| The impetus of the launching of the Sputniks was so great that the class pushed forward on a research program ultimately culminating in the 1958 Science Fair, where, it is rumored, America's rocket scientists received the inspiration that resulted shortly thereafter in Explorer I. Refusing to follow the national panic and overemphasize the scientific aspect of education, the Class of 1960 dispatched several of its members on a tour to Colorado with the band in the interest of cultural enlightenment. Further along this line, the class pursued a path of self-enlightenment including studies of Shakespeare, Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" and Silas Marner. |
| The ever-increasing importance of the Class of '60 was further recognized when the community voted to add an annex to College-High's main building. The annex has proved very useful as a playground for budding biologists. |
| The school year 1958-59 found members of the Class of '60 with more and more responsible positions. Kay Meyer headed the class with able assistance from Bob Emerson. Many important events took place in 1958 - J. Howard Edmondson threw a wrench in Oklahoma's political machine and burned his way across the prairie and into the governor's mansion: Ghana became the first native African Republic. By far the most important events of that year, however, were the winning of the conference football championship and the Wildcat basketball team's trek to the state tournament due, undoubtedly, to the large number of members of the Class of '60 in the ranks of both teams. Not only the team members were responsible for the success: other class members obediently shouted and yelled in response to the cheerleaders, even to a group of would-be cheerleaders, who had a little trouble with their grapefruit in a pep assembly. Once again the Class of '60 called upon its band members for an important mission. This time they were sent to Florida to examine the national defense set-up and to give moral support to the scientists at Cape Canaveral. To further world understanding, the Class of '60 presented an English play, "Dear Delinquent", and participated in two appealing French undertakings, "Roberta" and "The Mad Women of Chaillot". Then the Class got into world affairs in a big way when four of our members were asked to represent the United States in New Zealand, the Philippines, Norway and Italy. The Junior Year closed with "Blue Ice", which narrowly missed being "Blue Water" because of the surprise heat wave we had for the prom. |
| "Senior '60" looks good in any color, but particularly so in green and on the school lawn for all to see. The ascension of the Class of '60 to its rightful place (the leadership of College-High) was heralded in green through the foresight and initiative of its president, Tracy Peck, the official yardman of the class. |
| When the class took its position as leader, it began to show what it could really do. Joining forces with Mark Nyysinen, exchange student from Finland, and the leadership of Bob Cook, chairman of the Deliberative Committee, the class saw College-High through the last year of the Oklahoma Six Conference, saw Oklahoma through repeal, saw the nation through the steel strike, and the world through Krushchev's Berlin threat. It produced four lovely queens for Homecoming, T&I, Band, and the Yearbook. At the same time it came up with two straight-A students and a winner from a group of ten National Merit Scholarship Finalists. Through the effort of a committee of seniors, College High's election procedure was much improved. Brave class members fought their way Edgar Allen Poe and Alice Adams, and bloomed as the chemists of the future in an atmosphere of hydrogen sulfide and ammonium hydroxide. The boys of the Class presented the whole community with a lesson from Emily Post on the proper manners for the basketball spectator: and a somewhat talented, but mostly brave cast of seniors produce "Magnificent Obsession" complete with late car crash and inhalator. In the spring, half the senior class lightly turned to thoughts of glee at the sight of the other half slaving away on their grammar and composition research themes. Trigonometry students laughed rather softly, for they were busy with the mysteries of the mathematical rose! The year came to a close with the completion of a beautiful home for the carpentry class, a structure which effectively blocked the view of some of the moon watchers mentioned earlier. |
| "Renezvous" was the password on May 6. The prom was carried off beautifully and the Class of '60 was doubly honored that day because Princess Margaret chose it as her wedding day. |
| College High's Class of '60 has taken its place in the history of the world. Born in a troubled time, it has continually fulfilled its promise of peace and prosperity. The graduation of College High School's Class of 1960 is a great milestone in the history of man! |
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