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

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LOY LTY e very impressive color rit l which begins most school assemblies and programs is one of our oldest and most original expressions of loyalty

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Anger, despair, anxiety, confidence, anticipation, all these make up the spirit of our high school, illustrated on the animated faces of a Po-Hi crowd. Have you ever been to a football game and not heard the Po-Hi fans cheer? Have you ever been to a basketball game and not heard the packed field house stand up for the team on a bad call? Have you ever seen the time a wrestler has not received a great consolation cheer after a hard-fought but disappoint- ing match? Of course you haven't. Po-Hi isn't like that. The students at Ponca City High School have so fierce a pride and zeal for competition that they make it a manifest thing. The excitement at a sports event, win or lose, could almost be cut with a knife. Even the fans other than students find themselves caught up in the spirit and impelled to help gain another victory. You see our spirit at Po-Hi not only on the sports field or in the stands but also on the campus, in the halls, and in our very classrooms. lt becomes a per- sonal thing with each person to strive to be the best, to make his homeroom, his class, his school the best. But in recent years our spirit has been challenged. We've been accused of losing school spirit, of having lost the pride of accomplishment to personal glory. But we've been accused by the ones who know us best: ourselves. lsn't that spirit? So spirited are we that we aren't satisfied with what We have been un- less we improve upon it in the future. Po-Hi cheerleaders epitomize, at sports events, the vivacious spirit of the students in all activities.

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Ponca City High School alumni never forget their old, but somewhat improved, friend. The Class of 1915 had its official reunion in our modern cafeteria and were guests at the 1965 Loyalty is the pledging of one's efforts and con- cern to the cause or institution in which one believes. in the case of Po-Hi, we are loyal to both a cause and an institution. ln our school creed we orally pledge ourselves to be loyal to our school and to her tra- ditions. Our loyalty burns as a fierce pride in all we do to represent our school. We never falter under the at- tacks of our opponents nor break under the strain of competition. For we know that we stand as a unit, so that we can be confident in our striving. Our accomplishments speak for themselves and de- mand the respect of those who associate with us. We can be so loyal because we have confidence in those who have gone before us to lead the way to greatness. We trust their judgement and their examples of how we should act, and we appreciate their organization of the activities we enjoy. Ponca City High School students also feel a loyalty to greater things, to our state, and to our nation. As exemplified in our concern for their operation by par- ticipating in national and statewide clubs, organiza- tions, and programs. We have a reverent respect for these things because we know that we will be expected to promote their ideals if we wish to live in a free society.