The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-02-06
0KMULGEE PROUD
OF new SCHOOL
Vocational High School
Complete at Cost of
$250,000.
IS RIGHT UP TO DATE
Progress of 20 Years Shows
Astonishing Results in
School Growth.
BY c. I. o'NEILL

oKNTrLGEE, Feb. 5.--The first
,xclus.yo and modernly equipped vo
,,tionaI high school In Oklahoma
nas opened here last Monday when
first classes were held in Okmul-
cce's new vocational high school
which las just been completed and
.,uippcd at "A cost ot S250,000. The
koilding IS three-story brick
s'ructurc and stands on the same
block and just west OF the high
sobool building, the two buildings
being exactly similar In size. type
and architecture. The first floor OF
the building is taken up with shops
,or the teaching of automobile me-
shanics, carpentry and electrical
work. Arrangements have beer
made so that small portable build
iocs ,can he moved in and out OF
the carpenter shop. so that students
can have practical work In house
building and interior finish work.
The auto mechanic shops are
equipped with all sorts Of machinery
used iu garage repair work, a stor-
ace battery room and tire repair
eouIpment In the electrical shop
is partially completed miniature
house which will be used In instruct
ing students in house wiring.
on the second floor OF the build
ing is the home economics. which Is
equipped with everything needed
for instruction in the various classes
In this department. Two rooms for
A medicinal clinic are also on the
second floor, and also a girls gym
nasiuU
The third floor has the science
class laboratories and class rooms
and the commercial department
which. among other things. is
equipped with a miniature bank
with three tellers' windows and a
vault There is a large lecture room
on the third floor.
Garden on the Roof.
A winding stairway leads from the
third floor TO the roof, on which is
located roof garden for instruc-
ton Of classes in Horticulture and
kindred subjects. Growing beds and
greenhouse equipment hive been
installed on the roof. A moving
picture machine and dark rJDm for
Photographic work are includnd in
the equipment of the building.
The best instructors obtainabia in
the various vocational lines have
been placed at the head OF the va =
rious departments in the new schotl
and a consistent effort Is being
made 10 carry out in actual prac-
tee things which have been and ar,
being taught in the pedagogical
schools Of the country in vocational
work.
Courses taught in the new voca-
tional school include vocational cleo
tricity wireless telegraphy, printing.
salesmanship, banking. commercial
law, bookkeeping, stenography,
Upewriting. nursing. interior dec
oration, millinery, arts and crafts,
Horticulture, oil analysis. expression,
music. automotive work. sheet
metal work, carpentry and physical
education,
Twenty Years Growth.
The history of Okmulgce schools
covers only 20 years, the first school
for white children having been es-
tablshed in Okmulgee in 1900, when
small frame building was equipped
and T.. Il. Riley was retained as
teacher for a period of six months.
The first high school work was done
here in 1903. and the first eight
months school term in Okmulgec
was 1904. In 1916 there were
1875 pupils and 60 teachers in Ok
Ttulgee schools.
Today there are 4.297 studerts
enrolled In the schools and 155
teachers on the payroll. There are
li0 class rooms, four auditoriums,
Awo gymnasiups, several shops and
Il separate permanent school build
irgs and two portable buildings.
Three ward schools and a new voca
uonal high school have been built
in the past Is months. and more
than a half million dollars has been
spent for new school buildings with.
IN the past three wears.