Okmulgee High School - Torchlight Yearbook (Okmulgee, OK)

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1. A HW N-Mggg W A4 QKQIIQGEE HIGH ScHooL YEAR BOOK Okmulgee Ward Schools Theodore Roosevelt OOSEVELT new est of the vs ard schools was completed and opened for school on February 1 1921 The Roosevelt IS a b1'1ClC and stone structure of the most modern school type Thele are SIX class looms on the first floor each openmg off a large gymnaslum audltorlum and two class rooms and a sewmg room up staxrs The punclpal s oflice IS on one slde of the front corrldor and a the bu1ld1ng are shower baths of the latest type The aud1tor1um has a large stage and dressmg rooms IH the rear Rooms are equlpped Wlth tables and chalrs mstead of desks Roosevelt opened the school year of 1920 21 wlth four wooden portable bulldmgs 1n whlch four teach ers taught 133 puplls Wlth the openmg of the new bulldlng at the begmnlng ot the second term how ever transfels flom the Wllson and Franklln IH creased the enrollment to 307 and the teachmg force vvas doubled Because of the late organ lzatlon of the school and the fact that only five grades are taught the Roosevelt was unable to entel athletlcs lhe J unlor Red Cross the Health Crusade and the May festlval be-mg ICS prmczpal The faculty was as follows at the end of school Cal116 May Keller Dl1l'1ClD3.l Agnes Mouxssey 1B and 1A Frances O Nelll 1A Lllllan Hannah 2B Wllla Wooludge 2A Lorrame hngland 3B and 3A Mary Dalton 4B and 4A Wmme Smlth 4A and 5B Robe1taGa1ther 5A The enrollment by grades vu as lst 75 2nd 81 3rd 34 4th 41 5th 64 . Y I . . . . . N 7 1 , I V , Q Q . ' ' - 7 ' Q . ' Y - I , - teachers' rest room on the other. In the rear of activities. 4 u 1 . . .I : .Q 9 . Z l' .79 ' Y S Y y 1 ' 3 Y ! 1 ' 1 v 1 9 . . . . - y . g I Y : t ' . ' ' , 2 , : , : . : , .

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A gg g g OKMULGEE HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK g g gg g Y Vocational Annex and Gymnaszum 1 sf N 5, kid- 1 1. U be-Y V u , f. ' ' fl, 1 . X 5: fi, I' I. . xff1,,',4,d,'4 ' X gh A K A ., 1 , 5 fs' 'mi fy ' ' -.T -mst :ar '-f -. g A g HILE not so pretentious in size, or so im- Journalism, advertising, printing English and ' ' , ' ' mathematicsfL. H. Stevens, instructor. H . .- , , . I Q A-' - . , , t ' 7 ! 0 . T ' ' , 7 . H J ' t . Y 'V 4 1 . 1 . . . . - D I , , . . . ,, . , . I - ' ' I 1 . ' 7 A , , , o I -1- , Q s - 2 -P , . , . 0 7 1 ' I I I ' . . I posing in appearance this structure is the real busy corner of the high school plant Erected IH 1917 it IS 50 x 150 feet in size and two stories in height In additlon to prov1d1ng quarters f mr the boys gymnasium dressing rooms shower baths etc lt also cares for the overflow from the vocational bullding In this building is taught printing Journalism and advertismg automobile drafting arts and crafts drafting for printers mechanical drawing and the sketching course of the finding and broad enmg courses Classes in physical education for boys are held seven class periods daily The central heating plant for the high school buildings is also located here together with store rooms for the building custodlan The following departments are taught 1nth1s building Printing Journalism and Advertislng L H Stevens head of department Typography and press work Clark A Parker instructor Arts and crafts E E Ericson instructor Automotlve drafting E P 0 Neal instruc or Typographical draftlng E E Ericson in structor Mechanlcaldrawlng A O HOFDIHQ lnstruc tor F SLB Sketchmg Leo Blddlck lnstructor Physical Tr unmg for Boys Lester Barnard Ccoachl head of department Physical Tralnlng in Grade Schools Harry L Welck Mattie Sue Berry The Okmulgee Torchlight the school news paper is edited and printed in this building and the Year Book of 1921 was printed and bound by the students of this department Next year the drafting room will be converted into a locker room for the gymnasium

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OKMULGEE HIGH SCHOOL YEAR Book Okmulgee Ward Schools Emerson MERSON though small IS Ven modern I fact It IS the very newest of the schools havmg been opened m November It was planned to have the Emerson school care for the overflow of prlmarv chlldren from outlymg dlstrlcts who had to go to Lee There are but two rooms Mxss Wlnnle Dutton teaches the second glade and the 3 B IH one room and In the other MISS Lula Bur rls teaches the first grade Mxss Burrls took Mxss Ruth Erwln s place following the latter s reslgna t1on on account of 111 health ln March The Emerson resembles the Roosevelt some what ln appearance It IS of dark red brlck and whlte stone wlth hallways and a prmcxpal s office on one slde and the class rooms on the other 1 here are altogether 80 chxldren enrolled IH the school Consldermg ltS short tlme and the age of puplls Emerson dld very well m school actwxtles ONGFELI OW IS a palr of twms tucked away 1n the south part of town The school conslsts of two one room portable bulldlngs wlth a ca paclty of about thlrty each The Longfellow was designed to care for the smaller chlldren of the Franklin d1str1ct who had to walk so far Although tmy Longfellow s work IU the Red Cross the Health crusade and other aCtIVltl8S was splrlted The faculty conslsted of MISS Grace Metz ln the 1 A and 2 B and MISS Wlllle McLees ln the first grade Mlss Metz was transferred from the Frank lm when Mlss Loulse Nlchols reslgned at Chrlst mas tlme There were 64 enrolled ln the school Whlle Longfellow has carrled on 1tS work thls year m portable bulldlngs the faculty and puplls are lookmg forward to the tlme when a new and modern bu1ld1ng wxll be constructed at whlch tlme the scope of the work w1ll be enlarged ,,,.,- ' . .v n . . . 1 9 .1 ' ' I s 1 - I . . v . . . s . n ' . v . . . , . . . . . . . . , . 1 1 - . . . -I . . . F . . . . . , , , . . . . . 1 1 1 - ' c n 9 T 1 J . . . Q - . - . . , . . . . 1 . ,, . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . - . . . . .