Stillwater High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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Senior Class Histor It may seem hard to believe that the sophisticated Stillwater high school seniors of 1938 were once a wide assortment of six-year-olds being led to the school house by their mammas for their first day in the institution of learning. Not all the seniors start- ed here on that momentous September morning, but those who did joined the various groups at Lincoln, Jefferson, and Eugene Field. There were freckle- faced little boys like Ted Baird, Donald Poole, and Woodard Lackey. Some of the little girls were freckled, too, such as Genevieve Harris, Vera Clen- dening, and Maurine Peaden. There were shy ones and some belligerent little fellows looking for some- body to lick. On that day they were all rather thrilled at the prospect of going to school. As the year passed and the novelty wore off, they wished they wasn't no ole school , but they kept going. Vacations were always welcomed as years were put behind, but the first day of school the next Sep- tember was always exciting. Graduation from the sixth grade was a big event. How lordly were those sixth grad-ers, and how they could sniff at a mere fifth grade pupil. Being a graduate was just pretty close to being grown upg why, weren't they going to Junior High next year? And smart! don't mention it! They knew just nearly all about fractions and decimals and percentage, geography and spelling didn't trouble them either. Then in the fall of 1932, wide-eyed seventh grad- ers converged on junior high. It wasn't such a snap, after all. There were so many strange people rush- ing around, talking a strange language about schedules, home rooms, study halls, room 22 or room 27. Somehow, that seventh-grade dignity so effective last spring didn't make a very big impres- sion in this place. The teachers understood, though, and it wasn't long until the shy newcomers were acquiring a con- fident swagger. When they learned the language, how fine it was to watch the open-mouthed awe of grade school friends or younger brothers and sisters. Junior high's three years rolled by: graduation came, and this time it amounted to something. Superiority complexes began to blosson with even greater vigor than the sixth grade varieties had. Senior high school was not far off, and it was theirs for the taking. That bright day in May was perfect and it joined forces with the teachers at junior high and with the crowd of proud parents to give the big- gest ninth grade class in history a warm-hearted send-off. As sophomores the boys and girls were not quite so shy as they had been as seventh graders. Those juniors and seniors did look very old and wise, but any fear or awe the sophomores had was quickly cloaked beneath the veneer of aggressiveness and wise-cracks. Though the highschool building looked terribly shabby after junior high, the spell of the old build- ing soon caught on, and it wasn't long until no one would have gone back to junior high if he could. Throughout the three years of high school, the present senior class contributed its share toward winning honors in all fields-athletics, music, and academic work. They can justly feel proud when they look at Stillwater high school in its highly es- teemed position, for they know they helped to put it there. Now that graduation time has come, beneath all the bright, lighthearted gaiety there is still a little of the six-year-old's timidity, and many a student is wishing that mamma could lead him into life as she once led him to the school house door. Those students of the senior class of 1938 who have always gone to school in Stillwater are: Vera Clen- dening, Angela Cooper, Ted Baird, Eva Mae Fry, Bernadine Giger, Bernadine Hall, Genevieve Harris, Lon McGilliard, Bob Murphy, Robert Whitenton, Fred Henry, Marjorie Moore, Norton Higgins, Or- ville Palmer, Maurine Peaden, Donald Poole, Kath- ryn Puckett, Woodard Lackey, Bob Wallace, Mary Hock, Marjalee Carnahan, and Hays Cross. Page 15