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GENERAL INFORMATION Booker Washington High School is located in Tulsa, the second largest city in Oklahoma, and the Oil Capital of the World. There are twenty-five thousand Negroes in Tulsa. Their children attend five schools: Booker Washington Elementary, Dunbar Elementary, South Haven Elementary, Carver Junior High, and Booker Washington Senior High. These five schools have a combined enrollment of 2,514, and a teaching staff of 80. Booker Washington High School is a member of the North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. No student is admitted to Booker Washington High School with less than four units or eight credits of high school work. Students who come from non-accredited school are required to take an entrance exam. The following courses are offered: American literature, English literature, composition ad rhetoric, English grammar, Latin, public school music, orchestra, band, chemistry, type-writing, shorthand, bookkeeping, art, American history, American democracy, physical education, sewing, cooking, laundry, hygiene. agriculture, electric wiring, mechanical drawing, woodwork, Negro history, debating, dramatics, public speaking. There are four distinct buildings; the Main building, the Home Economics building, the Manual Arts building, and the Gymnasium. In the basement of the Main building are a well-lighted library and a music room. The library includes reading space for seventy-five readers and six thousand volumes. The music room is a small auditorium with a seating capacity of two hundred. Class rooms and offices occupy the second and third floors of the Main building. In the basement of the Home Economics buildings are the band room and the laundry; on the first floor, a cafeteria with a seating capacity of 250; on the second floor, the domestic art and domestic science departments. In the basement of the Gymnasium are a well-equipped science laboratory, an athletic storeroom, shower baths, locker rooms, and class rooms. The first floor of the gymnasium is a combination auditorium-gymnasium with a seating capacity of seven hundred. On the second floor are class rooms. The Manual Arts building is a three-room apartment with facilities for teaching electric wiring, woodwork, and mechanical drawing. The Health Clinic is equipped for dental and medical supervision. Graham Stadium is an athletic field used for football games, track meets, and spring festivals. SENIOR LEADERSHIP While the classroom work is the basis of high school training, the importance of developing leadership is not overlooked. To this end the administration has sanctioned the organization of Seniors to cooperate in governmental affairs. Chief among these organizations is the Student Police Force, consisting of a group of boys and girls under the direct supervision of Deans J. T. A. West and Ida Mae Henry. Character, Reliability, Dignity, Initiative, and Scholarship furnish a basis for the selection of these officers who are charged with enforcing the rules of the school. Under the system of senior management, misdemeanors have reduced to the minimum, the students have developed a respect for their fellow superiors, and student officers have been taught the lesson of responsibility. THE SCHOOL OFFICERS BOYS | GIRLS Maurice Webb, Captain | Mable Wilson, Captain Carleton Middlebrooks | Bernice Marshbanks Frank Smith | Lenora Thomas Charles King | Ruby Kelley Emmitt Blackwell | Myrtle Riley Charles harper | Florence McElwee William Gordon | Mattie Gaines Jack Medlock | Mildred Corbett Edward Johnson | Flossie Cawthorne Willie Sneed | Nevada Amos Alonzo Stubbs | Josephine Lucas J. T. Fletcher | Mary Fortner
