Ponca City High School - Cat Tale Yearbook (Ponca City, OK)

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Homer S. Anderson Printipal THE SCHOOL YEAR 1945-46 will be remembered in the annals of Ponca City High School as the year when peace came again bringing with it new interests, new activities, and new enthusiasms. The year was marked by the return of faculty members and former students who had served in the armed forces. Some of these service men enrolled as regular students in order to complete the requirements for graduation or to brush up on some of the fundamentals before entering college. Others came by just to say hello and thank you for the many expressions of interest that had been shown them while in the service. But although the war was over, the obliga- tion to finish the job was not forgotten. In keeping with the finest traditions of the school, Ponca High students responded generously to the Victory Bond Drive and to all other appeals for help. By so doing they kept faith with the 63 former students who are memorialized with Gold Stars on the school Service Flag and with the 1500 others from Ponca City High School who had an active part in making peace possible. Charles P. Howell Superintendent IN THE YEARS TO COME this Yearbook will be your most valued high school memenro. Through it you will be able to recall the names of friends and classmates you would otherwise never remember. The football games, the high school plays, the queen contests, and the school parties will spring to life again as you turn its pages. You will look at the picture of those queer people known as teachers and realize that they were your real friends and true counselors. Many times you will say, Oh, if I had only followed their advice. As you study the content of this book you will realize it represents the transition of the Schools at War, to the Schools at Peace period. It will be unique in that it will reflect both the effects of the War on education and its future trends. As the years go by, I hope you will always be intrigued by the ideals and traditions of the Ponca City High School. May the feelings of love and loyalty aroused in you when you helped sing Ponca City, I Love You, and when you repeated the school creed, always live in your memory.

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TO THE PONCA CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION whose comprehensive work brings about a closer relationship between the citizens of Ponca City and the students of Ponca City Senior High School, we offer our appreciation. To this prominent body of community members do we therefore DEDICATE he 1946 Cal Tale Sealed Lefi to Right: E. M. Trout, President, Ward 25 R. E. Onstot, Ward 3g O. W. Meyer, Outlying 15 H. D. Pruyne, Ward 65 Paul C. Rose, Ward 55 Mark Freeman, Vice-Presi- dent, Outlying 25 Charles B. Duffy, Attorneyg Dr. O. E. Burris, Ward 44 E. E. Donahoo, Ward lg Don V. Eells, Ward 75 Jessie B. Washam, Clerk.

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FIRST ROW: CAROLYN BAGBY, Head of English De- partment, Oklahoma A. 8: M. College, B.S., M.A., julliard School of Music, Columbia University, Har- vard University. MARY RIGHAM, English Department, College of Emporia, University of Kansas, A.B., Columbia Uni- versity, M.A. VISTULA REEVES, English Department, Central State Teachers College, B.A., Oklahoma A. 8: M. Col- lege, M.A., American University. RUTH TOMKINS, English Department, Southeastern State College, Oklahoma A. 84 M. College, B.S., M.S., George Peabody College, University of Virginia. MADGE QUIGLEY, English Department, Southwest- ern College, A.B., Kansas State Teachers College. SECOND ROW: ELVA CURTIS, Librarian, University of Illinois, B.S., University of Oklahoma, A.B. FLOYD D. FOCHT, Head of Social Studies Depart- ment, College of Emporia, A.B., Columbia Univer- sity, M.A., Kansas State Teachers College, Oklahoma A. 45: M. College. JOSEPHINE HOUSTON, Social Studies Department, Oklahoma A. Sc M. College, B.S., M.A. WILLIAM E. HIATT, JR., Social Studies Depart- ment, Phoenix junior College, Kansas State Teachers F C U I I Y College, A.B., Ms. T H A L I A P A Y N E, Social Studies Department, Bethany-Peniel College, Central State College, A.B., Oklahoma City University, American University. THIRD ROW: GLADYS MAIN, Art Department,Northern Oklahoma junior College, Central State Teachers College, Edmond, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma, B.S., Oklahoma A. 8: M. College, M.A., Central State Teachers Col- lege, Emporia, Kansas, Central State Teachers College, Greeley, Colorado. CHARLES H. CUNNING, Vocal Music Department, University of Oklahoma, A.B., M. Mus. Ed. GEORGE W. SADLO, Instrumental Music Department, Oklahoma A. 8: M. College, B.S., Musical Arts Institute, Tulsa University, Vander Cook School of Music, Colorado State Teachers College. FOURTH ROW: MARION U. GREER, Head of Science Department, Southern State Teachers College, College of Missouri, A. B., University of Colorado, M. A., University of Michigan, Colorado State Teachers College, Leland Stanford. MILDRED SANDOZ, Science Department, Oklahoma College for Women, A. B., University of Illinois, M. A., University of Washington, Graduate study at johns Hopkins, University of Oklahoma, Oceanographic Institute and Chesapeake Biological Laboratories, Virginia Fisheries Laboratories. NATALIE ROBERTS, Science Department, Oklahoma A. 84 M. College, B.S. and M.A. FIFTH ROW: ALMA LEE OATES, Foreign Language Department, College of Charleston, Oklahoma City University, Centenary College, Oklahoma A. 8: M. College, Central State Teachers College, University of Oklahoma. SIXTH ROW: FAYE SACKETT, Foreign Language Department, Phillips University, A. B., University of New Mexico, M. A.