Owasso High School - Trails End Yearbook (Owasso, OK)

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Features ..... Sports........ Groups........ People ....... Advertisements In our kaleidoscopic lives, we found ourselves moving in many directions; our tracks colliding and separating again to form new shapes and patterns. We were not so engrossed in searching as in en- joying each other and our sur- roundings. A long and particularly beautiful autumn revealed colorful sights of local hillsides which may one day disappear as Tulsa's me- tropolis encroaches upon the one- time rural Owasso. The cold formalized school building which we hated last year began to seem warmer and even gained a little personality. Given more freedom, we were allowed to develop our individuality, result- ing in a more positive attitude and a closer school unity. After many suspensions and heated discussions, the rigidly en- forced hair code was dropped. We received red and white student handbooks at the beginning of the school year, but the sixty-three rules were not so rigidly enforced. After re-evaluating our own po- tential in relation to innumerable possibilities, we were all aboard a train of time to diverse destina- tions yet to be decided.

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From farming community to suburban sprawl, our community has progressed at an unbelievable pace. Owasso, a Cherokee word mean- ing end of the trail, specifically referred to the terminus of the Santa Fe Railroad. The depot, which has since been tom down, served as the transport center of the area. One of the first businesses was Finch's Millinery, presently the Owasso Feed Store on Broadway. Another early business was the Bank of Owasso, which records show to have been robbed for the first time in 1903 by bandits who then escaped on the railroad hand car. Around 1900 the first Owasso school was consolidated. Students were brought by horse-drawn buses to a wooden building later converted to the I.O.O.F. Lodge. In 1909, a $15,000 school bond built a larger structure on the grounds of Barnes Elementary Owasso changes face School. The school complex ex- panded on this site until 1965 when a $328,000 school bond pro- vided funds for a new school at 86th and Main. Due to the rapid growth of our school district, Owasso voters went to the polls in 1974 and passed another bond for the con- struction of the ultra-modem high school at 86th Street and 129th East Avenue where we are now housed.