Stillwater High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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is Having received the gavel from the 1957 student council president, Ierry Thompson, serving this year, turned on his heels and made the projects of the council for this year the greatest in the school history. Trying on their new robes used for the first time during their Christmas assembly, are members of Mr. Epperleyls mixed chorus. Blue and Gold in color, under the varied lights, these robes bedazzled their audiences this year. 7 l

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6 he role of students in this age of space travel trials has changed Once long ago the aim of education was for the better understanding of the written word that per sons might be able to read their own interpretations of the Bible Today our concern may well turn from the humanities to sciences This quick shift in emphasis may well open new lands, for exploration and exploitation Edgar Allan Poe, in his poem Dreamland said I have reached these lands but newly from an Ultimate dim Thule Our predecessors may well reach their Ultima Thule in space on the moon, or on Mars Students of Stillwater high school during the school year 1957 58 may have looked not too far beyond high school graduation and entrance into their chosen universities and colleges of higher learning Deep within each of them was an ambition to become suc cessful in some endeavor with which he was becoming acquainted durmg his high school days Vocational courses, such as agriculture, industrial arts, and home economics held and will continue to hold the interest of many of the students throughout life Language science mathematics, athletics, music art, and social studies may be the ultimate goal which will be discovered here and attained in later life Perhaps less strenuous and more pleasurable in their Journey across time in the planned social functions relieved many tensions and helped students to grow socially as well as academically Mixers S Club dance, banquets the Iun1orSen1or prom the Pioneer Frolrc snake dances pep assemblies, the freshman trip the senior picnic and many other act1v1t1es depicted in the following pages, made up the social events of this school year No longer earthbound vehicles here on earth may be the means of travel to far away places with strange soundmg names In order that students at Stillwater high school may have a lasting record of their 1958 school year our year of seeing the first American satellite launched into space we have recorded activities which are sigmfrcant and memorable Enjoy the memory recorded here cherish it' May our Ultima Thule which we started approaching ln this short space in time, not blur our recollections or belittle our opiruons of the year herein recorded With this hope in mind we present the latest edition of the Stillwater high school Pioneer' Beginning each school year stu dents gather by classes in the audi tonum to fill out their class sched ules and avoid the teachers they know will make them work while they learn ' ' il 73 ' K6 9 9 9 1 . . - ,, . . . . . . ' , 4 , . . , . I . space of this year were the social affairs of organizations and classes. Spontaneous and ' ' lf ,Y ' ' - I , n , v - v 1 1 , , . I . - , Q 1 I , u , n ' Cl - Y - - va - ' , 5 Q l , ' Y , -

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YARDS 4...'3l,a.W.:....:lhn.-M N.: .,.,, A 1 I .uwiwmp 1 D OWN All eyes were on the clock which registered I2-2 as the final siren sounded victory over Cushing, deciding the conference championship. Vehicles with Lugs Prohibited, is the sign posted on many highways nowadays Therefore. students of SHS decided to modernize the rolling parts oi' this piece of an tiquity so that it might take part in the homecoming activities and at the ceremonies be- fore the defeat of Cushing. 8 4551 ' 'Nu-.