JESSIE TAULBEE
T. N. T.
Jessie always sits in the back row [her name begins with T] and makes lengthy recitations when
everyone else is stumped. When she asks a favor, her brown eyes are so appealing that no
wonder she is seldom refused. If her pupils next year learn their lessons as well as Jessie does
now, she will have an easy life.
Bitter Truth: Giggling is contrary to her rules--sometimes.
JOHN TAYLOR
Some more red hair appears on the scene. John says he is going to be an oil man and will pursue
his profession a few years before going to college. He has specialized in mechanical drawing,
but it would take a genius to draw all his freckles. Basket-ball is his hobby.
Bitter Truth: He parts his hair like a veteran.
MEXA TAYLOR
Booster Club, T-Club, Tom Tom, Girl Reserves.
"Our little dream girl," we call her. She dances, sings divinely, spreads a smooth line of putty,
yet manages to study and knock down good grades too. Then, oh, so may countless
accomplishments add to the charm of this young lady. We wish her luck with her tea room.
Bitter Truth: Oh, those hiking trousers!
ROY TEEL [First name also spelled Ray]
Woe unto the one who attempts to match this wrestler. His specialties are the toe-hold and
head-lock and his classmates usually furnish the victim's list. Roy is a good-natured friend and
the original "Kutup Kid."
Bitter Truth: He can't tolerate eels on the mat!
MARTHA THOMAS
School Life, Athletic Assn.
Martha is another blue-eyed girl with red cheeks. This is her last year in school-then the wide
open business world for Martha. Hiking and kodaking are her hobbies, and regular attendance at
all school activities a fixed rule of her life.
Bitter Truth: Martha is deceptive in that she pretends to be uninteresting.
BILLY THOMPSON
Bashful Bill with the ladies, and "Big Bad Bill" with the under-class masculine gender who
strive to take away the interclass football and basketball laurels. Bill likes to frolic and it's the
unrestricted fellow like him who puts the wow in Pow Wow.
Bitter Truth: The girls say he's just too darling in his tuxedo.
MARGARET THOMPSON
She has gotten right into step with us although she is a newly acquired recruit from Muskogee.
Judging from this newly enlisted soldier, Muskogee surely turns out blue-ribbon babies. She has
an unconquerable desire to go back to nature for just one day--Muskogee's hobo-day.
Bitter Truth: She can't forget the old home town.
Mary Thompson
Mary, Mary, quite contrary.
She's peppy and full of surprise; You think she's this and you think she's that, Get next to her
friend and be wise. Mary thinks she would be sitting pretty if her swimming stroke could pull
her through chemistry.
Bitter Truth: She's really not responsible for all those calls to the office. There's another Mary
Thompson.
NORINE THOMPSON
Girl Reserves.
Norine says little but means much. She never leaves thing undone. However, she has looked
many times at an oral or a public speaking assignment before she could make up her mind to get
it. She enjoys hiking and swimming during her playful hours.
Bitter Truth: Norine's shyness is just skin deep.
THEODORE THOMPSON [Ted]
T-Club, Booster Club
Ted's accomplishments are numerous; his inimitable dramatic interpretations have made
play-going at our high school a delight. Besides being an "Honest Abe," and an irate
play-wright, he managed the backfield on our championship football team with skill. Ted makes
and keeps friends.
Bitter Truth: Margaret Kuhns!
RUTH THORNTON
Black hair and brown eyes--the Goddess of Fortune was benevolent indeed. Quiet as the woods
in June, but everyone says she's a fine girl. Ruth's philosophy of life decides that school is a
necessary evil, but one should have a good time while one may, because a week hence, one
might get the mumps.
Bitter Truth: She wonders who ever taught her teachers to make the letter B.
BEULAH TILLACK
T.N.T.
"Curiosity once killed a cat" but it will never injure Beulah. She has never been heard to argue
either. In fact, she is so quiet we never can quite comprehend her. The dimple in her chin
betrays the devil within, but so far no one has ever seen it.
Bitter Truth: She still wears hairnets.
MIRIAM TURK
Wavy raven hair and dark eyes are Miriam's charms. She dances, swims, and particularly enjoys
horseback riding. Contrary to general rule Miriam can drive her Jordan without a burning desire
to "step on it." Spanish seems to be her favorite study.
Bitter Truth: Miriam doesn't want to die young--she plays safe with chemistry.
CHARLES TURLEY
Charles hails from Broken Arrow where he worked on the farm which he emphatically states he
doesn't like. He has been with us only one year, has been specializing in mathematics, and
intends to go to college and take an engineering course. Charles is something of an orator and
Algebra is his hobby.
Bitter Truth: He drys dishes in the cafeteria with an eye to future employment, perhaps
compulsory.
LOUISE VANDERFORD
Louise is completely enchanted by Foods. Foods are her hobby and to be a Foods teacher her
ambition. Whenever she can tear herself away from the company of Miss Hamm, she hikes or
plays baseball. As far as Louise is concerned, six weeks tests are an unnecessary nuisance.
Bitter Truth: If it were only Vanderbilt--but it's Vanderford.
FRED VAN SCHAIK
In the spring of '22 the T. H. S. woodturning department won first place at Norman. Fred's nut
bowl was an artistic addition to the collection of lathe worked articles. Fred's hobby is the thing
he can do best out in the great open spaces. As an angler, camp cook, or a hunter for big game,
he is to be sought by wood companions.
Bitter Truth: He'll make some girl a good wife.
NELLIE VAN ZANT
Nellie has never gotten away with anything, even if she does work in the bank. She is taking a
strictly commercial course, and although dimples and shorthand are a paradoxical mixture, she'll
be a success because of her efficiency and dependability.
Bitter Truth: She'll put the "buzz" in business.
MARIAN VENSEL
She drives a Jordan, [no, not Donald Jordan.] Marian is a good-hearted individual, always
willing to wrap the goal posts before a football game, or sell "hot dogs" for the booster club. She
is a studious girl, because even at "Watts," she looks up history notes, between cokes.
Bitter Truth: Give her a June nite the moon lite and--? [do you know what I mean.]?
JONTIE VENUS
Debate, Girl Reserves.
Chemistry, writing, debating--ye gods, she's a lady of many and diversified accomplishments.
She reminds you of a wren when she talks,
LEON VOORHEIS / VORHEIS
Leon plays one of those Convulsive horns; we mean a French horn. We can't understand how he
does it without feeling like a futuristic impression of the North Wind. Leon is a bizzy man; we
wonder if it's all music studies, or a woman. Don't ask him. The pyramids will tell you sooner.
Bitter Truth: If silence is golden, he is John D. Rockefeller's son four times.
ELMO WAINWRIGHT
"Preparedness" is his slogan. His promptness to assembly or any other school engagements
should be noted by the pink-slip hounds that infest detention rooms. He is new this year, and
quiet by nature, but when daring ones break down his perfect reserve, they are rewarded by
finding a charming conversationalist.
Bitter Truth: Can he be as pious as his namesake "St. Elmo."
TINY WAIT
She's tiny but just wait, she's other things besides. They say small fish swim best; the same
applies to Tiny. She plays the role of "little girl" with gusto, and her sneaking ambition is to be
a great actress some day. Tiny hears "the call of the wild"and she "jest nacherly" turns to sports
like a duke does to heiresses.
Bitter Truth: Pansies don't talk, but Tiny does.
RUBY WALDREP
This "Tulsa Maid" intends to occupy a place in the business world as a private secretary, but the
saints preserve her from all broken typewriters. She'd hike ten miles for a piece of chocolate candy.
Bitter Truth: Alarm clocks don't even register with her.
MAX WALLACE
"Balloons and Megaphones, don't fail to get them before the game," is Max's favorite line. Mac,
being Pres. Of Booster Club is an all around man. He mixes athletics, studies, and society in
such a way as to again the admiration of all his classmen.
Bitter Truth: He blushes before a large audience, girls not included.
HARRY WALTERS
The girls fall fast and furious for his line of indifference. It's a shame he doesn't appreciate it.
Those hair, eyes and lips were not meant for a woman-hater. The goddess of athletics has won
his heart and he devotes all his spare time to her.
Bitter Truth: He wants what he wants, when he wants it.
JACK WARNOCK
Jack has been with us but a short time, but he has managed to get acquainted in our village.
Before coming to Tulsa High he attended high school in Hutchinson, Kansas. He takes social
problems, we know he'd be a lion on etiquette.
Bitter Truth: Even the office staff know him.
CLARENCE WARREN
Clancy's studied here a year. "Ultra-balloon pants and two inch cuff." "Warren" weaves some
line--at least it seems that way to one girl. Punch, vim, and zest are his accomplishments and
they stick always. Clancy was runner up in the "Shiek" contest, and would have won but he lost
by a cuff length.
Bitter Truth: Alice Mae Kistler.
OTHEL WAYNE
"Fore!" shouts Othel, and chalks up another goal for her team. She is active in basketball, track,
life-saving, and other forms of athletics and has made a record that any girl might envy. Othel is
a true sportswoman, and a very chummy girl.
Bitter Truth: Her mother loved "Othello," so she named her Othel.
ANSELM WEISS [Also spelled WISE]
Napoleon's prototype is Anselm. Like Napoleon Anselm is conserving his energies for future
victories. Like Napoleon he is far-seeing as is evidenced by the distant quality of his gaze as he
sits in class sublimely unconscious of the more sordid worldly affairs. Like Napoleon, Anselm
is destined for a fall for and by women.
Bitter Truth: Anselm wouldn't object to history if he could revolutionize the first three letters.
PAUL WASHINGTON
Booster Club, T-Club, Indian Club.
Our wrestler! He has fancy and plain varieties of holds up his abbreviated sleeves. He won the
brass baked potatoes when he managed this class through the Pow Wow and Junior Play. This
lad has a lot of poise and the proper amount of nerve. His word is law in our sure-enough Indian
tribe.
Bitter Truth: On his trip last summer, he saw Washington on the Potomac as well as in the
Mirror.
ROBERT WEITZ
Hi-Y.
A girl is a "rag, a bone, and a hank of messy hair," to this confirmed young bachelor. He likes to
tease the girls but when it come to dates, he's missing. Typewriters were made for Robert to
romp all over. He's a nimble kitten on the keys.
Bitter Truth: It takes a good man to persevere more willingly than he.
NETTIE WELCHER
Nettie is the little girl with the big dimples. She is one whom words never fail. A veritable
chatter-box, so they say. One may see her bobbing along beside her friend Esther Hershkovitz,
or--say Harry Berry. Her eyes sparkling, her cheeks glowing and her tongue going.
Bitter Truth: She rides a horse--Prince of Wales fashion.
FRANCES WELLMAN
A big cathedral with last rays of the setting sun pouring through stained-glass windows--a deep
toned organ pealing forth, a little golden-haired creature perched high on the organ bench--that's
what we see ahead for our Frances. She might be a great singer, and then again she might be a
champion swimming beauty or an around-the-world hiker.
Bitter Truth: She never lost any chords from her organ.
NEAL WESTALL
Neal, though small, is a brilliant performer in football. He puts a lot of time and energy in his
work and as a result has achieved an envious position in the limelight of seniordom. He intends
to go to M. U. next year to study engineering.
Bitter Truth: He attributes his good looks to Packer's Tar Soap.
DONALD WHEAT
"Alas, can I survive this overbearing, "tunefully wails Don, but he got the heroine, and lived to
graduate after all. ['member Pinafore]? He is a boy who can appreciate the finest in music and
art, and yet be able to make the solemn-est--senior laugh at his witty puns.
Bitter Truth: He ought to be successful in the grain business.
PEARL WHITE
It is written that a red-headed woman will get a man, Pearl will probably rescue hers from the
angry waves. She is as noisy as a clam in the class room, but Ya oughta get her out; she can talk
on anything providing it is within her range of interest.
Bitter Truth: She uses pepsodent on her pearl whites.
NEIL WICK
Neil is one of the corpulent fellows in our midst, and like most of his type, he seems to be in no
way troubled about his size. In fact, he utilizes it in wrestling. Neil's fingers afford him much
pleasure but not in the usual way. They work for him in art, helping him to serve his school.
Bitter Truth: When Neil goes to church he looks at something more brilliantly-colored than the
preacher.
CHARLES WIEMAN
Boys' Glee.
Whenever Charles sings in Glee, recites in class or strolls down the hall, his blond beauty
captures a feminine heart or two. He is one of the "indifferent" kind so hard to manage as all the
girls know. As chairman of the Senior Ring and Pin committee, he has finished a hard job successfully.
Bitter Truth: He craves work, the harder the better.
MAX WILLCOCKSON
Tom Tom
He's very closely connected with tardiness, detentions, and pink slips. He, however, handles all
such delicate matters with unusual tact. The editorial table is calling, calling to him, so he is
getting in training by watching a Sundayschool paper thrive under his scrubbily hand.
Bitter Truth: His hobby is shadowing class sponsors.
CAROLINE WILLIAMS
School Life, Girl Reserves, Athletic Assn.
Caroline, the middle of the famous Williams trio, the one with the wicked brown eyes. She is a
versatile miss who can teach a Sunday School class or guard a berth on the varsity basketball
team with equal ease and precision.
Bitter Truth: The postman visits her daily?
THELMA WILLIAMS
"Curly Locks" is a delightful combination of mischief and innocence. She's always gay and right
on the spot when a good time presents itself. In her freshman days, Thelma was quite an athlete
and even now in the old age of high school days, she succumbs to the lure of tennis. At present
her most common form of exercise is walking B corridor.
Bitter Truth: When she weeps, the colors run.
IRIS WILSON
Whenever a holiday happens to come along, Iris just aches for a hike, even though the snow
covers the ground. She and a frying pan are inseparable comrades, Iris is always on the job,
ready for work and if something goes wrong she says "Oh, gee!" and begins all over again. To
her, the most attractive features of both school and hikes is lunch.
Bitter Truth: She hates deceitful men.
LOTTIE RAE WINDER [She is listed twice]
The punster on the staff looked at Lottie's name and suggested "lotta wind, maybe hot air," but
this is one girl that won't fit. She studied journalism because she wanted to know how they did it
behind the scenes in a newspaper office. She has since decided that the grimy messy life of a
newspaper cub is the life for her.
Bitter Truth: She's too cheerful to write horrible sob stories.
LOTTIE RAE WINDER [She is listed twice]
Lottie Rae seems to be of a luckier nature than any of the rest of us poor mortals, as shown by
her success of getting her smiling countenance reproduced upon these pages. Her shoulder
seems to make a very good resting place for weary, sleepy English students.
Bitter Truth: We like the encore--.
FORREST WINSTON
Forrest's high school career might be divided into three main parts: the first, when he wandered
into high school, second when he wandered through high school; and third, when he wandered
out of high school. This may be accounted for by the fact that Forrest has a bad case of radio
complex, having been bitten severely by the bug, genus radio.
Bitter Truth: He wears number twelves.
FERD WISE
Swimming, Boys' Glee, Athletic Association.
At the age of four he made a name for himself on the wall paper; at five, he arranged apples in
columns; at six, he knocked the teeth out of the family cat and printed a news paper. Since then
Ferd has made a name for himself in the matrix world.
Bitter Truth: "Some one loves a fat man."
MAXINE WITT
National Honor Society, G. R., Tom Tom.
Maxine's collection of "A's" would be sufficient for three or four ordinary students, but she is
still human. She is never more at home than when giving a talk before assembly, homeroom, or
English class.
Bitter Truth: Root beer is the one power that can move her to poetry.
MARGUERITE WOOD
A dainty blue-eyed Miss who needs no instruction on how to dress well five school days a week.
Marguerite would lose her freckles, but nobody will tell her what to do. She has the right
system--school every other day should be enough for anyone.
Bitter Truth: She curls only one side of her hair at a time.
FRANKIE WOODSON
Frankie's heart is as big as her hat and every one who knows her realizes this attribute. Few girls
can surpass her on the basketball court. Frankie is also very fond of ukuleles but she isn't able to
make them talk as she would like.
Bitter Truth: Every word she has said can be found in the dictionary.
HAROLD WORLEY
Senate, Stage Craft.
Harold is our little stagecraft worker who represented the stagecraft club in the Senate this year.
When looking for Harold just look for good looks, cute clothes, originality, and cleverness all
bound up together, and you'll have him.
Bitter Truth: He can't keep his hair down.
DOROTHY FAY WRIGHT
Girl Reserves.
Her eyes seem to smile from beneath her lovely curls. With this center of interest she should
make the janes of Washington's time look like the last bud of summer. She can fry potatoes and
says she likes to do so.
Bitter Truth: She says opportunity for sleeping comes every morning--she is always tardy.
MARGARET YOUNG
Athletic Association, T. N. T., Basketball.
Margaret has two ambitions, to be dean of a girl's school [notice she is in the T. N. T. club], and
the other one is to reduce still more. Last year she let her hair grow, but we're glad she had
decided to keep it bobbed. The dimple in her chis is almost as large as a gold dollar.
Bitter Truth: She likes to feed the rats in the cooking class.
MARVIN ZOLLER
Marvin is an all-around man. In the first place he won a wrestling medal in his division in the
camp at Fort Sill last summer. In the second place he is a chemist of some note, in these parts at
least. And in the third place he drives a Ford whoopie. But not least of all is the fact that
"Mike" enhances his natural beauty by a fund of irrepressible Irish humor.
WINIFRED ZUMWALT
Girl Reserves.
Winifred reminds one of the swaying palms and whispering waves of a Florida beach. She has a
way of being in sympathetic accord with people even before she speaks. She is often seen at
high school activities in company with Helen Gunsten.
Bitter Truth: She wears a perpetual blush.
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