Woodward High School - Boomer Yearbook (Woodward, OK)

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,f .lf f f. Ui M A . am-QIXSAQK: rn:r.ruJ 25153917-i7h?2'3ki5n5l' 1 4 4 D , O Il awmwwxalltaawi' LL.. e lx ii 9 if l and larger building with better and more up-to-date equipment. The necessary vote ll for the building was not secured, however, until two years later. E ,Q The next year of progress was the first to bring forth another graduating class W since the first one in 1904. In 1910 another class of three girls graduated from 2 QU W. H. S. The spring of that year saw the first team of W. H. S. at the Northwestern g meet at Alva. A high school basketball team was also brought out in prominence UQ that year. Harry 0. Buzzaird was superintendent at that time. I In the spring of 1910 the large public school building, on the same black of if ground with the high school building, was destroyed by fire. These buildings occu- til QQ pied a the block which is now known as City Park, on which the Woodward Carnegie Z4 Library and the Woodward Convention Hall now stand. The need of housing facili- , ties for the public schools therefore made it necessary to erect a new building and at Q the election the following summer school bonds were voted which provided for the erection of a 565,000.00 high school building. Shortly afterwards work was started .1 if and in 1911 a new structure was ready for occupancy. No graduates were brought gl forth in the school year 1910-11. A ?X School opened in 1911 in the new building, under Superintendent Wm. A. Erd- E man, with an enrollment of fifty-three. A new light was taken on school life through- All out the year and many advancements were made in literature, dramatics and ath- .4 E-it letics. The year closed with the graduation of a class of seven. E! The school year 1912-13 opened with an enrollment of eighty-seven, under Q Wi the direction of Prof. George C. Wakefield. It was through the efforts of Prof. Q: Eu, Wakefield that many of the outstanding features of the school, which now exist, owe their origin. A high school band and orchestra were organized and a better school Q spirit throughout was instilled in the hearts of the students. Through the work of 2 Prof. Wakefield, H. R. Kent and a few other prominent citizens of Woodward, a nine 1' months term of school was secured at that time. As the years of progress went on J we see that the number of graduates began to increase, so with the closing of that year a class of fifteen received their diplomas for having completed the high school Q :, course. TQ kg The year 1913-14 opened wi'h an enrollment of one hundred and thirty-seven and a faculty of five. Several innovations had been introduced which had a marked gt QI effect on the school in general. A dramatic club, a debating society and several 'Q other organizations helped to bring about a much closer social relation between the fm: students. A science course was that year offered and a great deal larger elective L91 course was possible. W. H. S. also fell in line in the different athletics and attained pf honor in all. The progress made in athletics was brought about largely by the direc- Yr tion of coaches Halley and Bernstorf. The high school song, The Black and Gold, A was officially adopted that year: also the first Boomer was published by the senior EQ class. A class of seventeen that year stepped out to take up the work of the world QL. and to bid farewell to their high school days. by The year of 1914-15, with one hundred and fifty students enrolled, was an- lf other of splendid progress in W. H. S. history. With Prof. Wakefield still at the ,Q QL head of the schools he was now attaining that which he started out to do-to up- or build the school and make it the foremost in Northwest Oklahoma. The desire to Q uphold the literature, dramatics. school spirit and athletics was further instilled into i t NU , 'f Z it f ? ff Q . , a if . . , r . . V, ,At -1, ia.-fzmlaz. '.-. -, ..lf mam.-s.J.a.,lf.f A .fa f A- . -xxx - tl