Woodward High School - Boomer Yearbook (Woodward, OK)

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 I THE BOOMER namiwroiiimiiiiiiiniiiii i iiiiiiiiiiiiii WOODWARD CITY SCHOOLS Thai a few funerals ami Home lire are sometime. necessary to the progress of a city is an admitted fact. I he funerals were not necessary to Woodward’s progress hut a lire was the best thing for its schools that ever happened. On March 9th. 1910. at the convenient hour of 5:30 p. m.. after school had been dismissed and no one was in the building, the two storv box type of school house that had inadequately housed the school children of our city, rapidly, quietly but completely went up in smoke. With the old building out of the way the opposition that had before defeated all attempts to vote bonds and build a modern brick building disappeared. The entire tax-paying citizenship were united in desiring new buildings at the earliest possible moment. A bond issue of $85,000.00 was voted and two brick ward schools, of two rooms each for the first three grades, were built, one in the east and one in the west end of town. Also our fine $65,000.00 brick semi-fireproof High School and upper grades building was erected. These buildings were first occupied in the fall of 1911. With these modern buildings and facilities our schools steadily grew in the number of pupils and in efficiency. In the school year beginning in the fall of 1912 the school term was increased from eight to nine months. This forward step brought our term and course of study up to the requirements of the Stale Board of Kducalion. hi 1914 there was added to the High School a course in Domestic Science and Art. This course met with immediate favor and Domestic Art and Sewing were extended to the seventh and eighth grades. It i. the desire of the Board of Education to add two other courses as soon as room and financial resources will permit, viz.. Manual Training and a Business Course, embracing Stenography, Typewriting ami Commercial Bookkeeping. Vi ilh every room in all of our buildings occupied and many overcrowded, with our school population increasing rapidly, with students from our own and surrounding counties choosing Woodward for their High School education we are planning for additional buildings on the unit sy stem. The first of two unit rooms will be built this summer and be ready for use next fall. The citizens of Woodward have never yet refused any reasonable request for funds for the betterment of our schools, and we feel safe in saying they never will. This spirit of progressiveness coupled with the enthusiasm of our fine student body will always keep Woodward City schools in the front rank. C. E. SHARP, President Board ol Education. 1111‘t' 11 • i!! II i l,iui.i. I' 1917

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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

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