Woodward High School - Boomer Yearbook (Woodward, OK)

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ALUMNI LETTERS imunmuMunnii Benjamin. Texas, March 5, 1917. I.ast Max 1 had the pleasure of attending Commencement for the first time in several years. It was the lir l time I had ever been in the High School building, and as 1 watched the long line of Seniors and still longer line of Juniors file in, my thoughts Hew back to our little class of three in 04. with our commencement exercises in the Brockhaus Hail, and it seemed far distant, indeed. The editor said 1 might write about what I pleased, so being the very oldest of all of you I wish to write a little about the past and the vast improvements. My first sciiool davs in Woodward were spent in a building of three rooms, where the Delta Hotel now stands: our pla ground, that dusty street corner with a saloon, less than a block away. The old wooden school building which most of you remember as ramshackle” and fire-trap” was built soon after, and the new domicile seemed almost palatial to us. I doubt if any of you enjoyed your new home as much as we did ours. Through some chance or other the window blinds were at first painted a pale pink. Did it appeal to our sense of the ridiculous or offend our sense of fitness? It did not. We were glad that they were clean and painted. Our course of study was meagre, too, in some respects, lacking so many interesting subjects and equipment. In nothing, though, is there so much difference as in your recreation and your athletics. The boys then had a football and the girls hlackman, skipping rope and chewing gum. I fear indeed, I have spent too much time, but I wish to say this: all of you boys and girls ought to be thankful to the Board, who made it possible for vou to have these advantages, and lo your parents, that vou have this opportunity. Your gratitude may best be shown in making the fullest use of your opportunities. IVY COOMBKS BROWDER ’04. Tulsa. Okla.. Jan. 11, 1917. To the Senior Class: The ancient and honorable class of’12 has certainly never ceased to feel its strong bond of kinship with W. H. S. Our class it was which labored thru those difficult four years during which fire destroyed all material aspect of our Alma Mater and as a rrsult we were forced to work out our courses with prac-ticallv no equipment—when one whole room was a luxury impossible to afford. The «Iry as a bone” details of Caesar's bridge were unfolded to me amid the distractions of a proverbially rancorous-voiced English teacher on one side and a hard-to-convince” Geometry Prof, on the other. Oh! Efficiency! But it also fell to us first to occupy as Seniors the splendid new building which is now the home of W. H. S. It is flattering enough to be a Senior but to be a Senior in this tremendously changed new W. H. S. was indeed a thing for pride to feed upon. Our A- and H. class is proud of the progress that W;. H. S. has made: our class is proud of the graduates of nineteen seventeen, as it is proud of former classes, and we staunchly believe in the quality of human material which is attracted and will be attracted in the future to the School that was ours. DONALD ROBINSON T2. mmmmmummmmmmm11917 — mi—iim—i

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a]Uf llff IP W»«l1l iW!l|IIIIIIIiri,'3|g|ll£' IHWlNI'WtlliMS'Jif IWil'Wlil TiS THE BOOMER aamm i-rij THtu'rriKTf y :■ Rachel Coombes . Stenographer.........................City Floyd Hayes . . , . Teacher . Laverne, Okla. Mrs. Lula Hayes Mustaine Housewife....................City Kd Hopkins . Harold Appelget Gertmde Iahr Will Healy . . Ollie Henson . Arthur Johnston Wilbur Wilkins Olene Have . Altba Caples . Harry Wilcox Ross Lake . Robert Meyers Robert White . . Co. Surveyor's Office . . . City . Oklahoma University Norman, Ok. . . Bookkeeper.....................City Westinghotise Klectric Co. Pittsburgh, Pa. Oklahoma University Norman, Ok. . . Navy.......................... New York . . National Guard Ft. Sill . . Teacher . . . Mooreland, Okla. . . Oklahoma University Norman, Ok. 1916 . . . R. F. I). Carrier Mutual. Okla. . . . Purdue University Lafayette, Ind. . . Mail Carrier . . Supply. Okla. . City Light Water Co. . Cilv Chester Fithian H. B. Kmg . . . Hesler Wyand . . Georgia White . Mrs. Thelma Bradbury Justina Burkett Clara Crosno Rosa Blumer Ema Seward Russell I une . Gertrude Hayes . . Hattie Knight . . . M rle Hudson . . Winona Hunter . . Marian Winter . . Helen Healy ... Leona Hargis Teacher . . Tangier. Okla. lawyer.........................City Oklahoma University, Norman, Ok. Bookkeeper......................City Henson Housewife Henry Kendall Phillips University Lewis Institute Teacher . . . Hardin College . . Teacher . . . Teacher . . . . . . . City Tulsa. Okla. Enid. Okla. Chicago, III. . Tangier. Okla. Mexico, Mo. Tangier. Okla. Woodward, Okla. Saleslady.....................City Teacher . . . Woodward. Okla. N. W. State Normal Alva, Okla. N. W. State Normal . Alva, Okla. Phillips University Enid, Okla. nuiiftuiiiauii 1917 23

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IHIDWHIUII THE BOOMER Washburn College, Topeka. Kas.. March 1, 1917. To the Senior Class of W. H. S. The opportunity of coming once more in touch with you gives me no little amount of pleasure. Three vearsout of High School has not altogether calloused mv memory of the four best years of my life so far. I would enjoy dropping in on . 11. S. about this time of the year when the Boomer Stall with all its self-importance is dominating alfairs and the Seniors as a whole are enjoying the fruits of their almost completed four year's work. Many are the changes ami improvements which have been made in the school as viewed from the four corners of the earth to which the members of the class of ‘14 arc scattered. We Old Grads look back with pride upon our Alma Mater. Personally, I am not able l«» account for all the members of the Class of '14, hut these area few things which have come to my notice. Cynical Harold Wakefield bosses the Chemistry Department at Southwestern College. James Young, debater, has made good with the the Nebraska Iniversity team. A goodly percentage of the fairer ones of our number have attempted matrimony with more or less success. Mary White, however, still in single blessedness, is the Printer’s Devil tor the News-Bulletin. H. Cox, last hut not least of our headliners, is emulating his record at W. II. S. by e en greater success in col-lege. With this I close. Trusting that we will all meet during the coming Commencement festivities. I am very truly yours, EARL T. GRIFFIS ’14. West Lafayette. Ind.. March 13, 1917. In behalf of the class of 1916: To the faculty of last year, our sincere appreciation of your efforts in. our behalf: to the faculty of this year, our sympathy; to the class of ’17, our best wishes; to the student body, cherished friendship; to our friends, greetings. We are as one, divided, yet bound together with that eternal and inseparable tie of friendship born of close associations in classes. We rejoice witli each success and weep at each failure. We believe that to the Class of ’16 belongs the signal honor of ha ing the first member enter life’s profession fully equipped. H. B. King is now a member of the State Bar of Oklahoma, having passed the state examination after half years’ work at Norman and ranking fourth among the forty-two applicants. I he remaining members are traveling varied ways. Harry. Robert V bite. Georgia and Merle are working, the two former with this only as a stepping stone to college. One of our number, Thelma, has verv recently assumed the crown of housewife. Robert Meyers, Chester, Ema, Gertrude. Hattie and W im ina compose the teaching stall ol the class of'16. These members also intend to enter college in a year or two. Clara. Rosa. Marian, Hesler. Helen, Russell, Leona. Justina and 1 are worrying our brains over the numerous intricate problems of appearing wiser than we are. trying not to look like ireshies in our several colleges. W e are justly proud of our year’s labor. Our ability has been tried and our mettle proved. Not one edge lias turned; not one lias failed in his work: each lias made good in his own line, whatever it has been. BOSS LAKE 16. nitisiaDRiiiinff?ini.rmi!iirni! n sr nr: mi 1917