Putnam City High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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QD O 3 GJ GJ T IHM 'S IENTFIEIIQTIAIINMKIENT J! GJCQDOOCDGDCQGDGDGJGGJGDCD l AIIQQTI ll QCDOQQOG GJCDOSQG CQGDGOQGGGGJCDCDGJCDGCDCDOCDQQCDGXDGJCDQGCDQCDGC9C965CDOGJCDOGOOCDOQGOQQOCDCDQGGDGQCDGGJGOOGOOCDGQGGJQG MOVIEGOERS Mark McCoy and Pat Rodreiguez look forward to an evening of fun and entertainment. FRAME 1: Pat and Mark purchase costly tickets to Close Encounters. FRAME 2: Long lines are a familiar sight at the Shepherd Twin FRAME 3: More money goes for 4 andy bars so they'll last through the movie FRAME 4: T he movie's over but more fun's to come 20 That's Entertainment Q 1 X , Along with the new movie releases at Christmas time, there came a not so pleasant surprise. Adult ticket prices had gone up SO cents. Movies now cost 53.00 more than when our parents wereourage. According to Mr. Farris Shanbour, owner of Oklahoma Cinema Theaters Inc., it had to be done because the cost of everything else was going up. Mr. Earl Murray. manager of the Shepherd Twin, commented that the new minimum wage law and increased social security requirements also affected the theatre's budget. There are, however, two theatres in Oklahoma City which provided good movies for the price of only one dollar a ticket. The Plaza Cinema and the Will Rogers theaters showed second-run movies for those who missed them the first time around or those who simply couldn't afford the higher prices. In spite of the high prices, movies were still a popular form of entertainment, To find out which movies were the most popular among P C students, a cross-section of 340 seniors, juniors and sophomores were polled. The top ten movies were 1. Star Wars 2. Rocky 'X 3. A Star is Born 4. Smokey i I and the Bandit C' 5. Semi-Tough 6. Close Encounters 'X 7. A tie between Silver Streak f' Heroes and The Turning Point 8. The Goodbye Girl 9. Saturday Night Feverf' and 10. Oh Cod! A breakdown by grade classification showed slightly different results. The sophomores named Star Wars number one with 37M of the total vote. Second place went to Rocky with MW, and in third place was Smokey and the Bandit with 11 'Xu of the total votes. The juniors also selected Star Wars'f by a large margin, It received 3b'Z1 of the total votes. In second place with 8'M1 was Silver Streak and Close Encounters came in third with 7'X1. The seniors, however, didn't let Star Wars win so easily. It received only 15M of the votes. A Star is Born came in a close second with 12'K1 and Rocky pulled 1O'X, of the vote for third. Semi-Tough came in fourth place in all the classes. Slapshot got ZWJ of the vote from the juniors and seniors combined, but it received no votes at all from the sophomores. Bobby Deerfield received only three votes. FOUR of the ten top movies chosen by PC students arei Close Encounters, No. bg Star Wars, No. 1, Saturday Night Fever, No 9 and Rocky, NO 2.

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Helpful advice for future lust a vertical file away Concern for their future had students searching for an answer to what to do after high school. Many found their choices were in the Career Information Center, ln 1974 Mrs. Janelle Kirby, former head librarian, received what she'd worked for, a federal grant for an Occupational Information program. Mrs, Kirby wrote a proposal, along with the counselors, expressing a need for career guidance for students, She is now the first state coordinator for career education. The first grant was for 525,000 This was used mainly for reference books, trade books, pamphlets, films, microfiche, games, magazines and brochures. Special equipment was also purchased such as video and audio-visual sets. Compared to the first year career center, this year's had ten vertical files, each file almost two and one-half feet long. lt also had wood grained tables and comfortable chairs, microfiche, cassettes for the audio-visual equipment and information on the majority of colleges in the US. plus some foreign colleges. All Mrs. lanie Hire, career information specialist, has worked in the center for two years and also worked the opening five weeks of the vocational library. The para-professional is Mrs. Oleta Moler. Both ladies are experienced in career materials. Mrs. Hire stated, This mulit-media resource center sought to involve all students and faculty in career awareness. CAREER Center librarian, Mrs. Ianie m3t9rl3l5 Were available to 577V Hire and Mrs. Oleta Moler, secretary, Student, An QDQH Cgncgpt dggign run Ei check on new college materials rnade browsing pleasurable. that have just arrived, Career Center19

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