Okmulgee High School - Torchlight Yearbook (Okmulgee, OK)

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I 143' vb-f N., A 'A' , Additional modern concepts have been included in the Senior High math classes. These include the set theory, analytical geometry, inequalities and many others. College freshmen topics in math have been covered this year in the trig and solid geometry classes. The purpose of this was to make the transition from high school to college easier. In Junior High the Math Department has empha- sized fundamental concepts and their meaning. New procedures have been introduced. Explaining how the gfieger counter detects radio- activity during a lecture given the third hour trig class, Professor John West of OSU shows Jim Bing- man, Janet Hill, and Don Jones what the instru- ment looks like. Mathematics classes provide challenges for its subjects Finalists proudly displayed their entries in the geometric Easter Hat contest conducted by Mr. John Towry in his geometry classes are Tedisue Brame: second row I-Iermionne Goldstein, Virginia J., .'..' 1' , Brown, Tom Payne, Clara Jane Rentfro, Pat West: third row Carl Newberry, Douglas Kruse, Austin Tommie, and Gwynn Flemming. -1.17 sq! ' 1

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Y 1 , As a result of dramatics classwork, Carole Bissett and Joyce Slape help present Upward and On- ward in the One-act Play festival. Striving forth to meet the challenge of democ- racy, speech classes learn the power of parlia- mentary procedure and debate. The challernfge of the dramatics classes was the study of the stage and its language, and presenting one-act plays which developed into the annual One-act play festival. Debating in speech class are Carl Joe Adams, Larry Crawford, Trula Godwin, and Lendell Day. :Y L l N One Star Differeth is the brotherhood assembly presented by speech and choral club students at OHS v' :9 A f 1 ' ,, ,t .15- A yy, 'Y K by Ig' iff iq

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Examining a surveyor's instruments are Mike Hell- wege, Terrill Dixon, Leo Huppertg second row Mr. John Towry, Elizabeth Bankson, Antoinette Bowen Janet Hill, Derrill Sebring, third row Don Jones Delroy Hill, Jim Bingman, Tommey Tommie, Ray- ford Wallace. Explaining the binary number system to Terrill Dixon, Janet Hill, and Leo Huppert, Mr. Jeryl Watson explains how addition and multiplication are done using the system.