Tulsa Central High School, Class of 1925

G through I

BOB GALLAGHER
Boy's Glee Club.
Never happy unless he's snuggled up to his chum--can't even enjoy a class recitation unless he's in the right neighborhood. He warbles for Mr. Crerie, and is reported to be a Latin-de-shark. His pet peeve seems to be the fact that he was once the hero of a popular song, "Oh, Mr. Gallagher, Oh, Mr. Gallagher--."
Bitter Truth: If Fords could talk!

CHARLES GARNER
Athletic Association.
Brown is his hair, brown are his eyes, but romantic is his disposition, and he goes to the movies of his own volition. Variegated neckties throng the glory of his vesty, color-bedecked chest. He's in love with history, but history treats him like a hawk treats a dove.
Bitter Truth: The dying sun brings to his mind thoughts of "another home."

GEORGE GATES
T-Club, Football, Basketball, Athletic Assn.
George is a "he-man" who gave the ladies a wide berth rather than risk his chances of getting a football berth. Teachers as well as students seldom miss an opportunity of "putting in a good word" for George. We feel safe in predicting for him a brilliant college career.
Bitter Truth: George has an adorable voice.

MARY ELIZABETH GERMAN
No nicknames for this dignified young lady. Mary Elizabeth has lived in the limelight so long she is one of the pillars of T. H. S., and even the freshmen know her. As a personification of efficiency she takes first place.
Bitter Truth: She has only one waterloo so far--Virgil.

LEORA GHOLSTON
Girl Reserves.
Yellow hair is Leora's crowning glory. She's a blonde who craves manly brunettes. She seems to have quite a few hobbies but for some unknown reason she does not choose to divulge them to the world at large. Her motto is "patronize school plays first."
Bitter Truth: She yearns for a cottage by the lone seashore.

ROBERT GIDDENS
Bob hails from Birmingham, Alabama, and has a southern accent. He is fond of athletics. Bob says he intends to go to Oklahoma University next year. The boy is a prospective member for a zoo, he once belonged to an owl club.
Bitter Truth: His greatest ambition is to be a cave man.

MARGARET GIEROW
Tom Tom.
Picture a villa in old Spain, a latticed window, a dashing young lover, a guitar and Margaret. She is as charming in the role of a Spanish senorita as in that of a T. H. S. flapper. Tom Tom girls' athletic pictures are a part of her daily diet. She also has a controlling interest in the cafeteria. Wonder why?
Bitter Truth: She's the giggliest kid you ever heard.

HELEN GILGER
This young invalid is languishing in the thralls of that common disease known as non-studitis. In spite of the infirmity, whe consumes hot dawgs and hamburgers with alarming rapidity. She is favorably inclined toward the masculine sex with one exception--Cicero.
Bitter Truth: She has all the ear-marks of a college dean of women in the year 1942.

HAROLD GILLESPIE
Track.
Paul Denny announces in advance that Harold "is a good man." At any rate he specializes in geology and "likes the girls." He has been in Tulsa High School three and a half years and intends to go to Oklahoma University.
Bitter Truth: He is a good mixer--punch and dates.

RALPH GILLIAN
Ralph is a native of Tulsa but has spent one year at St. Joe, Missouri. He intends to make a book-keeper after attending Draughon's Business College. Camping is his hobby. If you want to see Ralph blush, ask him a personal question.
Bitter Truth: They like to walk beneath an opaque moon.

JEANETTE GILLILAND
Our class was honored by the addition of several new members among which is Jeanette. Now, Glendale City is one worthy citizen short. The lassie must have a brave heart, one that would send her into the wilderness like Moses, for she once struggled with History III and Economics in the same semester. That, we claim is fortitude sublime.
Bitter Truth: Vaccination seems to keep her from corridoritis.

GUY GLASS
Guy is the sober judge who beams forth happiness without laughing. He is always busy attending to the task at hand. Nor does Guy believe in traversing even the corridors in single blessedness--ask J. His hobbies are mending fishing nets and imitating cackling geese.
Bitter Truth: Guy is practicing to be a slight-of-hand artist.

MARY A. GODFREY
Girl Reserves, School Life.
Mary holds the senior title for a friendly smile as may be seen in her picture on page 134. We wanted you to know about Mary even if you couldn't see her picture, which was unavoidably lost. Her cordial manner is one of the qualities that have helped her lead the Girl Reserves through a very successful year.
Bitter Truth: She is the Copperhead's only rival.

JUANITA GOODWIN
Juanita is like President Coolidge--she can keep silent and get away with it. She doesn't have to talk for one to know she's mighty sweet--she just smiles. Industrious? We'll say she is. She spends her spare time wielding a needle and she sure gets the results.
Bitter Truth: Her pet ambition is to be the silent woman of the White House.

EDITH GOEPPINGER
Edith is a veritable spark of vivacity, a miniature whirlwind, the "sideshow of life." She is a classy swimmer, spends half her time under water and the other half amusing her fellow-sufferers, for reference see her dramatic class.
Bitter Truth: the boys stick around her like flies on fly paper.

GEORGE GOODALE
School Life, Indian Club.
George belongs to our Indian Club and as far as we know, he is chief sheik. He spends his school hours shadowing Mr. Rau, and his spare time chasing news for the Tulsa Daily World. One thing George never worries about is time, his motto being "time flies, but George never will."
Bitter Truth: He joined the Indian Club and became a "dumb-bell."

PEARL GORDON
Evaporate Gloomy Gus. You've met your match in Pearl. She's the eternal gloom chaser; and as cheerful as a chickadee even in a deluge of organization write-ups. Pearl's some cook--no wonder, she's Miss Mayer's cousin--and when she burns the beans, she just whistles "too tired to feed the fishes."
Bitter Truth: People minus manners get her goat.

RALPH GORE
Tennis, School Life, Banking, Class Treas. 1921. Ralph is a smooth sort of fellow who would make a good politician or diplomat. Ralph is one of our leading "Pot-Boilers." If silence is golden, then no wonder Ralph is so often the object of a feminine avalanche similar to a "49" gold rush.
Bitter Truth: Up where the vest begins, Ralph wears a necktie with the blush of an aurora borealis in full flush.

LEONA GRAHAM
Everyone likes the way Leona's hair curls about her pink and alabaster face. On that face there is an opening from which melodious sounds issue in Glee class. The only thing that music doesn't help her in is writing up the T-Club minutes and working physics problems.
Bitter Truth: She believes Adam's favorite song was "In the Shade of the Old Appletree."

CHESTER GRANT
Chester is a manly fellow who "rolls his own," reads Horatio Algier, and drinks bubbling sodas by the light of "the milky way." But at that, for some unexplained reason, he wears a hunted, worried expression on the outward portion of his physiognomy.
Bitter Truth: When the moon shines, the waves rest, and humans sleep. Chester rides abroad in his chariot of romance.

WARNER GRAY
Warner has tall red hair that seeks to fade into the aurora borealis on dusty, windy knights. He hopes to some day walk down the bored church isle in step to Mendelssohn's whispered "never, never of the phantom years." Remember, his last name is no indication of the color of his hair, plainly not.
Bitter Truth: Can't repeat it.

PAULINE GREEN
Pauline always looks for the silver lining, and somehow never fails to find it. She's one whom nothing ever worries, not even shorthand seems to phase her. She's a peppery little lady, just chuck full of fun.
Bitter Truth: It wouldn't do to put her last name first.

MILDRED GREENE
"Red is her hair, Greene is her name, but, gee, we all like her just the same," sang the little boy as he sauntered down B Beside Mildred. She belongs to the genus flapperitis, although she can sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam. Her pet hobby is spending coin, and we hear she has become quite skillful at this art. [?]
Bitter Truth: She wants to know why black-berries are green when they are red.

BOB GRIGGS
Senate, T-Club, Boys' Glee.
Bob is Mr. Crerie's favorite Magnavox. His eyes are generally too full of fun to be deadly-however, his ability to look frightfully wicked and his deep voice won him the part of "Dick Dead Eye" in Pinafore. Bob also excels in mechanical drawing, chemistry and basketball.
Bitter Truth: He once argued in C9.

GUINN, MARIE [Also spelled Gwinn]
The mischievous lady whose eyes bewitch unsuspecting knights. Marie knows how to vamp in such a modest was as to fool even the most immune to feminine wiles. Dramatics plays an important part in her career. Steak fries are her hobbies.
Bitter Truth: She loves to break hearts, but the goblins will ger her if she doesn't watch out.

HELEN GUNSTEN
Brown-eyed Helen Gunsten is going to be an English teacher and will spend next year at either Oklahoma or Tulsa University. She came from Illinois, has been in Tulsa High four years, and swimming is her hobby. Helen has a voice more enchanting than a mocking bird's.
Bitter Truth: She had rather take a high dive than go to a show.

OPAL GUTHRIE
Opal likes to study the psychology of the human mind. Perhaps she intends to use it later. Her jolly, carefree nature and pleasant smile have won her many friends. "Still water runs deep"--watch Opal.
Bitter Truth: She came from Ponca City--we don't blame her.

ARCHIE HACKETT
Archie has certainly improved his sophistication since those freshman days when he insisted that he wanted to go to Norman in "gym." He has specialized in a commercial course and now intends to become an expert bookkeeper and accountant. We hope he'll ornament the office as he does the corridor.
Bitter Truth: He has an "outward" nature like the frigid zone.

MILDRED HALEY
Life Saver.
If Mildred had only been a member of the previous generation, she would have been an ardent advocate of woman suffrage. She is so independent she could make a living on a desert island, but she is such a good swimmer, we suspect she would not stay there long.
Bitter Truth: She is on the marker for a position as Yellow Cab driver.

ALLEN HALL
Allen has a big disposition, a big heart, and most prominent of all, a big voice, but a midget body [precious packages come in small bundles]. Tennis is one of his favorite sports. He can hold his audience spell-bound with his soap-box orations.
Bitter Truth: He is almost old enough to use his daddy's razor.

HELEN EUNICE HALL
Helen is that black-haired new-comer who has proved such a conscientious worker. She can make a needle fly and a frying pan shiver. We have heard she is quite a splasher too.
Bitter Truth: She is rumored to be enticing the office to set the school clocks back.

LAURA HAGGARD
Girl Reserves, Athletic Assn., Girls Glee.
Bubbling over with life and good times all of her days in school. Laura is a tiny, blue eyed, brown haired girl, whose voice has been responsible for her being on T. H. S. map.
Bitter Truth: Topic of conversation with Laura --boys and more boys.

CHARLES HALM
School Life, Tom Tom. This genius is too modest to bloom forth in all his glory. But despite his modesty, his fame is abroad. One of his teachers was heard to say that his excellent handwriting make grading his papers a pleasure. He is a business man of no mean ability evern if he is a famous blusher.
Bitter Truth: There ain't none; it's all mighty sweet.

FRANK E. HANGS
T-Club, National Honor Soc., Hi-Y, Debate.
Hard work and dependability are Frank's chief attributes. He is always full of fight and has a scientific turn of mind, and will go to Boston Technical School or West Point. Frank's brown eyes, jovial face, and bowtie all bespeak his good mixing qualities. Church work is his hobby.
Bitter Truth: Frank's war cry is "the proof's in the puddin'."

GEORGE HARPER
George is a radio fan and certainly knows how to do some fast tuning in. He also knows how to give a perfect vocal imitation of a radio on a night when there's static in the air, behaving exactly as it should not behave. George is built like a hickory sapling and has the voice of a prima donna.
Bitter Truth: George likes "most anything."

ROBERT HARRIS
Bob comes from Casper, Wyoming where "A Man's a Man." He sings "Out Where the West Begins" with gusto equaling a steam "pop-off." Machines are his ruling passion and to get his hands nice and greasy is dissipation. Psychology and Public Speaking ought to make him an interesting public speaker.
Bitter Truth: He hasn't the nerve to use henna.

VIRGINIA HARRIS
School Life, Writers' Club.
Her nose for news keeps her hanging pretty close to Akdar theatre so that she can warm up to all the stage celebrities who haunt the dressingrooms. She's a tusty on the school paper and sighs for more pages to edit. A cute little piece with a straight golden bob.
Bitter Truth: In the spellin' school, she's a knock-out--down the first one!

MARY VIVIAN HARRISON
The object of Lorin's affections. Vivian is taking a commercial course. Why? Why not? She doesn't disclose the reason. She seldom talks, but the scope of the questions she can ask causes even teachers to quail. Vivian likes music and cooking but her special weakness is for red hats.
Bitter Truth: It wouldn't do for her to teach gym.

JACK DONALD HARTMAN
Athletics Association, Football, Basketball.
Jack, our military man, likes to roam in open places and greet the smiles of new faces. Jack attended Missouri Military Academy and Kemper Military Academy during his sophomore and Junior years. He made a letter [A] in American History and blushes when the incident is mentioned.
Bitter Truth: Jack's a man of a few words, but he means all he says.

MARTHA HATCHER
T-Club, T-Walkers.
Martha holds the distinction of being the only senior girl having an athletic T. During her three and a half years at T. H. S., she has participated in all girls interclass athletics and has been a member of several teams. Martha avers she detests studious people.
Bitter Truth: The sidewalks around her house are all cracked--no wonder, she roller skates.

ARGO HAWKINS
He owns a laurel wreath for being so tall. Because of his studious nature and love of reading, he reminds one of Abe Lincoln. His reading is generally scientific and particularly directed toward radio. As for basketball, he can just reach up and tip 'em in.
Bitter Truth: Eventually he'll be bald--from sleeping in short beds.

CHESTER HAWKINS
Chester is a life saver, having won his emblem under Mr. Endres in summer school. In the palmy sweat-evoking days of last summer he was also an aspiring orator. Chester took a trip to Dallas last summer, and is still brim-full of inspiration gathered from the Texas Longhorns.
Bitter Truth: He works in his father's furniture store so he can have a reduction when he "sets up his own."

DOROTHY HAWKINS
Honor Society, Senate, Girl Reserves, Dramatics, Tom Tom.
The perfect lady. Kind and considerate to dumb animals--the male species of the high school genus--but barely tolerating them. She laughs, loves, lifts, and above all works. She is a versatile actor, can imitate a clodhopper or a broken-hearted war mother with equal understanding.
Bitter Truth: She's one blond who is satisfied with her hair.

MARGARET HAYDEN
Girl Reserves.
Casual acquaintances suspect Margaret of lacking the usual feminine gift of gab, but her fiiends know that is the gaff. The only times she dislikes talking are oral composition days. She declares that she condemns study, but her grade-card seems to reach the top.
Bitter Truth: She fears locker robbers, so she carries the contents with her.

ELIZABETH HENDRIX
Some folks seem to speed through life on whirring wings. Elizabeth takes only three years to graduate. She must work like a Trojan to keep all those notes in two history courses.
Bitter Truth She may act like a lady, but she likes to ride on shoot-to-shoots.

GORDON HENKE
Gordon is a good dancer, has gone to a military academy, and is now preparing for West Point. He plays a fiddle and drives a swell car. English and "math" have been his specialties and he has tried his hand at debating. His dreams for the future center upon a brilliant military career.
Bitter Truth: Gordon has been to the Louvre.

LORIN HERBOLD
T-Club, Honor Society, Orchestra, Dramatics.
He is an accomplished violinist, concert master in the orchestra and a consistent hiker in the band. In dramatics he deserves to be called Johnny-jump-up. He holds records both as champion master giggler and Sunday School attendant.
Bitter Truth: He will never lack publicity.

ESTHER HERSHKOWITZ
Girl Reserves, Life Saving.
Esther is one of our four-year girls who has brown eyes, curly hair and bangs that twist over her forehead. Furthermore, she chews gum and is the best talker in school. Dancing and dramatics are her specialties, and she has chosen the stage as her profession.
Bitter Truth: Her favorite expression is "now don't do that."

WILNA HESTER
Girl Reserve.
In springtime or in fall, when the out-doors seems to call. There's nothing Wilna likes better than some good ole hikes. "Oh, That We Two Were Maying," seems fair to develop into "O Promise Me" when "The Good Old Summertime" rolls around.
Bitter Truth: She likes Ford roadsters for there's only room for two.

LA VOY HIGGINBOTHAM
Booster Club, Girl Scouts, Girl Reserves.
The brunette, ah! She's LaVoy Higginbotham, a lady of grace and serenity from Gotham. She can cook, she can sew, she can dance, she can mow. And boys those eyes they entrance 'em. The A's she made, and a smile she weighed. Till at last she gained success, gee! In a way you can't guess, whee!
Bitter Truth: She chews Beechnut, and likes asparagus tips mixed with not dogs.

JOHN HILDT
"Sure and begorra, my hair is red, and I'm proud of the fact." It is none other than "Fiery" Hildt telling the world about his convictions. John played a line position on the championship senior football team. John has been the feature fun-maker of the class.
Bitter Truth: "Fickle Wimmin" phase him not.

ESTHERANN HILFORD
T-Walkers, Girl Reserve.
Estherann usually has something new and humorous to "spring." In fact she's a continual surprise. She swims, dances, plays a piano, and generally enjoys school, but hates geometry like a small boy hates to wash behind his ears. Estherann can manipulate an organ or an easel with dexterity.
Bitter Truth: She takes off her shoes whenever she feels like it.

MINNETTA BREWSTER HILLS
Booster Club, T-Club, T-Walkers, G. R.
Minnetta is a "Georgia Cracker" and "darn proud of it." She has winking blue eyes, cute bangs, and a versatile tongue. Dancing, bicycle riding, hiking and swimming are her chief hobbies. Her personality has boosted her to the presidency of her home room and the title of "a rose among thorns."
Bitter Truth: Her sun rises and sets in Kendall but his sun rises and sets among the hills--the Brewster Hills.

BERNICE HODGE
T-Club, Orchestra.
The sweet strains of the violin float out into the softness of a warm spring night. They are directed by the talented bow in the hand of Bernice of the black locks. She swims, rides [an automobile] and dances. That diversity of exercise ought to make up a daily dozen.
Bitter Truth: She's rouged an ruddy.

KATHERYN ARVILLA HOGUE
Senate, T. N. T., T-Club, Basketball, School Life.
Church work is both Arvilla's hobby and profession. She is a leader in Endeavor and young people's work. She is a prominent journalist having been business manager of School Life and managing editor of a church paper. Some of her hobbies are "raising cain" and "teasing teachers."
Bitter Truth: She is fond of losing fountain pens.

RALPH HOUGH
When Ralph is not playing tennis, he is examining strata or memorizing large parts of Webster's unabridged for geology. His motto is "Do or die," and despite his quiet and reserved exterior he is friendly and energetic.
Bitter Truth: He wears red flannel underwear, we heard.

ALICE HOKE
Dallas called her last year, but her friends in Oil City were such magnets she didn't stay long. She is vitally interested in Foods and Clothing--who isn't, apparently. She never says very much in the class room, but what escapes her is the "hot stuff" when it comes to sense.
Bitter Truth: She doesn't go broke on coke and smokes.

DOROTHEA HOLMES
She's a naive, easy-talking, spry little miss. A classical education in the use of the eyes has been given her from some source. A slight Bostonian accent could counteract the sparkle in her eye, but fails. She has to carry a fly swatter to keep the jellies at a distance.
Bitter Truth: Milton said of her: "When she was made, the mold was broken."

EVELYN HOOD
Glee Club, T-Club, Booster Club, Girl Reserves.
Dear little "Buttercup" is wee but flighty. Sweetly she warbles her directions to her melodious subjects. She is exceedingly graceful at performing Spanish dances--a la piano. In fact anything hinting of that romantic country thrills her. She was so entranced by the language that she took four years of it.
Bitter Truth: She dined on mush and milk for weeks before "pinafore."

EVELYN HORNBECK
Evelyn is small but her giggle isn't. She finishes her high school career in three and a half years and she has typed 3,161 ½ letters, balanced 49 ½ books, and has sewed 30,000 stitches on a sewing machine, and in all has climbed 40, 885 steps while here.
Bitter Truth: She doesn't like her name; she'll probably change it.

CHAUNCEY HORNECKER
To look at his name you would think he was a big man--but it doesn't mean anything. Chauncey was raised on Eagle Brand, but he has been persuaded to change his diet to corn beef and Cabbage. He has also been advised to eat sour Kraut.
Bitter Truth: He once wore long pants.

ANNA HOUGH
Anna's schedule reads "art, art, art!" She speaks Spanish so readily that one would take her for a senorita if she didn't have freckles. Neither is she a gypsy, although she is connected by relation to the "Covered Wagon."
Bitter Truth: She's just like Mr. Irizarry--she hates to have her name mispronounced.

RICHARD C. ROY
Stagecraft, Senate, Hi-Y. Prior to this year "Dick" attended school at Senn High School in Chicago. He's handy man any place, but home. Furnished with necessary rope, nails, wire, scenery, a few switches and electric lights, and some chewing gum, Richard can stage any play in the latest approved Stage Craft Club manner.
Bitter Truth: His body and soul may be here but his heart is rumored to be in Chicago.

FRANCES HUDLIN
Girl Reserves, T Walkers. According to indoor and basketball fans, Frances is a player as skilled as the best. She has also been a member of the girls' volleyball and track teams. She seldom needs to talk--her giggle is all-expressive and is called into service at least once every five minutes.
Bitter Truth: She has "curly dimples."

HELEN HUDSON
Girl Reserves.
Listen my children and you shall hear a tale that's oh, so dreadfully queer. Helen's a three-headed fish in one. She belongs to the two kinds of species of sharks called "Spanish," "History," and "Life Saving." Serenely she floats along atop Tulsa High, and incidently reaches out to pluck the flowers called pleasure along the shore.
Bitter Truth: She has a memory seventeen miles long--by actual count.

VIRGINIA HUGHES
Virginia is a blonde. She is reserved. She talks little. And yet, Virginia's alluring eyes are enough to take even Rudolph Valentino for a tumble. But honestly, now, Virginia is quite business-like at heart and intends to go to Stephens College next year.
Bitter Truth: She polishes her nose so much that others use it as a mirror.

ROBERT HULL
The Ford, the drag, and the gang keep Bob pretty busy, but he manages to keep his brain free from care. He splashes a little in water color and takes a fling at tennis, but is most successful at taking it easy. The blase manner wins the fair hearts.
Bitter Truth: He's and artist at taking it easy.

FRANCES HUNT
Honor Society, Girl Reserve, Tom Tom.
Frances wishes to give advice to all who are contemplating cutting bangs. She speaks from experience, so take heed girls, don''t do it. Some folks think she never comes from behind her goggles but she does and even surprises them with her wit.
Bitter Truth: She drives Henry's latest limousine.

ED HUTCHINGS
Glee Club.
Ed keeps a memory book of airy fancy in which are written the varied conquests of a cavalier heart. He sings in the Glee Club and is fond of emitting enticing trills from his vocal announcers.
Bitter Truth: Ed never does today what can't be done till tomorrow.

GREGORY HUTCHISON
Hi-Y, T-Club, Tom Tom
They don't come much smaller than Gregory, nor a bit more energetic and capable. This little man has done as much work during his four eventful years as six average six-footers. An excellent student, one of Mr. Ryan's violinists, and an important cog of the Tom Tom machine. He intends to conquer Yale next.
Bitter Truth: The long trouser industry suffers because of his size.

MARGARET INSULL
Senate, National Honor Society, Girl Reserves, School Life.
Margaret longs to be a prima donna and says that all she lacks is the voice. Audiences that have heard her dramatic reading, however, think she should be satisfied with one talent. Activities and solids keep Margaret very busy, but not so busy that she can't make a new friend now and then.
Bitter Truth: She gets a thrill out of writing for print.

IRVAN, MARJORIE
Them coal black orbs--one look at them would make any good man leave home after dinner. Marjorie is a late adoption to Tulsa high this year, and is just a wee bit shy, like a modest violet.
Bitter Truth: Though the "late" Miss Irvan may be somewhat shy, we'll say she's a live baby.

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