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

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Although indeterminable factors con- tribute to the learning atmosphere of a school, one of the relationships which should be encouraged and cultivated is that of the teacher and student. In our school with its widely varied curriculum, the opportunity awaits to stand on a common ground with ex- perts in divergent fields. Each Po-Hi faculty member is highly trained in the subject he teaches, having com- pleted four or more years in college and subsequent graduate work required by the school system. The young people of this generation are widely criticized for what their elders call a lack of communication. This is perhaps valid, for the young must live in a world all their own, a world created by those who condemn it. If a student tries to understand, he will surely realize that the unfortunate image of youth today can be con- tradicted hy the warm relationships that often ensue from the confrontation of teacher and student.

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Ponca City High School is a burden. Ponca City High School is a trial. Ponca City High School is a weight no scales can measure-a weight on the shoulders of three men. The burden has been accepted-ao cepted with enthusiasm and dedica- tion. The trial is a challenge-a chal- lenge for minds of vision. And the weight-the weight can never be min- imized. Never minimized-but perhaps diminished by the knowledge that the shoulders upholding it are undaunted by its pressure. The shoulders are strong, but they are not indestructible. They need helpg they need patienceg they need under- standing. They need us. We are their challengeg we are their responsibility-to us they have devoted their talents, and perhaps their lives. The shoulders are supporting us. Some of us see their burden as a game. Some of us see it as a stepping- stone. And some of us feign blindness, refusing to see it at all. Ponca City High School is the burden of three men. We are Ponca City High School. The three men need us-as we re- cover from our blindness we will re- alize how badly we needed them. MR. ROBERT E. FORD, Principal Ford, Assistants uide Po-Hiers to aturit F,,.,.-., N ,-.. , , .. 6 s X MR. DELBERT CARLILE, Assistant Principal. MR. TOM WYATT, Assistant PTIHCIPHI

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