Wilburton High School - Diggers Yearbook (Wilburton, OK)

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UPPERCLASSMEN USTEN INTENTLY as Nikki Faulkner describes a Business examination taken earlier. Students find conferences more effec- tive than individual cramming sessions. HUSTLE AND BUSTLE is the element necessary to all students who plan to walk through WHS halls. Keeping the Pace TENSION AND ROUTINE involve students in a hectic pace as they attempt to include extra- class, social, and athletic events in an already crowded schedule. A mid-winter basketball game is a welcome relief for students and an opportunity to relax and participate from the stands. Student en- thusiasm for sports seems to complete a sched- ule heavy with academics and unending home assignments. Students are encouraged to think as individuals and yet expected to become an integral part of the student body Typical student life changes quickly from a few moments of quiet, individual study to one of frantic search for a needed book in the library stacks Small in- cidents are pushed aside, someday to be remem- bered as a vital part of high school life and a contrast to the even more demanding require- ments of the young adult. Upperclassmen, faced with college careers and draft requirements, often experience a feeling of panic

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The 1969 Digger Wilburton City Schools Wilburton, Oklahoma Volume 23 DAVID BROWN, BOB STANFIELD, EDITORS

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at Today’s Pace HARD AT WORK, a Freshman student, Barry Smith, sets the pace for the fifth hom Industrial Arts class under the super- vision of instructor Ronald Adams. Fresh- man boys taking Shop this year have had courses in mechanical drawing and simple building the past two years. Present classes consist of theory in wood- working, the use of various large pieces of machinery, and techniques in building more useful articles, such as chess sets, gun racks, and tables. Intent on his work at a grinder, Barry rep- resents a large portion of Wilburton High School youth, of the now generation, at today's pace. A day's pace begins early in the morning when students gather in differ- ent groups to talk about varied topics of the expected day's events and those of yesterday. The first bell rings and experi- enced students hurry off to their lockers. The ring of the second bell is heard and students make a mad dash for lockers, books, and classrooms By the third bell all are in their classes with the exceptions of those who were caught in a flow of traffic not going their direction. Six periods compose the day with a number of subjects from which students choose. Lockers bang and students leave for home. Silence. 3