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

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Principal Robert Butler, standing, visits with North Central team mem- bers who visited the campus February 14-16 for the seven-year review. Diamond Jubilee, it if ' visit of evaluators unique Two special days which were unique, or at least rare, fell during this year. The first, November 7, was Diamond Jubilee for the State of Okla- homa, and in its honor, Put- nam City Schools paraded on a windy Saturday morning, with the Pirate Band leading out. All of the district schools Evaluators from the State Depart- ment of Education, Enid and Still- water, look over their notes on the English Department. marched, and members of the administration rode in open cars to greet the crowd along the route. In February, the school was visited by a team of evaluators representing the North Central Association, and once again PCHS proved what we had always known - it is an out- standing school in all respects. This was borne out by the final report of the evaluators and the written report which follows. We won't see them again for another seven years. North Central 17

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A dual reason to celebrate Okiaiiornas Diamond Jubilee and Ihe Year of time Schools-prcarnpted the parade November 6, Ralph Downs, superintendent of Pm- nam City schools, with his wife. rode in the rumble seat of an Excalibur as grand niarsiiaiis of the Diamond Jubi- lee Parade Li rzwriiiiliiil 5 Key Club's float was reiuvenated and Number 009 unit in U19 parade was sailed again to represent the PC Pirates me Pride of Pulnam CNY bind- in the parade. 16 Diamond Jubilee

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A S 'H -a lesson February 28, 1983, The last of February and the last of a legend. Students and faculty alike sat in living rooms, dens, even crouched in a corner at work to witness the final act of an eleven-year epic. The inhabitants of the 4077th M'A'iSi'H finally out- lived the war that had trapped them. and were permitted to character knowing in his heart that things would never be quite the same. M A'SxH, the long-running television program which had occupied Monday night scheda ules since before most of PCHS students remembered, was at last ending-by choice of all those concerned, not by force of low ratings. in farewells screen, as officers and enlisted personnel exchanged las' goodbyes after four years of the incredible stress which was the Korean conflict-the stress which spawned days when an- tics seemed to be the only wag to hold onto sanity. MXAgSxl-I touched so mang people because they identified with at least one of the char- rejoin a society that had been living without them, each if Alan Alda, as Benjamin Pierce, and Mike Farrell. as B. J, Hunnicut. discuss the prospect of the end of the war, Goodbyes come in all variations, as Pierce and Houlihan bid farewell, Pot- ter, Hunnicut. and Winchester, played by David Ogden-Stiers. try to do their best not to notice. 18 Entertainment Tearful faces mirrored the emotions of the people on the acters portrayed-the ironic in- anities of Hawkeye Pierce, the Jamie Far, as Maxwell Klinger. wedf his lady love at the 4077th, Best friends part to opposite sides of the nation, as Pierce gives Hunnicut a last hug