Ocina High School - Bear Cat Yearbook (Ocina, OK)

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PESSIMIST There seems to be nothmg r1ght about thxs ent1re school I expected to assoclate wxth 1nte1l1gent, amb1t1ous students and a serxous m1nded faculty at Oc1na, but to my great d1ssappo1ntment I fmd, w1thout exceptmon, the exact oppos1te Just take the freshrnen They are d1sgust1ngly 1mmature The way some of those glrls try to attract the attentmon of the boys of the upper classes And as for the freshman boys, I th1nk they should try to 1m1tate some boy shghtly above the thxrd grade at least part of the txme As for the sophomores, they are not any better Not a con sc1ent1ous student among them Just a group of fl1ghty mmded, g1ddy 1rrespons1ble, swell heads who have no thought of anyone but themselves The Jumors are my pet peeve Why must they 1m1t1ate the Semors and horn 1n on every'Lh1ng we do You would th1nk that by th1s t1me they would be capable of stand1ng on the1r own feet I wzll refram from stat1ng the true facts of the Sen1or Class as I am one of them Some of these teachers are golng to be sorry of the way they are treat1ng us Why I bet there never was a bunch of Semors as good as we are The faculty hasn t xmproved over last year at all They are just as unreasonable about assxgnments as ever Ready to cr1t1c1ze everythlng we do And that Glee Club, dxd you ever hear such a commot1on At t1mes It sounds as though someone were bexng murdered and yelhng for help Why Mr Quattlebaum IS even afra1d some of hxs ball play ers w1l1 look at a boy as though that xs a crxme I 11 stop grzpxng because xt seems I can t help matters but I st111 say there IS nothmg rxght about thzs entmre school 0 - . . . , . Q ' . I . Q ' l . , . . . , . . g . . . , . . . , I

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SENIOR PLAY On March 19, 1948, the Senior Class presented the three act farce, ln Again! Out Againf, at the Ocina auditorium. The scene was Mr. and Mrs. Quick's rooming house. Mr. Quick was a very high tempered man who was always quarreling with his neighbor, Mr. Niggins. Mrs. Quick was a ruler of her house, and seemed to manage things nicely until her daughter Candy, brought her classmate home with her. Honey, Candy's girl friend, had fallen in love at sight with a man on the train. The situation was complicated by Honey s engagement to Henry Hall her Aunt Dodie s choice Honey felt confident that she could cope with any situation She persuaded Candy to ask Noah W iggins to pose as Honey s husband so Henry would leave Noah and Candy were secretly married because of the old feud between their fathers Everything went very smoothly until the Professor who Honey had met on the train appeared while she was introducing Noah as her husband Aunt Dodie came after receiving a telegram from Henry She was very much dlsturbed and demanded an explanation of Honey s broken engagement to Henry Then who should appear but Lynn Lane the night club entertainer who is in love with Henry The Professor collected things from Egypt and when an Egyptian dancing girl appeared everyone seemed to think she was part of his collection He was greatly relieved when the girl dressed as the dancer told that she was being initiated into a club at the college and this was part of the initiation She couldn t speak until she was asked directly W ho are you The farce ended with Aunt Dodie realizing what a boy Henry really was Honey and the Professor being happily in love Candy telling her parents that she and Noah Wiggins are married and Mrs Quick holding her husband in the chair because of his threat to kill Noah CHARACTERS Mrs Quick who runs a rooming house Glenna Smith Waldo Quick her hard hearing husband Marvin Smith Almira the maid Georgia Baca Candy daughter of the Quicks Imogene N ayfield Honey Candy s girl friend Bonnie Johnson Noah iggms a neighbor Charles Tatyrek Henry Hall, a business man Thomas Smoot Aunt Dodie Honey s wealthy aunt Billie Berry Lynn Lane a model Dorothy Bell Ruth a college girl Jean Horne Dr Hattie Honk a chiropractor Thelma West Sponsor Mr Hagel' Stage Directors Lou Ella Stafford Bill Henson J I Killian . . . , . , I . , I , . I I r I I . Q . 9 . . . , . . . .. . , . Q .. Y .. , . , , , , I B , . . , C.....t.............................. V , - Y nuqsoonnuseuqnoann.nuuauzuunnunon-un . I , t unnnnusnnunnnauq-aufnnsu':vs:-sslenuan-c-anna:-:-n-neu nunq anqnnuneo V L N , ...-.-... 1 , . , , ..t,..,. c...............t.,...........t.,.........,. .XlYY. 1 5 1-:uein-I-can-n-'u,-.-e.n.n-n.-p.-q.-- ---. nf---f-5. Professor Meade, an archaeologist........:. ,..,...,...,..Rex Paty , , . , .,..... m ...,.,......,,......... .,.......... , .A ..,.................... ........ ......f., . . .........:., . , ....t..,....... .f.,. .... , ............, .... ,... . .