Sulphur High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Sulphur, OK)

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A DATE WITH YESTERDAY SENIOR CLASS I-IISTORY-I954 Let's see now. just how many years has it been since we started to school. Oh, yes, I remember. It was in September of 1942. Was I scared that day when I first went to school. But I wasnft the only one. For that same day, on that same yesterday, several other seniors started with me. There were Nancy Billings, Sherry Boyles, joe Green, Elizabeth Howe, Mary Carol Leonard, Bobbie Taylor, and Nellie Gregory at Washington. Ecl Morton, Don Braden, Mike Lowrey, Peggy Miller, Don Peak, Valton Corley, and Amanda Yates at Cameron. Remem- ber how at Cameron we had to lie down on our little pallets everyday after lunch and rest our little eyes for 15 minutes. It seems the habit stayed with' some of us because some of us still sleep in class every day after lunch. I never did exactly understand just how Mrs. Haste and Mrs. Shives at Washington, and Mrs, Alexander and Mrs. Norman at Cameron ever taught us to read and write, but by the time the first term had come to a close we had learned enough to be pushed on into the second grade. Here we started the year with 15 boys and girls. joe Green and Nellie Gregory moved away and we gained Gene Williams from Enid, and Virginia Lowrance from Claramore. The beginning of the third grade we lost Valton Corley and gained Alfred Wynn from San Antonio, Mike Stephens from Tulsa, Ann Davis from Drake, Tommy Keller from Davis, and Nellie Gregory from California. In the third grade the boys began their ball playing career by learning to throw mud balls. After the third grade Mike Stephens moved to Skiatook. In the fourth grade we gained David Ballinger, Dennis Hill from Oklahoma C't ohnnie Pennington from Butler, Sam West from Dixon Heights and ly, I Amanda Yates, all at' Washington. At Cameron, joe Green came back from Phoenix, Arizona, jack Kinney moved here from Claramore, Ed Morton came back from Illinois, and Pat Lowrance from Oklahoma City. We thought surely by now that Bobbie Taylor would be a lady boxer be- cause in the fourth grade she beat up David Ballinger and made himacry. In the fifth grade Washington gained Eva Suther from Daugherty, and Cameron gained Sue Bennett from Mill Creek, Valton Corley came back from New York, In the fifth grade after the fight between Bobbie Taylor and David Ballinger and a few other ones like that, the boys and girls couldn't play together. The girls had to play at one end of the school ground and the boys at the other end. In the sixth grade Eddie Morton moved over to Washington. We gained Barbara Richburg from Gainesville, Texas and Mary Yarberry from DeKalb, Texas, Max Riffe from Valley View, and Mike Stephens returned from Skia- took. There was quite a bit of conflict between Cameron and Washiiigton because of the football games we played against each other. They were really some excit- ing games. Why, if you were from Cameron you just didn't think of speaking to someone from Waslwington, and the same way at Washington. We used to wonder what it would be like to sit in high school classrooms and study high school subjects. Well, one day we found out. For one September morning in 1948, we found a bunch of us called seventh graders of-the Sulphur High School! As we think about it now, we must have been funny. We didn't know where to go or what to do. For a while we didn't even know how to study. It seemed very strange to recite in one room, and study in another one, and then go to another room for another class, This year we gained Emanuel Grissom from Houston, Texas, Helen Kaserman from Big Canyon, Dan Smith from Matoy, and Mary Watson from'Drake. In .the seventh grade Mrs. Fulton and Mr. Pate were our sponsors. XVe were divided into two groups and Mrs. Fulton's group won a half holiday for raising more money for the March of Dimes than any class in school. In the eighth we were beginning to learn that you had plenty of time to walk from class to class instead of run. Dick Burdett joined us from Lewiston, Alabama, and Nakita Hill from Prague, Oklahoma. This made a total of 36 of

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Mary Watson 44H, Commerce, Pep Club ames Williams Alfred Wynn Commerce Football, Mixed Chorus, Lettermans Club, Commerce Mary Yarberry Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, Girls Sextet, Drum Majorette, Band Queen, Sec. Thespian, N. F. L,, F. H. A., Hi-Ways Staff, Senior Editor of '54 Bulldog, Commerce . ii Q if 3 f M as--2 ' ' , TT? 5 551 'E ji ' .1 is ,Q . All ,xx ,r , -. ' QV: v , , X mi l ni , 1? Eva Suther Bobbie Taylor Glee'Club, Mixed Mixed Chorus, F. H. A Chorus, F. H. A., Thespian, Twirler, Band, Commerce Commerce Donna Wade john Walker F. I-I. A., Glee Club, Mixed Chorus Mixed Chorus, Science Commerce, Science Gene Williams Commerce, Science x 'Fl 'if . .31 Amanda Yates Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, Vice Pres. Thespian, . Sec. N. F. L., Twirler, Vice Pres. F. H. A., N. H. S. Football Queen, Commerce wil .. ff ,- J Q. .rri - ffl

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our present seniors in the eighth grade. Our eighth grade sponsors were Miss Pevehouse and Mr. Barton. The next year in the ninth grade Wanda Corbin came from Sentinel, Okla- homa, Annalois Gilbert from Nebo, Raymond Lee from Chigley, and Willa Dean Moss from Hickory. When we were freshmen the new auditorium was finished and we gave our first assembly program. Miss Vaughan and Mr. Barnes were our sponsors. Slowly but surely we were on our way to being Seniors. When we started as sophomores, of course, we thought we were very experienced, really, aside from our senior year, we believe the sophomore year was more exciting, than any other year. It was during our sophomore year that we began to think about what would be expected of us .when we were juniors and we began to plan how to raise money and what we would do when we were juniors. We gained only one student that year, he was james Williams from Wynnewood. We lost Mike Lowrev for eight weeks to Ada High, but he just couldn't stay away from dear old Sulphur High, so he returned at the end of eight weeks. Our sophomore year, Mrs. Duke and Mr. Norwood were our sponsors. So in the fall of 1952 we 'started our junior year. The whole high school would be watching us--for weren't we juniors? Didn't even the seniors look at us long, for they knew that some day we'd invite them to a banquet, that we'd usher at Commencement--that we'd help out at their Graduation. That year, as juniors and the smallest class in school, we won the football queen race with Bobbie Taylor as our queen, the F. F. A. race with Virginia Lowrance, the band queen race with Mary Yarberry, and Pat Lowrance as Rodeo Sweetheart. Our junior sponsors were Mrs. Norwood and Mrs. Donaghe. Donna Wade came to us that year from Byng and john Walker joined our class. Of course there was one event in the the junior year we'll never forget, and that was the junior and Senior Banquet, which will always live as one of the outstanding events in our school years. And here we are now, SENIORS! The year is almost over. High school days are almost a thing of the past. It won't be long now until we'll all parade up on the stage and get that little scroll called a diploma. But even when we seniors get that diploma, we'll never forget the events of our senior year. We had some outstanding additions to our class this year. Among them are Gwen Cowan from Gene Autry, Wayne Brady from Daugherty, and Lola Reece from Shawnee. Our excellent classy sponsors this year are Mr. Best and Mr. Merritt. A Again this year our class won the football queen race with Amanda Yates. And this year our school got its revenge against Midwest City by beating the undefeated Bombers 19-15. We are very proud of our senior class's contri- bution to the Bulldog Team. We have 54 seniors in our class and we graduate in '54, One way you can always tell a senior is by the El Torador song. Our senior class is the first class to go from the 7th to the 12th in the new high school building and we have enjoyed every minute of it. But soon our high school days will be a memory, and as we think of the days we spent in school, in our dreams, and with our memories, we'll always keep that date-- a date we made with yesterday. Wlritten by--Amanda Yates Carol Leonard Don Braden Don Peak Johnnie Pennington