art exhibits were held. A busy month was cut short by yuletide holidays. Bob Steinle (50) goes high to control the rebound in a home-court game for the Rangers. Jim Schroeder (44) Santa Claus really came to see the youngsters at a Vinson Hall party given for backs up the action. children from the American Legion Home School, Ponca City, but Rita Pittman and Claudia Dryer managed to get a word in, too. Perhaps that was be- cause Santa actually was Pete Resler. n artist well known in that The Madrigal Singers had the spotlight at this point in a special Christmas assembly pro- . were on display. Daniel gram. The band and other vocal ensembles also performed. Harris a sample from the ex-

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November Saw Progress November, in addition to Thanksgiving holidays, pro- duced mid-term grades—with some tests preceding. Edu- cation students were at work in a newly begun teacher aide program and took time out to note American Educa- tion Week. Northwestern won approval for a National Science Foundation summer institute in mathematics. On the sports side, football bowed out. and basketball made a beginning. Gerry Hendrick, one of the participants in a new teacher aide program, distributes workbooks to sixth grade pupils in Alva’s Washington Elementary School. He’s handing a book to Madolyne Lawson here. Northwestern students just beginning the teacher education program worked on a voluntary basis two hours a week with co-operating teachers in the Alva schools.

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A number of high school students took science enrichment studies at Northwestern. Vincent Nicholson, Deer Creek, works on an electronics project under the supervision of Jerrold Burnett. Sammy was only an 18-month-old youngster when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Good, first enrolled at Northwestern (right). By the time his folks registered as sen- iors, Sammy, still making the enrollment tour with them, had grown into a 4%-year- old young man. January Gave a New Start Late-lighted dormitories and a notable step-up in study tempo signaled the beginning of final examinations before the end of the fall semester. Then it was time to start all over again. Spring enrollment set an all- time record. The new Education Center was put to use in what formerly had been Horace Mann Building, and students buckled down for the long semester ahead of them. This was the way out once a student had arranged all of his classes for the Dr. S. S. Stamper manipulates one of the control knobs on the |spring semester. The dean signed at the left, and the business office collected panel of a movable speakers stand in the new Education Center. jat the right. —