Okmulgee High School - Torchlight Yearbook (Okmulgee, OK)

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This. . . ur Challenge I -i 2.'l-42 Facing the youth of today is a world of un arallel r bl p p o ems-of un- excelled challenge. This challenge, these problems, can be detected in th ' e roar of each modern day rocket-1n the murmur of debate among the statesmen at every conference. It can be detected in the newspapers, in the everyday conversattion on our streets, in the halls and classrooms of our schools. It can be detected at OHS. -3. fl D

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l .. ,,.... 4 4 S N, .W E2 W 1-' ' .,,:,..,,,,.,.,.: -,gv. f,:, ' W- . -:..:. W. ,. V 'f m.,.3a:li Y-fs , , e.v. , - W M 4 , if it Q fu S- J Q f 4E'i.a..siJX,Q.,,..,. .PAM .Q ,V .. - -If - -a s. p gs, . A ,..-0' Y- - 4- , . . . ,, .Mme M ., J , ,,,. . ,. . W ., .. X. W-N1 - A -A M3 ... The last few years have witnessed a great revolution in world affairs. The population of the earth has doubled. Oppressed people increasingly have demanded and often seized freedom. Tremendous discoveries in all fields of science have been made. Established forms of government have fallen while newer ones have risen. And yet this is only a sampling of the many developments of the era. With these developments has come conflict. The world has divided into two hostile camps delicately balanced between war and peace.-one communistic and the other democratic. The youth of Okmulgee were faced with the many problems-the chal- lenges of these developments and this situation as they entered Okmulgee High in September. It was reflected in record enrollments in the more strictly educational courses-in the increased awareness of their res- ponsibilities both to themselves and to those around them. However, it was in October that they were to encounter their biggest challenge-perhaps the greatest challenge ever to be hurled before the youth of America. On October 4, the communists proved their technological equality if not superiority over the United States with their satellite. Immediately after this Russian triumph tresulting from their educational advancement! many people raised a cry for crash programs of educa- tion calling for the elimination of the many extras included in the American school system. A fear that if a mass production type program to produce engineers, scientists, and technicians were not adopted we would be overcome by the communistic camp gripped the United States. It rolled down the ranks of the American people without opposition until it came to rest against the youth of the country. It became their challenge to prove that they could become educated in these special fields and still retain the many valuable aspects of their present scholastic system of activities and organizations as well as pure education. It became the challenge of the youth of Okmulgee High to educate themselves in such fields as math and science as well as in the many other areas of interest offered at their school. It was this . . . Their challenge. .21-