Piedmont High School - Wildcats Yearbook (Piedmont, OK)

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.f 2 SENIOR HISTORY IN 1937, wE THE SENIDRS or 'A9, BEGAN TWELVE or THE MOST UNE FDRDETTABLE YEARS or OUR LIVES. LITTLE REALIzINc THE ENDRMITY OF WHAT WE WERE BEGINNING, WE DARRIED OUR BRIGHT, SHINY NEW LUNCH PAILS FOR THE FIRST TIME INTO MISS ROBERTS' ROOM. To LEARN TO WRITE oUR NAMES WAS A PERIOD OF LEARNING WE FOUND AL- MOST IMPoSsIaLE T0 ENDURE- FORTUNATELY WE ALL LEARNED ENOUGH T0 SQUEEzE PAST THE ELEMENTARY GRADES, FILLED WITH AMBITION AND VIGOR WE BEDAN oUR HIGH- SCHOOL CAREER IN THE FALL DF 19M5, WHAT A TIME WE HAD IN SCIENCE UN DER THE SUPERVISIDN or UIBELLQ AGAIN WE CLIMBED ANOTHER RUNG IN THE LADDER AND ENTERED oUR SOPHOMORE CLASS YEAR. THIS YEAR WE EEDAN oUR SPEECH WORK IN WHICH WE HAvE DONE MUCH WORK OF WHICH WE ARE EXCEEDINCLY PROUD THERE ARE MANY HIGHLIGHTS or OUR JUNIOR YEARQ WE RECEIVED MANY SPEECH AWARDS IN THE CONTEST HELD AT CENTRAL STA E COLLEGE AND AT THE STATE FINALS SPEECH ooNTEsT HELD AT OKLA I-IDMA UNIVERSITY AT NORMAN, WE I-'ETED THE SENIOR CLASS AT A MEXICAN STYLE JUNIOR SENIOR BANQUET HELD AT BEVERLY'S RESTAU ARANT IN OKLAHOMA ClTYn NATURALLY WE ARE OVERJOYED,HAVINO COMPLETED oUR HIGH SCHOOL CAREER HowEvER, MANY THINGS ARE TO BE THOUGHT or IN LEAvINc SCHOOL FoR THE MORE FDRTUNATE A COLLEGE CAREER AWAITS FDR HOSE WHO DO NOT GO TO COLLEGE L F BEC HAVE NOT REALIZED THE IMPORTANCE AND SERIoUSNESs OF THIS SITUATION UN TIL THIS YEAR. FRDM NOW ON OUR SUCCESS DEPENDS UPON oUR PER SEVERANCE AND FAITH IN OURSELVES, NoT IN oUR TEACHERS HELPING HANDSD WE ARE THANRFUL FOR THE PATIENT AND UNDERSTANDING TEACHER wHo HAVE PASSED THEIR KNOWLEDGE ALoNo TO US THAT wE MIGHT BE COME INTELLIGENT WE ARE ESPECIALLY GRATEFUL To MR CDLLETT AND MISS RATCLIFF wHo HAVE HELPED Us VERY MUCH AS sENIoRS THIS YEAR E HAVE EARNESTLY TRIED T0 SET A sooo EXAMPLE FOR THOSE wHo LOOK UP TO Us AS UPPER CLASSMEN. WE HAvE TRIED T0 HELP THE TEACHERS BY NoT INFLuENcINc THEIR STUDENTS. WE HDPE WE HAVE DoNE SOME GOOD. T0 THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE I JZ, Y X Q3 le? T , X YW . . FJ X fl 5 F T , A I E INS, WE I e W WE HAVE NOT ACHIEVED NATIONAL FAME,aUT wE HAVE DoNE DUR TACK f' . f J I I Q ff' ox ' X 1 X X X. ., EI N If N: A A K A Y