Volume 6 , Issue 39

Duchess & Oakie's NW Corner

Finally! We have the pages of the Ranger 1926 - Castle on the Hill yearbook scanned and uploaded to our NW OkieLegacy Webshots & Old Albums on okielegacy.net.

We have also made a list of the faculty, college students and high school, junior high school and training school students in three rtf-files>.

The "Gang on the Warpath" viewed in the above photo is a "pep" demonstration at Northwestern with the entire student body getting ready to march to town enmasse. This was the first assembly of the group in the Fall of 1925 on the occasion of the marking of the three State roads and a National Highway that intersected in front of the college.

Speaking of marching enmasse to town, Northwestern Rangers will once again be marching enmasse, celebrating their annual Homecoming Festivities beginning Thursday, September 30th thru Saturday, October 2nd -- ending with a parade during the morning and a home football game that afternoon. Hope to see some of you there lining the downtown square of Alva, Oklahoma on Saturday, October 2, 2004.

As to the 1926 Ranger Yearbook, We have learned lots of interesting things from this 1926 Ranger yearbook and have come across familiar names from the past. For instance, did you know that Northwestern High School in 1926 was still in its infancy with over 200 students in the secondary section. All instruction was under the direction of Miss Minnie Shockley and Dr. J. V. L. Morris. The teaching corps was selected from the Junior and Senior college candidates for degrees with Seniors getting preferences.

The Northwestern High School on campus was used to train teachers and was primarily for the country kids. At some point later it became known as Horace Mann High School. Just when... we are not sure. If someone out there can help shed some light on Northwestern High and Horace Mann High, Horace Mann Junior High and Horace Mann Elementary, we would love to hear from you.

AND -- 1926 was the first year of the Junior High School (7th, 8th, 9th grades) on the campus of Northwestern with Miss Ann K. Wilke as Director & Principal. The large room on the second floor of the Science Hall was formerly occupied by the library and had been assigned as a study hall for this department. Also, four classrooms to this center was made available for the Junior High School. The Science Hall still stands today, but we believe it is known as the Fine Arts building now. It still faces, looks down 7th Street from Oklahoma Blvd. (Hwy 64).

The Superior Model Trainig School... The "Superior Model Training School" on the Northwestern campus was headed by W. H. Wood, professor of Elementary Education. Mr. Wood succeeded in getting the Training School rated at 1663 points (more than 400 points in excess) of the requirements for a Superior Model School. The Training School contained the Primary Department (1st & 2nd grades) with Clare Bocquin as teacher; Intermediate Department (3rd & 4th grades) with Kate Bilyeu as teacher; and Grammar grades with Hettie Brown as teacher.

One of those familiar names from the past was our father (Merle "Gene" McGill) listed with the Grammar grades -- and our Uncle Bob McGill listed with the 3rd & 4th graders (Intermediate Department). You can read the entire list in the .

What was really interesting, seeing the community ads, businesses towards the back of the yearbook. Just to name a few.

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