Tulsa Central High School Graduating Class of 1925

Tulsa Central High School
Graduating Class of 1925

14 Students from Page 30 of the Tom Tom Year Book for Tulsa Central High School, Graduating Class of 1925. Surnames on this page:  Higginbotham, Lassiter, Wainwright, Gilger, Bounds, Dowell, Obermiller, Barnes, Bailey, Abercrombie, Manes, Frank, Wheat, McCabe

lavoyhigginbotham.jpg (17986 bytes) LAVOY 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 hot dogs.
leotalassiter.jpg (17039 bytes) LEOTA LASSITER
T. N. T.
It's an extraordinary event when Leota is seen without Bernice and Ruth; they rival the three musketeers. Leota is another would-be teacher. She's a real booster, for she holds one of the best records in school for never missing a play or game.
Bitter Truth: She makes her own hats.
elmowainwright.jpg (17146 bytes) 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."
helengilger.jpg (21227 bytes) HELEN GILGER
This young invalid is languishing in the thralls of that common disease known as non-studitis. In spite of the infirmity, she 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.
ednabounds.jpg (18773 bytes) EDNA BOUNDS
A demure little damsel with a heart-shaped face and soulful eyes. Can it be that she wears her heart on her sleeve--no, no, we mean on her face? Edna can't be very decisive--she thought she wanted to finish Tulsa High last year, and we find last year's book graced by her visage. However We're glad we still have her.
Bitter Truth: She let sister Frances finish one heat ahead of her.
homerdowell.jpg (17496 bytes) HOMER DOWELL
Athletic Association.
A good-looking carefree lady's man. Homer isn't bashful, not at all. He manages the local telegraph office. If the women don't ruin him, he hopes to be president of Western Union some day.
Bitter Truth: He waterwaves his hair.
graceobermiller.jpg (18862 bytes) GRACE OBERMILLER
Senate, T. N. T., Girl Reserves.
Grace is a girl who enjoys working for others. She enjoys church work, especially the parties. Just give her a moonlight night, an old-fashioned hay wagon filled with hay, and a group of enthusiastic young people, and you have made a heaven on earth for Grace.
Bitter Truth
: If her feet could travel as fast as her mind she would be the fastest girl in school.
eleanorbarnes.jpg (14366 bytes) ELEANOR BARNES
One of Miss Bowman's "sheltered few." Miss "all-wise" can speak or write on any subject that happens along--witness her prize-winning essay in the Stewart Essay contest. She's a big tease and possesses that feminine necessity--"curiosity" in large and numerous lumps. Her teachers usually spell her name with an "A" on her report cards.
Bitter Truth: She longs to be a Spanish Vamp.
danielbailey.jpg (14092 bytes) DANIEL BAILEY
T-Club, National Honor Society, Vice-President Freshman Class.
This youthful-looking gentleman is no other than Daniel Bailey, another one of our famous class. He is a politician, having been elected "Frosh" vice-President. He is one student who makes the honor roll every time it crawls around, and he is also an athlete.
Bitter Truth: He is small, but so is a stick of dynamite. Be careful girls.
claribelabercrombie.jpg (15831 bytes) CLARIBEL ABERCROMBIE
National Honor Society.
Claribel is one of the youngest seniors in Tulsa High, and also has one of the highest scholastic records. She has the unique distinction of being selected to pose as the emblem of Peace on our 1924 Peace Float. Briefly, Claribel is a girl who "wears" and will bear close acquaintance.
Bitter Truth: Claribel's heart is in Florida--at Lakeland!
annamanes.jpg (17039 bytes) ANNA MANES
Anna persists in doing what she likes. It is said that she was caught reading a love story magazine in English class and the teacher asked her to put it in the waste basket. As soon as the teacher left the room, Anna got the magazine. Anna is a regular dance fiend, she just can't resist them.
Bitter Truth: She has a way with the men that can't be beaten.
ruthfrank.jpg (16042 bytes) RUTH FRANK
T-Club, Senate.
Ruth is a born executive and manager. She never goes into anything before she has the outcome planned, and she sure "makes 'um step lively." She releases her excess energy by hiking and her excess sweetness and time on Pray[ing].
Bitter Truth: She reminds one of "Abie's Irish Rose".
donaldwheat.jpg (14195 bytes) 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.
mildredmccabe.jpg (14446 bytes) MILDRED MCCABE
Mildred is very quiet and dignified but "for a that and all that" she's mighty sweet and has a good time, especially at pie suppers. Eh, Mildred? There is only one thing that ever ruffed the perfect serenity of her being and we're glad that was something that only happens once in a lifetime--it's that much dreaded History VI theme.
Bitter Truth: She likes moons; not the kind with four wheel brakes but the kind that shines at night.