HELP PAGE - WEB SITE
OF KHS52
This guide to the web site of the Kingfisher High School Graduating Class of 1952 is intended for both first-time visitors and for anyone who wants a quick look at what is to be found there. This guide was updated in April 2003, and small changes on the site may have been made since then, but any major changes will be accompanied by changes here.
Kingfisher, Oklahoma is a fine town and community about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Oklahoma City. Click HERE for a map or HERE for information about Kingfisher.
CLICK ON ANY OF THE LANDSCAPES ON THE FRONT PAGE TO GET A SURPRISE. Try clicking on the first one, a view from the southeast, for "starters".
At the top of the front page is a welcome to the site and the scrolling text of the school song. A click on HELP gets the screen you are reading now. A click on MENU takes you down the page to the main list of choices.
The school song "Kingfisher High" plays on the Front Page, and the fight song plays on various other pages. Both are in MIDI format, arranged and performed in late 1998 by Dave Kosmyna, a student in the Music Department at the University of Toledo. To hear them, you need a sound card and a plug-in for your web browser that supports MIDI sound format. For information, check the MIDI INFO SITE prepared by Julian Davies, former webmaster of Epworth United Methodist Church.
The main part of the page begins with a table of nine items led by blue bullets. The pages seen by clicking these bullets are:
CLASSMATES, SENIOR PHOTOS, DOUGLASS SCHOOL, TEACHERS, FELLOWSHIP, MEMORIES, PHOTO TOUR, KINGFISHER, +CLASSES OF 52, GUESTBOOK, NEW THINGS, and SEARCH THE SITE.
CLASSMATES is a listing of all the classmates we have information on, name, spouse's name, years at KHS, telephone number, address, and e-mail. For convenience, one can click on the location in the alphabet nearest to the last name of the classmate before marriage. As on most of the pages on this site, there are easy clicks to get back to the front page. At the bottom of the screen, the names of our deceased classmates scroll in memoriam.
SENIOR PHOTOS: Scans of original photos of us as graduating seniors. Most are the photos that appear in the yearbook, but in some cases those poses were not available, so the ones available from the Chisholm Trail Museum were used. The yearbook pose of Patsy Jones was available, but I thought the one I used was just too pretty to pass up. The picture of Marilyn High is from Jim Burns' collection of wallet-size photos. Click on any photo to get a larger image.
Under each photo is the word MORE. Click on MORE to see ALL the poses from theMeacham Studio during the sitting for the senior photo. In a few cases, other senior photos have been included behind MORE, e.g. poses in band uniform, cap and gown, etc.
DOUGLASS SCHOOL 1952: Photos of the four graduates of Douglass High School in 1952. A group photo and individual photos. All of these are from the Chisholm Trail Museum.
OUR TEACHERS has photographs of all of our teachers. I was able to find negatives of originals in the Chisholm Trail Museum. At the top of the page are some special pictures of our sponsors, Mrs. Buswell and Mr. Harmon. Two clicks at the top of the page bring up the text of the eulogy to Mrs.Buswell read by Ted at our 40th Reunion and the text of "Please, Teacher, Walk a Piece with Me" by Mrs. Buswell. Ted Buswell loaned me a photo of all the teachers in Kingfisher High School, Junior High School, and Washington Grade School taken in (September?) 1945. There is a click to that photo.
FELLOWSHIP: Photos and reports of get-togethers between and among our classmates and others. There are photos from reunions and minireunions. Don't fail to look at the photos from the 50th Reunion. There are pages on the 40th Reunion and the 45th Reunion. There are photos from Commencement 1999 at KHS when Bill Gooden was inducted into the Hall of Fame and photos from the cookout at Bill Gooden's house in July 1999. There are photos from the "New Years Eve" party on 30 December 1999 at the Varsity Grille and many more. Just go there and see.
MEMORIES is huge, and it promises to get bigger. As of this writing there are 27 clicks there with information. (Click on the item, not on the butterfly.) There are also some clicks to oldies music sites, AND DON'T FAIL TO CHECK OUT THE SOUND CLIPS, e.g., "Ovaltine" in the box by FIRST GRADE.
FIRST GRADE: Photos of both Miss Burrus' and Miss Senn's first grade classes at Washington School in 1940. In May 2000 Ted Buswell loaned me his copy of the photo of Miss Burrus' class, and I was able to produce a much better image than we had before.
SECOND GRADE: A photo of Miss Brown's second grade class at Washington School in 1941. I would commit unspeakable acts to get a copy of a photo of Miss Estill's second grade class. I joined that class on the first school day in January 1942. {In 2005, Dorothy Burns Pray ('51), Jim Burns's sister, sent me a copy of this photo. It is now on the page with the photo of Miss Brown's 2nd-grade class.}
HEARTBREAK 1998: The Washington School building has been torn down.
SEVENTH GRADE: A photo of our seventh grade class.
EIGHTH GRADE: A photo of our eighth grade class. Ted Buswell loaned me his copy of this photo in May 2000, and I was able to produce a much better image than we had before.
CANDID CAMERA: Snapshots from our school days loaned to me by various people.
CLASS OF 1952: Scans of original photos of us as graduating seniors. Most are the photos that appear in the yearbook, but in some cases those poses were not available, so the ones available from the Chisholm Trail Museum were used. The yearbook pose of Patsy Jones was there, but the one I used was just too pretty to pass up. The photo of Marilyn High is from Jim Burns' collection of wallet-size photos. Click on any photo to get a larger image.
Under each photo is the word MORE. Click on MORE to see ALL the poses from the Meacham Studio during the sitting for the senior photo. In a few cases, other senior photos have been included behind MORE, e.g. poses in band uniform, cap and gown, etc.
ROYALTY: Scans from the yearbook and of original photos of royal classmates. Watch for clicks to other photos. There are photos from the homecoming day parade and from halftime at the homecoming game against Yukon - as well as others.
SENIOR TEA: Photos from Jean Kuntz Guth of the Senior Ladies Tea.
DOCUMENTS 1952: The names of the Reunion Committee Members, then an image of a Junior-Senior Prom card, an announcement of Commencement Exercises 1952, a Program of Baccalaureate, Senior Day, and Commencement 1952, names of Class Officers in our freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years with clicks to pictures, names of Class Royalty with clicks to pictures, the Class History, the Class Will, and the Class Prophesy, and articles from the Kingfisher Times in May, 1952.
SENIOR TRIP: Photos from Jean Kuntz Guth that she took on the Senior Trip to Craterville.
DRAMA: Links to pages on
dramatic productions.
Junior Play: The Junior Play
in 1951. Note instructions on the page.
Operetta: Two photos of the
operetta "The Belle of the West" with Marilyn High, Spring 1951.
Senior Play: "The Thursday
Murders". Note clicks to other photos and documents.
Junior Play, 1952 (Not our
class.): The Junior Play when we were seniors.
MUSIC: Clicks to pages about
musical groups:
The Hillbilly Trio when
we were in 7th grade.
The Hungry Five
The Band: Lots of photos. Check
them out.
Operetta: Two photos of the
operetta "The Belle of the West" with Marilyn High, Spring 1951.
Jazz Quartet
Singing Groups
No photo of the mixed quartet has been found. Got one? Photos of the chorus and other musical groups are sought.
ATHLETICS: Click on the following items on the Athletics page.
| The football team in 1951. Homecoming game in 1951. Five links; don't miss any! Program for the football game against Weatherford. Season schedule. Meeting of the Quarterback Club in November 1951. The girls basketball team (Sr year). Girls basketball starters. Boys basketball team (Sr year). Boys basketball starters. The football team in 1950. The boys basketball team (Jr year). The baseball team (Jr year). The track team (Jr year). Junior high football team in 1951. Junior high basketball team in 1951-52. Freshman basketball team in 1948-49. Junior high football team in 1947. Last game on the old field. |
GIRLS STATE Willa Jo and Mary Lou attend Girls State.
FFA: Photos of the FFA Chapter. One of Don Trindle with friends.
CHRISTMAS 1949: On 22 December 1949, Mrs. Buswell handed out pieces of yellow paper cut ca. 5.5 x 3.5 in. to the incipient members of the KHS Class of 1952 and asked each to write on "What Christmas Means to Me."
FLYING FARMER: Pictures of Hugh Zimmermann's 1931 Curtiss Pusher. This page grew out of a reminiscence by Eddie Koonce in the Class Newsletter.
ROY RECALLS: A letter from Roy McNaught to the Class Newsletter, with clicks to pictures and a few editorial comments.
VERN RECALLS: An e-mail that Vern Bernhardt sent me in which he remembered many of the stores and merchants in Kingfisher in the 1940's, plus some clicks and a few editorial comments.
FHA: To see a grin of complete contentment, look in the middle of these photos.
Two issues of The Hubba-Hubba Herald, 1947. Do I wish we had more of these? Do I wish we had world peace?
MEMORY LANE: An article from the "50 Year Ago" column in the Kingfisher Paper of 19 September 1999. Others will be added as they appear.
MOVIES: Movie ads from the Kingfisher Paper. Recommended: Dec 15, 1951.
There are a few more clicks on this page to oldies sites on the internet. Click on any of the images on the page.
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PHOTO TOUR: A collection of current photos of Kingfisher and environs. Most are from Vern Bernhardt, a few were taken by me, and a couple are from Eddie Koonce. They are changed from time to time.
KINGFISHER: A bunch of links to various sites related to Kingfisher. Check them out. Let me know about others.
+ CLASSES OF 52: Links to all the web pages of high school classes of 1952 that I can find. Please tell me of others. There are also a lot of capricious clicks on the images on this page. Among them you will find the Web Site of the Toledo Mud Hens and the rarest of rare photos of Bill Gooden.
GUESTBOOK You're invited to sign in.
NEW THINGS is a click to the page where latest developments on the KHS '52 site are announced. (Warning! Sometimes "latest" may be pretty old.)
SEARCH SITE moves to the Pico Search window where you can type in any string of text and search for its appearance on the KHS '52 site. For instance, search for someone's name such as "Archie Barnard" or for an item such as "prophesy".
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The next table has three cells, Photo of the Month, Trivia Quiz, and Mystery Man.
The next table shows the KHS Yellowjacket Logo and links to the WWW site of Kingfisher Public Schools. -- Click on the small image of Mrs. Buswell to see a full screen image of her. -- See a picture of the Swinging Bridge by clicking on the thumbnail of it.
Next, search the KHS '52 Site by key word or phrase with the PicoSearch Search Engine. Just key in a word or phrase, e.g."Bill Campbell", and click the Search button. Boolean searches work, and move the best choices to the top.
Read the Kingfisher Times and Free Press by clicking on the logo.
IN MEMORIAM A page devoted to those whom we have lost.
Click on the call for suggestions to send me an e-mail.
Links are given to the Chemistry and the Physics Departments at the University of Toledo, whose equipment was used extensively when this site was originally developed. None of that equipment is used now, but the acknowledgement remains in gratitude. Finally, there is a click to a page where I acknowledge the considerable help I have had with this site.
Enjoy your visit, sign the guestbook, and come back again any time.
